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A bill tells Ohio public schools to limit student phone use on property
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two state lawmakers have proposed requiring Ohio’s public middle and high schools to create and publicize internet safety policies, including disallowing student phone use… Read More
![President Joe Biden addresses the crowd at the Intel groundbreaking ceremony in Licking County on Sept. 9, 2022.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/download-1-e1662834802356-900x422.jpg)
Intel plants in Ohio and Arizona will receive nearly $20 billion in federal funding
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — President Joe Biden’s administration announced Wednesday that nearly $20 billion in funding will be spread across Intel’s various expansion projects throughout the country, including the new… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted lead a roundtable on phone ban policies, held at Dublin City Schools.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/npr.brightspotcdn-5-e1710446750490-900x422.webp)
DeWine says Ohio schools should consider phone-free policies for classrooms
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In the last few years, a contingent of Ohio’s middle and high schools enacted policies banning phones, and Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday he… Read More
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An Ohio bill calls for AI watermarks and criminalizes ‘simulated obscene material’ of kids
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would crack down on AI, including through requiring a watermark on anything that is generated by artificial… Read More
![Lt. Gov. Jon Husted (center) at a meeting of the Governor’s Executive Workforce Board at Kokosing Construction in Westerville.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/npr.brightspotcdn-3-e1709836002280-900x422.webp)
Ohio rolls out an education and career advancement site targeting labor shortages
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state launched a new online education and career resource Tuesday: the Ohio Career Navigator. Once Ohioans take a survey on the now-live site… Read More
![Jeff Slattery and Josh Senefeld communicate with a radio operator in Florida during the Athens County Amateur Radio Association's winter field day operation.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ham-radio-operators-e1708103254435-900x422.jpeg)
The Athens County Amateur Radio Association finds that young people are still drawn to old-school communication
By: Gabriel Scotto
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – Long before cell phones and the internet, ham radios were linking people around the world. And this old-school technology continues to fascinate hobbyists of all ages… Read More
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An Ohio bill would require upgraded texting technology for the state’s mobile phone users
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Cell phone technology has improved greatly over the past three decades. But one Republican state lawmaker wants providers in Ohio to make sure texting… Read More
![Sens. Stephanie Kunze and Bill DeMora (center) stand near a podium to talk about their proposal to require online sites with adult content, including porn, to verify Ohio users' ages and identities with Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and another man looking on.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-e1705520024274-900x422.webp)
A bipartisan Ohio Senate proposal would require age verification to access online porn
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two state senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would require online websites that feature adult content, including pornography, to verify Ohio users’ ages and… Read More
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Google is deleting unused accounts this week. Here’s how to save your old data
By: Emma Bowman | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Now is the time to act if you want to keep a Google account you haven’t used in a while. Starting Dec. 1, Google will start deleting… Read More
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AI is biased. The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that
By: Deepa Shivaram | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Kelsey Davis had what might seem to be an odd reaction to seeing blatant racism on her computer screen: She was elated. Davis is the founder… Read More
![Higher education leaders from Ohio and West Virginia at the Danville Institute for Advanced Learning and Research with the Appalachian Ohio Manufacturers' Coalition gather for a picture on a balcony at the Danville Institute of Advanced Learning and Research. Higher education leaders from Ohio and West Virginia at the Danville Institute for Advanced Learning and Research with the Appalachian Ohio Manufacturers' Coalition. [Conner Woodruff | WOUB]](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AOMC-900x422.png)
Regional education leaders visit a school in Virginia to find clues for preserving the manufacturing industry
By: Conner Woodruff
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DANVILLE, Virginia (WOUB) — A group of higher education leaders from Ohio and West Virginia traveled to the Danville Institute for Advanced Learning and Research hoping to learn how to… Read More
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State leaders say Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Amazon’s profitable cloud business will invest roughly $7.8 billion by the end of 2029 to expand its data center operations in central Ohio, state leaders announced… Read More
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What Montana’s TikTok ban means for the popular social media app and its users
By: Amma Nawaz | Ali Schmitz | Saher Khan | PBS NewsHour
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WASHINGTON (NewsHour) — Montana became the first state to ban TikTok, citing fears that the app’s Chinese-owned parent company could be providing Americans’ data to the Chinese government. Montana could… Read More
![This was the world's first web page. Thirty years ago, the World Wide Web entered the public domain.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/gettyimages-167798468_custom-02330f2c21228909cc38d1012b4fdfde6f526ed9-scaled-e1682861948538-900x422.jpg)
30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world
By: Julian Ring | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Thirty years ago, listeners tuning into Morning Edition heard about a futuristic idea that could profoundly change their lives. “Imagine being able to communicate at-will with… Read More
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How do you get equal health care for all? A huge new database holds clues
By: Nurith Aizenman | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — “What gets measured gets done.” It’s an expression often cited by global health care advocates, notes World Health Organization official Erin Kenney. And she says it’s the… Read More
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A report finds personal user data from mental health apps is being sold
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON (NewsHour) — Thousands of mental health apps are available on your phone or computer, offering services like virtual therapy sessions, mood trackers and meditation guides. They can be helpful and… Read More
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Most of us are still worried about AI — but will corporate America listen?
By: Lauren Hodges | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Do we need a mandatory screening of the Terminator series in corporate boardrooms? Because new research shows that Americans are concerned about the pace that artificial intelligence… Read More
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Educators worry about students using artificial intelligence to cheat
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsHour) — Earlier this month, New York City public schools blocked access to the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. Educators are concerned that students could use this technology… Read More
![Dr. Yael Bensoussan poses for a photograph in a white doctor's coat with a hand on a machine that analyses vocal chords.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20211112-usfh-yael-bensoussan-ent-029-9c323b673818099ec763e1348ec00dde48b95595-scaled-e1665450177825-900x422.jpg)
Artificial intelligence could soon diagnose illness based on the sound of your voice
By: Carmen Molina Acosta | Lisa Weiner | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Voices offer lots of information. Turns out, they can even help diagnose an illness — and researchers are working on an app for that. The National… Read More
![President Biden holds a semiconductor chip in this 2021 file photo.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/biden-holds-chip-gettyimages-1231364830-4560125b540c5e17234c7ddcfee2bcdadc139bf0-scaled-e1665070602250-900x422.jpg)
Biden has $52 billion for semiconductors. Today, work begins to spend that windfall
By: Franco Ordoñez | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — President Biden is heading to an IBM manufacturing plant in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Thursday to tout a new $20 billion investment the company is making in… Read More
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Apple warns of security flaws in iPhones, iPads and Macs
By: Associated Press
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices. Apple released two security… Read More
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The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today’s digital world
By: David Gura | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Since its establishment as the country’s national currency, the dollar has undergone many updates and changes, but nothing compares to the proposal being debated today. The… Read More
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Why Ohio’s data privacy bill is on hold for now
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMUBS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — State lawmakers are considering a bill that’s meant to protect data of Ohioans. The legislation spells out who can access data and how they… Read More
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Criminal hackers are now going after phone lines, too
By: Jenna McLaughlin | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Criminal groups have been sending threatening messages in the past couple of months to companies that manage broadband phone services all over the world, promising they’ll… Read More
![Lt. Gov. Jon Husted](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/husted-Credit-Jo-Ingles-scaled-e1638301820542-900x422.jpg)
Ohio to use new technology to get more adoptable kids in forever homes
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There are 16,000 kids in foster care in Ohio and around 3,100 who are awaiting adoption now. And Ohio will become the first state… Read More