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Smart Cities May Turn Competition Into Collaboration

As more smart cities emerge, embracing technology and learning from the insights that big data offers, we will likely see a new business strategy emerge–geo-collaboration. When we think of cities now, we typically envision businesses, systems, and people operating among one another with almost no connection or collaboration. Now, imagine what will happen once cities become more connected and smart? Once local companies realize the value they could create together through interconnectivity, the possibilities are virtually endless.

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Interdisciplinary thinking: Stanford scholars and students imagine truly ‘human cities’

At Stanford, scholars and students are looking for creative ways to make cities better places for people to live and thrive – places that offer quality and affordable housing, desirable public spaces, robust transportation systems, healthy air and water, and economic promise for all.

 

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Internet of Things can be found everywhere — except in GDP data

In the world of making everyday life more digital, something is starting to tip. You can see it at Noyes Air Conditioning on Monday mornings.

They used to be a nightmare, as recently as 2013, says General Manager Chris Kaufman in Gaithersburg, Md. Seventy technicians would dump a week’s worth of service tickets on accountants who’d then scramble to get invoices and payroll out. It was “really killing us,” Kaufman said.

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Michigan entrepreneur adding to the Internet of things

Jake Sigal, the founder and CEO of Tome, is helping to create the Internet of things. To put it simply, the Internet of things — IoT in tech-speak — is the complex concept that everyday objects have network connectivity, putting them on the path to automation and artificial intelligence. Tome — pronounced like home but with a T — helps devices talk to each other using apps.

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3 Cities Where User Experience Design Helped Make Services Better

There is a difference between the way a person buys a book on the Internet and the way a person fills out a form to apply for government benefits. But why? Much of the discussion on Nov. 2 at the Code for America (CfA) Summit was focused on that question. Why is it that so many people have a hard time applying for business licenses, or enrolling in food assistance programs, or doing most things involving government?

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Building the city of the future — at a $41 trillion price tag

Cities around the world could spend as much as $41 trillion on smart tech over the next 20 years.When one of the largest California wildfires on record broke out in 2013, raging for more than two months and threatening San Francisco's water supply coming from Yosemite, firefighters used drones to get aerial shots of the blaze and determine the best points of entry. Now those drones have come down from the mountains and into the city.

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A new generation of 5G will change everything from platforms to self-driving cars

This week, President Obama will arrive in Pittsburgh to convene the first-ever White House Frontiers Conference. The conference will bring together innovators from across the country to focus on how science and technology is shaping the 21st century, and particularly the role of innovation in building smarter and more inclusive communities

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Apple is opening a research and development center in Shenzhen, China’s hardware mecca

Some of China’s top tech firms will soon be welcoming a famous new neighbor.

Apple has confirmed it will open a research and development center in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city that serves as a hardware manufacturing hub for the world. The center’s launch comes as Apple looks for new ways to position itself in the world’s largest consumer market, amid sputtering iPhone sales.

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