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  • 1,000 Industry Professionals Attend the Largest West Coast Real Estate Tech Conference Ever Held

    CREtech

    CREtech Returned to Los Angeles for its 4th Year With Record Breaking Turnout New York, NY (March 29, 2019)— CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, returned to Los Angeles on March 27-28 with a record breaking turnout for its first ever two-day conference, held at the historic Shrine Expo Hall. Over two days, over 1000 attendees gathered in Los Angeles to hear from and network with the leading startups, entrepre…

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  • Amazon Web Services unveils pre-packaged containers that make deep learning models easier to run

    GEEKWIRE

    Customers of Amazon Web Services looking for easier ways to get their deep-learning models into production will be able to take advantage of a new service based around Docker containers. Matt Wood, general manager of deep learning and AI for AWS, announced the AWS Deep Learning Containers Wednesday during the AWS Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. The idea is to take some of the complexity of actually deploying complicated deep-learning models onto cloud services using familiar tools like the wide…

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  • Integrating Technology into Existing Senior Living Facilities

    FACILITIES NET

    Existing senior living communities, more than two-thirds of which were built before 2000, are competing with new buildings better suited to what the market wants. However, with regular minor to moderate renovations that focus on aesthetics, sustainability, and wellness, these existing buildings can be renovated to keep up with their newer counterparts.

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  • Does the City of the Future Mean Fewer Cars?

    BLUEPRINT-CBRE

    The U.S. has long been the land of the automobile. We design cities around parking lots, create suburbs “within driving distance” of major metropolises and have highways that span coast to coast. The car is an undeniable part of America’s history and has shaped how much of it looks today. But as more and more people move to cities—the UN predicts that 68 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, up from 55 percent—and the impact of climate change becomes more prevalent,…

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  • Architectural Drawings Are Dead: A Look At The Future-Ready Development Process

    BISNOW

    In Martín Amengual’s office in Los Angeles, he held up a tiny, 64GB digital memory card. “Imagine every thick roll of architectural drawings for a 1.5M SF mixed-use project, all being replaced by this — a data-rich 3D file in the cloud,” he said. When Amengual was a young man working in construction and development in Argentina, he saw the inefficiencies in the design process: Builders reviewed architects’ drawings and models, then built their own models before construction. At the time, h…

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  • Prefab Construction Startup Dvele Raises $14M To Build Single Family Homes

    CRUNCHBASE

    Dvele, a San Diego prefab home builder, has just raised a $14 million Series A from Crescent Real Estate. While the prefab home concept isn’t new, the number of investors putting money into companies focused on the sector is increasing at a rapid rate as of late. In an exclusive interview, CEO and Co-founder Kurt Goodjohn shared some details with me about the company’s history, first external capital and what it plans to do with the cash….

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  • The Robot Revolution In Warehouses Could Be On The Cusp Of Exploding

    BISNOW

    New breakthroughs in robotics could hasten the arrival of automated distribution centers faster than was previously thought possible. In 2018, about 4,000 robotic warehouses were in operation around the globe, but by 2025, that number could spike as high as 50,000, according to a report by ABI Research. That would equate to about 4 million robots, the technology research firm wrote in a summary released on Tuesday.

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  • WeWork: We Are Long-Term Players

    GLOBEST

    WeWork is growing rapidly, and while they are relatively new to the market, they are taking a long-term view of the office industry. At the annual CRETech conference in Los Angeles yesterday, WeWork leaders opened the event with a look inside the company’s business model and perspective, including its growth, the future of office and how WeWork is impacting the office market. Panelists included Sarah Pontius, SVP and global head of real estate partnerships; Granit Gjonbalaj chief real estate dev…

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  • Brooklyn Landlord Wants To Install Facial Recognition Tech At Rent-Stabilized Complex

    ELIZABETH KIM

    A Brooklyn landlord intends to install facial recognition technology at the entrance of a roughly 700-unit rent-stabilized complex, raising alarm among tenants and housing rights attorneys about what they say is a far-reaching and egregious form of digital surveillance. Citing concerns over the potential for privacy and civil liberties violations, tenants at Brownsville’s Atlantic Plaza Towers filed an objection to the plan in January with the state’s Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) agency,…

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  • Artificial Intelligence in the United States Retail Industry (2016-2025) – AI Spending with 20+ KPIs, Market Size & Forecast Across 9+ Application Segments, AI Domains, and Technology – ResearchAndMarkets.com

    BUSINESS WIRE

    DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “United States Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Retail Industry Databook Series (2016-2025) – AI Spending with 20+ KPIs, Market Size and Forecast Across 9+ Application Segments, AI Domains, and Technology” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. Artificial Intelligence (AI) spend in retail industry in United States has increased at 82.3% during 2018 to reach US$ 368.6 million. Over the forecast period (2019-2025), spend on AI is expected to reco…

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