This week’s episode brought to you by Professor Buzzkill, Slice on Broadway, and Alex Kahrs Design & Media! Sorg and Chilla are joined by Kit and Mitch of Startup Boost Pittsburgh to talk this week in tech headlines, including: * Chilla is sharing Mobile World Congress 2019 as his Awesome Thing of the Week - specifically a new micro SD format that promises better battery life. * Sorg's Awesome Thing of the Week is a Meet the Mentors podcast he was recently working on, which introduced him to some cool things in the General Motors world. * Our guests Startup Boost Pittsburgh are talking about their cool startup pre-accelerator as their Awesome Thing of the Week. * We're learning about pre-startup options with Startup Boost Pittsburgh. * Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring from Nintendo. And he's being replaced by (wait for it) Bowser. * Fan of the show, Alex Kahrs is sharing the Logitech C922x Pro Stream Webcam as his Awesome Thing of the Week. * Sorg is figuring out that he can essentially run the studio remotely - with his iPad. * Last week we talked about This Person Does Not Exist. This week we're talking This Cat Does Not Exist. * We're exploring the foldable phone. * We're looking at Agents of SHIELD for our tech options for the future. * HoloLens 2 has been formally announced - targeted at corporations.

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