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Lucid Hearing over-the-counter hearing aids. [Photo: Lucid Hearing]
Fort Worth’s Lucid Hearing Launches Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids as New FDA Rule Kicks In
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 17, 2022
Today is the first day that over-the-counter hearing aids can be sold without a prescription. It’s a moment that Fort Worth-based Lucid Hearing has been eyeing for years.
by Matthew Berger |
Oct 12, 2022
The eighth annual HackDFW, powered by Say Yes to Dallas and presented by Google, connected hundreds of aspiring technologists to several Fortune 100 companies. It was a unique 48-hour marathon that challenged more than 550 people from 80 universities. Tech teams created ways to innovatively tackle waste management, climate change, better understand decisions from the Supreme Court, and much more. Our future workforce is in this room,” said James Harding, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Customer Engineer at Google.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 11, 2022
Plano-based Toyota North America is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to enhance AI-based speech services in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Audio control is now just a voice command away, processed by in-vehicle voice AI.
And a future Speech On-Device offering could offer a range of natural speech functions without even using the cloud—eliminating "dead zones" and tunnel dropouts.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 6, 2022
The companies will be honored October 27 at the Tech Titans Awards Gala. The list honors the fastest-growing tech companies in North Texas based on three-year revenue growth from 2020 to 2022.
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JLL’s DFW Life Science Snapshot: What’s Driving the North Texas Biotech Boom
by Lance Murray | Oct 4, 2022
The North Texas biotech boom just keeps booming—and a new "DFW Life Science Snapshot" from JLL shows why. From the Biotech+ Hub at Pegasus Park to a string of accelerators to local universities, DFW Airport, and more, here's a deep dive into what's behind the boom.
"We are showing up in the rankings and in the data," says Mike Rosa of the Dallas Regional Chamber. "It results in more opportunities and more looks for us."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 4, 2022
With mega-droughts drying up lakes out west and "water wars" predicted in the world's future, having reliable access to water is becoming more and more vital.
A team at UT Dallas led by Dr. Xianming “Simon” Dai is doing something about it. They're working on a tech platform that could enable anyone to have "an affordable, portable device that could access water anywhere, anytime conceivably using no external energy," according to the university.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 3, 2022
• AT&T’s 5G edge cloud network design
• Recaro Aircraft Seating’s life vest device
• Berg’s treating or preventing tumors of the central nervous system
• Chirp Systems’ access control for property management
• Apple’s message mapping via frequency and/or time indexing
• USAA's monitoring of data to predict road conditions
• Omnitracs’ integration of hours of service and navigation
• Atlas Global Technologies’ doppler mode in a wireless network
• STMicroelectronics’ robotic device with time-of-flight proximity sensing system
• Textron Innovations’ autonomous hydrogen refueling
• Recaro Aircraft Seating’s life vest device
• Berg’s treating or preventing tumors of the central nervous system
• Chirp Systems’ access control for property management
• Apple’s message mapping via frequency and/or time indexing
• USAA's monitoring of data to predict road conditions
• Omnitracs’ integration of hours of service and navigation
• Atlas Global Technologies’ doppler mode in a wireless network
• STMicroelectronics’ robotic device with time-of-flight proximity sensing system
• Textron Innovations’ autonomous hydrogen refueling
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 3, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros.
• Frito-Lay’s plant protein snack with meat-like texture
• Treble Innovations’ portable wireless endoscope
• Toyota’s systems and methods for automatically cleaning wheels
• Good Sportsman Marketing’s communication device for hearing protection devices
• Panacea Quantum Leap Technology’s bidirectional sensor circuit
• Badge’s biometric public key system providing revocable credentials
• AMS International AG’s method and device for estimating ambient light
• Heart Test Laboratories’ quantitative heart testing
• Futurewei Technologies’ transaction-based hybrid memory
• Treble Innovations’ portable wireless endoscope
• Toyota’s systems and methods for automatically cleaning wheels
• Good Sportsman Marketing’s communication device for hearing protection devices
• Panacea Quantum Leap Technology’s bidirectional sensor circuit
• Badge’s biometric public key system providing revocable credentials
• AMS International AG’s method and device for estimating ambient light
• Heart Test Laboratories’ quantitative heart testing
• Futurewei Technologies’ transaction-based hybrid memory
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Philipp Scherer, associate director of UT Southwestern's Nutrition Obesity Research Center, delivers a President's Lecture Series exploration of obesity. [Photo: UTSW]
UT Southwestern Is Selected as One of 12 NIH Obesity Research Centers
by Lance Murray | Sep 28, 2022
Over 150 scientists across dozens of departments will be part of the elite National Institutes of Health-funded, university-wide interdisciplinary research center. Dallas' UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only institution in Texas to be selected for the NIH initiative.
UTSW wants to translate scientific discoveries into new therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity, which it describes as a chronic disease affecting more than 40% of the U.S. population, with medical costs nearing $175 billion.
UTSW wants to translate scientific discoveries into new therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity, which it describes as a chronic disease affecting more than 40% of the U.S. population, with medical costs nearing $175 billion.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 28, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: DoorDash’s automatic floor-level retail operation decisions using video analytics, Toyota’s automated pest warning and eradication system, Textron’s aircraft weapon system, Paradigm Shift Technologies’ food ordering via embedded links in video game advertising, O’Reilly Winship’s rechargeable USB electrical outlet with integrated lighting, BMIC’s self-adhered roofing systems and methods, iPMachine’s system for mixed reality experiences, Samsung’s methods for gesture recognition and control, Sleep Technologies’ adjustable sleeping system with massage function, SRFC Bio’s analysis of antimicrobial coatings using X-ray fluorescence, and an unassigned mobile legal counsel system and method.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 26, 2022
After a rigorous process, the top six applications to the Tech Transfer Office Showcase at BioNTX's iC3 life science summit were invited to pitch live at BioNTX's life science summit. Industry experts rated, graded, and discussed the technologies prior to the pitches
"We want to cultivate technologies that are coming out of the university ecosystem here—and we want them to stay here," said Chad Ronholdt, managing director at NVB Ventures.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 22, 2022
Southlake-based HeartSciences, which closed on a $6.375M IPO in June, applies AI-based technology to an ECG to detect cardiac dysfunction—one of the earliest signs of heart disease. The company says this can't be diagnosed by current conventional ECGs, making its MyoVista Wavelet ECG device a potential game changer.
CEO Andrew Simpson says adding this diagnostic information to an ECG "addresses a significant unmet need in the market with an estimated 100 million-plus ECG tests performed annually in the U.S.A. alone."
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The 2022 BioNTX iC3 Summit Will Bring Together Leaders and Changemakers to ‘Accelerate Life Sciences Across North Texas’
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Sep 16, 2022
The once-a-year summit on September 22 and 23 is an innovation multiplier for capital, collaboration, and commercialization. Experts in the field will discuss strategy and exchange insights—and what's driving life science success across the region.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 15, 2022
The inaugural Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator is kicking off with 10 startups who come from all over the map—from Dallas to cities across the U.S. as well as Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. They'll be taking up residence in Fort Worth for an "intensive" 13-week mentorship program that makes each eligible for $120,000 in seed funding from the UNT Health Science Center and Goff Capital.
“We believe that Fort Worth can become the physical health innovation capital of the world, and this is an incredible next step to making that vision a reality,” says Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams, president of UNT HSC.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 15, 2022
Sylvia Trent-Adams has become the seventh president of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the first black woman to lead a health science center in Texas....
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 14, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Botsitter's remote monitoring, care and maintenance of animals, Socrates Health Solutions' blood glucose trend meter, Kyndryl's prioritization for charging electric vehicles while driving on the road, BNSF Railway's train simulator test set and method therefor, Alliance for Sustainable Energy's perovskite materials , TI's accelerated decision-tree execution, USAA's authentication in a virtual reality environment, JPMorgan Chase Bank's gamification-based engagement, Polara Enterprises' integrated accessible pedestrian system, and more.
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