This Week in Tech
Tune in as Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-16-23: Cool Buildings, Hot Planet Featured
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Everybody knows that insulating your home is a good way to cut down on heating and cooling costs, but what if you could turn your entire home into a giant insulated cooler? Well, it turns out you can, and some people in Europe are doing just that; building new…
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Friday, 09 June 2023 09:18
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-9-23: Disorder In The Court: Legal Controversy Over AI Featured
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A federal judge in New York is considering sanctions against an attorney who used the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool to draft a legal brief that was presented as evidence, but contained case citations that were completely untrue; fabricated by the AI. In a court hearing yesterday, the New York Times…
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Thursday, 01 June 2023 16:36
This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro-6-2-23: Advanced New Cyber Threats: Who Can Protect Us? Featured
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This week, we're talking about newly discovered, extremely sophisticated, cyber threats that pose real dangers to consumers, and to our national security. Although we've tackled some of these issues before; it seemed like it was worth a closer look at some new threats that came to light just this week.…
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Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:16
This Week In Tech With Jeanne Destro-5-26-23: More Eyes In The Sky Featured
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You see them on TV all the time; images of dramatic car crashes, fires, and disasters, beamed down to viewers from helicopters. So, one would just kind of naturally kind of assume police have all that same kind of technology at their fingertips all the time, and that they can…
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Friday, 19 May 2023 06:12
Boom! The Return Of Supersonic Commercial Flight Featured
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Imagine being able to fly to LA for lunch, have a business meeting, and then be back home in time for dinner. It could happen, if a research project currently underway at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is successful in demonstrating that a new, high tech airplane can break…
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Friday, 12 May 2023 07:12
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-12-23: Amazing New Medical Technology Featured
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Cutting edge, life-saving technology being used and tested right now in Northeast Ohio, could one day revolutionize healthcare worldwide. Our featured guests today are Pediatric Surgeon, Dr. Lorena Floccari, who directs the Akron Children's Hospital Spine Center, and Dr. George Muschler, who directs the Cleveland Clinic's Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic…
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Friday, 05 May 2023 07:55
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-5-23: Batteries & Bolt Featured
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EV batteries, and the demise of the Chevy Bolt. That's what we're focusing on this week, as we discuss how companies making electric batteries for carmakers including Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota, and BMW are increasingly building plants in Southern states. We wanted to know what that might mean for traditional auto…
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Friday, 28 April 2023 07:59
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-28-23: Cold Case DNA Technology Featured
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What if your insurance company could use your DNA to raise your rates if they think you might get cancer someday? Or, what if a foreign adversary, like China, for example; could use DNA to reveal the true identity of all of our spies? Think that's farfetched? Well, Akron-based journalist,…
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Friday, 14 April 2023 07:39
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-14-23: New Summer Robotics Program at KSU Featured
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Something new and exciting coming up at Kent State University; a new summer robotics program open to undergrad students from all over the country, paid for by a $450 thousand dollar grant from the National Science Foundation. We talked about it with Assistant Professor, Dr. Ye Lu, and Associate Dean,…
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Friday, 07 April 2023 05:29
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-4-7-23: Clean Water Part 2: Forever Chemicals Featured
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Following up on our March 3 episode about clean water technology; today, we're talking about proposed new federal EPA regulations that would require testing for exceptionally dangerous chemicals that cannot be filtered out by the common methods used to make drinking water safe nationwide right now. We'll find out exactly…
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Friday, 31 March 2023 14:46
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-3-31-23: The Spy In Your Pocket Featured
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The federal government's efforts to protect US citizens' sensitive data took on new urgency this week, as the Washington Post reported that the phones of more more than 50 top level government officials had been infected with sophisticated spyware. Also this week, President Biden issued an executive order banning US…
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