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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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Jeff Gilbert

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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JOHN NICHOLAS

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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JonHusted

This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro-(Bonus Edition): Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, Satellite Broadband-12-29-20

Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted outlines hot new tech initiatives underway right now in Ohio, including the development of...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-1-1-21: Best Tech and Trends of 2020

This Week, we’re taking a look back at the best tech and trends of 2020 overall, and then focusing...

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JonHusted

This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro-Bonus Edition-12-29-20: Flying Cars, Self-Driving Trucks, and Satellite Broadband

Flying cars, self-driving trucks, and broadband delivered to rural areas by low-flying satellites; that’s what’s on tap right now,...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-12-25-20: NASA, Moon, and Mars

This week, Santa is bringing you a big box of Moon rocks, and not just any old moon rocks;...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-12-18-20: Russian Hackers Infiltrate US Government Networks

An ongoing cyber intrusion into more than 18 thousand computer systems worldwide, poses a “grave risk” to federal, state,...

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JOHN NICHOLAS

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-12-11-20

This week, hackers targeting the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, and why cryptocurrency is increasingly popular and profitable. Special guests...

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ALEXA FOX

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-12-4-20

This week, we’re focusing on election interference, social media influencers, the pandemic, and Zooming with Santa Claus!   Featured guests...

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Jeff Gilbert

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-27-20

Self driving cars, electric vehicles, and the future of driving. That’s what’s on the menu on this day after...

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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-20-20

The US EPA celebrated “America Recycles Week” with a new national goal of 50% by 2030. So, how are we...

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Ryan Tim

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-11-13-20

How electric vehicles are driving new economic development, new Amazon tech for cars, and Amazon officially opening their new...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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