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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

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It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. The subscription gains the owner access to the camera, AI-based image processing software and cloud storage, and other services.

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South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business

TechCrunch

Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . The company also plans to enter the self-storage and home inspections and repairs services.

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Hungry for resources, AI redefines the data center calculus

CIO

But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. Data centers are running at near capacity in many areas of the world, according to the Global Data Center Trends 2024 report from CBRE, a real estate services firm.

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The Next Electric Unicorns: How the Electron Economy Turns Dumb Power Into Smart Platforms

Crunchbase News

Hardware economics have flipped. He is also a co-founder of Daylight Energy , an early-stage community energy software network, and HGP Storage , where he was active in building an in-front-of-the-meter utility scale battery storage business. Blackouts cost Americans $150 billion annually. Everything is an energy endpoint.

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Think carefully before considering cloud repatriation

CIO

Most IT leaders have assets moved to the cloud to achieve some combination of better, faster, or cheaper compute and storage services. While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual.

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Healthcare And AI Sectors Continue To Lead, While Funding Settles In July 2024

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The next largest sectors for funding in July were hardware companies, raising $3.3 Billion-dollar exits The largest IPO so far in 2024 happened last month with Michigan-based Lineage Logistics , a cold storage and distribution company that raised private capital primarily from private equity and real estate investors, going public.

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Treat Storage as Black Boxes to Optimize Infrastructure Designs

Infinidat

Treat Storage as Black Boxes to Optimize Infrastructure Designs. Gartner, with the publication of their 2019 Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage , which includes both Solid-State Arrays (a.k.a. Table 1 - Storage Array Product Attractiveness. . Drew Schlussel. Mon, 11/11/2019 - 9:42pm. What are AFA’s persistent advantages?

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