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Guido consensus mechanism to facilitate multi-scenario transactions

With the development of the digital economy, the value of the blockchain is gradually highlighted, and the maximum effect of the blockchain requires the use of scenarios and other technologies, and big data may be one of the perfect "borrowing points" of the blockchain. Blockchain and big data are two technologies that are booming, and they are also two complementary technologies.

The birth of Guido

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, e-commerce, and social networks, the global big data reserves have grown rapidly, becoming the foundation for the development of the big data industry. In 2017, the global big data reserves were 21.6 ZB, and in 2018, the global big data reserves reached 33 ZB, with a growth rate of 52.8%. With the continuous progress of information technology, the China Commercial Industry Research Institute expects that the global big data reserves will reach 61.2 ZB (1 ZB = 2 to the 70th power KB) in 2022.

Guido was born in the digital world from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 in the historic era of change, the information Internet gradually evolved into the Value Internet, Web 3.0 allows everyone to own the network can derive digital assets, a pan-financial era has arrived.

Introduction to the Guido consensus mechanism

Guido's consensus mechanism is abbreviated as "Gpos". Guido's consensus mechanism protocol is a chain-optimized consensus protocol — high throughput, completely ordered, and ideal for smart contracts. The GPoS consensus mechanism works by repeated second-pass votes.

When a validator determines whether a transaction should be accepted or rejected, it asks a small group of random validators if they believe the transaction should be accepted or rejected. If the verifier who is queried believes that the transaction is invalid and has rejected the transaction, or prefers a conflicting transaction, it will reply that the transaction should be rejected. Otherwise, it will reply that the transaction should be accepted.

If a large enough group of validators respond in a sample that they believe the transaction should be accepted, then the validators are more willing to accept the transaction. That is, when querying the transaction later, it will reply that it believes that the transaction should be accepted. Similarly, if enough validators answer that they believe the transaction should be rejected, the validators will be more willing to reject the transaction.

The validator repeats this sampling process until the verifier's alpha replies in the same way (accepts or rejects) the beta β consecutive rounds.

In the common case where transactions are not in conflict, a final decision can happen quickly. When there is a conflict, honest validators quickly gather around the conflicting transaction and enter a positive feedback loop until all the right validators like the deal. This results in accepting non-conflicting transactions and rejecting conflicting transactions.

Guido builds a trading platform that enables and delivers value

In terms of application scenarios, whether it is the growth of user volume, or the deflation model, the recycling and destruction mechanism, and the establishment of application scenarios, Guido has shown great development momentum and predictable development prospects, with Guido as the platform currency as the ecological hub, gluing together rich trading scenarios, value empowerment and transmission, interlocking, closely combined.

Coupled with the high-speed pace of globalization, perfect security guarantees, from the application scenarios, rights, consumption, and destruction of the closed-loop design, constantly stimulate Guido's market demand, and reduce circulation, improve guido scarcity, have given it a strong value support, with Guido as the core of the global ecology. It can also bring great development momentum to the platform, and the two complement each other.

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Guido Exchange is committed to providing a safe, convenient, efficient and stable digital asset trading platform for the public, creating a new global trading ecosystem that includes digital assets, digital identities and digital transactions. By opening up the connection between digital currency and the physical world, we enrich the application scenarios of blockchain technology and digital currency, and promote its service to business progress and social development.

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indiasendangered-blog · 6 years ago

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The Perils Of Being A Great Indian Bustard

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In the 1970s, Arab royalties would often come to India for falconry, a sport that involved shooting of birds like the Great Indian Bustard, commonly found then in Western Rajasthan. It is believed that the Indian government extended this invitation to the Arabs, as a diplomatic gesture but it came to an abrupt end when in the late 70s there was a huge public outcry over the hunting of the birds. The Rajasthan Government discontinued this tradition, thus saving hundreds of Great Indian Bustards (GIBs). 40 years later, these birds are again in need of a public outcry and help, this time not just to save a few but the entire species from extinction.

From over 1200 in 1969, there are hardly 200 (or lesser) GIBs in India today. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has marked them as Critically Endangered and as one of the rarest birds in the world. Surprisingly, despite being the only nation in the world where these particular bustards are found, India has made little to no progress – even after the IUCN warning, to save them from the fast approaching dooms day.

Read More: From Dogs to Humans, Problems Galore for Great Indian Bustard

Since 2012, India launched Project Bustard in the lines of Project Tiger but 6 years and a million promises later, the bird numbers are still declining. Some experts have predicted that this giant bird could be extinct in this very century. What makes this prediction scarier is the worrisome revelation by a team of scientists who found only a single male bustard in Kutch last month.

Below is a timeline of the conservation plans India has been making for some time now that are still on papers waiting to cut through red tapism and inter-state tiffs.

Meanwhile, the problems for the Great Indian Bustard are only escalating. Without habitats, without safe place to nest, and now threatened by windmills too! Take a look,

1. Lost Habitat

According to WWF India, historically, the Great Indian bustard was distributed throughout Western India, spanning 11 states, as well as parts of Pakistan. Its stronghold was once the Thar Desert in the north-west and the Deccan plateau of the peninsula. Today, its population is confined mostly to Rajasthan and Gujarat. Small population occur in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Bustards generally favour flat open landscapes with minimal visual obstruction and disturbance, therefore adapt well in grasslands. However, since independence, India has lost grasslands to farmlands, urbanisation and road widening, especially so when grasslands were marked as ‘wastelands’ by policymakers. Presently, the population of the Great Indian Bustard is highest in Rajasthan’s Desert National Park, which is protected grassland area.

Image courtesy Wildfoot Travel

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2. Windmills

India plans to source 40% of its energy needs through renewable energy resources by 2030 and while the move is commendable, the proliferating wind and solar farms in the western states of the country are posing a threat to the Bustard. There have been 7 bustard collisions and deaths in the last few years due to the bird flying directly towards the windmills. For a species that is critically endangered, this is nothing less than an ecological catastrophe.

Read More: Mining a Death Knell for the Great Indian Bustard

3. Agriculture

Widespread agricultural expansion and mechanization of farming have converted prime bustard habitats – the grasslands into farmlands. As per IUCN, with increased availability of water due to Government irrigation policies, agriculture has spread over vast arid–semiarid grasslands. For example, the Indira Gandhi Nahar Project has caused drastic hydraulic changes and massive agricultural conversion in and around the Desert National Park Sanctuary. Moreover, irrigation facilities and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in the crop pattern from bustard–friendly traditional monsoonal crops (sorghum, millet, etc.) to cash crops (sugarcane, grapes, cotton, horticulture, etc.) which are not suitable for the species.

4. Afforestation

Although this seems like a surprising addition to the list, the Great Indian Bustard is actually loosing not gaining habitats because of afforestation. As IUCN remarks, traditionally, grasslands and scrub have been considered as wasteland and the Forest Department policy, until recently, has been to convert them to forests with plantation of fuel/fodder shrub/tree species, even exotics like Prosopis juliflora, Acacia tortilis, Gliricidia and Eucalyptus spp., under social forestry and compensatory afforestation schemes (Forest (Conservation) Act 1988; Indian Forest Act 1927) resulting in further loss of habitat. Afforestation has been highlighted as a problem at five sites used by the species: Thar desert (Rajasthan), Naliya (Gujarat), Nannaj (Maharashtra), Ranibennur (Kamataka) and Rollapadu (Andhra Pradesh)

On 12th September 2014, an adult female Great Indian Bustard collided with high-tension electric powerlines near Kutch Bustard Sanctuary (KBS) in the Abdasa taluka of Kutch. Image courtesy conservationindia.org

5. Urbanisation

Growth of industries, roadways, railways, mining, quarrying, conversion of grasslands to power projects have all had a negative impact on the bustard population. And what is left of the home is either fragmented pockets between huge industrial hubs, solar farms, wind farms and farms, or too small a land to ensure species revival.

Read More: Don’t Be Extinct Yet, The Bustard Breeding Centre is Coming Soon

6. Feral Dogs

The Great Indian Bustard breeds once in every two years an lays just one egg. Each egg is therefore of immense value but under threat of being eaten or destroyed by feral dogs present in the areas where the bustards are nesting. What makes it an even bigger challenge to avoid the dogs is the fact that the bustards make nests on the ground.

The countdown for the Great Indian Bustard extinction has already begun. If strong actions are not taken today, tomorrow could be too late.

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Norilsk Design Competition, Russia

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Norilsk Open International Design Competition

15 Jul 2021

Location: Krasnoyarsk Krai, northern Russia

Norilsk Calls For Architects Around The Globe

Norilsk Open International Competition

An Open International Competition for the development of an architectural and planning renovation concept for the city of Norilsk up to 2035 was announced today by the TASS information agency. The competition was initiated by the city administration and the Norilsk Development Agency (ARN). The operator is CENTER Lab, an international urbanist laboratory.

The competition participants will be given a particularly challenging task: they will need to take into account the unique geographical location of Norilsk, as well as its climatic characteristics, historical development features, and the new vision for its territory. Norilsk is currently seeing active development both as a world-class metalworking hub and a skill, knowledge, and research center in the Arctic.

The mission is to evolve from the concept of a monocity, where the entire community works in a single industry. Norilsk wants to expand its specialization by supporting business, creativity, and tourism.

“All of us have a lot of work to do if we want to renovate the city of Norilsk. The process will include renovating the existing housing stock and building new residences, schools, kindergartens, outpatient clinics, and other social facilities. The concept will, first and foremost, give us a future-focused understanding of our city’s architectural and planning features. The wishes and suggestions of the local community will absolutely be reflected in the Norilsk renovation concept. What we are talking about here is a qualitative transformation of the city, meaning that we will have to use the latest innovative materials and technologies. The competition for the development of an architectural and planning renovation concept for the city of Norilsk up to 2035 is an international event, so we are expecting to see a lot of interesting ideas and proposals from all over the world,” says Dmitry Karasev, mayor of Norilsk.

The international competition is open to Russian and foreign professional organizations specializing in integrated land development and urban planning, architecture, design, creation of concepts for the development of public spaces, master planning, who are able to attract specialists in economics, finance, and content programming.

The participants will have to propose solutions on making the city more appealing as a place to live, study, and work in; improving social activity in urban areas; overhauling the existing territories; and developing the transport and engineering infrastructures.

“Just as the initial city development in Norilsk was carried out in the classical revival through the efforts of architects and town planners from different cities and republics, the current renovation of Norilsk will also be a team project involving professionals from all over,” says Maksim Mironov, director of the Norilsk Development Agency. “The renovation of Norilsk is currently the Arctic region’s most ambitious project aimed residential, social, and utility infrastructure construction. The final execution will follow the architectural and planning concept selected during the contest, and will involve highly qualified professionals with relevant experience.”

The judges will include government officials from Norilsk and Krasnoyarsk Krai; representatives of Nornickel and the Norilsk Development Agency; and Russian and international experts in integrated land development, ecology, economics and spatial planning, marketing and communications, and technologies and innovations.

“When I visited Norilsk a few years ago, I was amazed to find many, many people who were interested in building something new in their city. The creation of these new facilities is an immense challenge for Norilsk due to its highly specific location and climate. The city needs to find creative, contemporary ideas. I am confident that this competition will bring together the international knowledge and experience of talented architects and urbanists,” said Cees Donkers, architect and urban designer from the Netherlands, during a conference call.

The creation of the architectural and planning concept is an important stage of the city’s social and economic development program under the four-sided agreement between the government of the Russian Federation, the government of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Norilsk city administration, and Nornickel.

Signed in February 2021, this document allocates RUB 120 billion for the program’s collective funding. Out of this amount, RUB 24 billion are provided from the federal budget; 14.7 billion come from the consolidated budget of Krasnoyarsk Krai; and 81.3 billion are invested by Nornickel. The company also intends to provide up to RUB 150 billion of additional funding until 2035.

Nornickel’s goal is to create favorable opportunities and environment for the city’s development and sustainable growth. Today, we have every opportunity to turn Norilsk into a city of the future. To achieve this, we need to engage with the best experts from Russia and beyond, and use the latest architectural and technological solutions, both when designing residential buildings and public space and when creating a utility infrastructure,” comments Larisa Zelkova, Senior Vice-President at Nornickel.

To take part in the competition, candidates need to fill out an application on the official competition website at: https://ift.tt/2UOtBm0 between July 13 and September 21, and provide a portfolio of completed projects that demonstrate relevant experience, along with an essay with a description of ideas for the future development of Norilsk that would maximize its potential.

In October, the judges will assess the applications and select the three finalists. The finalists will then start working on Norilsk renovation concepts. The competition will complete in March 2022.

“The competition that we announced today is truly global, not just in format but in meaning as well. The world will give Norilsk its best practices in territorial development, urban planning, and architecture; and Norilsk, in return, will give the world a unique case of urban renovation beyond the Arctic Circle, and demonstrate its new development ambitions. We are hoping that the experience that the participants will leverage when designing their submissions will spur on the city’s long-term development,” highlights Sergei Georgievskii, cofounder of CENTER Lab.

Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

Norilsk is a city built in the Russian Arctic, almost exactly on the 69th parallel north. It is one of the coldest cities in the world and the northernmost community of over 150,000 people. The origins of Norilsk go back to the discovery of rich deposits of nickel and copper in the area. Geological exploration around the modern Norilsk began in 1919. In 1935, a decision was made to build the Norilsk Combined Plant and the eponymous workers’ settlement nearby.

The formation of the existing urban planning structure in Norilsk began in 1939, when the Leningrad architects Witold Niepokojczycki and Lydia Minenko were tasked with designing a master plan for an “appropriately modern, comfortable city.” The first wave of development was in the classical revival style. In the 1960s, standardized construction trends were introduced into the local architecture, and over time, the city districts were rigidly divided by construction period.

Autonomous Non-profit Organization “Norilsk Development Agency” is a territorial development institution that supports improving the quality of life in Norilsk, developing the social environment and bolstering the city’s human resources. The Agency strives to create favorable conditions for the city’s sustainable socio-economic development, shape a favorable investment climate, and execute economic diversification and urban transformation projects. The Agency’s main focus areas are: business environment development, urban environment development, tourism development, investments, and socio-cultural and educational projects.

CENTER Lab is an international urban laboratory, bringing together unique experts on transforming the environment of the modern world. The laboratory offers solutions both for cities and for territories well beyond their borders. It specializes in analytical research and projects that benefit both businesses and the government. Its main objective is to bring new life to territories of any scale. CENTER Lab and Agency for Strategic Development CENTER are both part of the CENTER Group.

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India’s Spinny raises $43.7M to expand its online platform for selling used cars

Spinny, an online platform for selling used cars, has secured $43.7 million from a cohort of influential investors in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities.

The Series B financing round for the Gurgaon-based startup was led by the Fundamentum Partnership, the growth-capital fund backed by tech veterans Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal. US-based General Catalyst Partners, Korea based KB Financial Group and existing investors Accel, SAIF Partners and Alteria Capital also participated in the round.

The four-year-old startup has raised about $57 million to date, and according to a person familiar with the matter, the new round gave it a post money valuation of about $150 million.

Spinny runs a platform to facilitate sale and purchase of used cars. Niraj Singh, co-founder and chief executive of the startup, told TechCrunch in an interview that Spinny brings the trust factor that people are looking for when they are purchasing a car.

“Most of these people are aged under 35. They are aspirational and want to get better cars. But it’s a hassle for them to find a trustworthy place and deal with agents,” he said.

The Gurgaon-based four-year-old startup is solving that by inspecting and purchasing the cars and then selling them itself.

“Since there is no middlemen, we are able to sell the cars at more affordable prices and we offer a five-day, no-question asked full-refund if someone is not satisfied with their purchase. On top of that, we also offer a year-long warranty on these cars,” he said.

Spinny operates in four cities in India today and has sold nearly 10,000 cars. Until 2017, the startup acted as a marketplace for sale and purchase of cars, essentially serving as a listing platform. “Then, we pivoted as we wanted to control the full supply chain,” he said.

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and Chairman of Fundamentum said, the fund was impressed by Spinny’s “full stack business” that is building a competitive differentiation as it scales.

“This fits into Fundamentum’s thesis of backing long term oriented entrepreneurs to solve complex business problems using technology and who aspire to build a company at scale and to last,” he said.

On Spinny’s website, people can find the car they want to purchase and then inspect and test drive it from the startup’s physical hubs. Spinny currently has nine hubs in India, something it plans to scale to 20 by the end of the year as it scales to more cities in the country.

It competes with heavily-backed Cars24 and CarDekho, both of which count Sequoia Capital as an investor, as well as Droom, which has raised over $130 million, and Naspers-owned marketplace Olx.

At stake is a huge opportunity. The market for used cars in India is estimated to grow from $13 billion to $25 billion by 2023, despite the slowdown in automobile industry in the country.

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thetechmedia1 · 5 years ago

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Used-car retailing startup Spinny gets $43.7M in fresh round led by Fundamentum Partnership

Gurugram-based online used car retailing platform Spinny on Monday announced it has raised $43.7 million (about Rs 315 crore) in a Series B funding round led by Fundamentum Partnership (FP), a growth-capital fund backed by tech veterans Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal.

The round also counts new investors — US-based General Catalyst Partners and Korea-based KB Financial Group and existing investors Accel, SAIF Partners and Alteria Capital, as co-investors. The funds will be used to invest in technology, strengthen business teams, enhance customer experience and expand to newer cities, Spinny said.

“The FP team was impressed with Spinny team’s ability to use technology to solve for operational friction in the business, and thereby build a sustainable advantage,” Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder, and Chairman, FP said.

Ashish Kumar, Partner, Fundamentum Partnership, will also join the Spinny board.

Founded in 2015 by Niraj Singh, Mohit Gupta, and Ramanshu Mahuar, Spinny is a pre-owned car platform. Its online-to-offline (O2O) model allows customers to discover cars online on Spinny’s website and make the final purchase offline at a Spinny Car Hub. The startup currently operates in 4 cities across the country and has sold around 10000 cars to date. The company started out as a listing platform only, but later on, switched to a selling platform controlling all aspects of the process. The firm buys used cars, gets them inspected from in-house mechanics and then lists them for sale.

“Since there are no middlemen, we are able to sell the cars at more affordable prices and we offer a five-day, no-question asked full-refund if someone is not satisfied with their purchase,” Niraj Singh, co-founder of Spinny, claimed.

“On top of that, we also offer a year-long warranty on these cars,” he said.

Spinny had raised $1 million in its seed round from Blume Ventures and Simile Ventures in June 2017. More recently, it had closed its Series A round of $13.2 million co-led by SAIF Partners and Accel in April last year. The latest funding puts the total amount secured at around $57 Million, putting the valuation at about $150 Million.

The startup competes with the likes of Cars24, Car Dekho, Car Trade, and Droom, all of whom are also heavily-backed.

Updated with statements from Fundamentum and Spinny.

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Spinny, an online platform for selling used cars, has secured $43.7 million from a cohort of influential investors in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities.

The four-year-old startup has raised about $57 million to date, and according to a person familiar with the matter, the new round gave it a post money valuation of about $150 million.

“Most of these people are aged under 35. They are aspirational and want to get better cars. But it’s a hassle for them to find a trustworthy place and deal with agents,” he said.

The Gurgaon-based four-year-old startup is solving that by inspecting and purchasing the cars and then selling them itself.

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and Chairman of Fundamentum said, the fund was impressed by Spinny’s “full stack business” that is building a competitive differentiation as it scales.

It competes with heavily-backed Cars24 and CarDekho, both of which count Sequoia Capital as an investor, as well as Droom, which has raised over $130 million, and Naspers-owned marketplace Olx.

At stake is a huge opportunity. The market for used cars in India is estimated to grow from $13 billion to $25 billion by 2023, despite the slowdown in automobile industry in the country.

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India’s Spinny raises $43.7M to expand its online platform for selling used cars

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India’s Spinny raises $43.7M to expand its online platform for selling used cars

Spinny, an online platform for selling used cars, has secured $43.7 million from a cohort of influential investors in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities.

The four-year-old startup has raised about $57 million to date, and according to a person familiar with the matter, the new round gave it a post money valuation of about $150 million.

“Most of these people are aged under 35. They are aspirational and want to get better cars. But it’s a hassle for them to find a trustworthy place and deal with agents,” he said.

The Gurgaon-based four-year-old startup is solving that by inspecting and purchasing the cars and then selling them itself.

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and Chairman of Fundamentum said, the fund was impressed by Spinny’s “full stack business” that is building a competitive differentiation as it scales.

It competes with heavily-backed Cars24 and CarDekho, both of which count Sequoia Capital as an investor, as well as Droom, which has raised over $130 million, and Naspers-owned marketplace Olx.

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A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

Health begins at home. I found evidence for that, beyond my own N of 1 understanding, in a research article published in the UK in 2000 by Lyn Harrison and Frances Heywood. Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted. Their conclusion: that the housing-health link was not receiving the recognition that connection needs.

Nearly two decades later, that housing-health link still isn’t universally embraced by health care stakeholders. But it’s starting to get traction as a key social determinant of health in the U.S., but providers, health plans, and even a pretty huge technology company noted in the Hot Points below.

When you think “CES,” your mind’s eye imagines big-screen TVs, slick new car concepts, and gaming (both via video and in the casinos along the Las Vegas strip). For me, CES is all about health/care everywhere, through wearable tech, remote health monitoring, and Internet of healthy things. At #CES19, I took a trip out to Henderson, NV, to visit the BUILDER KB Home ProjeKt model home site, a new concept for a healthy home conceived and embedded with technology that supports wellness.

It takes a village to make health, and it took a village of suppliers collaborating to build this house with wellness tech in virtually every room, including the three-car garage. Dozens of companies’ technologies are integrated into this home. Among the technology partners are Belkin, Carrier, CertainTeed, Dish, Greyter, Kingspan, Kohler, NOON, Phyn, Rheem, Western Window Systems, and Whirlpool (whose “Everyday, Care” theme at CES always attracts my engagement), among many others.

The wellness platform, called DARWIN, was developed by Delos, a real estate and technology company with a mission of improving indoor environments for people where we live, work, sleep and play. FYI, Delos’s advisory board includes health/care luminaries like Deepak Chopra, the wellness guru; Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at Cleveland Clinic; Dick Gephardt, former U.S. Congressman and House of Representatives Majority Leader (with whom I collaborated at CES in 2016); Morad Fareed, (another CES collaborator of mine on that Wizards of Maternal Health panel)’ and David Pogue, who leads Corporate Responsibility at CBRE Group, among many other experts. Oh, did I mentioned Leonardo DiCaprio? Oh, to be a fly on that advisory board meeting wall…

So back to Delos’s DARWIN wellness technology platform which underpins the KB Home ProjeKt house. The most obvious technology partner is Google, whose voice technology is the ubiquitous interface between the resident and the various wellness options accessible in every indoor space: in the kitchen, the bedrooms, bathrooms, outdoor patio, and even in the garage.

My tour began in the garage, where I saw several of the devices that make this house green, safe and sustainable. Techs for clean water, energy-saving, and heating/cooling are all housed here in this garage, which is also designed with three bays for vehicles. These three spaces aren’t meant just for a single home, but in the future, could be space for shared autos, or shelter for three different homes in the community. That was an initial mention of health and well-being going beyond the physical to the social and sharing — more on that below.

Entering the home from the external facade and garage, I noticed the second floor with an outdoor balcony space, the first hint of the home’s indoor-outdoor design ethos. The first floor space has an airy open plan, between the kitchen, the living/family room, and then floor-to-ceiling sliding window doors that open the room up to the outdoor patio featuring a fireplace and lots of plants.

Speaking of plants, there are many hanging plants throughout the home that are organized as living art on walls and in windows. Green plants are an important ingredient for wellness, with benefits for thinking, for mental health and mood, and for cleaner air, as this post in Healthline discusses.

The kitchen is often thought of being the hub of health in the home as most consumers now view food-as-medicine (covered most recently here in Health Populi). One doesn’t need to have a connected kitchen to act on health. But as I experienced the Food-Tech meet-up during CES week, more appliances are joining the connected Internet of Things ecosystem for food, and these have implications for healthy cooking and everyday living. When technology can help to streamline our lives and nudge us to healthy food, cooking, and sharing meals as a family or community, we are more likely to adopt these behaviors and life-flows.

We move from the kitchen and shared living space to the bedroom, which in the ideal world is a haven for sleep — a major theme at CES both in education sessions and in the exhibitor aisles. In this home, the bedroom is indeed a quiet retreat where light is controllable by circadian rhythm through technology from NOON and blackout shades from Hunter Douglas. The room’s walls are also built with noise-cancelling materials and floors with a thick comfy carpeting (that I walked on in bare feet to test) that ensure a really quiet, optimal sleep environment.

The master bathroom was fitted with smart/connected products from Kohler, including a toilet (that received a lot of social media attention), a shower that could be pre-programmed with a consumer’s temperature preference, and an interactive mirror activated by Google voice technology.

This home is also conceived as an aging-in-place setting which can grow and adapt with a young family through child-rearing through healthy aging. The upstairs unit is fully fitted with a kitchen, a bedroom and a full bathroom. That area can be used for kids or aging parents, or for a caregiver — a nanny or au pair for childcare, or housing for a companion caregiver for an older adult living at home.

In the future, a home like this could be part of a community, which could be planned with a shared garden or larger “agrihood” idea with a CSA (community-supported agriculture) project that residents share in growing, maintaining and harvesting. This aspect brings wellness to residents for both healthy eating as well as social opportunities that bolster mental health and a sense of belonging.

Our homes have the potential to be our health-hubs, supporting self-care and remote health care to our clinicians and health coaches, with our neighbors and communities bolstering overall public health.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Publishing this post on smarter homes for health today coincides with a well-timed announcement from Microsoft: the company is allocating $500 million toward a housing program in the Puget Sound region which houses MSFT’s headquarters.

“Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community. And a healthy community must have housing that is within the economic reach of every part of the community, including the many dedicated people that provide the vital services on which we all rely,” company President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood wrote on MSFT’s blog yesterday.

This community investment was inspired by the fact that the region’s economic growth hasn’t supported new house building for local workers: are jobs grew by 21%, but housing starts only 13%. Housing prices have increase 96% in eight years, boosting home prices beyond the reach of too many workers whose wages have stayed relatively flat over the period.

Microsoft partnered with Zillow (also a partner in the KB Home project) to mine data on housing and wages in the area. The team found a huge gap in job growth versus housing growth around Seattle.

The $500 million commitment will be comprised of $225 mm going to capital to subsidize the preservation and building of middle-income housing; $250 mm to support low-income housing around King County; and, $25 mm in grants to deal with homelessness in the region.

Microsoft knows that clean and safe housing is a social determinant of health. As a corporate citizen, the company is making it known they believe in their community and are engaging in the health ecosystem of the region in which they’ve accrued great wealth. Kudos to Microsoft for making this amazing fiscal decision. It won’t be a total solution to the significant housing/wage gap in greater Seattle, but should inspire more creative solutions to this problem which other tech-rich communities also share.

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A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

Microsoft partnered with Zillow (also a partner in the KB Home project) to mine data on housing and wages in the area. The team found a huge gap in job growth versus housing growth around Seattle.

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A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

��Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community. And a healthy community must have housing that is within the economic reach of every part of the community, including the many dedicated people that provide the vital services on which we all rely,” company President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood wrote on MSFT’s blog yesterday.

Microsoft partnered with Zillow (also a partner in the KB Home project) to mine data on housing and wages in the area. The team found a huge gap in job growth versus housing growth around Seattle.

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Resources for Keeping Current on Emerging Technology

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Technology is rapidly advancing with each passing day and because of this extreme growth, keeping up with such change is a difficult task. Fortunately, there are ways to stay current with today’s technology and easily have access to all the information regarding the tech in question. Below, I will list 5 resources that will enable the user to keep up with the evr rowing advancement of technology.

TechRadar https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

This site, much like its introduction says, simply provides insight into the technology and trends shaping the future. Something I discovered on there of interest was HyperApp a 1 kb in size minimalist JavaScript framework for building declarative web applications.

Panda https://usepanda.com/

Panda is essentially an interactive news feed. Quite simply, Panda allows you to manipulate the ui in such a way to maximize the efficiency of your reading news information. This is achieved in various ways by changing the grid layout or having certain things pop up in your activity feed. Something of interest I found on there was actually an advertisement for the site Squarespace. Squarespace allows you to quickly create a website with minimal knowledge of code and a keen eye for design.

GitHub https://github.com/

GitHub is probably one of the greatest communities for open source code. On there, one can easily find a plethora of information and answers. Essentially git hub allows you to use others code (granted its within certain policies) or perhaps be inspired to implement someone else’s code into your own.

On there I have found a library for throttling and denouncing that basically limits the user input to a specific amount of keystrokes at a given time.

Wired https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftwRNsjfRo08xYE31tkiyw

Wired is actually a channel on YouTube that happens to have a broad interest. Things very from how marvel built Visual effects for Ant-Man to why it is almost impossible to do a quintuple jump. Interestingly enough, I saw a comparison between top end form factor cameras such as the GoPro Hero 7 Black, Hero 6 and Sony X3000. This has informed well enough to the point of where it has impacted by future purchase.

Recode https://www.recode.net/

Recode is more so a blog style Panda without all of the neat features,. Furthermore, it seems that the technology highlighted in the articles here seem to have greater wait in the world. An example of this is an article discussing how Facebook has found its newest public face. I wouldn’t really count this as technology however the tech behind social media is a major thing and having Facebook, one of the leaders of social media, be the subject is an attention grabber.

References

cowboy/jquery-throttle-debounce. (2018). Retrieved from https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-throttle-debounce

Entertainment, W. (2018). GoPro Hero7 Black vs. Hero6 vs. Sony X3000 | OOO With Brent Rose | WIRED. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_i___jfVcQ

Panda 5 Beta. (2018). Retrieved from https://usepanda.com/

Technology Radar | Emerging Tech Trends for 2018 | ThoughtWorks. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks

Wagner, K. (2018). Facebook found its new public face: Former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Retrieved from https://www.recode.net/2018/10/19/17999968/facebook-nick-clegg-hire-deputy-prime-minister-elliot-schrage

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India’s Spinny raises $43.7M to expand its online platform for selling used cars

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India’s Spinny raises $43.7M to expand its online platform for selling used cars

Spinny, an online platform for selling used cars, has secured $43.7 million from a cohort of influential investors in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities.

The four-year-old startup has raised about $57 million to date, and according to a person familiar with the matter, the new round gave it a post money valuation of about $150 million.

“Most of these people are aged under 35. They are aspirational and want to get better cars. But it’s a hassle for them to find a trustworthy place and deal with agents,” he said.

The Gurgaon-based four-year-old startup is solving that by inspecting and purchasing the cars and then selling them itself.

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and Chairman of Fundamentum said, the fund was impressed by Spinny’s “full stack business” that is building a competitive differentiation as it scales.

It competes with heavily-backed Cars24 and CarDekho, both of which count Sequoia Capital as an investor, as well as Droom, which has raised over $130 million, and Naspers-owned marketplace Olx.

#Miscellaneous

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