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Can video games help stroke survivors rebuild the broken links between brain and body?
By James Urton UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program (Image above, credit: Benedicte Rossi) September 23, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Recent UC Santa Cruz alumnus Luke Buschmann tested whether motion-sensing games assist stroke survivors […]
Santa Cruz Muni Fiber Threat Forces Comcast Upgrade
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat September 23, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA After years of blowing off customers, sandbagging local governments and stonewalling regulators, Comcast has finally upgraded […]
Looker Delivers a Data Platform with Looker Blocks
(Contributed) September 23, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Hundreds of companies are consolidating their analytics on Looker’s Data Platform Looker Blocks are apps that are components of business logic, such as churn prediction or lifetime […]
Monarch Media Makes Inc. 500|5000 for the Fourth Time
(Contributed) September 23, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA For the fourth time, Inc. magazine has named Santa Cruz-based Monarch Media to the Inc. 500|5000, the magazine’s annual list of the fastest growing private companies in […]
Community TV Launches “Santa Cruz Currents”
By Keith Gudger Board Chair, Community Television of Santa Cruz County Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: Sara Isenberg, Founder and Publisher of Santa Cruz Tech Beat, records a segment at the studios […]
Local Tech Invited to UCSC’s DataLex Symposium: Privacy, Big Data & The Law
By Liv Hassett and Michael A. Troncoso UC Santa Cruz Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat September 17, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA We are inviting the Santa Cruz tech community to join this important […]
Do you need an app? Take the quiz.
By Kirsti Scott Scott Design September 17, 2015 — Capitola, CA Take the Do I Need an App Quiz… With more than 2 billion mobile devices expected to ship in 2015, getting mobile users engaged […]
La Ola Tecnologica de Santa Cruz
By Andrea Muñoz H. (Andrea Muñoz Hinrichsen) El Mercurio Translation by Claudia Melendez September 17, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA (and Santiago, Chile) Santa Cruz Technology Wave — a story about the identity conflict of […]
Calliope Waterworks Steps Out of Stealth…
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat September 16, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA …And heads to TechCrunch Disrupt to launch. Calliope Waterworks, a new startup in Santa Cruz, is the first […]
Genomics Institute Partners with Microsoft
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz (Photo above: Benedict Paten is assistant director of the Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics at UC Santa Cruz. Credit: Summer Stiegman) September 16, 2015 — Santa Cruz, […]