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  • 2020 Is The Tech Awakening CRE Has Been Waiting For

    Bisnow

    The circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic have forced tech adoption at an unprecedented rate: The construction industry is implementing augmented and virtual reality, robots and drones to accommodate social distancing. An avalanche of urgent lease changes is prompting investment managers and corporate leaders to revisit the ways they process and standardize data. Large-scale office owners are utilizing cutting-edge tools to implement responsive space reconfigurations, contact tracing and spa…

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  • Skanska Adopts Wired Certification Across its US Portfolio

    Skanska

    Skanska, a leading global development and construction firm, today announced that it is partnering with WiredScore, the company behind Wired Certification, the only international digital connectivity rating system for commercial real estate.

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  • Virtual Kitchen led by ex-Uber execs raises $20 million from Founders

    CNBC

    Nearly seven months into the coronavirus pandemic, Uber has largely turned into a food delivery company. Former Uber employees, meanwhile, are finding another way to benefit from the dramatic change in the restaurant industry.

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  • Goodbye, Open Office. Hello, ‘Dynamic Workplace.’

    Wall Street Journal

    When historians of the early 21st century look back on the pre-Covid era, one of the absurdities they might highlight is the vogue for gigantic, open-plan offices. The apotheosis of this trend of breaking down barriers between co-workers must surely be Facebook Inc.’s 433,555-square-foot Frank Gehry-designed open-plan office at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Opened in 2015, it’s now a ghost town, a monument to offices vacated by the pandemic. …

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  • Fifth Wall Becomes A B Corp: How The Venture Capital Firm Is Tackling The Real Estate Industry’s Contribution To The Climate Crisis

    Forbes

    Fifth Wall, a VC firm that focuses on innovation and technology for real estate, is now a certified B Corporation, emphasizing the shifting mindset on sustainability overall and paving the way for other VCs. The real estate industry accounts for 40% of the world’s consumption of energy while emitting 30% of total global greenhouse gases, and using 40% of its raw materials. Given this, the industry has a responsibility to find solutions that reduce its negative environmental impact by implementin…

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  • Knotel To Sublease 10 Manhattan Locations

    The Real Deal

    The flex-office startup, valued at $1.6 billion in August 2019 but thought to be worth substantially less now, is offering nearly 375,000 square feet of space up for sublease, according to marketing materials reviewed by The Real Deal.

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  • Inside Innovation: New technology brings the touchless home and office within reach

    Daily Commercial News

    A recent survey of over 1,250 office employees conducted by access technology developer Nexkey of San Mateo, Calf. revealed ongoing health and safety concerns in the workplace. In fact, nearly 50 per cent of workers had worries that will persist even after the COVID-19 pandemic passes. These begin with the limited number of common entry points in many small-to-medium sized businesses — most workers want more. Furthermore, many would prefer to use smartphones or smartwatches as entry credentials …

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  • Uber vows big expansion of electric rides

    AXIOS

    Uber is immediately expanding its “Green” program to new cities and setting a longer-term target of having fully electric cars account for 100% of rides on its platform in the U.S., Canadian and European cities by 2030.Why it matters: Those plans — and other new climate pledges Uber unveiled Tuesday — come as ride-hailing firms face growing scrutiny over their carbon emissions amid evidence they’re cannibalizing public transit and increasing congestion….

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  • What ML practitioners are doing about climate change

    Venture Beat

    A lot happened this week in the AI space. The Guardian wrote an article with GPT-3 and again demonstrated that no matter what OpenAI paid to train and create the language model, the free marketing might be worth more. After losing the JEDI cloud contract appeal with the Pentagon, Amazon appointed to its board Keith Alexander, who oversaw the National Security Agency mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden leaks in 2013. And Portland passed the strictest facial recognition bans in U.S. histo…

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  • Google claims net zero carbon footprint over its entire lifetime, aims to only use carbon-free energy by 2030

    Lauren

    Google  was at the leading edge of large technology companies seeking to go completely carbon neutral, having declared that status in 2007, and subsequently matching all of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy. Now the company says that it is breaking new ground by becoming the first major company to effectively eliminate its entire carbon footprint — going back to its founding — something it has achieved through purchase of “high-quality carbon offsets” as of today. Further,…

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