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NYC deadly parking garage collapse: Building had 4 active violations, cause of 'pancaked' structure unclear

FOX News

Rescue officials arrive at the scene to assess the damage of Tuesday afternoon's dramatic collapse. The New York City street where a parking garage collapsed, killing one person and resulting in five others pulled from the structure, remained closed a day later Wednesday, as investigators have yet to disclose the suspected cause behind the building reportedly with four active violations suddenly caving in by Lower Manhattan's Financial District. At a press conference Tuesday, NYC Department of Buildings Acting Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik described how drone footage showed how the four-story building on Ann Street, between Nassau Street and William Street, "all the way pancaked, collapsed all the way to the cellar floor." He acknowledged that an active violation on the building dated to 2003. The buildings commissioner said an application was filed in 2010 but did not indicate whether the violation was corrected.


UN's Director Faremo & Ex-Microsoft Lawyer Eyes 'AI Potential' At IPsoft Digital Summit

Forbes - Tech

White woman cyborg on blurred background scanning human DNA 3D rendering. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been much talked about in recent times and especially as regards the technology disrupting the jobs market. Some have even suggested it might not be too long before one won't be able to tell the difference at work between colleagues who are human or a digital replication. And, so it was that I went off to New York's financial district in recent days to hear the movers and shakers in the field. The presentations and keynote addresses from academics and industry players around AI as well as the "elephant in the room" - what happens once machines outsmart humans at all tasks - certainly gave much food for thought.


Space, Time and Groceries – tech-at-instacart

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How do we bring order to the chaos? In the remainder of this post, we'll first introduce the logistics problem Instacart is solving, outline the architecture of our systems and describe the GPS data we collect. Visualizations like these help us to build intuition about our system, generate hypotheses for improvements, sanity check our changes, identify best practices and improve our operations. But before we get too caught up in these visualizations, let's first quickly cover the problem we are solving. When using our app to order groceries, you first choose a retailer, and then shop for groceries to be delivered.


Artificial intelligence developer takes 27K sf at 7 WTC

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Artificial intelligence developer IPsoft took a 27,200-square-foot sub-sublease for office space at Silverstein Properties' 7 World Trade Center in the Financial District. IPsoft has already moved into the space, which comprises of roughly two-thirds of the 32nd floor at 7 WTC. The company is subleasing the office from currency trading firm FXDD, which itself subleased nearly 41,000 square feet -- the building's entire 32nd floor – from Dutch bank ABN AMBRO in 2009. FXDD's sublease on the 1.7 million-square-foot office tower's 32nd floor runs through November 2022, according to the Commercial Observer. IPsoft currently has around 98,000 square feet at the RFR Realty-owned property.