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Fireball Whisky To Collect Fans’ Tears After Nov. 10 Cowboys-Eagles Game
by David Seeley | Oct 31, 2024
This is how bad it's gotten for anxious, wary Cowboys fans this season: Fireball Whisky will collect fans' tears after the Nov. 10 Cowboys-Eagles game at AT&T Stadium to help fuel its limited-edition launch of Crierball. Now that's what we call a shot.
by David Seeley |
Oct 31, 2024
If you saw a robot clambering down the side of 17Seventeen McKinney in Uptown Dallas this week, don't worry—it wasn't WALL-E escaping from Pixar Studios. It was an AI-powered, camera-scanning robot named Ibex, demonstrating what could be the future of high-rise window cleaning and digital-twin-mapping "predictive maintenance."
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 30, 2024
With the NCI funding—which follows Piece's $25 million growth financing round announced in September—Pieces will partner with Cleveland-based MetroHealth to deploy a new conversational AI agent for cancer patients called "PiecesChat."
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by David Seeley and Lance Murray |
Oct 30, 2024
With a reported $1 billion-plus in annual revenue, Diversified's client list includes Microsoft, Fox Sports, Lululemon, and some 70 Fortune 100 companies. Its projects vary from creating the Southern Hemisphere's largest LED video wall to designing AV and broadcast systems for the new production facility at Texas A&M's Kyle Field.
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EV Game Changer? Dallas-Based Solidion Develops Lithium Battery That Can Charge in 5 Minutes
by David Seeley | Oct 30, 2024
Solidion—an advanced battery tech solutions provider headquartered in Dallas with production facilities in Dayton, Ohio—said its newly patented technology uses a graphene-based heat spreader to quickly move heat from a battery to warm it up before or during fast charging, and a cooling system that kicks in when the battery is in use.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 30, 2024
Founded in Houston in 2012 with a mission "to revive the art of eating crepes," Sweet Paris Crêperie & Café has grown to 17 locations in three states and Mexico. Now a French-American husband-and-wife team has signed on to bring four locations to Dallas-Fort Worth, starting with one at McKinney's West Grove Shopping Center. A Southlake location had already been slated by to open this fall.
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The Last Word: Dude Perfect’s Coby Cotton on Planning a New 80K‑SF Video Production Studio in Frisco
by David Seeley |
Oct 30, 2024
At the Venture Dallas summit today at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Dude Perfect CEO Andrew Yaffe unveiled plans for a new 80,000-square-foot video production studio to be located near the trick-shot YouTube stars' new $3 million Frisco HQ.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 30, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 15, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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Pickleball court on the wellness floor of Peridot Residences in Dallas' Santander Tower [Photo: Pacific Elm Properties]
High-Flying Pickleball in Dallas’ Santander Tower
by Lance Murray | Oct 29, 2024
A new residential Wellness Floor is located on the 33rd floor of the tower, featuring such amenities as a Pilates studio, spa-grade saunas, sports lounge, and an indoor pickleball court—said to be "the first of its kind" in a luxury high-rise.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 29, 2024
Smoothie King says the launch positions it as "the first national QSR brand to introduce a menu specifically created to assist the millions of Americans currently taking prescription GLP-1 medications."
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 29, 2024
The capital raise includes a $630 million equity commitment from funds and co-investors managed by CBRE Investment Management. Since Accelerate launched in late 2022, it has acquired interests in more than 200 properties in 38 states under digital, renewable, and transportation infrastructure assets.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 29, 2024
Think the Cowboys are a joke this year? Wait'll you see the Dec. 9 Cowboys-Bengals game transformed into the world of "The Simpsons" via real-time optical tracking and Beyond Sports technology. To be streamed live on Disney+ and ESPN+, the alternate Monday night telecast will give you something you can really laugh about.
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A Lure for Broadway: Frisco Partners with Prosper ISD on Proposed $340M Frisco Center for the Arts
by Lance Murray | Oct 28, 2024
The city said the vision for the center includes a 2,800-seat performance hall, capable of accommodating Broadway and large touring and community productions, as well as a 300- to 400-seat community hall that would be used primarily by Prosper ISD while also providing access to community organizations and events.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 28, 2024
River Central—a planned 400-acre mixed-use development—is slated to spread along the meandering Trinity River through Fort Worth and Grand Prairie south of DFW Airport.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 28, 2024
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines just found more ways to keep single-use plastics out of its planes, with cold drink cups made from a 75% bamboo pulp blend and new birch drink stirrers. The moves could reduce the airline's inflight single-use plastics "by more than 1.5 million pounds annually," Southwest said.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 28, 2024
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, was the inaugural guest at last week's launch of the Pegasus Park Speaker Series at the biotech hub in Dallas. The fireside chat before 200 "tenants and friends" of Pegasus Park featured interviewer Nicole Small, CEO of Lyda Hill Philanthropies and LH Capital, and was followed by a Ladies Who Launch event.
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