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Cash For Tech Workers: Ohio’s New STEM Relocation Incentive

Want highly skilled STEM-skilled workers to permanently relocate to Ohio? Offer their employers cold, hard, taxpayer-generated cash to bring...

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Safety First: Fairlawn’s New High Tech Connected Vehicle Corridor

The City of Fairlawn is embarking on an ambitious new plan to ease traffic flow and prioritize safety on...

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How Old Are You, Really? Google Wants To Know

Google took action this week to better protect children from harmful content on YouTube; announcing they’re using artificial intelligence...

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Put The Pedal To The Metal In Akron This Weekend!

If you’re looking for something fun and maybe a little different to do this weekend in Akron; head on...

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New Glue Fuses Art & Science @ Akron U

Art conservators at museums worldwide had a very sticky problem, and the University of Akron had the solution. It’s...

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AI Marks The Spot: High Tech Cancer Treatment @ UH

A new AI-assisted radiotherapy system is giving doctors at University Hospitals in Cleveland the ability to more accurately target...

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Rise Of The Machines

Imagine you’re in a life and death struggle, and it’s you, or the other guy. What would you do?...

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Streaming Success @ The University of Akron

One of the biggest personalities in streaming media recently put the University of Akron on the map in a...

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Double-Edged Deepfake Dilemma

While the new federal “Take It Down Act” that aims to protect people from the unauthorized sharing of intimate,...

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Who Is Spying On Your Phone?

Imagine a state-sponsored surveillance app secretly monitoring everything on your phone; recording it all for some shady intelligence agency...

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Why “Work From Anywhere” Is Great For Midwest Economy

Despite some corporate leaders’ insistence that “return to work” initiatives are a great idea; it turns out, that flexibility...

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Military Cybersecurity & Why Signalgate Still Matters

The national debate over security issues raised in early March when top-level US officials engaged in a Signal messaging...

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Can AI Save Your Kids From Online Predators?

While Instagram’s parent company, Meta, battles the government in court over antitrust claims; they’re also battling to keep your...

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Facial Recognition Technology Spotlighted In Cleveland Murder Case

If the foundation of your house is made of sand, it will eventually fall, and if the foundation of...

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How Will Tariffs Affect Ohio’s Auto Industry?

Because Ohio has the nation’s #2 largest workforce in motor vehicle manufacturing (OEM assembly) and motor vehicle parts manufacturing...

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While most of us are at least dimly aware that plastic in the form of polymer microfibers goes into making our clothes;

This week, we’re exploring how two Universities in Northeast Ohio are using artificial intelligence. At the University of Akron, their College of

This week, we’re time-tripping back to the 1980s, when hair was big, ties were skinny, and everybody headed over to the video

When congress declined to implement a provision that would have prohibited states from regulating AI for the next ten years in their

This week, it’s all things space, as we explore the possibility of life on Mars, Star Trek’s upcoming 60th Anniversary, and the

Want highly skilled STEM-skilled workers to permanently relocate to Ohio? Offer their employers cold, hard, taxpayer-generated cash to bring them here. That’s

The City of Fairlawn is embarking on an ambitious new plan to ease traffic flow and prioritize safety on State Route 18.

Google took action this week to better protect children from harmful content on YouTube; announcing they’re using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze

If you’re looking for something fun and maybe a little different to do this weekend in Akron; head on over to 350 West

Art conservators at museums worldwide had a very sticky problem, and the University of Akron had the solution. It’s called “Beva 371

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