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The celebrities of Silicon Valley live private lives. We don't know much about them outside of the mega-companies they lead, though it's fun to speculate on the shoes they wear, the restaurants where they feast, and their comings and goings at Burning Man. One thing's for certain: many of the rich and famous tech executives come home to the same zip code. Public records reveal that...
Fiscally minded tech whizzes might want to skip Silicon Valley and the Bay Area and head to another region if they want to get the most from their salaries.
Jake Schmude was born without optical nerves — a rare condition that left him blind. But the talkative computer whiz has coped exceedingly well. Schmude, 32, a network administrator at a nonprofit organization for the visually impaired, lives independently in Gwynn Oak. He commutes to work by Uber and Lyft. And he has long used smartphone apps that can scan text and “read” it aloud. But it w...
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You wouldn't be crazy to worry about robots coming for American jobs. A 2017 report by investment advisory firm Cornerstone Capital Group found that about 6 million to 7.5 million retail jobs will be rendered obsolete by automation in the coming years, Business Insider's Hayley Peterson reported. Cashiers in particular have a 97% chance of being replaced by robots, Business Insider'...
By Lisa Stanley From the October 2017 Issue The impact that emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and others, will have on the real estate industry is just starting to be realized. Other industries, including financial services and insurance, are much further ahead than real estate and have made some significant advances in exploring how these technologies can ...
More than a year after construction got underway, Brooklyn Navy Yard’s massive new office building at Dock 72 has topped out. Once complete, this 17-story building will be home to creative and tech firms, most notably WeWork, which has signed on to 222,000 square feet of space at the building, and is co-developing the project along with Rudin Development and Boston Properties. Aside from the off...
Walmart announced on Wednesday that its customers are now able to shop on Walmart.com using voice commands via Google Home and Google Home Mini devices. In addition, Walmart is offering a deal to customers of $25 off a Walmart order when they buy one of the Google devices and link their Walmart account to Google’s online shopping platform, Google Express. The integration of Google Express and Go...
Several real estate tech events are happening next week. Brush up on your crypto-currency trends and check out the International Blockchain Real Estate Association (IBREA)'s real estate conference on Oct. 10 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Hogan Lovells, 875 Third Avenue. Orl Perelman of ChromaWay, Leslie Gahagan of Colliers International, Ovidio Diaz Espino of Isthmus Capital, David Knowles of Stan...
Author By Dan O'Shea • Published Oct. 6, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: E-commerce wholesaler Boxed has developed an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) that can pick up and transport orders through the company's fulfillment centers, enabling 80% more picks per hour than might be done by human pickers traveling on foot, Boxed told Retail Dive via e-mail. Boxed plans to use as m...