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Raken | September 18, 2020

Raken, the top-rated mobile field management solution for the construction industry, today announced the Segmented Daily Reports feature to enhance its product offering. The newly released feature allows field teams to submit multiple daily reports for complex projects, providing better visibility into site progress, improved organization and more streamlined internal communication. Segmented Daily Reports enable users to create multiple daily reports for each building or location and submit tim...

PBC Today | March 04, 2020

UK start-up XYZ Reality has raised €5.7m in funding to revolutionise construction with its vision of building from holograms which will allow workers to view BIM models on-site at 5ml accuracy. XYZ Reality has revealed the closing of an €5.7m (~£4.9m) Series A round, led by Amadeus Capital Partners and Hoxton Ventures, with participation from Adara Ventures and J Coffey Construction. XYZ Reality aims to transform the construction industry with its vision of building from hologram...

ENGINEERING TECH

Altair | September 14, 2022

Altair ( Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), signed a definitive agreement to acquire RapidMiner, a leader in advanced data analytics and machine learning (ML) software. RapidMiner's low-code platform is used by more than one million people of all skill levels to develop production-scale data pipelines and ML models, putting advanced data analytics into the hands of those who know the domain problems best. It provides hundr...

Study International | April 15, 2020

According to a new study by Cornell University, STEM students learn just as much in online classes as they normally do in traditional brick-and-mortar ones. Researchers of the study divided 325 students into three different classroom styles for two courses: a fully online class through a program called OpenEdu, an in-person course as their local university and a blended version combining both. Demand for higher education is surging in the digital economy we now live in, but the price of a colleg...