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,..
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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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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,..
UC Santa Cruz Internet access project wins University of California IT award
by Guy Lasnier UC Santa Cruz A UC Santa Cruz project to bring broadband Internet services to underserved communities in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties has..
Lise Quintana in Fast Company: How to Build a Feminist Workplace
by Elizabeth Segran Fast Company [Editor’s note: Lise Quintana, founder of Santa Cruz based Narrative Technologies, was recently featured in Fast..
Peggy Dolgenos on the Economic Vitality Strategy
by Alex Feldman Civinomics [Editor’s note: The deadline for feedback on the EVS has been extended to August 15, 2014.] Peggy Dolgenos is the Chair of..