Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10  technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

This week there was cool news about real space with Lockheed Martin’s involvement with the Juno space probe. There is also some cool news about a space-themed game published by Serenity Forge.

The chat bot is thanks to BillHero in Ft. Collins so you can pay your bills using Facebook Messenger. And when it comes to real bots, I have finally started developing my first Sphero app. It’s a very simple app that allows you to drive the Sphero and see data from the Sphero sensors so you can figure out if you and your robot are thinking the same thing.

Have a great week! Be kind to each other.

Top Colorado Technology News

• NASA and Littleton-based Lockheed Martin reach Jupiter with Juno space probe [DBJ]
• Englewood-based IHS and Markit merger will trade under new NASDAQ symbol [DenverPost]
• A Note from our New CEO, Andrea Young [CTA]
• 4 Colorado recruiters share what you should really ask during your interview [BuiltinColorado]
• Denver’s SendGrid launches new endpoint to complete API email management [ProgrammableWeb]
• Denver-based Dizzion and Call Center Optimization Group announce new partnership [Dizzion]
• Don’t settle for boring. 5 Colorado tech companies that want to hire you [BuiltinColorado]
• Ft. Collins-based BillHero announces first Facebook Messenger chat bot for paying bills [InnovatioNews]
• This Colorado tech company is responsible for more than 5 million app installs each month [BuiltinColorado]
• Lifeless Planet Premier Edition, published by Boulder-based Serenity Forge, coming to PS4 July 19 [PlayStation.Blog]

Top Upcoming Events

• 7/13 – Denver Java Users Group – Android: How to support multiple device definitions
• 7/13 – Denver Python Meetup – Let’s Talk Python!
• 7/13 – Ember.js Denver – July Open Source Night w/ Austin B. and Dennis F.
• 7/14 – Denver Hack Nite – Denver Hack Nite!
• 7/14 – Pitch Camp – Practice Presenting
• 7/14 – TechRIoT – Adtech and IoT Mashup! With SpotX, The Trade Desk and Arrow
• 7/16 – Colorado Unity Devs – Make a Unity Game in 90 minutes: VR edition
• 7/16 – GirlDevelopIt – [DENVER] Intro to App Building with Salesforce
• 7/16 – Turing School – Try Turing Weekend
• 7/18 – HTML5 Denver – “Authorization­­ with JWTs and Macaroons” and “Building Ethereum Apps”

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