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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

2023 Santa Cruz County State of the Workforce

As Santa Cruz surfs the post-Covid recovery wave, we're still wiping out on some gnarly issues. The population's getting thinner (not their ear and nose hair though!), and our housing situation is scarier than a monster Mavericks' wave!

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Is the eVTOL Industry in Trouble?

NASA last month reported that they were cancelling the X-57 project. What is the NASA’s X-57 Maxwell project? And why is it important?

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Paystand Leading a $5.1B+ Market

The Global Utility Billing Software Market is projected to see substantial growth from 2023 to 2030, with Paystand as a standout leader in this burgeoning market.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Santa Cruz County Bank Reports Quarterly Earnings

Santa Cruz County Bank announced its unaudited earnings for Q2 2023. The bank reported a net income of $8.3 million for the quarter, marking a 31% increase from the same period in the previous year, but a 6% decrease from the prior quarter.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Miss Lippe's Dumpling Party

Following her impressive victory at the 2022 Startup Challenge Monterey Bay, Emily Lippe propelled her startup Miss Lippe’s Dumpling Party into a growth trajectory soaring by 300%. Her venture, Miss Lippe's, is a dumpling business dedicated to celebrating community and mouth-watering cuisine.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Monterey Bay Tech Meetup

The inaugural Monterey Bay Tech Meetup will feature two local speakers: Matt Cool, Community and Program Manager at Mozilla and Pat Cool, Developer/Software Architect at TASi Gas Flow.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Shakespeare Goes Solar with Climatize

In the realm of New Jersey, nestled in Florham Park, the Shakespeare Theatre, an institution of great reverence, goes solar with the help of Climatize.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Barbenheimer: The Movie

So you're stuck in a crowd of eager moviegoers this week, squashed between a gang of nuclear physics enthusiasts and a flash mob of hardcore Barbie fans, and you're thinking, "Man, life is tough. Why can't I have both?"

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Can ChatGPT “see”?

Microsoft recently found that GPT-4 could generate images, despite not being specifically trained for this task. Local AI experts Will Mayall takes the blinders off of ChatGPT.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

HAL: Open the Pod Bay Doors

If HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey were a super-intelligent AGI, would astronaut Dave have been able to reason with it? This cosmic nerd believes that where this is AGI, there is a way.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Celebrate Resilience: Annieglass

Calling all glass enthusiasts, art lovers, entrepreneurs, and party-goers:. Come together to celebrate Annieglass on July 29 at 310 Harvest Dr in Watsonville. The magic starts at 1:00pm and keeps going until 4:00pm.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Threads Sets A New Record

Imagine if a newly launched app was like one of those super contagious viruses in movies. It's sneezing out millions of users every day. This isn't some sick plot of a sci-fi horror, it's actually the tale of a new app called Threads.

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