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  • COVID-19 Social Distancing Index & Response by State and Industry

    Openpath

    The Openpath Social Distancing Index (SDI) is based on our real time reporting. The graphs below depict consumer access control usage beginning the week of February 24th, 2020*, when all states were operating at 100%. Openpath’s cloud managed platform illustrates anonymized, national building access logs, by state and by industry, indicating how the nation reacts to the COVID-19 outbreak and social distancing protocol. As government administrations begin relaxing stay-at-home orders, which state…

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  • The Future of Connectivity is Contactless

    Hive

    Did you know that elevator buttons often contain 40 times more bacteria than a public toilet seat, that viruses live up to 24 hours on non-porous surfaces such as door handles, and 80% of sickness-causing germs spread via hands? We would never intentionally touch a public toilet seat, so why then do we not think twice about pressing an elevator button and then shaking someone’s hand?

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  • Slack and Amazon vs. Microsoft Teams: Why voice and video are essential in enterprise messaging

    GeekWire

    Slack and Amazon recently announced a significant partnership where Slack will power its voice and video infrastructure with Amazon Chime. This deal is significant for several reasons — on the surface, it will help Slack enable video calls on mobile and provide text transcription. But digging deeper, it’s clear that a robust calling investment is critical in driving Slack’s growth and adoption….

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  • Why The Office Simply Cannot Go Away: The Compelling Case For The Workplace

    Forbes

    We’re in the midst of the most significant reinvention of work in our time. We’ve proven people can work anywhere and the greatest social experiment—sending everyone home to do their work—has decimated barriers to working away from the office. Some contend people are working with a reasonable level of productivity from home. And this is during arguably the worst-case situation for remote work: Being forced to work from home without choice, experiencing stress about the pandemic, sharing space wi…

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  • Practical Steps To Combat Discrimination In VC: A Q&A With DivInc’s Preston James

    Crunchbase

    DivInc is on a mission to improve diversity in the tech ecosystem by providing black, brown and women founders with the critical resources they need to grow and scale their tech startups. Co-founded by former Dell executive Preston James, the Austin-based nonprofit pre-accelerator holds 12-week programs for underrepresented tech founders. The group’s first cohort kicked off in September 2016 with a group of founders that included three black men, two Latinos, one Caucasian female, and four Asian…

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  • Uber’s self-driving AI predicts the trajectories of pedestrians, vehicles, and cyclists

    Venture Beat

    In a preprint paper, Uber researchers describe MultiNet, a system that detects and predicts the motions of obstacles from autonomous vehicle lidar data. They say that unlike existing models, MultiNet reasons about the uncertainty of the behavior and movement of cars, pedestrians, and cyclists using a model that infers detections and predictions and then refines those to generate potential trajectories….

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  • When the Office Is Like a Biohazard Lab

    The New York Times

    Before heading in each day, workers will be required to log on to a new app the giant networking company designed, and answer several questions about their health. Have they had close contact in the last 14 days with anyone who received a Covid-19 diagnosis or was suspected of having a coronavirus infection? Within the last 24 hours have they experienced chills, shortness of breath, or a loss of taste or smell?

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  • REGISTER NOW: Reimagining Real Estate Global Virtual Summit

    CREtech

    CREtech and FUTURE PropTech are proud to present a four-day completely free Global Virtual Summit that will feature the leading owners, landlords, investors, asset managers, brokers, and technology leaders discussing how they are Reimagining Real Estate during the pandemic. As the largest truly global real estate tech digital summit, attendees will learn from those thought-leaders shaping the future of real estate and network with thousands of new business connections. Register today to hear fro…

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  • How Do Real-Estate Agents Show Homes During Coronavirus? ‘With Extreme Caution.’

    Wall Street Journal

    One couple was from the Northeast, empty-nesters. They were visiting Miami and wanted to look at homes. They were very unfamiliar with Miami and really didn’t know the neighborhoods at all. Obviously, in the middle of a pandemic it’s an impossible situation. Miami-Dade County has all kinds of ordinances. So I said, “Why don’t you meet me at this area in North Grove. I can’t really get you into any homes, but you’ll be in your car and I’ll be in my car and I’ll drive you through Coconut Grove and…

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  • My New Normal: Gensler Co-CEO Andy Cohen

    Bisnow

    Andy Cohen co-leads Gensler, a global giant in the architecture world with 6,000 employees across 18 countries and 24 practice areas, with Diane Hoskins. Though design work has been impacted, the coronavirus pandemic has been a busy time for him: Beyond checking in with 67,000 clients in 10 weeks, his team has been crafting open-source guides to get back to the office safely, and Cohen has been active on the webinar circuit.

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