Tech

October 29, 2026

UCSB computer science department now offers new artificial intelligence major

By Olivia Lohrer

For the first time, UC Santa Barbara students will be able to make artificial intelligence the focus of their undergraduate experience. As of this quarter, the UCSB computer science (CS) department has launched a new un...

October 15, 2026

What Canvas knows about you: Who controls the privacy that students never had?

By Sophia DeMoe

In May 2026, the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters hacked Instructure, the company behind Canvas, and stole roughly 275 million records from about 8,800 institutions. Our data was stolen, but was it ever private in the fi...

May 14, 2026

Opinion: Does AI have a place in astrology?

By Macoy Greco

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become the go-to pocket deity of 2026: Housed in every tablet in the world, a god of knowledge who does not so much teach as he does supplant knowledge, keeping his worshippers...

April 24, 2026

(Back) to the moon and beyond: Artemis lifts off

By Anvi Murarka

As Disney’s Buzz Lightyear famously declared, the goal of space travel is “to infinity and beyond.” NASA’s Artemis program is a serious attempt to make this a reality.

January 15, 2026

Accelerating into the new year: UCSB Sherwin Group’s groundbreaking physics research

By Rebecca Raymond

The physics department at UC Santa Barbara houses its own powerful particle accelerator that accelerates electrons to 99.4% of the speed of light: The Sherwin Group’s ability to produce short and powerful pulses in the...

October 30, 2025

Built by students, powered by the sun: Engineers Without Borders bring solar-powered table to UCSB

By Anusha Singh

What started as a packet of old blueprints has now turned into a fully functioning solar-powered table on UC Santa Barbara’s campus — the result of two years of persistence, problem-solving and student-led collaborat...

October 30, 2025

A guide to gift card scams

By Rebecca Raymond

Rebecca shares strategies for college students to identify gift card scams in their workplaces.

May 22, 2025

Conscience computer science: UCSB launches first Embedded Ethics Lab

By Saanvi Tiwary

Maryam Majedi, an assistant teaching professor in the Computer Science Department at UCSB, is launching the university’s first Embedded Ethics Lab, a project designed to integrate ethical reflection directly into the t...

February 13, 2025

The mission to Mars: Can SpaceX put the U.S. flag on the red planet?

By Rebecca Raymond

SpaceX has long set its sights on Mars, and has made the bold promise that they will land humans on Mars in 2029, which will eventually pave the path for chief executive officer Elon Musk’s plans for Mars colonization ...

January 23, 2025

TikTok, time is up: to be banned or not to be banned?

By Cassie Cruz

News of the looming nationwide TikTok ban concerned many of TikTok’s 170 million U.S. users. The nationwide ban was set to take place on Jan. 19 unless Tiktok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, sold TikTok’...

December 19, 2024

Simply Stated: What is 3D printing and how is it being used on campus?

By Alex Fu

If you have ever taken a peek inside the UC Santa Barbara Makerspace before, you might have seen a cluster of identical machines lined up against a wall, quietly at work creating parts of all shapes and colors. These mac...

October 10, 2024

Building futures: a conversation with the co-chair of Los Ingenieros

By Olivia Lohrer

Fourth-year chemical engineering student Jessy Gonzalez, co-chair of Los Ingenieros, reflected on his experience being part of a community that uplifts minorities in S.T.E.M.

July 31, 2024

The CrowdStrike crisis

By Katharine Chi

On July 18, 2024, a CrowdStrike update caused the major I.T. outage whose effects were widely felt on the following day, impacting every Microsoft Windows operating system that had the CrowdStrike application installed a...

May 16, 2024

Making sure it’s Correkt: a group of UCSB students set out to revolutionize the ethics of AI chatbots

By Na Huang

When second-year computer science major Alexzendor Misra first came to UC Santa Barbara in Fall Quarter 2022, he had no idea an ill-fated encounter with a conspiracy-believing peer would inspire the creation of an artifi...

May 9, 2024

UCSB doctoral student named Schmidt Science Fellow, aims to advance pollution monitoring

By Kaitlin Lee

UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Satish Kumar was one of 32 early-career scientists from 17 nationalities to be recently chosen as a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, a prestigious postdoctoral program.

April 18, 2024

Methane-measuring satellite takes off from Santa Barbara

By Qien Feng

On March 4, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base one hour away from UC Santa Barbara. On board the rocket was Vandenberg Space Force Base, a satellite capable of mapping methane emissions ...