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Get ready for UCSC’s first student-run hackathon!
By Katelyn Suhr and Moriah Wolfe UCSC students and members of HACK UCSC organizing team Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 11, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: The student organizers of Hack […]
UCSC engineers work with Samsung on promising new memory technology
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz January 11, 2017 — Santa Cruz (Image above: This scanning electron microscope image shows the nanomagnet array on a pre-commercial STT-MRAM prototype. Image courtesy of Holger Schmidt.) Innovations in […]
CTV / Satellite Hosts 360 Degree (Immersive) Video Meetup
By Keith Gudger Community Television of Santa Cruz County (CTV) January 11, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Join us for a meetup about 360 Video, from capture through editing and viewing in Virtual Reality (VR). […]
Santa Cruz tech rolls out at CES
CES spotlight on Onewheel+. By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 8, 2017 — Las Vegas (Photo above: Plantronics’ Esther Yoon demos the Backbeat Fit at CES. Credit: Steve […]
Green Tech visions from Jan 4 Tech Meetup
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 5, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Panel, moderated by Ryan Evans, Inboard, talk about green tech at the Santa Cruz New Tech […]
Over 1000 students have applied for Hack UCSC 2017
By Sonya Newlyn UC Santa Cruz Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 5, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Momentum building for Hack UCSC 2017 Hack UCSC 2017 is shaping up to be the biggest […]
NY Times on Pearl: Growing a Different Apple
By Vindu Goel New York Times January 3, 2017 — Scotts Valley, CA (Image above: Pearl employees. More than 50 of the company’s 80 or so employees worked for Apple at some point. Credit: Anthony […]
Mobile Ranger Goes on Pause in 2017
By Julia Gaudinski Founder of Mobile Ranger December 29, 2016 — Santa Cruz, CA [Photo above: Santa Cruz’s iconic arch at Natural Bridges State Beach in April 2012, and the focal point of several Mobile […]
Agriculture Producers Can’t Sit on the Sidelines Waiting for Farm Robotics to Come to Them
By Nathan Dorn Food Origins Cofounder December 28, 2016 — Salinas, CA [Photo above: Nathan Dorn is CEO and cofounder of Food Origins, an early stage Precision Data company focused on hand-harvested crops. Food Origins […]
FORA coworking feasibility report suggests unmet local demand
By Josh Metz and Gina Archuleta, Fort Ord Reuse Authority, and Brad Barbeau, CSUMB December 28, 2016 — Seaside, CA FORA Coworking Space Market Feasibility Study The Fort Ord Reuse Authority and the Institute for […]