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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-Bonus Edition-7-12-21: Space Tourism

Billionaire Richard Branson was all smiles, floating wieghtless aboard his Virgin Galactic Space Plane during its first, fully-crewed flight yesterday. Jeanne...

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Elyse Ball UA

This Week In Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-9-21: Kickstart Your Tech Startup!

The University of Akron’s I-Corps program has helped launch a number of successful tech startups, turning big ideas into big...

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BRIAN DICKEN TOLEDO CHAMBER

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-2-21: New Legal Roadblocks Ahead for Wind & Solar Power in Ohio

Wind and Solar power development in Ohio is now facing tighter regulation, as Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature this week approved...

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ERNIE STATEN FAIRLAWN

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-Bonus Edition-6-29-21: Grassroots Movement Saves Municipal Broadband

Fairlawn Gig officials say a grass roots movement including more than 700 emails from their customers, convinced Ohio legislators...

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JonHusted

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-25-21: Free Tech Training

You can find a great paying tech-related jobs in Ohio with only three to six months of training, which...

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MAYOR BILL ROTH

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-18-21: Saving Municipal Broadband

The Ohio Senate is trying to stop broadband expansion in Ohio, and even shut down municipal broadband providers like...

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We Are BusShelter2

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-11-21: Art & Tech in Akron

A colorful and creative art installation in downtown Akron has developed into something much more, with an Augmented Reality...

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Jeff Gilbert

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-4-21: Soy Tires & Electric Vehicles

This week, the future of mobility and sustainability, both here on earth, and in outer space. Our featured guests...

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JESSICA SUBLETT

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-28-21: Innovation Akron & Cicada Safari

This week, how the work from home trend could be great for individual Akron-based software developers, but maybe not...

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RICK POLLACK MAKERGEAR

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-21-21: Space Tourism & Star Trek Inspired 3-D Printed Food

This week, 3-D printed teeth, and even food for future deep space missions! Special guests include Ohio 3-D printing...

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JOHN NICHOLAS

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-14-21: Pipeline Cyberattack: What’s Next?

Cybersecurity experts have been saying for years that an attack like the one that temporarilly shut down the Colonial...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro: Bonus Edition: 5-10-21-Cyberattack=Pain @ the Pump

The Russian cyberattack that shut down a major gas pipeline over the weekend will likely mean pain at the...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-7-21: Cyber Attacks, Delivery Drones, & Disappearing Tattoos

From stores on wheels to air fryers that could open your home network up to cyber attacks; we’ve got...

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Mahajan Ajay

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-30-21: Industry 4.0

Manufacturing is still the backbone of Northeast Ohio’s economy, but to remain competitive; companies have to incorporate new technology,...

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DR CAMERON LEE

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-23-21: Adapting To Climate Change

From wildfires, to coastal flooding and mass migration; we’re facing big ecological challenges that no one person, nation, or...

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

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

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

The Cleveland Clinic is taking medicine to the next level, as they collaborate with IBM on a 10 year “Discovery Accelerator” research

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

Great news for people in the Akron area who are having trouble getting online at home, because they either don’t have a

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

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

This week, advanced new autonomous and remote controlled aircraft, and what the state of Ohio is doing to make sure it doesn’t

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

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