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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-16-21: A Fossil Fuel Free Future?

Both the automotive and energy sectors are moving toward alternative fuel sources, and that is going to mean big...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-9-21: Keeping Kids Safe Online

While many parents have been worried that increased screen time and app use could be harmful to their kids;...

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This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro-4-2-21: My Robot Gets Me!

Our electronic gadgets are becoming more “human” every day, and we’re moving toward a future where you’ll be able...

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This Week-Tech-3-19-21: Internet Shutdowns

An increasing number of governments around the world have been limiting citizens’ access to the internet, to control political...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-3-12-21: Internet Regulation & Consumer Protection

This Week, a conversation about how the government can, and maybe should, more tightly regulate internet commerce to protect...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-3-5-21: COVID Tracking & AI Enhanced Gaming

Sewage happens, and they’re using it at the University of Akron to track COVID-19. Also at U-A, a computer...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-26-21: Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage

The Ohio National Guard, for the first time ever, called in a civilian cybersecurity expert to help them respond...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-19-21-Bonus Edition: Bitcoin Hits New High

Updated 02-22-2021 The digital currency, Bitcoin, which made history last week when its price hit $50,000, continued its meteoric...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-19-21: Friendly Robots & Zoom Cats

This week, how Akron-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is investing in autonomous delivery vehicles, like the one pictured...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-12-21: Sexy New App For Married Couples

Married, or otherwise committed couples can put a little “zing” back into the bedroom, with a sexy new app...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-5-21: Tech Hub Ohio

Tech professionals from big cities like Seattle and San Francisco are moving to Northeast Ohio. Find out why, with...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-1-29-21: Apple Cars, Smart Headlights, and Digital COVID-19 Passports

This week, we’re featuring innovations in car technology, from Apple Cars, to flying Cadillacs, and even smart headlights! We’ve...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-1-22-21: Science Fiction Meets Science Fact, Part 2

This week, a conversation about how seemingly far-fetched ideas featured in Sci-Fi books, movies, and even cartoons have become...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-1-15-21: Science Fiction Meets Science Fact, Part One

Beam me up, Scotty! Quantum computers can “teleport” information. Find out how that might work, and how soon we...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-1-8-21: Pandemic Winners & Losers, New Health Tech, and Cyberwarfare Center

Tech giants like Amazon and Apple aren’t the only companies that have prospered since the start of the pandemic....

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

Electric vehicles are poised to replace gas guzzling fossil fuel powered cars and trucks in the not too distant future, but there

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

Imagine cruising on the moon in a high tech rover that can withstand temperatures that swing between a sizzling 250 degrees Fahrenheit

What would it take to build your own electric vehicle, and how much would it cost? We asked local D-I-Y enthusiast, and

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

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

Self driving cars that cause accidents, privacy stealing data collection, and gender-biased hiring decisions. These are all examples of Artificial Intelligence not

If Summit County Council approves later this month, the first phase of what could eventually become a nearly half a billion dollar

Although we’re currently blessed with an abundance of water in Northeast Ohio, what will the future hold, as the planet continues to

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