This Week in Tech
Tune in as Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!
Friday, 01 December 2023 13:31
Uncle Sam Wants You! (To Help Fight Voice Cloning Scams) Featured
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From the "Grandparent Scam" where tricksters try to extort people for money by convincing them someone in their family is in terrible danger, to disinformation so toxic it threatens democracy itself; voice cloning enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is posing unprecedented challenges to law enforcement, and to society as a…
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Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:51
Cameras, and Drones, and Tractors, Oh My!: America's High Tech Farmers Featured
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Just days away from our annual Thanksgiving food extravaganza; "This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro” is focusing on new technology America’s farmers are using to ensure we have plenty of food on the table. From cameras, drones, and autonomous tractors, to Artificial Intelligence and solar panels; farm operations are…
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Friday, 10 November 2023 11:26
Drink Up!: New Clean Water Technology Featured
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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro is all about water this week, which is perhaps kind of fitting, but not at all intended; as it just happens to come at the same time the City of Akron just announced they're increasing water rates for city residents by at least…
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Friday, 03 November 2023 06:49
Ultra High Speed Municipal Broadband On The Way For Everyone In Summit County Featured
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This week, news that Summit County's multi-million dollar, 125 mile fiber-optic cable ring project, is now in the process of growing and developing into something much bigger and better. Originally conceived as a network that that would connect the County, through it's new data center, with 31 city, village, and township…
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Thursday, 02 November 2023 15:57
High Tech High: New Opportunities For NE Ohio Students Featured
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Today, a special bonus edition of "This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro" focused on two new programs in our community aimed at getting high school students excited about, and ready for careers in the tech industry. First, we'll be talking with the founder and CEO of information security consulting…
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Friday, 27 October 2023 09:12
This Week In Tech With Jeanne Destro-10-27-23: Big Money For Tech Development In Northeast Ohio Featured
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This week, we have more news about the federal government's efforts to both promote sustainable, energy-efficient technology, and to encourage manufacturing growth and job creation in Northeast Ohio. To further those goals, the U.S. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), is investing more than $10 million dollars in a new program called “Manufacturing…
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Friday, 20 October 2023 14:52
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-20-23: Canton's Big Hydrogen Bus Bonanza Featured
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This week, the Biden administration continued its push toward both manufacturing growth, and the widespread expansion of sustainable green energy initiatives, with a nearly $8 billion dollar investment in clean hydrogen. As part of that push; Ohio is now included in one of seven regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, and Canton, Ohio is one…
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Friday, 13 October 2023 06:50
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-13-23: Online Learning Lessons From the Pandemic Featured
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Three years ago at this time, no one had ever heard of COVID-19. But since then, the world has changed, and so has education—in particular— online learning. Like everywhere else in the country, Akron Public School students were forced to stay home and do their lessons online. They had live…
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Friday, 06 October 2023 14:40
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-10-6-23: How AI Is Helping Doctors Detect Breast Cancer Featured
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If you're a classic rock fan, you may remember an old Eric Clapton tune called "It's In The Way That You Use It", which seems to be an apt description for the pros and cons of technology that relies on rapidly developing, and ever more frequently-deployed Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.…
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Friday, 29 September 2023 13:17
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-28-23: Keeping Voting Machines Secure Featured
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CNN posted an intriguing story this week, about how several voting machine manufacturers are conducting "stress tests", to uncover possible flaws that might need to be fixed before the upcoming 2024 election. While that was of course, welcome news; it did make me wonder just how secure voting machines really are,…
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Friday, 22 September 2023 13:04
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-22-23: What's Old Is New Again: Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Featured
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Because lithium-ion batteries are used to power so many of the electronic devices we find indispensable these days, including computers, mobile phones, and cars, and because the materials used to make them can be both both scarce and difficult to obtain; the federal government is keen on finding safe and inexpensive…
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