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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

As we draw closer to the end of 2016, it is important that we take a moment to look back and reflect on all of the ways technology has inspired us, and transformed the way we live and do work. To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars.

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Taiwanese reassurances that water shortages won’t hit chipmaking show climate change’s direct threat to tech

TechCrunch LA

As reported by Bloomberg, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen took to Facebook on Sunday to post about the nation’s capacity to provide water to its citizens and businesses in the face of the worst drought the nation has faced in 56 years. They were even flagged in a 2016 Harvard Business School case study analysis. ”

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again.

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Connected Classroom Technology and Essentials for K-12 School Districts

Southern California Edison Blog

For K-12 school districts to keep up with technology and enable a fully modern, effective environment, they need to augment the fundamentals with key technology advancements and essentials including Artificial Intelligence, updated communication tools, and high-speed networks tailored for educational institutions.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation lives. After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling.

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Xconomy’s Top Innovation Stories of the Half Year

Xconomy

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. AgTech Accelerator Aims to Sway Agriculture Investment Trends. Frank Vinluan reports from North Carolina on a new effort to boost agtech startups and university research. San Antonio Entrepreneur Center Opens Using Dallas Nonprofit as Model.

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VC Confidence Holds Steady in Quarterly Survey, But Reasons Change

Xconomy

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.