In 2001, a Santa Barbara-based company, Computer Motion, created the first FDA-approved surgical robot that enabled a surgeon in New York to remove the gallbladder of a patient in Strasbourg, France.

Leaders from both Fielding Graduate University and Excelsior University gathered in Denver earlier this year to better plan and commit to the planned merger between the two higher learning bodies.

Four UC Santa Barbara professors were recently honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, being named to its 2025 class of fellows. Founded in 1848, AAAS promotes the ...

Dr. Michael Jobst, from Bryan Health, a health system based in Nebraska, speaks with the remote surgical care team 500 miles away through the Sovato Platform. Sovato raised $26 million in a Series B ...

By John La Puma, M.D. We live in one of the most envied regions on Earth. From the tech corridors, beaches and foothills of Santa Barbara to the agricultural powerhouses and beautiful landscapes of ...

Members of Beacon Photonics outside UC Santa Barbara’s Oasis facility, where the company has established “Beacon West” at the innovation and translational research hub. (courtesy photo) Virginia-based ...

California represents the final hurdle for completing the $34.5 billion merger of Cox Communications and Spectrum, a national cable company. As we’ve written before, the deal would provide business ...

After a few months of delays, the California Employment Development Department has released unemployment numbers for the month of January. Announced April 3, the unemployment rate for the Central ...

Transphorm was one of the startups born out of UCSB's patents. It was bought out in 2024 or $339 million. (courtesy photo) The region’s leaders in patents are usually some of the most innovative tech ...

Las Brisas, a 340-unit apartment community in Santa Maria, has begun leasing activity, said MBK Rental Living, the developer of the property. (courtesy photo) By Staff Report Las Brisas, a 340-unit ...

I had been hearing that the City of Ventura was making progress in moving homeless people to permanent housing and that it was experimenting with public/private partnerships for affordable housing. So ...

By Vlad Vaiman Artificial intelligence may be the most significant workforce transformation since the advent of electricity. But while earlier waves of automation replaced human muscle, today’s shift ...