Santa Cruz Tech Beat

News

Q&A: AI for dogs? What’s the Companion story?

By Sara IsenbergFounder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat May 6, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA I love tips and I received one recently (thanks, Sol!) that a startup focused on AI training for dogs […]

Read More

WGCIT: Women Revolutionizing Ag through Tech (Watch Panel)

(Source: Western Grower Center for Innovation & Technology) May 6, 2021 — Salinas, CA During our “WGCIT Farms to Incubators Virtual Panel” on Friday, April 30, 2021, leading women who are revolutionizing agriculture through technology […]

Read More

Cosmic: Nonprofits, Master the 3 Pillars of Digital Engagement for Maximum Social Impact

By Eric ResslerCosmic May 6, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image source: Cosmic) Your nonprofit must focus on digital engagement just as you do program work. That’s the best way to increase revenue, drive action, […]

Read More

Paystand: Blockchain as the Future of EIPP Software

(Source: Paystand blog) May 6, 2021 — Scotts Valley, CA What is EIPP 33% percent of mid-sized businesses report that the time it takes to process payments is a significant issue. There is a clear […]

Read More

Project to read genomes of all 70,000 vertebrate species reports first discoveries

(Source: Howard Hughs Medical Institute and Baskin Engineering ) May 6, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image source: Nature.com) A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species has reached […]

Read More

UCSC’s Million-COVID-Genome Tree Could be a First

(Source: Genomics Institute) April 27, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA Solving a computational puzzle, a UCSC team created a dynamic evolutionary tree to enable real-time genomic contact tracing Early in the pandemic, UCSC knew they […]

Read More

Jen Grant of Appify: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a C-Suite Executive

By Parveen PanwarAuthority Magazine April 27, 2021 — Santa Cruz, San Jose, CA [Editor’s note: Jen Grant, CEO of Appify (formerly Turbo Systems), was previously the CMO at Looker. Santa Cruz Tech Beat published Turbo […]

Read More

Steve Blank: A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

By Steve BlankAdjunct Professor Stanford University (Photo: Steve Blank. Source: LinkedIn) [Editor’s note: Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur based in Pescadero. Known by entrepreneurs and students as one of “The Godfathers of Silicon […]

Read More

DeepBlaster: When Robotics AI meets a Nerf Blaster

By Chris MillerCloud Brigade April 28, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA Announcing the Cloud Brigade DeepBlaster Project. The DeepBlaster Controller software allows anyone to extend the functionality of AWS DeepRacer with servos, sensors and other […]

Read More

Kelly Harkins Kincaid: From orchestra pit to executive leadership

By Melissa WeckerleBaskin School of Engineering April 27, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Kelly Harkins Kincaid presenting her talk, “Living on the Edge of Your Comfort Zone: Women in Executive Leadership.” Source: Baskin […]

Read More

Sign up for our free weekly email digest!

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Follow Now

Facebook Feed

This message is only visible to admins.
Problem displaying Facebook posts.
Click to show error
Error: Server configuration issue