One thing that riled us up this week was Twin Cities Business Magazine’s article Twin Cities: An Emerging Tech Hub? which ended with a question mark? None of us think that Minnesota is emerging but rather that we have absolutely already emerged!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson.

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

* Al Franken Is Worried About Pokemon Go

* Minnedemo 23

* Minnesota Dethroned As CNBC’s Top State For Business

* Minneapolis data start-up Sport Ngin is acquired by NBC Sports

* Mayo Clinic Kicks Off National Competition For Rights To License Mayo Tech

* Comcast expands low-cost Internet program

* Meet The San Francisco Startup Creating A Future For Polaroid

Other Top Tech Stories

* Amazon Prime Day Recap: Sold-Out Kindles, Wait Lists, Facebook ‘Fail’

* The ‘war’ on encryption:

* McCain Pushes Apple, Google On Encryption Standards in Cyber Hearing

* UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption

* Putin Says All Encryption Must Be Backdoored In Two Weeks

* This week in Pokemon GO

* T-Mobile is giving away free ‘Pokémon Go’ data for a year

* Pokemon GO Stats

Cool Thing of the Week

* Phil: Wireless MIDI controller for acoustic guitar

* Tim: Nintendo is releasing a miniature NES with 30 built-in games

* Steve: Memories Renewed, an online scanning service based in Minneapolis, won the Wirecutter “best of” for photo scanning services

* Wirecutter on “Best Photo Scanning Service”: Memories Renewed

Upcoming Events

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