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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 tra...
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
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 ...
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 usin...
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, sho...
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 th...
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 yo...
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 a...
From January until mid-May, four- and five-star office space represented 49% of gross leasing activity, representing a 3% jump compared to previous years. Lower-quality buildings attracted an even smaller share of new deals than in previous years, according to new data from CoStar Group.
The United States is experiencing a "reckoning" over race, justice and inequality that has been decades in the making, fintech CEO Ryan Williams told CNN Business. "We've been hallucinating as a country for a long time," said Williams, the 32-year-old African Americ...