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• Smart City Startup Quayside Draws Fire Over Privacy And High Costs

  08-05-2019 18:32 via technocracy.news
  Toronto is learning the hard way about Public-Private Partnerships with the likes of Google-linked  Sidewalk Labs. Smart City construction in its Quayside district is costly compared to traditional urban design, and data privacy is still an open sieve. ⁃ TN EditorThe Google sister company promised to transform a dilapidated stretch of the Toronto waterfront into the world’s most technologically advanced neighborhood.
  Quayside would be outfitted with robotic garbage collection, s
  
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• Cash Is King: San Francisco To Ban Credit-Only Stores

  08-05-2019 18:16 via technocracy.news
  Reality meets globalization in San Francisco, one of the most liberal cities on earth. Retail trade is being hurt by cashless stores, so a new city ordinance will mandate that cash return or stores will lose their business license. ⁃ TN EditorSan Francisco is about to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have acces
  
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• Deployment Of Construction Robots Displacing Laborers

  08-05-2019 18:02 via technocracy.news
  The construction industry is one of America’s most fundamental components of GDP and potentially one of the most significant source of ‘unemployables’ as workers are displaced. Robot automation of jobs is expanding quickly. ⁃ TN EditorResearch firm Tractica today projected a $226 million revenue market by 2025 for the construction robotics space, an area that traditionally has been labor-intensive and not focused on robotics as much as industries such as manufacturing, su
  
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