A wooden statue of Bigfoot was recovered by police after being seen along a road north of Santa Cruz, California last Thursday. Thieves grabbed the 4-foot tall wood carving from the Bigfoot Discovery Museum near Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and re... ... Joby Aviation has raised a $590 million Series C round of funding, including $394 million from lead investor Toyota Motor Corporation, the company announced today. Joby is in the process of developing an electric air taxi service, which will make use of in-house developed electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that will in part ... The motorcycle industry is shifting to electric. Harley-Davidson signaled the trend this year, becoming the first big gas manufacturer to release a street-legal e-motorcycle in the U.S., the LiveWire. But before Harley’s EV pivot, California-based startup Zero Motorcycles had been selling e-motos for years. “We’re an electric motorcycle and power-train manufacturer founded in 2006 in ... The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and ... Logitech, the manufacturer best known for its computing peripherals like keyboards and web cameras, is in talks to buy Plantronics, a maker of bluetooth-enabled headsets, according to Reuters. The company is reportedly offering as much as $2.2 billion for Plantronics, according to the Reuters report, in what would be Logitech’s biggest acquisition to date. Driving the ...
The director of housing for UCSC's Silicon Valley campus asked the university's 6,000 professors to consider sheltering their students to help bridge the shortfall between university-subsidized housing and the student body's needs, amidst the whitest... ... If your son or daughter were protesting 150 up on redwood tree limb should you demand they transfer to Texas A&M? ...
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Bigfoot spotted along roadside in Northern California
Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service
Talking to Zero Motorcycles’ CEO and taking home the 2020 SR/F
The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts
Logitech is reportedly offering $2.2 billion to bring Plantronics headsets into its hardware empire
UC Santa Cruz asks professors to rent their spare rooms to students who couldn’t get housing guarantees
UCSC Treesitting Protesters Barking Up Some Really, Really Big Redwood Trees