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Asylum Labs: Going after ‘Social Casino’
by Jason Kaehler CEO, Asylum Labs Back in 2012 when we were tossing around ideas for a new game studio, we knew we wanted to focus on a particular genre. There was much deliberation since […]
When Robots Write Songs
by William Hochbert The Atlantic [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat previously wrote about UCSC Professor Emeritus David Cope in JamBandit puts music fans in the spotlight, February 13, 2014.] Bach, Coltrane, McCartney: New algorithms can […]
Programmers looking to crowdfund ‘Droidles’ project
by Jennifer Pittman Santa Cruz Sentinel (photo credit: Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel) Aromas engineer has big plans for mini robots. If funded, Droidles will be a resource for the Digital NEST, a newly created technology […]
Cabrillo engineering camp inspires girls
by Kara Gusman Santa Cruz Sentinel (photo credit: Emma Brokaw — Santa Cruz Sentinel) After carefully fitting a wine cork onto a thumb-sized generator, Scotts Valley sixth-grader Seri Thompson pumped her fist with glee. Along […]
Plantronics brings PC games to life with Rig Surround at Gamescom 2014
(contributed) Dolby® 7.1 Surround Sound headset offers full-featured audio controller and peerless audio performance Plantronics announced two new PC gaming headsets on August 12, 2014, RIG Surround and RIG Flex at Gamescom 2014, the world’s […]
New Lifetime Rebuildable Battery Takes Worry Out of Buying Electric Vehicles
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Electric vehicle (EV) technology developer NTS Works has created a small and powerful battery that can be rebuilt and upgraded for half the cost of a new […]
We Are Tuul
by Wayne Tsuchitani Tuul [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published a previous article about Tuul on July 5, 2014.] Reimagining Customer Support Earlier this year my co-founder, Toby Corey, and I were batting around […]
Reaching for Star Students in COSMOS
by Paige Welsh California’s top high school students learn graduate school material at COSMOS summer school Summer school once conjured dread in the hearts of teens. Who wants watch the clock tick by in a […]
Cancer study reveals powerful new system for classifying tumors
by Tim Stephen UC Santa Cruz One in ten cancers were reclassified in clinically meaningful ways based on molecular subtypes identified by a comprehensive analysis of data from thousands of patients Cancers are classified primarily […]
NIH awards $2 million to UCSC group for DNA sequencing research
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz Biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson leads efforts to develop nanopore technology for DNA sequencing A group led by Mark Akeson, professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, will receive […]