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West Sacramento CA – Gemini Bioproducts a leading supplier of cell culture reagents and process liquids, a portfolio company of BelHealth Investment Partners, LLC (“BelHealth”), a Florida-based healthcare private equity firm, today announced the opening of a new, state-of-the-art cGMP manufacturing facility and warehouse in West Sacramento, California. GeminiBio’s new 32,000 square feet fully validated cGMP facility consists of segregated animal origin (AO) product ISO 7 manufacturing suites and segregated AO/ animal origin free (AOF) raw material and finished good warehousing. This new cGMP warehouse includes temperature mapped and validated storage conditions, including -20C, 2-8C, and controlled room temperature (CRT). Keep Reading This Article at The Davis Vanguard

With the explosion in user-friendly artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT and countless other innovative applications, we’ve entered an age of accessibility so expansive it has been compared to the advent of the internet. But like the internet and its anarchic inception, the collective imagination is struggling to keep up with how these AI tools will impact daily life, and how to evade those who utilize them for malicious purposes. Using AI, criminals can be craftier, more convincing, and nearly impossible to detect — even for the otherwise tech-savvy. Phone scams aren’t just for the elderly anymore. With voice cloning software, just a three-second recording is needed to seamlessly mimic a real person’s voice, and scammers are already exploiting it. Keep Reading This Article at ...[Read More]

In an email last Thursday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced the creation of a new college, the College of Computing, Data Science and Society, or CDSS. Approved by the University of California Board of Regents on May 18, CDSS is UC Berkeley’s first new college in 50 years. The undergraduate majors in computer science, data science and statistics currently housed in the College of Letters and Science, or L&S, are expected to transition into the new college by spring 2024, according to Assistant Dean of Communications for CDSS Tiffany Lohwater. Keep Reading This Article at The Daily Californian

Scientists have invented a type of electronic skin that can “talk directly to the brain”, allowing amputees to feel a human-like sense of touch through prosthetic limbs. The ground-breaking artificial skin is embedded with sensors for temperature, pressure and strain, which are converted into electrical signals – similar to how nerve impulses communicate with the brain. The wearable electronic circuit, known as a monolithic e-skin, was developed by a team from Stanford University, who detailed their breakthrough in a study published in the journal Science. Keep Reading This Article at Yahoo.com.

In 2018, a member of the California Rice Research Board reached out to Zhongli Pan about an insect problem. Pests had been infiltrating rice storage silos and damaging rice quality. “They asked me, ‘Is there any way to do something better and easier?’” recalls Pan, an adjunct professor in the department of biological and agricultural engineering at UC Davis. Insect infestation affects crops worldwide, a common problem with processing and storage facilities. Pan is familiar with the issue. He grew up on a farm in northeast China and has studied post-harvest processing of agricultural products since coming to California in 1995, including time spent working at the USDA Agricultural Research Service. With his Davis-based startup, AIVision Food, Pan believes smart technology is key to protecti...[Read More]

UC San Diego is launching a new public safety program that utilizes over 1000 camera sensors across the Golden State. UCSD said ALERTCalifornia, which was rolled out Wednesday, will provide tools to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters like wildfires, landslides, floods and more. Officials explained that this program manages “pan-tilt-zoom wildfire monitoring cameras” and sensor arrays that will collect data and real-time information to help advise public safety. Scientists will analyze the data to gain a better understanding of the long-term impacts natural disasters have on air quality, water quality, soil quality and human health in California, UCSD said. Keep Reading This Article at MSN

The acquisition is part of Bosch’s strategy to tap into the rising demand for chips globally, especially in the automotive and electronics sector. German engineering and technology firm Bosch has announced its intent to acquire US-based chipmaker TSI Semiconductors and invest $1.5 billion over the next few years to tap the rising demand for chips globally, especially in the automotive and electronics sector. “With the acquisition of TSI Semiconductors, we are establishing manufacturing capacity for silicon carbide (SiC) chips in an important sales market while also increasing our semiconductor manufacturing, globally,” Stefan Hartung, chairman of the Bosch board of management, said in a statement. Neither of the companies disclosed the cost of acquisition or the terms. Silicon carbide semi...[Read More]

California lawmakers are seeking to lead on the oversight of artificial intelligence with a sweeping bill that would monitor how employers and industries use automated decision tools, from algorithms that filter out job applicants to programs that detect academic cheating. Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D) has sponsored legislation (A.B. 331) that is the lone AI-related proposal in the California state legislature and one of the few measure across the nation that would impose assessment requirements on the private sector’s use of such software. Keep Reading This Article at bloomberglaw.com

When local governments plan to acquire technology, they need to follow a few key steps says Micheal Maurer, a partner at the Best Best & Krieger (BB&K) law firm and a member of the firm’s Municipal Law team. He also serves as city attorney for La Habra Heights and San Jacinto, Calif. Maurer says one best practice cities and counties should follow is to truly identify what the local agency’s current and future tech needs are. “Have a strategic plan and use procurement to implement that plan. Too often it is the other way around, with an inflexible procurement process dictating what’s possible for your agency. This leads to 21st century cities using 1990s technology.” Maurer thinks buying technology should be a group effort. “A tech-buying team should be a collaboration between the u...[Read More]

When Dereck Paul was training as a doctor at the University of California San Francisco, he couldn’t believe how outdated the hospital’s records-keeping was. The computer systems looked like they’d time-traveled from the 1990s, and many of the medical records were still kept on paper. “I was just totally shocked by how analog things were,” Paul recalls. The experience inspired Paul to found a small San Francisco-based startup called Glass Health. Glass Health is now among a handful of companies who are hoping to use artificial intelligence chatbots to offer services to doctors. These firms maintain that their programs could dramatically reduce the paperwork burden physicians face in their daily lives, and dramatically improve the patient-doctor relationship. K...[Read More]

The NBA hasn’t put a mic inside the basketball, but it may feel that way. Embodied audio software from tech startup Edge Sound Research was installed at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center this month in an NBA Launchpad trial that could fundamentally change how fans watch and listen to a pro basketball game in person. Through transducers embedded in the back of five arena seats, select Sacramento fans are experiencing high-fidelity tones and vibrations from dribbles, dunks or swishes that, according to Edge Sound Research co-founder Valtteri Salomaki, give a spectator the “POV” of the basketball. Keep Reading This Article at sportsbusinessjournal.com.

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. & SEOUL, South Korea, March 22, 2023 Origin Materials (“Origin”) (NASDAQ: ORGN ORGNW), the world’s leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, and Hyosung Advanced Materials Corp. (“Hyosung Advanced Materials”) (KRX: 298050), a Korea-based industrial materials company, today announced a partnership to industrialize sustainable high-value specialty materials. As part of the partnership, Hyosung Advanced Materials signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement to purchase sustainable carbon-negative materials from Origin Materials, including PET and a hybrid polymer PET/F (a blend of PET and FDCA) for use in tire cord applications, HTC for use in battery materials, ...[Read More]