Tech
‘Educators beware!’ TikTok challenge to slap a teacher prompts urgent warning
Following a trend that encouraged school vandalism last month, the California Teachers Association cautioned that while TikTok has not authorized or sponsored the challenge, “it is important to be aware that students here in California may be coerced by social media or their peers to participate.”
Cabrillo College receives $5 million grant to assist Latino and low-income STEM majors
Cabrillo College officials announced Tuesday that it has received a five-year, $5 million federal grant to boost its STEM programs as well as its outreach to Latinos and low-income students. The money will be used to encourage PVUSD students to enter STEM fields, create a new biotechnology degree and improve transfer rates to four-year universities.
Anxious the Delta variant will pause life again? This therapist can help you cope
“There isn’t really a way to get through this time period other than generally accepting that we are mortal,” TikTok therapy guru Dr. Courtney Tracy says, “and that we exist on a planet that is uncertain and unprecedented things happen.”
Recall gives Netflix’s Reed Hastings a chance to mend fences with Newsom
The $3.1 million in contributions that Hastings has given Newsom marks a political reconciliation after supporting opponent Antonio Villaraigosa in 2018.
Why do Tesla cars keep crashing into emergency response vehicles? Feds are investigating
The top federal traffic safety regulator says Tesla’s partially automated driving system, Autopilot, failed to spot parked police cars and fire trucks. It wants to know why.
Newsom asks Biden to ensure Pentagon OKs use of satellite data for wildfire program
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants President Joe Biden to urge the Pentagon to continue providing sensitive satellite information to firefighters so they can spot and track wildfires — and Biden pledged to take up the issue.
The pandemic made telemedicine an instant hit — but now patients and providers feel the growing pains
Patients seem to like remote visits, and health care providers now depend on them. But outages, freezing and other glitches cost time and money, and can compromise quality of care. “On an iPhone, I can click one button to see my grandkids,” one professor says. “Can we not make telemedicine systems as easy as that?”
Pandemic, competition trim Netflix market share below 50% — a first
Netflix’s global digital audience market share for original series dropped below 50% for the first time, according to Parrot Analytics. The Los Gatos-based streamer is expanding into podcasts and gaming as it faces competition from Disney+ and others.
Four years in, Startup Sandbox remains ‘economic engine’ for Santa Cruz tech biz
The Westside bioscience incubator has helped a number of companies since it was founded in 2017, with many so-called “graduates” choosing to anchor their operations in the area, hire UC Santa Cruz alums or both — and without letting last year’s fires or the COVID-19 pandemic get in the way.