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UCSC ranked 8th in top 25 grad schools for game design
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz March 26, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA The graduate programs in game design at UC Santa Cruz were named among the top programs in the country by the Princeton […]
How Payments-as-a-Service Is Changing an Industry
By Diana Holm PayStand March 26, 2015 — Scotts Valley, CA What happens when you apply SaaS principles to payment processing? You may not realize it, but you probably depend on multiple SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products […]
PayStand launches mobile POS app for credit card, check, bitcoin
By Erica Zeidenberg PayStand March 26, 2015 — Scotts Valley, CA Last year PayStand introduced payments-as-a-service approach to offer a payments gateway for Bitcoin, eCheck and credit card. Now it’s bringing that solution for online […]
April New Tech Meetup: Meteor, CREOpoint, Mainstreets/Favr, IDEASS
(contributed) March 26, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA The Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup has announced the lineup of companies presenting on April 1, 2015 (no joke). All the usual: Doors open at 6pm. Admission […]
Mission Adobe digitally preserved using 3D scanning
By Jennifer Squires Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: The Mission Adobe, the oldest building in Santa Cruz County, is located at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park. Photo credit: Friends of Santa […]
New makerspace opening in Santa Cruz in June
By Corey Patterson Idea Fabrication Labs Santa Cruz March 19, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Idea Fabrication Labs (IFL) Santa Cruz, a new makerspace based on a successful venture in Chico, will be opening in […]
New Breed of Solar Panels Fine-Tunes Light for Crops
By Xochitl Rojas-Rocha Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: Cucumbers growing strong under the light from 5,000 square feet of Soliculture’s solar panels. Photo credit: Glenn Alers) March 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, […]
Just another day in the office at Magic Leap
(Source: YouTube) From Magic Leap folks, March 19, 2015: “Unfortunately, we couldn’t make it to TED, but we wanted to share one of the things that we’d planned to share at the talk. This is […]
Focus on Marine Tech in the Monterey Bay
By Sara Isenberg Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat March 20, 2015 — Moss Landing, CA On Wednesday, March 25, 5-7pm, the Monterey Bay Entrepreneurs and Innovators Meetup will host an event focused on Marine Tech […]
Plantronics products are WEBRTC-ready today
(contributed) March 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA WebRTC is an up-and-coming standard that enables real-time voice and video to be directly embedded into browsers making the browser a primary user interface for communications and […]