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• As a new state bill pushes back against license plate cameras, Watsonville looks to add more
  Ram Sundara Raman, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, said there is a troubling lack of transparency and oversight in Flock Safety’s data practices.
• Do humans and chimps really share nearly 99% of their DNA?
  David Haussler, distinguished professor of bimolecular engineering and scientific director at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, weighed in on the truth behind the frequently cited 98.8% similarity between chimp and human DNA.
• Forget smartwatches, scientists teach WiFi to monitor heartbeats
  Your WiFi can now do more than stream movies; it can sense the beat of your heart. Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a system that turns everyday wireless signals into a medical tool.
• Coastsiders can expect more power outages
  Yu Zhang, an assistant professor in the UC Santa Cruz Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, pointed out that fire can still strike coastal communities, such as the Santa Cruz wildfires in 2020.
• Cellular ‘trash bins’ might be a key to reviving multi-cancer early detection tests
  Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Kim discusses his research on the promise of detecting cancers early, when they are most curable, by finding extracellularvesicles in the blood with RNA sequencing.
• Hybrid AI Models Blend Deep Learning With Neuromorphic Ideas
  EE Times explores Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian’s perspective on how traditional deep learning methods and brain-inspired computing methods are influencing each other in ways that are pushing forward modern artificial intelligence.

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