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Google Abandons Massive Project That Would Have Built 15,000 Homes in San Francisco Area
On Friday, Google and real estate group Lendlease called off plans to build 15,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as housing developers continue to exit the troubled region. Google and Lendlease mutually ended a $US15 billion agreement that was made in 2019 to build residential and retail space in Sunnyvale, San Jose, and…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Spotify Wrapped to the European Central Bank giving a strong critique to bitcoin, here are five things headlining tech news today in Australia.
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San Francisco Just Banned Gas In All New Buildings. Could It Ever Happen in Australia?
Last week San Francisco became the latest city to ban natural gas in new buildings. The legislation will see all new construction, other than restaurants, use electric power only from June 2021, to cut greenhouse gas emissions. San Francisco has now joined other US cities in banning natural gas in new homes. The move is…
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Another Tech Event Cancelled Over Coronavirus Concerns, This Time In San Francisco
Facebook will no longer hold its global marketing summit in San Francisco next month, the company announced Friday, in what many are calling the Bay area’s first reported cancelation attributed to the COVID-19 outbreak.