Tag: technology
Government Agencies and the Private Sector Join Forces to Develop Clean...
Janani Ravikumar
Staff Writer
An international group of investors led by Bill Gates has created a new funding initiative called the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which will...
Google’s Project Loon Looms Over the Indonesian Horizon
Kristie Chairil
Staff Writer
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced at the end of October its plans to launch WiFi-beaming balloons into Indonesia’s stratosphere.
The project, called Project...
Windows 10: The Breakdown
By Gwendolyn Wu
AS Beat Reporter
For most PC users of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, a small Windows icon hovered in their desktop windows tray for...
Event Preview: Graphic Voices
Joanne Rhee
Staff Writer
Imagine an event where students passionate about animation and video games can come together and meet some of their favorite content creators....
Learning to Code Allows Us to Understand the Tools of the...
Lexi Weyrick
Staff Writer
Illustration by Amy Chase
The future is coming fast. We're far past 1984–the year in which the future was set in the famous...
Coding is the Cursive of Today
Sirarpi Topchyan
Remember that primary school teacher who insisted that you needed to learn cursive because you’d use it all your life? Now that you’re...
Google Purchases Titan Aerospace, Goes Above and Beyond the Clouds
Rebecca Ou
Google is taking to the skies in the form of drone-powered technology. Technology giant Google and social media tycoon Facebook battled it out...
Transcendence, Immortality, and the State of Artificial Intelligence
Madison Donahue-Wolfe
Staff Writer
Illustration by Hector Lizarraga, Staff Illustrator
Imagine a world ruled by computers--but one in which humans aren’t their slaves. A world in which...
UCSB Women’s Center Project Aims to Diversify STEM
Mimi Liu
Staff Writer
Finding My Place in STEM: A STEM Field Diversity Project, is the brainchild of Desireé Shibata, a Women’s Center Event Programmer for...
Youth Interactive: Santa Barbara’s Young Entrepreneurs
Bailee Abell
Staff Writer
Located in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara is a place that children consider their home away from home—and school. While the...
