Focus on Technology looks at important scientific advancements and tech news trends, as well as their many intersections with other areas and issues in our society today like medicine, politics, entertainment and the environment. Focus on Technology takes on a range of fascinating topics, from archaeology to alternative fuels, and covers the cutting edge of research and development as well as forecasts from experts about where we’ll be in a few years with the future technology of tomorrow.
From cute animals to social justice, this NPR podcast produced by WVXU brings its listeners engrossing and relevant content about the world of high tech that we’re living in, like:
· Earlham College archaeologists using drones and 3D mapping to survey the landscape for potential sites of Viking artifacts in Iceland;
· fairness in the art world with a discussion of NFTs as a mechanism of equity for marginalized and minority artists;
· and the use of RFID, or radio frequency identification, chips to monitor activity and interaction between penguins at the new little blue or “fairy” penguin exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo—the only such use of RFID technology on penguins in the world.
In political tech news, Thompson illuminates the unexpected but alarming links between ideological extremism, domestic terror and nuclear power plants. In the field of medicine, she takes a close look at what only a few years ago would have seemed like future technologies—laparoscopic surgeries performed on fetuses in utero to repair spina bifida at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; new research on peanut allergies at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; and advancements by researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the care of patients with respiratory distress, allowing them to “breathe” through their intestines.
Focus on Technology is also available online and wherever NPR podcasts are found.
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The chef-scientists are among the first to graduate with Cincinnati State's new Bachelor of Applied Science in Culinary and Food Science.
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Beginning Tuesday, 3,000 entrepreneurs and investors will be in Cincinnati with hopes of increasing the number of African Americans in the tech sector.
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AI can sort through information quickly, translate and personalize data, but it can also cause news stories to be rife with errors.
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Tide Infinity has already been tested in bottle form and as a stain removal pen on the International Space Station.
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Concertgoers have gone from passive to active as the performers they've come to see engage them with all kinds of technology.
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Fashion designers are doing some pretty cool things with clothes, including an Italian startup which has designed knitted garments to shield facial recognition technology.
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A trial with traumatic brain injury patients will more closely monitor blood pressure, blood sugar and body temperature and if necessary, administer ketamine to prevent "brain tsunamis."
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The University of Cincinnati will test derivatives of the psilocybin Miami University's Dr. Andrew Jones is developing in his lab. These don't have the "trip."
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GE is investing another $20 million at the EPISCenter in Dayton to build its seventh test cell for hybrid electric aircraft engine testing
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Countries around the world are watching Ukraine's innovation and assessing their own innovation power, or "ability to invent, adopt and adapt new technologies."