With up to $16 million in funding from DARPA, UC Santa Cruz engineers will work with doctors and scientists at UC Davis and Tufts University to develop bioelectronic intelligent control of wound regeneration

BREAKING NEWS: We are very excited to announce 5 inspirational CruzHacks 2020 projects at the Santa Cruz Works New Tech event on March 4.

New life is being pumped into the aging and little-used Moss Landing power plant, this time it’s coming in the form of clean and renewable energy.

Santa Cruz Work’s got exclusive access to cover the action as Chris Metcalfe presents the new model. A leaked video of the SR/S led to an earlier release, exemplifying the overwhelming interest in Zero’s innovation.

The natural foods industry veteran will serve as retail advisor to e-commerce company Jane Technologies, bringing with him decades of experience in natural and organic foods — an industry he says felt similar in its early days to the cannabis industry now.

UC Santa Cruz has been accepted into a new national network of colleges and universities that have made an explicit commitment to developing technology that will advance the public interest.

Mr. Tesler, who worked for several leading tech companies, including Xerox, Apple, Amazon and Yahoo, devoted much of his career to the idea of making computers practical, affordable and easy to use.

If you have a clean energy idea and are in California, apply for CalSEED’s grant funding. Early stage entrepreneurs can get $150K on this first round with the possibility of $450k to come! Applications open February 28th.

Author Dean Hovey applies Design Thinking methodology to solve growth issues in Watsonville.

Green Tech was a big hit with presentations from both local companies as well as Gringgo (2 “g”s for “go green”) from Indonesia, Microsoft from Redmond, and more

Justine Haupt never expected that a project she’d been working on for the past three years would suddenly cause her website to crash.

Atmotube detects harmful air conditions and alerts users on their phones. By By detecting harmful gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), continuously measuring temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure, Atmotube is democratizing air quality monitors.

Three time international champions Aptos High School is charging up for the 2020 season. You can help!

Author Valerie Moselle helps us understand the power of breath.

An historic moment for Santa Cruz County: Jacob Martinez / Founder and Executive Director of Digital NEST has been chosen as one of five recipients of this year’s The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

Jeff Bezos has pledged more money to to fight climate change than any person ever has. The question is, where will it go?

John Dicconson, CEO of TCN moved to the Monterey Bay Area from San Francisco in the year 2000 to join a language services company, immerse in the local business ecosystem and enjoy a healthier work-life balance.

We recently learned that Melanie Perkins - the founder & CEO of Canva - is a kitesurfer. Melanie is now one of the highest-valued, woman-led unicorn companies in the world.

Scotts Valley company WeatherFlow announces TEMPEST: an artificial intelligence-powered weather system for at-home use this spring.

Craig Vachonin In this interview discusses the the last twelve plus years of Santa Cruz Tech and his prediction for what he see to come out of Santa Cruz tech in the next five years.