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Google’s massive downtown San Jose campus won’t make as big a dent in the city’s jobs-to-housing imbalance as city officials had hoped. That was one of the revelations from a Planning Commission meeting studying the proposed project on Dec. 9. “Even with the addition of these 20,000 jobs at full build-out, it makes a very small change in that ratio,” said San Jose Planning Director Rosalynn Hughey. “It’s definitely less than a 5 percent change in terms of the number of jobs… Source link

The San Jose City Council will meet today to discuss evolving plans for the massive Google and transit projects set to reinvent the face of downtown. Changes to the area surrounding Diridon Station have triggered community anxieties—and most recently roused the concern of the San Jose Sharks. The hockey team worried the long-term construction could force the Sharks out of the city. Similarly, residents have worried Google could displace them. Kim Walesh, deputy city manager of community… Source link

The Russian company Yandex has agreed with the Moscow authorities on the project of a new headquarters. It will appear on the site of the former Korston Hotel on Kosygin Street, the building of which is planned to be dismantled by the end of 2020. This is reported by RBC with reference to Moskomarkhitektura. Related materials 00:03 – July, 12 Place of power How to change cities so that people do not want to escape from there According to the chief architect of the capital,… Source link

A prototype from Project Amber of an EEG headset. Alphabet Alphabet‘s experimental research group, X, has been quietly working on an experimental project to monitor symptoms of depression. A blog post published on Monday details how a team of neuroscientists, hardware and software engineers and product experts have been working on a series of prototypes for three years under the name “Project Amber.” The goal is to come up with a more objective way to monitor symptoms of depression. Nearly half… Source link

WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the election, President Trump’s enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states. The Lincoln Project, a conservative-led political action committee dedicated to eroding President Trump’s support among Republicans, announced on Saturday that it is buying over $1 million of ads in Georgia, Montana and South Carolina in the final days of the presidential race.  Ron Steslow, a veteran GOP consultant and Lincoln Project co-founder,… Source link

Google’s latest experiment is a video shopping platform designed to introduce consumers to new products in under 90 seconds. The company today is launching Shoploop, a project from Google’s internal R&D division, Area 120, where it tests out new ideas with a public user base. Shoploop’s founder, Lax Poojary, had previously worked on online trip planner, Touring Bird, also at Area 120. Last year, that effort became one of a small number of R&D projects to graduate and become a part… Source link