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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro

Jeanne Destro

WAKR"s Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!

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00:15:00

Online Learning: Lessons From The Pandemic

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/10/13

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 teachers leading the virtual class sessions, but then once the COVID case numbers dropped enough; the vast majority of the district's 20 thousand plus students went back to the classroom in person. Now, though,

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00:19:00

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-28-23: Keeping...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/09/29

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 are voting machines really are, in general, and what cybersecurity experts do to ensure they stay in tip-top shape. So, I asked Dr. John Nicholas, who many people in our area will remember as a Professor teaching

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00:15:11

What's Old Is New Again: Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/09/22

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 ways to recycle them. So, that's why the National Science Foundation (NSF) just gave the University of Akron a $250,000 dollar research grant. As you'll hear during my conversation

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00:09:57

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-9-15-23: Big...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/09/15

The University of Akron NASA Robotics team made a good showing recently at a robotics competition at the University of Alabama, coming in eighth place overall, and first place, in the Project Management category. We talked to U-A Robotics team leader, Callie Lewis, about how their traditional focus on mining robots, will move in a new direction, as NASA starts looking at ways to build a base on the moon that can eventually serve as a way-station for their mission to Mars.

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00:17:20

Hacking The Hackers: FBI Drops The Hammer

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/09/08

It's been a busy week for Federal law enforcement, which both brought down a huge Russian cybercrime botnet, and also indicted multiple Russian cyber criminals for spreading malware and ransomware that resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars from victims worldwide. The indictments out of three different jurisdictions; Northern Ohio, Middle Tennessee, and the Southern District of California, allege the defendants used Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware to attack hospitals,

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00:31:57

Artificial Intelligence: Bias In A Box?

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/08/25

Most people have figured out by now, that when you watch an opinion show on Fox TV; you get a right wing, conservative point of view, and the same thing goes on the left, for MSNBC. Social media has also been overtaken by spin, and whether you’re on Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), or Meta’s new X alternative; Threads; you just know you’re going to be frequently exposed to people with a particular political agenda. But what most people don’t know, (and that included me until quite

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00:19:51

HADAR: NEXT GEN THERMAL IMAGING

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/08/20

Imagine driving down the road on a dark night. Suddenly; your car slows and rolls to a gentle stop, just before a big deer that had been completely hidden from sight in the woods, darts out onto the road exactly where you would have been, if advanced thermal imaging sensors hadn't saved you from a potentially fatal crash. Sound far-fetched? Well, according to researchers at Purdue University, that could actually happen within the next few years, if their new HADAR technology is adopted by the

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00:17:39

Dark Patterns: How The FTC Is Fighting Big Tech...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/08/11

Most consumers know what it's like to feel cheated, scammed, and manipulated, and no one does it better, or on a bigger scale, than big tech. Old scams like "bait and switch", false promises, and teeny-tiny “gotcha” fine print, get new life on a much broader scale when millions of people worldwide find out that without their consent; their private information has been harvested and sold, they've been opted-in to ongoing subscriptions, or they've accidentally signed up for services that no matter

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00:14:17

Emerging Cyber Threats: Beyond Ransomware

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/08/05

Last week, we focused on cyber defense of government networks; today, we're looking at what is going on in the private sector, and how business owners and managers can deal with new and emerging threats. This is a major issue, because the number and severity of cyber attacks and data breaches continues to rise. In fact, they have become so common; many people don't even pay attention to news about them when they occur. Another day, another hack. Wash, rinse, repeat. But, as you'll hear today from

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00:35:16

State Helps Cities Fight Cybercrime

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/07/28

The State of Ohio is stepping up to help local government guard against, and recover from cyber attacks. The new Ohio Persistent Cyber Improvement (O-PCI) program will guide local agencies through three cybersecurity preparedness levels. Each level will consist of a five-step process for cybersecurity advancement: education, training, exercising, mentoring, and improvement. We talked about how that will work, and why it is so so important, with the Ohio National Guard's Cyber Security Outreach

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00:14:09

Tech Ohio-7-21-23

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/07/21

We've got big news about big tech projects in Ohio, including the Intel Semiconductor plant, Amazon's planned data center expansion, new highway EV charging stations, a high school tech internship program, and a new center for Advanced Air Mobility, at Kent State University. Listen now, for more.

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00:12:57

A New Renewable: Sustainable Silicone

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/07/14

Wouldn't it be great if you could endlessly recycle an enormously useful resource, do it for less money than it takes to make it brand new, keep tons of waste out of landfills, and reduce air pollution all at the same time? Well, yes. Yes it would be. That's why we're talking to a Chemistry Professor at Bowling Green State University, who is pretty sure he's got that all figured out, with a new, patent-pending, room temperature recycling process. From medical implants, to the clear stuff we use

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00:11:05

Green Fields & Green Energy

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/06/30

What if farmers could produce more food, generate clean energy, and make more money all at the same time? Well, it turns out that they can, through a process called "Agrivoltaics". It involves "planting" solar panels in fields, and both sheltering animals from the sun, and cultivating crops underneath them. Those who have tried it are calling it a win-win, for farmers who are increasingly stretched thin by market pressures, the high cost of fuel and farm equipment, and an increasingly hot and dry

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00:10:41

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-23-23: Gene...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/06/23

Imagine some teeny-tiny little scissors. Now, imagine them snipping out "bad" genes that cause disease, and leaving only the good ones behind. Sound farfetched? Well, actually, it is not. In fact, that's exactly what they're doing at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, where a Sickle Cell Disease clinical trial involving gene editing and stem cells is now underway. We talked about it, with Dr. Rabi Hanna, who is the Chairman of their Department of Pediatric Hematology, and Principal

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00:24:29

Cool Buildings, Hot Planet

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/06/16

Everybody knows that insualting 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 walls several feet outside their existing homes, cladding them with a layer of insulated foam, and then extending their roof out over the new, expanded, and much more energy efficient structure. Now that's what you call an extreme home

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00:13:59

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-9-23: Disorder...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/06/09

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 tool. In a court hearing yesterday, the New York Times reports, Judge P. Kevin Castel, grilled attorney Steven A. Schwartz, about why he used results produced by the chatbot without first personally checking that they were accurate. According

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00:19:54

This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro-6-2-23: Advanced...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/06/01

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. They include a pre-installed Android exploit that consumers can't detect, and is nearly impossible to delete, Russian-linked malware that can attack and do physical harm to power grids, and

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00:13:54

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-26-23: More...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/05/26

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 use it to fight crime whenever they want. But they can’t —at least not yet—here in Ohio. However, thanks to a $6 million dollar state grant, some new technology that has been tested so far in Columbus and Akron, will be

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00:24:34

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-19-23: Boom!...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/05/19

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 the sound barrier without causing the noisy and destructive sonic booms that helped end commercial supersonic air travel in 2003. Listen now to our conversation with the Deputy Project Manager for the commercial

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00:40:20

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-12-23-Amazing...

This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro ·

2023/05/12

Cutting edge, life saving technology that could one day revolutionize healthcare worldwide, is in the spotlight today, and it's being used and tested right here in Northeast Ohio. 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 Research Center, Clinical Tissue Engineering Center, and Joint Preservation Center. As you will hear,

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