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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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Bloebaum Christina

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-2-22: Advanced Air Mobility

This week, advanced new autonomous and remote controlled aircraft, and what the state of Ohio is doing to make...

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JANE HARF

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-26-22: Update: Wind Power On Lake Erie

The first freshwater, offshore wind farm in North America, is one step closer to being built on Lake Erie,...

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GOOP AND TUBE PAINT

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-19-22: Toxic Transformation

Two Professors from Ohio University in Athens have come up with a way to transform water polluted with toxic...

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Jeff Gilbert

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-12-22: Crashes, Taxes, & Chargers (Oh My!)

Electric vehicles are poised to replace gas guzzling fossil fuel powered cars and trucks in the not too distant...

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PETER LOFTUS AUTHOR

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-5-22: Right Place, Right Time, Right Technology

Even though Pfizer-BioNTech’s Messenger RNA (MNRA)-based COVID vaccine was released first; it is Moderna’s vaccine and the relatively unknown...

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This Week In Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-29-22: Driving on the Moon

Imagine cruising on the moon in a high tech rover that can withstand temperatures that swing between a sizzling...

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Chris bennet makerspace

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-22-22: D-I-Y Electric Vehicles

What would it take to build your own electric vehicle, and how much would it cost? We asked local...

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PHISHING HACKING

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-15-22: Space & Robocalls

NASA unveiled fantastic and unbelievably beautiful first images this week from the James Webb space telescope which is floating...

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JOHN NICHOLAS

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-1-22: It’s Alive! The Possible Rise of Sentient Computers

While it may sometimes feel like your computer has a mind of its own; despite your frustration, deep down,...

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Reid Blackman author

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-24-22: Ethical Machines

Self driving cars that cause accidents, privacy stealing data collection, and gender-biased hiring decisions. These are all examples of...

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CNN posted an intriguing story this week, about how several voting machine manufacturers are conducting “stress tests”, to uncover possible flaws that might

Because lithium-ion batteries are used to power so many of the electronic devices we find indispensable these days, including computers, mobile phones,

The University of Akron NASA Robotics team made a good showing recently at a robotics competition at the University of Alabama; coming

It’s been a busy week for Federal law enforcement, which both brought down a huge Russian cybercrime botnet, and also indicted multiple

Most people have figured out by now, that when you watch an opinion show on Fox TV; you get a right wing,

Imagine driving down the road on a dark night. Suddenly; your car slows and rolls to a gentle stop, just before a

Most consumers know what it’s like to feel cheated and manipulated, and no one does it better, or on a bigger scale,

The State of Ohio is stepping up to help local government guard against, and recover from cyber attacks. The new Ohio Persistent

We’ve got big news about big tech projects in Ohio, including two in Central Ohio; the Intel Semiconductor plant, and Amazon’s $7.8

Wouldn’t it be great if you could endlessly recycle an enormously useful resource, do it for less money than it takes to

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