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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro: 12-16-22: Coptech

Police departments nationwide are stretched thin, and increasingly using technology to help them collect, analyze, and make decisions based...

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JOHN NICHOLAS

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-12-9-22: Twitphobia!

Everybody’s been talking about the big Twitter meltdown, ever since the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, bought it, laid...

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NATE MEEKER UA ESPORTS

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-12-2-22: Akron Zips Esports Wins National Recognition

This week, we’re spotlighting the University of Akron’s award-winning esports program, which was recently ranked number two in the...

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Amanda Weinstein

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-23-22: The Devastating Effects of Mass Layoffs

Today, we’re looking at the potentially devastating community effects of mass layoffs.  Over the past few months, Tech companies...

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DAVID PELLEG HEADSHOT

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-18-22: Crypto Collapse

Shocking news out of the world of Cryptocurrency this week, as the $32 billion dollar FTX cryptocurrency exchange goes...

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JESSICA SUBLETT

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-11-22: Startup Spotlight

This week, local tech startups in the spotlight, as we talk to Akron’s Bounce Innovation Hub CEO, Jessica Sublett....

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JOSHUA GANZ

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-4-22: AI Santa Claus!

What if Artificial Intelligence got so good at predicting what consumers want, that a virtual “Santa” could just automatically...

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Ethan Karp Magnet

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-28-22: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!

Ohio’s ongoing Manufacturing renaissance means so much more for job seekers than just opportunities in big headline-grabbing facilities like...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-14-22: Big Score, Big Scare

Ohio wins big again this week, as Honda announced a $4.4 billion dollar partnership with LG to make electric...

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Carla Diana

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-7-22: Rise of the Robots!

When Tech Entrepreneur and billionaire, Elon Musk, unveiled his new humanoid-looking “Optimus” robot recently; it caused a big splash....

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Dr. Lara Jehi CC

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-30-22: Quantum Clinic

The Cleveland Clinic is taking medicine to the next level, as they collaborate with IBM on a 10 year...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-23-22: Spies, Lies, and Social Media

Privacy, security, and disinformation on social media in the spotlight this week. In the past ten days, the former...

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Pamela Hickson Stevenson

This Week in Tech-9-19-22-Bonus Edition: Free Laptops & Hotspots @ The Library

Great news for people in the Akron area who are having trouble getting online at home, because they either...

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DR. JAMES EGAN U A POLYMER

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-16-22: Better, Safer, Greener Plastic

Even if you’re deep inside a forest, high atop a mountain, or walking on the moon; there is always...

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Dr. Michael Strickland KSU

This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro-9-9-22: Training Tomorrow’s Quantum Programmers

One day in the not too distant future, all our computer systems will be obsolete, our current cybersecurity methods...

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Akron Police Chief Brian Harding says they have sifted through dozens of pieces of evidence, have conducted more than 100 interviews, and

This past Friday’s worldwide Microsoft computer meltdown will likely go down in history as one of the most epic tech failures…ever. Airlines,

There’s probably no better day than today, while we’re in the midst of a global Microsoft outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike

They’re not quite as cute and friendly as Rosey from The Jetsons, or R2-D2 from Star Wars, but the robots being used

Democratic US Senator Sherrod Brown repeatedly avoided directly answering questions about whether or not he supports President Biden’s continued candidacy, whether he

A 25 year old Canton man has been charged with four counts of Felonious Assault in connection with a shooting on Saturday,

The Recording Industry is up in arms again, this time, alleging that two companies using AI to generate music, are illegally using

Canal Park in downtown Akron is the place to be for fun on the 4th of July! Gates will open at 7PM,

An Akron man who was allegedly involved in an ongoing dispute with 38 year old Brandon Daniels, who was killed on June

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