You’ve head of sailing a ship with a “skeleton crew,” but what about no crew at all? The ghost ships from tall tales of pirates and buried treasure are no longer the stuff of fiction: A Norwegian company is developing a fully autonomous container ship that […]
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Dr. Michio Kaku has always been passionate about science and enjoyed speculating about what could theoretically be possible – even if others might consider it fantastic. For a high school science fair, he boldly aimed high, constructing an atom smasher in his garage capable of generating […]
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Americans are on our mobile devices a solid five hours per day – and a Deloitte study reports that we check our phones around 46 times each day. Multiply that by the number of smart phone users Deloitte estimates across the U.S. (a whopping 185 million), […]
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Incubators, accelerators, start-up spaces – the lines are often blurred on what these buzzed-about terms mean. In a new report from the Brookings Institute, “Innovation Spaces: The New Design of Work,” authors Julie Wagner and Dan Watch shed some light on these spaces and the trends […]
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin This quote shared by Gregory Healy, executive managing director, supply chain and logistics, Colliers International, is an apt way to sum up […]
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At I.CON: Trends and Forecasts this week, Michael Beckerman, founder of the News Funnel, moderated a panel of CTOs and tech-focused leaders on what’s ahead for tech-enabled CRE. Brandon Garrett, AIA, Associate/Design Technology Leader at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini kicked off the session by sharing some of the tech-enabled […]
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Seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. This is a dramatic change over one and a half generations, and it will require us to rethink how we build our cities. At the same time, many tech companies — Amazon, Tencent, Google, […]
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Having your online order literally dropped on your doorstep took another step toward reality as UPS shares the news of successful package delivery via a drone launched from atop a UPS vehicle. Call it multitasking at its best: the drone autonomously delivers a package and then […]
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How important is employee happiness to their employers? Not surprisingly, very important – job satisfaction leads to higher productivity, increased profits and lower turnover. The bottom line: keeping employees happy is essential for a company’s overall success. There are a lot of factors that go into […]
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Call it a step in the right direction: The steady stream of pedestrian commuters in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle area are now able to generate enough electricity to keep the lights on at a nearby park. This is because the tangram-style geometric pattern walkers see embedded […]
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