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  • How smart is the cybersecurity protecting smart cities?

    SMARTCITIESWORLD

    The world is becoming ever more connected with each passing day, and while smart devices within smart homes are now an accepted and ingrained part of society, the idea of smart cities remains a somewhat maverick concept full of potential perils which require extensive contingency plans – but they are inevitable. In fact, spending on smart cities currently stands around £81 billion. However, in the not so distant future we will live in cities and societies that are totally connected to the intern…

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  • Silicon Valley’s Newest Rival: The Banks of the Hudson

    NYTIMES

    When Facebook was searching for another New York office, one big enough to fit as many as 6,000 workers, more than double the number it currently employs in the city, it had one major demand: It needed the space urgently. So after the company settled on Hudson Yards, the vast mini-city taking shape on Manhattan’s Far West Side, existing tenants were told to move and a small army of construction workers quickly began to revamp the building even before a lease had been signed….

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  • CREtech’s newly acquired company, FUTURE PropTech, is holding the largest PropTech event in London on May 13-14.

    CRETECH

    Join over 2,500 institutional investors, real estate private equity, fund managers, property developers, construction firms, facilities & property managers, surveyors, brokers and VC’s to focus on how technology and innovation is transforming the real estate market. Doubling in size every year since our launch, FUTURE PropTech has been part of the movement that has helped innovation & technology to become integral to the real estate sector. It’s your chance to be part of the communit…

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  • SoftBank-Backed Indian Hotel Startup Oyo Might Be Following In WeWork’s Footsteps

    BISNOW

    Another startup backed by SoftBank Group Vision Fund could be headed for disaster. India-based discount hotel brand Oyo has expanded at a breathtaking pace since its founding six years ago by then-19-year-old Ritesh Agarwal. Some of that expansion may have been achieved through a “toxic” office environment of intense pressure and corporate tendencies to stiff its partners and ignore local laws in its home country, The New York Times reports. Withholding payments to the independent operators with…

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  • Save the Date for CREtech’s Virtual Demo Days 2020

    CRETECH

    We are excited to announce our virtual demo day webinar schedule for 2020. Tune in to our live virtual demo day webinars to experience demos from the most innovative tech companies in commercial real estate. Virtual demo day is the best way to discover startups that you need to know about without leaving your desk. Plus, they are free!

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  • Neuro-symbolic A.I. is the future of artificial intelligence. Here’s how it works

    DIGITALTRENDS

    Picture a tray. On the tray is an assortment of shapes: Some cubes, others spheres. The shapes are made from a variety of different materials and represent an assortment of sizes. In total there are, perhaps, eight objects. My question: “Looking at the objects, are there an equal number of large things and metal spheres?” It’s not a trick question. The fact that it sounds as if it is is proof positive of just how simple it actually is. It’s the kind of question that a preschooler could most like…

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  • ‘Almost Like A Drug Dealer’: Short-Term Rentals Still Weighing Down NYC Hotel Market Despite New Laws

    BISNOW

    Although scores of tourists flock to the city each year, and occupancy in NYC hotels remains high compared to the U.S. average, the rate hoteliers reel in for rooms has been sliding for years. In 2019, New York City’s hotel occupancy rate dropped 1.2% from the year before, The New York Post reports, citing figures from hospitality data firm STR. Meanwhile, the industry’s leading performance metric, revenue per available room — known as RevPAR — dropped by 3.6%. Still, tens of thousands of rooms …

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  • Trifo Raises $15M in Series B Funding

    FINSMES

    Trifo, a Santa Clara, California-based maker of smart home products, raised 15m in Series B funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $26, was led by Yidu Cloud, Tsinghua AI Fund and Matrix Partners. The company intends to use the funds for continued hardware and software development on future Trifo AI home robots, U.S. and European market expansion, and talent acquisition. Led by Zhe Zhang, Founder and CEO, Trifo is a full stack AI home robot company which creates end-to…

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  • Top minds in machine learning predict where AI is going in 2020

    VENTUREBEAT

    AI is no longer poised to change the world someday; it’s changing the world now. As we begin a new year and decade, VentureBeat turned to some of the keenest minds in AI to revisit progress made in 2019 and look ahead to how machine learning will mature in 2020. We spoke with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala, University of California professor Celeste Kidd, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, Nvidia director of machine learning research Anima Anandkumar, and IBM Research director Dario Gil.

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  • Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts

    WSJ

    The discounts and freebies many tech startups have used to lure customers—free lunch delivery, $3 beauty products and bargain taxi rides—have fallen out of favor with investors who are losing patience with the failure of these companies to turn a profit. The proliferation of subsidized products and services from venture-capital-backed startups over the past decade reflected a rush by investors to fund the next behemoth consumer-tech company. The thesis: Create a market leader with loyal customer…

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