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Tune in as Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-8-21: Green Jobs

Ohio workers stand to win big when thousands of new green energy jobs are created through the proposed federal infrastructure...

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Chris bennet makerspace

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-1-21: Right To Repair

Don’t you just hate it when something expensive breaks, and you either have to replace it , or spend...

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JonHusted

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-24-21: Tech Ohio Roundup

From Broadband expansion, to cool new tech startups; we’re spotlighting big tech issues and innovation statewide. Featured guests include...

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Dave yost

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-17-21: War on Robocalls!

State law enforcement officials are joining the Federal government to fight illegal robocalls. Today, we’ll hear from Ohio Attorney...

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Bionic arm lab 1 Courtesy Cleveland Clinic

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-10-21: Mind Controlled Bionic Arm

Science fiction becomes science fact, as the Cleveland Clinic unveils a new bionic arm that amputees can control with...

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Bionic arm lab 1 Courtesy Cleveland Clinic

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-10-21:Cleveland Clinic’s New Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm

Science fiction becomes science fact, as the Cleveland Clinic unveils a new bionic arm that amputees can control with...

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Major General John Harris ONG

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-3-21: Ohio’s New Cyber Warriors

As the US deals with the tumultuous end of the war in Afghanistan, preparations are underway for defeating our...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-27-21: Digital Kids

This week, as millions of kids nationwide start a new school year; we’re talking to education expert and author,...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-Bonus-8-24-21: Mobile Madness!

You’re not alone if you have had hassles with your mobile phone service. Follow along with my tale of...

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STATE REP CASEY WEINSTEIN

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-20-21: Radioactive Roads

Ohio lawmakers are considering a request to allow consumers to buy what could be a dangerously radioactive chemical product,...

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DR. JUNPENG WANG

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-13-21: The End of Plastic Waste?

Imagine a world without plastic waste.  It could happen, according to Assistant Professor of Polymer Science at the University of...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-6-21: Spies, Lies, Bombs, & Mobile Phones

Will a big cyberattack one day lead to war between the US and another superpower? That’s a question US...

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DR. SEUNGBUM LEE

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-30-21: The Business of Esports

Show me the money! Esports is big business now, and the University of Akron is making sure their students...

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JOSEPH TUROW AUTHOR

This Week In Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-23-21: Voice Surveillance

This week, how the same voice technology that powers your interactions with Siri and Alexa, also allows marketers to...

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JOHN NICHOLAS

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-16-21: Spotlight on Cyber Defense

After a series of extremely damaging ransomware attacks believed to have originated in Russia; US President Joe Biden warned...

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Seattle Public Schools sued a number of big tech companies this week, claiming the purposely addictive nature of their products is causing

  Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, who who chairs the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, is once again raising concerns

This week, an encore presentation one of the most creative and unusual tech projects going on here in Ohio this year, which

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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