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  • Are ‘dorms for adults’ and coliving just an older housing idea, SRO, by another name?

    Curbed – National News

    One of the week’s biggest housing stories concerned adults acting like students. A New York Times profile of Starcity, a Bay Area-based developer focused on creating a new type of affordable housing in tech-inflated San Francisco, compared the company’s “unusual experiment in communal living” to “dorm living for grown ups.” On the heels of other startups seeking to find solutions to the affordability crisis in microunits and coliving, Starcity aims to stand apart. As cofounder Jon Dishotsky told…

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  • In-building wireless at MWC: It’s all about going virtual

    Connected Real Estate Magazine

    For building owners, virtualization reduces total cost of ownership for in-building wireless systems Research suggests that some 80% of mobile traffic comes from inside buildings—commercial high-rises, enterprise campuses, train stations. In an age when mobile penetration tops 100% in highly-developed markets and cellular is regarded as a utility, building owners have to provide in-building systems or risk hurting the ability to attract and retain tenants. Whether inside or outside, cellular sig…

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  • The Rapid Rise in Commercial Redevelopment

    The Broker List Blog

    As technology and construction advanced, new developments arose and older buildings were left vacant in the wake of change. Population ebbs and flows from cities to suburbs and suburbs to cities and back again have created a desire, or more so a need for reuse and redevelopment. Buildings once at the center of bustling activity were abandoned. However, many of those buildings have found, or may find new life in the coming years. It’s estimated that roughly 90 percent of construction activity in …

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  • New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe

    WSJ

    Lisbon, Kraków and Edinburgh are among the cities that have become popular for the industry New technology centers are mushrooming throughout Europe, boosting office markets in unlikely places. Technology and related companies are fueling 20% of the office space demand in small capital cities like Lisbon, Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tallinn, Estonia, according to brokerage By  Shefali Anand …

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  • Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn

    NY TImes

    On the left is an image that was put through a neural network trained to classify objects in images — for example, to tell whether an image includes a vase or a lemon. On the right is a visualization of what one layer in the middle of the network detected at each position of the image. The neural network seems to be detecting vase-like patterns and lemon-like objects. Credit The Building Blocks of Interpretability SAN FRANCISCO — Machines are starting to learn tasks on their own. …

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  • Airbnb Hires Amazon Prime Head Greg Greeley to Run Homes Business

    Bloomberg Technology

    Airbnb Inc. hired Greg Greeley, the head of Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime business, as president of its main home-rental unit.  Greeley, who had been at Amazon for more than 18 years, helped the retail giant expand the Prime membership service internationally. On Monday, he announced his resignation on LinkedIn. Airbnb said he will join the San Francisco-based company on March 18.  At Airbnb, Greeley is expected to oversee a slew of new initiatives designed to broaden the startup’s appeal. Last mo…

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  • BioConnect Sets The Standard for Property Access Control

    CRETECH

    The BioConnect platform ends the days when access-control systems were site dependent — having to log into separate software applications depending on if your functions were biometric or non-biometric. BioConnect eliminates that hassle with one software suite that serves all of your needs. BioConnect helps property managers deploy, manage and scale biometrics across their organization. This industry took off in the days after the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Suddenly, there was an i…

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  • Uber’s self-driving trucks have been hired to deliver freight in Arizona

    Recode

    Uber’s self-driving trucks are now delivering commercial freight in Arizona, the company announced on Tuesday. This marks the beginning of the company realizing the ambitions it laid out when acquiring self-driving trucking startup, Otto, in August 2016. Uber’s acquisition of Otto has not been without its roadblocks, however. Most notably, there was Alphabet’s lawsuit against the company over the acquisition, something Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, when he agreed to settle the suit, could ha…

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  • Justworks raises $40M to build a simpler business operations suite

    Techcrunch

    Isaac Oates runs a startup that’s looking to be a complete suite of operational tools like human resources and payroll for businesses — but he and his team initially didn’t get why users kept asking better reporting tools over and over again. It’s indicative of the constant push-and-pull startups and founders face when having to juggle the hopes and dreams of their own road map and product with the constant need from employees. But that constant ask, borne from what was actually an unintuitiv…

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  • A Leading Developer Embracing Content Marketing…Now That’s Something To Write About!

    CRETECH

    I had the pleasure of moderating a panel for Steve Nson of DMZ Stream last October. Great panel. And on that panel, I got to meet Chris Rising of Rising Development out of L.A., one of the cities most active developers. Really impressed with Chris and clearly his company has built a well-earned reputation for significant accomplishments in the markets they are active in. But I was equally impressed with his company’s marketing prowess as well. Totally leading-edge on many fronts. And so when …

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