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The New York Times
In recent years, companies have been prowling the web for public photos associated with people’s names that they can use to build enormous databases of faces and improve their facial recognition systems, adding to a growing sense that personal privacy is being lost, bit by digital bit….
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Since 2015, the amount of creative space in the region has increased by about 100,000 square feet almost every year, according to JLL Research. Creative developments such as Armour Yards in Buckhead, Ponce City Market alongside the Atlanta BeltLine and Georgia Tech’s CODA development are prime examples of how Atlanta’s office market is responding to evolving expectations and work preferences— especially in sectors like technology, design, and certain professional services….
Wall Street Journal
It was mid-June, three months after the Covid-19 crisis had forced the top executives in a fast-growing tech startup to leave their offices and work from home. Executives had believed this “work from home thing” would last a few weeks, one of the company’s vice presidents told me, so they treated it like a brief emergency that required all hands on deck, all the time.
Medium – Lindsay Baker
I’m back for a second installment of analysis and commentary on the buildings sections of emerging Climate Action Policy Plans. Maybe you’re a buildings person and you want to know what lawmakers are thinking, maybe you’re a lawmaker looking for insights from the buildings world. Either way, welcome, I hope you get something out of this.
MillionAcres
Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech, an event, data, and content platform on all things commercial real estate tech. He also owns other brands, including commercial real estate news aggregator The News Funnel, and is an expert on the real estate tech startup space.
Wall Street Journal
When sports fans return to watch their teams play live again, many of them may not need a ticket. Several pro sports teams, including the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Football Club, are testing facial-recognition technology in stadiums. The idea is to admit fans for entry by authenticating their faces, to make the process as touchless as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.
BrainBox AI
BrainBox AI is the first autonomous AI technology for HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning); it is redefining building automation and is at the forefront of the Green Building revolution.
Bloomberg
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is buying a $450 million stake in home security firm ADT Inc., forming a partnership that could get the tech giant’s smart-home products in front of millions of new customers. The deal gives Google a 6.6% stake in the Boca Raton, Florida-based ADT, the largest home security company in the U.S. with about 20,000 employees and more than 6 million customers. Google’s prowess in hardware design and software will give ADT access to technology it wouldn’t be able to build on its…
Bisnow
Amid the global momentum gained in the past two months by the Black Lives Matter movement, American companies of all sizes have been held responsible by their customers to make their stances known. In the notoriously homogenous commercial real estate industry, a number of CEOs stepped forward with public-facing commitments to improve diversity and inclusion at their companies. Whether they can deliver on those commitments is yet to be seen.
Group337 LLC
BETHESDA, Md., July 30, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Group337 LLC, the parent company of The Inside, Inside Access Control, and Inside Visitor Management, today announces its latest platform: Inside Multifamily Access Control. Included in the launch is a website (www.insidemfac.com), a weekly newsletter (https://www.insidemfac.com/subscribe), and a podcast dedicated to the Multifamily market and the access control industry. Lee Odess, CEO of Group337, shared, “We are excited to create a place for pr…
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