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Bloomberg: Air-Taxi Startup Has a Working Prototype and a Fresh $100M
By Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone Bloomberg Businessweek February 1, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: by Inkee Wang for Bloomberg Businessweek) “This is what I have been dreaming about for 40 years. It’s […]
Joby Aviation Secures $100M in Series B Funding
(Contributed) February 1, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Joby Aviation team. Source: Joby Aviation website) $100M in Series B Funding to Make Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Transportation a Reality Financing led by […]
CruzHacks 2018: Driving Hackathon Culture in a New Direction
By Sarah Ali CruzHacks Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 31, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: CruzHacks 2018 Executive Directors, left to right: Anjali Kanthilal and Zimraan Hamid. Both will graduate in […]
AMS Appoints Toby Corey to its Board of Directors
(Contributed) January 30, 2018 — San Francisco, CA (Photo above: Previously at Tesla and Solar City, Santa Cruz resident Toby Corey is currently on the board of Buoy Labs and is on the advisory boards […]
NASA begins testing on Joby Aviation-designed cruise motors for all-electric x-plane
(Source: Nasa.com) January 30, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: A JM-X57 cruise motor undergoes testing on the Airvolt stand at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The Airvolt stand is instrumented to […]
Breakthrough leads to sequencing of a human genome using a pocket-sized device
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz January 30, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: The MinION™ DNA sequencer from Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a pocket-sized, portable DNA sequencer based on nanopore sequencing technology pioneered […]
Santa Cruz Owns Its Brand at Titans of Tech
By Tatum Whitehead Student, Pacific Collegiate School Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 29, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Speakers at Titans of Tech held on January 25, 2018. Left to right, […]
5th Annual UCSC Hackathon Continues to Drive Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
By Sarah Ali CruzHacks Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 25, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Students gather at Porter/Kresge Dining Hall at UCSC for a weekend of hacking and innovation at […]
Community Partnership to Provide Free Wifi in Watsonville Plaza
(Contributed) January 24, 2018 — Watsonville, CA Cruzio Internet/Santa Cruz Fiber to provide free WiFi in Watsonville Plaza as part of their service expansion to Watsonville. Santa Cruz Fiber, a Cruzio service is partnering with […]
Makerspace brings high-tech tools to Cabrillo College
By Nicholas Ibarra Santa Cruz Sentinel January 24, 2018 — Aptos, CA (Photo above: Gypsum printed architectural model produced by a 3-D printer at the Cabrillo College Makerspace. Credit: Dan Coyro.) [Editor’s note: For background, […]