• Farm to Table | Delicata Squash
  Known also as “Bohemian” or “peanut squash,” Delicata squash is plentiful at the farmers markets. An heirloom…
• 12 gifts of Procrastinators’ Christmas: For Foodies’ Eyes Only
  Have a Santa Cruz foodie on your gift list, and left the shopping to the last minute? Here are 12 local gift i…
• Photos: Powerful swells crash into Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz
  

  Powerful swells pour into Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Dec. 18.

• Google misleads kids and parents about apps, complaint filed with FTC says
  Accusing Google of misleading practices about kids’ apps, nearly two dozen child- and consumer-advocacy groups…
• Jerry McDonald’s NFL power rankings: Saints No. 1; L.A. is embarrassing Bay Area
  A look at how NFL teams rank going into Week 16: 1. New Orleans (12-2) Drew Brees’ ability to lead an offense…
• Editorial: Good, bad in much-needed plan for Bay Area housing crisis
  A coalition of divergent Bay Area interests has come together on a plan to confront the region’s housing crisi…
• Last refuge: A Bay Area RV community bands together to fight City Hall
  EAST PALO ALTO – Lisa Cosey-Stevens works for San Mateo County. She loves her job. But despite steady work and…
• Kardashians headed to court against Blac Chyna over cancellation of her reality TV show
  Blac Chyna will get her day in court against the family of her ex, Rob Kardashian. The model and entrepreneur’…
• Santa Clara County approves funding for 1,000 affordable homes
  SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County supervisors Tuesday approved spending $123.1 million to construct six affordable…
• Five reasons why 49ers DeForest Buckner got Pro Bowl snub
  SANTA CLARA — DeForest Buckner’s Pro Bowl snub is hard for 49ers fans to digest. So how did it happen? The eas…

• Carolyn Hax: Should I discourage my daughter from trying out for the drill team?
  DEAR CAROLYN: I have 14-year-old daughter in her first year of high school. Rece…
• Walters: Should California make it easier to practice law?
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• San Jose imposes new scooter regulations
  Pedestrians tired of leaping sideways to avoid colliding with scofflaw scooter r…
• How Donald Penn’s charity event helped one ‘struggling’ Walmart employee
  SAN LEANDRO — When Samantha McDuffie woke up Tuesday morning, she didn’t know he…
• Warriors-Jazz cheatsheet: Utah is reeling, but don’t count them out
  The Utah Jazz are in the midst of a losing stretch, dropping four of their last…
• Ask Amy: He says it’s my fault he can’t eat these foods
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• Miss Manners: He holds the door, you wave him ahead in line
  Judith Martin DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m not a firm believer in men holding doors op…
• College basketball: Cal women embracing visit by No. 1 UConn
  There are lots of benefits to Cal putting its undefeated record on the line agai…
• Off Topic: Penny Marshall tributes, George Lucas, Christmas comet, weed for a Big Mac?
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• Thousand Oaks mass shooting gunman had drugs illegally prescribed by doctor, feds say
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• Under the Sea
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• The FiberOpticpus Trivia Quiz
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• Santa Cruz Fiber – What’s Next?
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• We’ve Gotta Save the Internet. Again.
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• Fiber Construction: Phase One Complete
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• The Best-Connected Mobile Home Park in the Country – and the Woman Who Made it Happen
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• First Phase of Fiber Construction Winding Up in Downtown Santa Cruz
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• California Fails Disastrously to Rescue Net Neutrality
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• The New Email System’s Here!
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• Rules, Mergers: What’s Ahead for the Internet?
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• Italy and E.U. Reach a Budget Deal
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• Penny Marshall, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star and Movie Director, Dies at 75
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• GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer to Merge Consumer Health Units
  The companies say their new venture will be the world’s largest maker of over-th…
• Curbing Speech in the Name of Helping Israel
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• Facebook, Criminal Justice, Federal Reserve: Your Wednesday Briefing
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• Why Deep Blue New York Is ‘Voter Suppression Land’
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• New York Today: N.Y. Today: Our Maddening Election Laws May Finally Change
  Early voting. More voting by mail. More time to vote. Automatic registration. It…
• The West at an Impasse
  How meritocracy and populism reinforce each other's faults.
• Disability: Flying While Blind
  I am not only an experienced traveler; I am an experienced blind person.
• Hacked European Cables Reveal a World of Anxiety About Trump, Russia and Iran
  The cables quote China’s president calling America a bully, show concerns about…

• Grace Mugabe faces South Africa arrest warrant
  Zimbabwe’s former first lady is accused of assaulting a model in a hotel in Joha…
• Brexit: EU reveals no-deal plans
  “Damage limitation” measures will cover key sectors, including transport, financ…
• Elon Musk launches high-speed underground tunnel
  The prototype underground tunnel is designed to transport cars at speeds of up t…
• Italy budget deal struck with Europe after months-long row
  The agreement follows a high-profile diplomatic row that has lasted for months.
• Facebook's data-sharing deals exposed
  An investigation reveals other tech firms were not always aware how much access…
• Sympathy for overworked Taiwan man who ploughed into Ferraris
  Taiwanese people open their wallets to help a low-paid man foot a rather large b…
• Tanzania's Diamond Platnumz banned from performing
  Diamond Platnumz angers officials by singing banned lyrics which include the wor…
• Egypt to bail Amal Fathy, jailed for 'fake news' after harassment complaint
  Amal Fathy had been jailed after criticising the government for failing to tackl…
• Amphibian that buries head in sand named after Donald Trump
  A newly discovered creature that buries its head in the sand is named Dermophis…
• Elon Musk unveils prototype high-speed LA transport tunnel
  The entrepreneur says his system will see modified electric cars travel at high…

• Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome
  Google engineers are currently working on a Chrome browser update that will bloc…
• Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: By now, of course, you’re awa…
• 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled
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• Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says
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• Facebook Gave More Than 150 Companies, Including Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Yahoo, Unprecedented Access To Users' Personal Data: NYT
  The New York Times obtained hundreds of pages of Facebook documents which were g…
• Researchers Demonstrate Teleportation Using On-Demand Photons From Quantum Dots
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: A team of researchers from Au…
• SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network
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• Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart'
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• Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed
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• T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: T-Mobile has denied an al…

• SCTB Highlights of 2018
  By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Decem…
• CruzHacks + Tech4Good = Social Good Partnership
  By Greg Wolff CruzHacks team December 12, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA “Our goal is to…
• 3rd Annual Titans of Tech announces speakers for January 17 event
  (Contributed) December 12, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA The 3rd Annual Titans of Tech h…
• Inboard: Finding Portlandia
  (Source: Inboard blog) December 11, 2018 — Portland, OR Ahh, Portland. Smell tha…
• Forbes: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
  By Peter Cohan Forbes December 11, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA Business intelligence a…
• Professor Lise Getoor will give talk on Responsible Data Science at 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture
  (Source: UCSC website) December 11, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA Responsible data scien…
• Jane Tech and CanPay partner to bring online payments to customers in the cannabis marketplace
  (Contributed) December 11, 2018 — Littleton, CO and Santa Cruz, CA Treehouse is…
• Ocean Mist Farms selects Zest Fresh to automate data collection
  By Tom Karst The Packer December 11, 2018 — Castroville, CA San Jose-based Zest…
• After a dozen years and 600 summer STEM internships, NPS looks back at its impact along the way
  (Source: Naval Postgraduate School Review Magazine) December 6, 2018 — Monterey,…
• Looker Closes Series E Financing Round of $103 Million
  (Contributed) December 6, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA With today’s investment, Looker…

• Santa Cruz Gives 2018 Open For Business
  The fourth annual Santa Cruz Gives holiday giving campaign is now live at SantaC…
• Cosmo D Cooks Up Gourmet Edibles
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• Your Place Farm-to-Table’s Chef Art Russell
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• Music and Arts Festival Redwood Mountain Faire Returns June 2 & 3
  [Sponsored Post] The Redwood Mountain Faire is a remarkable music and arts festi…
• Santa Cruz Resident Patrick Perez Rides for AIDS/LifeCycle
  When I told people I was riding my bicycle 545 miles for a charity, most people…
• UCSC’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Society Opens Art Show at Felix Kulpa Gallery
  If the name Felix Kulpa Gallery & Sculpture Garden doesn’t quite ring familiar,…
• How to Savor the Strangeness of Succulents
  Succulent. The name says a lot.  But it doesn’t reveal everything about these wi…
• Preview: Sylvia Grape to Play Two Nights in Santa Cruz
  When Sylvia Grape’s “dear Ma” grounded her for five months in high school, she h…
• Garden-Inspired Home Fermentation
  One Saturday, when the chill had not quite worn off the morning and it was still…
• Collective Soul: Soquel’s Craftsmen Collective
  Anyone who has worked extensively as an artist or maker is probably familiar wit…

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