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Dark Fiber Network within City of Salinas
(Contributed) February 12, 2019 — Salinas, CA The Salinas City Council unanimously approved an Agreement with Hartnell College last week to enable the City to take the final step in its desire to create a […]
Passive Cleaner Boat Bot could keep microplastics out of oceans
By Erin Foley Baskin Engineering Communications Assistant February 7, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: The Passive Cleaner Boat Bot — PCBB — would passively drift along coastlines to collect garbage deposited into the […]
Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production
(Contributed) February 7, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: Electron microscopy of carbon nanowires co-doped with ruthenium and nitrogen shows ruthenium nanoparticles decorating the surface of the nanowires. Elemental mapping analysis shows individual ruthenium […]
Local Roots: Julia Hartz Founded Eventbrite With Her Fiancé. Then She Took His Job.
By David Gelles NY Times February 5, 2019 — San Francisco, CA “Maybe it was growing up in Santa Cruz or maybe I was just born with it, but human energy, I just feel it […]
MaNGA data release includes detailed maps of thousands of nearby galaxies
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz February 5, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA (Images above: The MaNGA data set will eventually include more than 10,000 nearby galaxies, and the survey is already more than half […]
Western Digital, Genomics Institute, Baskin School of Engineering Collaborate to Accelerate Genomics Sequencing
(Source: UCSC Baskin School of Engineering.) February 5, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Benedict Paten directs the Computational Genomics Lab at UC Santa Cruz. Source: BSOE website) Western Digital Corp, the UC Santa […]
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good: Bud Colligan
(Source: Dastardly Cleverness) February 5, 2019 — Monterey, CA (Photo above, Bud Colligan. Source: Dastardly Cleverness) Transformative impact of business beyond the bottom line Lots of college students have part-time jobs. When Bud Colligan was […]
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Puts the Spotlight on Digital NEST
By Jacob Martinez Executive Director Digital NEST Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat February 5, 2019 — Watsonville, CA (Photo above: Digital NEST member Daphne shares with AT&T how the NEST opened up her world […]
Get Real About Being a Woman in Tech at March 5 Panel Event
By Tatum Whitehead Student, Pacific Collegiate School Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat February 5, 2019 – Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Colleagues share a moment at the recent Titans of Tech event held in […]
How Design Empathy Impacts the Development Process
By J.T. Mudge Solutions Expert, Product Ops February 5, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA If computers express themselves in ones and zeros, then humans are everything in between. Most of us like to think we […]