#311: Inboard, Buoy/Resideo, YaDoggie, and more tech.

Digest #311

How many of you remember Ms. ? Back in the day, the popular magazine was considered to be " a voice for women by women, a voice that had been hidden from and left out of mainstream media. " One of today's articles -- It’s Computer Science Education Week: Do You Know Where the Girls Are? -- written by ETR Senior Researcher Jill Denner -- was recently published in Ms. Very cool, Jill.

Have you noticed we haven't published any news from Buoy (Resideo), Inboard, or YaDoggie recently? There's a reason (three reasons, actually).

As usual, there's more. Scroll down and see what's up.

Sara Isenberg

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Santa Cruz Tech Beat

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Top Stories

UK antitrust regulator CMA (the Competition and Markets Authority) announces an investigation into the Google-Looker deal. Read this article .

Ontera and QuantuMDx announce a collaboration to create a next-gen solution for blood stream infection and drug resistance detection. Read this article .

It’s Computer Science Education Week: Do You Know Where the Girls Are? ETR scientists scribes essay for MS. Magazine w/ props for Digital NEST. Read this article .

As far as inspiration for new businesses go, few things are more compelling than protecting your own loved ones, so says the CEO and founder of Trust Assurance Network. Read this article .

A team of UCSC computer science students has won sponsorship from Amazon to develop a “socialbot” that can converse with humans. Read this article .

MBARI gets help from UCSC researchers to streamline the garbled three-way conversation between oceanographers, engineers and robots and autonomous vehicles. Read this article .

What happened to Inboard, Buoy (Resideo), YaDoggie? Sometimes you have to give up but I’m not referring to them. I’m referring to me. Read this article .