#304: $8.5M, Scrutiny, Robots, Viagra, and more tech.

Digest #304

UC Santa Cruz has received an anonymous gift of $8.5 million to support the Genomics Institute. The gift establishes the Healthier World Fund and will be paid over ten years.

US antitrust enforcers have started an in-depth review of Google’s $2.6B planned acquisition of Looker, considered to be a sign of greater scrutiny on big technology companies.

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