Access to LinkedIn’s trove of data about companies and professionals is a primary driver of Microsoft’s $ 26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, says our guest...
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Visualizing coherent intermolecular dipole–dipole coupling in real space
Many important energy-transfer and optical processes, in both biological and artificial systems, depend crucially on excitonic coupling that spans several chromophores. Such coupling can in principle be described in a straightforward manner by considering the coherent intermolecular dipole–dipole interactions involved. However, in practice, it is challenging to directly observe in real space the coherent dipole coupling and the related exciton delocalizations, owing to the...
CrowdStreet raises $3.5M for commercial real estate investment marketplace
CrowdStreet’s commercial real estate investment platform continues to find success and the Portland-based startup today announced a $ 3.5 million Series A funding round to help fuel growth.
Howdy, partner! Zillow CEO says he’d want to be a cowboy if he wasn’t running real estate giant
Spencer Rascoff has accomplished a lot in his young career, not only helping to build the powerful online real estate company Zillow, but also serving as an early executive at...
Back flip in real time! GoPro action goes live with Periscope integration
Watch out for extreme sports types snowboarding or skydiving in real time as the live-streaming app Periscope has integrated with action camera-maker GoPro, the companies announced Tuesday. Periscope users will now be able to broadcast from a GoPro HERO4 Black or Silver camera and even toggle...
Reports: Tableau and Wave leases kick off big new real estate project in Kirkland, Wash.
Offices leases by Tableau Software and broadband company Wave will jump-start a large new real estate development in Kirkland, Wash., according to reports by the Puget Sound Business Journal and Seattle Times, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the deal. It’s part of a...
Zillow goes inside the ‘Transparent’ house — and it’s even more retro in real life
Sometimes, the location in a story is described as a character unto itself, helping to guide the narrative just as much as any other character. That’s the case with the family home in Transparent, the Amazon original series that won Emmys...
Ars talks with David Braben on the challenges of making games for real VR
Enlarge / "Big moon Horizons on Cobra and SRV," by CMDR [AEDC] Haridas Gopal. (credit: CMDR [AEDC] Haridas Gopal)
Ninety frames per second. That’s the new target for consumer VR gear: you need hardware capable of rendering two HD images with all the trimmings at a steady 90fps, or the whole thing starts to shake...
Ex-Obama adviser David Plouffe on Donald Trump’s campaign: ‘There’s something real behind it’
David Plouffe spent an hour on stage this past Friday in Seattle, talking about how Uber is changing the “future of work” with its technology-fueled ride-hailing platform. But before his fireside chat ended, KCTS 9 reporter Enrique Cerna asked Plouffe — the campaign manager for Barack Obama in 2008 and longtime Democratic Party consultant — for his...