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@citylab

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22 posts
2022-11-04
Microsoft believes its artificial intelligence tools are poised to reshape “thousands” of professions. There are just a few legal and ethical hazards (via @technology) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-11-04 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the promise and peril of generative AI, as Microsoft plans to develop GitHub Copilot for other job categories, like security and video game design

Dina Bass / Bloomberg :

2022-09-19
At present, Lingang remains largely quiet. The town itself still lacks the types of scientists and engineers that it is trying to attract due to a shortage of basic infrastructure and amenities such as apartments, schools and public transportation https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-09-19 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the mounting challenges for Lingang, a Shanghai suburb meant to be China's next Silicon Valley, amid an economic slowdown and geopolitical tensions

2021-12-27
Each of Starship's 1,200 robots costs about as much as a high-end laptop, can run for 18 hours on a single charge, and often operates for days without any human interaction (via @BW) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-12-27 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sidewalk delivery robots serving students across US college campuses, an ideal proving ground with pedestrian-friendly designs and eager consumer base

Robot 509 from Starship Technologies is both patient and skittish.  The autonomous machine, which resembles a Yeti cooler crossed … Tweets: @humanprogress , @citylab , and @citylab...

“The hourly wage of a robot is zero,” says Starship CEO Alastair Westgarth. “So I can do a milk run and do it profitably.” (via @BW) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-12-27 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sidewalk delivery robots serving students across US college campuses, an ideal proving ground with pedestrian-friendly designs and eager consumer base

Robot 509 from Starship Technologies is both patient and skittish.  The autonomous machine, which resembles a Yeti cooler crossed … Tweets: @humanprogress , @citylab , and @citylab...

2021-11-22
El Salvador wants to build Bitcoin City, which will be free of income, property and capital gains taxes. Are you in? (via @markets) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-11-22 View on X
CoinDesk

El Salvador plans to build a “Bitcoin City” initially funded by a $1B “bitcoin bond”, with $500M to build mining infrastructure and $500M to buy more bitcoin

the long-term play is starting to come into focus https://twitter.com/... Bernhard Mueller / @muellerberndt : Basically the same model MicroStrategy uses: Borrow billions of USD vi...

2021-07-19
Using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, researchers hope that the data can help define “attraction value” for specific works of art, leading to changes in museum and gallery layout and exhibit scheduling https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
Bloomberg

An Italian museum is using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, to define a work of art's “attraction value” and accordingly change museum layouts

Using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, researchers hope that the data can help define “attraction value” for specific works of art, leading to changes in museum and gallery layout and exhibit scheduling https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
Bloomberg

An Italian museum is using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, to define a work of art's “attraction value” and accordingly change museum layouts

2021-07-18
Using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, researchers hope that the data can help define “attraction value” for specific works of art, leading to changes in museum and gallery layout and exhibit scheduling https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-18 View on X
Bloomberg

An Italian museum is using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, to define a work of art's “attraction value” and accordingly change museum layouts

As Italy's museums and galleries welcome back tourists and try to recoup some of the 190 million euros ($225 million) … Tweets: @citylab , @carnage4life , @citylab , @nycsouthpaw ,...

2021-02-21
OpenStreetMap has become an essential part of the world's technology infrastructure. But recently the map has been changing, due the growing impact of private sector companies that rely on it. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work

Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @cit...

“These companies don't map for the same reasons we do, and because of that, I question deeply if our goals can align,” says Frederik Ramm, a longtime OpenStreetMap volunteer https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work

Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @cit...

As Apple, Facebook, Amazon and other private companies play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, some volunteers worry that the open-source project is losing its way https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work

Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @cit...

What do Facebook, the International Red Cross, Lyft, the United Nations, the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common? They all use the same source of geospatial data: OpenStreetMap https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work

Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @cit...

The private sector could overshadow the work of the hobbyists and humanitarians who have made OpenStreetMaps what it is to date, argue some of the volunteers https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work

Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @cit...

2020-04-07
Will Airbnb rebound after coronavirus lockdowns? Could the tourism crash help to restore these rental units for local residents to actually live in? So many questions. @FeargusOSull reports: https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-04-07 View on X
CNBC

Airbnb raises $1B in debt and equity from Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners; source: the funding doesn't depend on its performance or a target date for IPO

- Airbnb raised $1 billion in a new round of funding led by Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners.

Will Airbnb rebound after coronavirus lockdowns? Could the tourism crash help to restore these rental units for local residents to actually live in? So many questions. @FeargusOSull reports: https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-04-07 View on X
CityLab

A look at Airbnb's challenges amid the pandemic crisis, as global bookings fall and prospects for the travel accommodation industry turn murky

that this massive global shock to the lives of millions of people ends up, over the longer term, changing little.” https://www.citylab.com/... Flavia Dzodan / @redlightvoices : And...

2020-02-13
For Nextdoor, the feature brings another tool to what has proved to be one of the social network's most compelling use cases: crime monitoring. https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-02-13 View on X
CityLab

Nextdoor launches new app for public agencies like police, fire departments, and city halls, allowing them to post updates and push out geotargeted alerts

Sarah Holder / CityLab : Tweets: @sarahsholder , @nextdoor , @citylab , @sarahsholder , @citylab , @math_rachel , @rickpaulas , @derektmead , and @hypervisible Tweets: Sarah Holde...

With the launch of this new app, Nextdoor is making its alignment with public institutions more explicit. https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-02-13 View on X
CityLab

Nextdoor launches new app for public agencies like police, fire departments, and city halls, allowing them to post updates and push out geotargeted alerts

Sarah Holder / CityLab : Tweets: @sarahsholder , @nextdoor , @citylab , @sarahsholder , @citylab , @math_rachel , @rickpaulas , @derektmead , and @hypervisible Tweets: Sarah Holde...

2020-01-02
Historically, one of the great economic benefits of urban life is having access to jobs, schooling, goods, and services without needing to travel very far. But digital platforms that aggregate consumer demand are making physical density less important. https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-01-02 View on X
CityLab

A look at how telemetry reshaped urban living in the 2010s when a slew of on-demand services made physical proximity less important

In 1964, scientists in the Galápagos Islands fed radio transmitters wrapped in chunks of food to a bunch of giant tortoises.

During the 2010s, data-gathering companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon fundamentally changed how move live and move through the physical world, writes @mslaurabliss. https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-01-02 View on X
CityLab

A look at how telemetry reshaped urban living in the 2010s when a slew of on-demand services made physical proximity less important

In 1964, scientists in the Galápagos Islands fed radio transmitters wrapped in chunks of food to a bunch of giant tortoises.

“The 2010s were the decade the city became an App Store: an online marketplace where our choices were closely tracked, where that data became part of the products we were using, and where digital clusters of activity displaced real-world transactions.” https://www.citylab.com/...
2020-01-02 View on X
CityLab

A look at how telemetry reshaped urban living in the 2010s when a slew of on-demand services made physical proximity less important

In 1964, scientists in the Galápagos Islands fed radio transmitters wrapped in chunks of food to a bunch of giant tortoises.