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Ontera Awarded ~$1M Contract from IARPA for Zika Genotyping Test
(Contributed) June 18, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA Test will enable fast quarantine of those infected with the most virulent and detrimental strains Ontera Inc., the leader in silicon-based nanopore diagnostics, announced today that the […]
Looker/Google in the news beyond Santa Cruz
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief Santa Cruz Tech Beat June 11, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Google acquired Looker for $2.6 Billion on June […]
More podcasts from Voices of the (Salinas) Valley
(Source: Voices of the Valley) June 11, 2019 — Salinas, CA ‘Voices of the Valley,’ is a podcast where Former Mayor of Salinas and Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology Lead Dennis Donohue will […]
What the Internet is Doing with Your Data
By Peggy Dolgenos Cruzio CEO June 11, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA Cruzio wants to protect your privacy. We are zealous about our own practices and we want to keep you informed of how other […]
Sandra Faber is a genealogist of the cosmic kind
By Jerry Davich Chicago Tribune June 11, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Sandra Faber, UCSC Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, accepts the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama in 2013. Source: Wikipedia) […]
Code Naturally: Rooted in Santa Cruz schools, coding education company ready to grow
By Nicholas Ibarra Santa Cruz Sentinel June 11, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA Code Naturally, the computer science education company, now has its roots in at least a dozen Santa Cruz County schools. (Photo above: […]
Poly G7500 Delivers All-in-One Content and Video Conferencing Solution for Limitless Potential to Collaborate
(Contributed) June 11, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA G7500 Offers 4K Video and Wireless Content Sharing from Any Device; Available for Hands-On Demonstration at InfoComm 2019 Poly – formerly Plantronics and Polycom – a global communications […]
Frank Bien: Looker to Join Google Cloud
By Frank Bien Looker CEO June 6, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA “I’m incredibly proud to announce some big news today, Looker has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google.” — Frank Bien, […]
Google to acquire Looker for $2.6 Billion
(Contributed) June 6, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA “I’m so humbled by the team of people we’ve built here in Santa Cruz and all over the world. For Looker to join Google Cloud, probably the […]
DNA Testing 2.0: The Near Future of Population Genomics
(Source: YouTube) June 6, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Rob Currie is CTO of the UCSC Genomics Institute. Source: YouTube) Consumer DNA testing kits were the best-selling non-Amazon branded product on Cyber Monday […]