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  • Bottos: Wo Blockchain, künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Big Data zusammentreffen Deutsch español Français

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    Ein dezentrales Datenverbundnetz, das die KI-Welt verändern wird SHANGHAI, 2. Januar 2018 /PRNewswire/– Gute Nachrichten für alle Interessenten und Käufer von Kryptowährungen: Auf diesem sensationellen globalen Feld gibt es ein neues Netz mit dem Namen „Bottos" – ein dezentrales KI-basiertes Datenverbundnetz, das auf Blockchain-Technologie aufbaut. Weiterhin lädt die bahnbrechende Plattform Anhänger von Kryptowährungen zu ihrem Token-Crowd-Sale ein – ab 12.00 Uhr GMT am 31. Dezember 2017 b…

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  • Researchers can now make neighborhood voting predictions from Google Street View images

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate predictions about neighborhood voting patterns based on millions of pictures collected from Google Street View, reports The New York Times. While other academic projects have used artificial intelligence to mine Google Street View for socioconomic insights (such as Streetchange), this project is notable because of the vast quantity of imag…

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  • In Commercial Real Estate, Bitcoin is Already A Thing

    Real Estate Tech News

    A commercial real estate development in Dubai became the first of its kind to accept the digital currency Bitcoin.  Aston Plaza and Residences, developed by The Knox Group, is a 2.4M SF property consisting of two residential towers and a shopping mall. The project is expected to be completed in 2019, but Bitcoin is well on its way to making inroads in the commercial real estate mainstream.Knox’s chairman, Doug Barrowman,  told Reuters. “This a great opportunity for the crypto-currency …

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  • In Commercial Real Estate, Bitcoin is Already A Thing

    Real Estate Tech News

    A commercial real estate development in Dubai became the first of its kind to accept the digital currency Bitcoin.   Aston Plaza and Residences, developed by The Knox Group, is a 2.4M SF property consisting of two residential towers and a shopping mall. The project is expected to be completed in 2019, but Bitcoin is well on its way to making inroads in the commercial real estate mainstream. Knox’s chairman, Doug Barrowman,  told Reuters. “This a great opportunity for the crypto-currency communit…

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  • Game of Thrones: What’s next for Douglas Elliman’s C-suite?

    The Real Deal – New York

    On the evening of Dec. 19, roughly 30 of Douglas Elliman’s top executives gathered at Bouley Test Kitchen in the Flatiron District for the residential firm’s annual managers’ party. All the firm’s key players were on hand: Chairman Howard Lorber, CEO Dottie Herman, plus newly minted President Scott Durkin and Susan De França, the firm’s hard-charging development chief and rumored successor to Herman. If there were any residual hurt feelings from the management shake-up two weeks’ earlier, they w…

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  • Is Bitcoin a Good Investment Heading Into 2018?

    Inc.com – Headlines

    Should I invest in Bitcoin? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph CEO, on Quora: There are two questions one should think through. 1. Will Bitcoin become a long-term trusted store of value? Whether one should invest in bitcoin or not depends on whether you think Bitcoin will become a long-term trusted store of value. If it does become a long-term trusted store…

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  • I’ve Been Called The Most Quotable Person In Commercial Real Estate. And For 2017 I Sure As Fuck Kept The Crown!

    Duke Long Blog

    Let's fucking get it started! “Do you understand that most if not all of the people who will become or are already your customers come from real estate? Think about that. What do they do every day? Every day and have done for decades. Build, buy, sell, and manage physical structures. How fucking hard is that? Actually, it’s fucking hard. BUT, most if not all of the people that do it keep on doing it because it makes their blood run hot and deep.” “Go after your demons. Stare them in the fac…

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  • These are 7 of the hottest startups that launched in 2017 (AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN)

    Business Insider – Finance

    This year has been a tough one for many young companies. But the problems faced by the founders, investors, and managers of companies such as Uber, Snap, and Blue Apron hasn't dissuaded other entrepreneurs from building new companies with the hope of disrupting existing industries or garnering a coveted billion-dollar unicorn valuation.  Among the rookies were these seven companies, all of which either raised their first round of funding or launched their first product in 2017. Each company…

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  • Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is really popular and a bunch of server farms Amazon runs generate more than $10 billion in revenue annually. The confluence of all these things has led to an incredible rise in its stock on the year — one that might be even more impressive than Apple’s slow march toward hitting a $1 trillion market cap (…

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  • Photos: Robots that ruled 2017 made sushi, mixed cocktails and built homes

    Silicon Valley Business Journal – Local San Jose News

    Silicon Valley may be awash in robotics companies doing everything from helping factories operate more efficiently to protecting shopping malls, but the region certainly doesn't have a monopoly on automation innovation. Around the world in 2017, inventors showed off a wide variety of robots that handled everything from making homes to running hotels and mixing cocktails. Click through the slideshow to go inside of the biggest robotic and artificial intelligence events from around the world …

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