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Freebirds Partners With Dallas-Based Now Cuisine for Burrito-Bowl Robot Kiosks
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards | Sep 15, 2021
"It’s just cool that a Texas-based AI and robotics company can help a Texas-based burrito company expand in ways we could only imagine just a few years ago," says Alex Eagle, Chief Executive Officer for Freebirds World Burrito.
by Quincy Preston |
Sep 15, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's virtual store shelf that emulates a physical store shelf, Air Distribution Technologies' HVAC scrubber unit with building management system integration methods, ProBiora Health use of hydrogen peroxide-producing bacteria for tooth whitening, Recognition Concepts' digital signage and content manager, Rovi Guides' methods for content rights portability, Salesforce.com's object detection and image classification-based OCR recognition, Toyota Motor North America's use of sensors to detect hazard from another vehicle while driving, Varidesk's motorized adjustable height table, and Zixcorp System's harvesting and distributing a certificate based on a DNS name.
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by bionorthTX |
Sep 14, 2021
Deadline for nominations is Friday, September 17. The 2021 award, sponsored by BioLabs at Pegasus Park, will be presented on September 30 at the iC3 Life Science Summit.
The impact that Dr. Dennis K. Stone left on the DFW biotech industry is, without doubt, immeasurable, says BioNTX. Past recipients of the award that honors his memory are Phil Ralston, Lyda Hill, Darlene Boudreaux, Paul Dorman, and Hubert Zajicek.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 14, 2021
The Bedford-based biotech will use the capital from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to advance its gene therapy that treats age-related macular degeneration.
Earlier this summer, Nanoscope Therapeutics announced it successfully treated 11 patients who were blinded by advanced retinitis pigmentosa.
Earlier this summer, Nanoscope Therapeutics announced it successfully treated 11 patients who were blinded by advanced retinitis pigmentosa.
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Colossal Biosciences co-founders Ben Lamm and George Church aim to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and other long-lost creatures. [Photo: Colossal]
Dallas’ Ben Lamm and Harvard’s Dr. George Church Plan to ‘De-Extinct’ the Woolly Mammoth With Their Colossal New Startup
by David Seeley | Sep 13, 2021
It's not "Jurassic Park," but it's almost as amazing. Hypergiant founder Ben Lamm is launching a new biosciences and genetics startup—Colossal—with $15 million in private funding. The goal: Use genomics to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and re-wild it on the Arctic tundra. Lamm's co-founder, Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church, says this "grand vision" could lead to big opportunities in conservation, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 8, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's virtual store shelf that emulates a physical store shelf, Air Distribution Technologies' HVAC scrubber unit with building management system integration methods, ProBiora Health use of hydrogen peroxide-producing bacteria for tooth whitening, Recognition Concepts' digital signage and content manager, Rovi Guides' methods for content rights portability, Salesforce.com's object detection and image classification-based OCR recognition, Toyota Motor North America's use of sensors to detect hazard from another vehicle while driving, Varidesk's motorized adjustable height table, and Zixcorp System's harvesting and distributing a certificate based on a DNS name.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 1, 2021
The gender gap in computing is getting worse: In 1995 37% of computer scientists were women, dropping to 24% today. State Farm is taking action with a new STEM summit to engage girls in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Registration is open until Sept. 18.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 1, 2021
Bank of America had a company-record 227 patents granted during the first half of 2021. One of its biggest inventors? Addison-based Global Banking SVP Manu Kurian, who ranks in the top 300 patent holders on earth. He's filed more than 360 patents since 2014, with more than 240 of those having been granted.
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Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Raises $85M and Expands Operations in AllianceTexas, With 500+ New Jobs Planned by 2025
by David Seeley | Aug 31, 2021
Gatik's new autonomous trucking facility at the "MIZ" in Fort Worth's AllianceTexas will serve as a hub for its middle-mile operations in Texas. The company's $85 million Series B funding will scale its fleet of Class 3-6 autonomous box trucks across new North American markets.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 26, 2021
Skeeter Hawk's Brandon Roach has never met a mosquito he liked. So he's out to zap, fry, swat, sizzle, repel, electrify, and dehydrate all he can. Here's how you can too— in a all-natural, chemical-free, patent-pending, relentlessly mosquito-destroying way.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 25, 2021
The newly launched cybersecurity firm is taking a re-engineered approach to incident response and recovery. With big-name backers, BreachQuest is developing a proprietary platform to solve security issues quicker and at a lower cost.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 25, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Avodah Inc.'s automated gesture identification using neural networks UT's System and Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University's yarn energy harvesters containing conducing nanomaterials, Building Materials Investment Corp.'s hail resistant roofing system, Carefusion 303's variable dose dispensing system, IBM's Corp.'s secure medication delivery, Lintec of America's artificial muscle actuators, London Johnson's white noise sound machine, and Nxgen Partners' miniaturized device to sterilize from Covid-19 and other viruses.
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U.S. Patent No. D926902, Hoverboard, was assigned to GoLabs Inc.
Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 3
by Quincy Preston | Aug 18, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AirWatch's remotely restricting client devices, Allied Bioscience's antimicrobial coatings for medical implements and devices, Anametric's system for quantum coherence preservation of qubits, Capital One's behavioral data analytics platform, Golabs' hoverboard, Lintec of America's hook and loop artificial muscles, Smurfit Kappa North America's cold chain packaging, Solar Hardscapes' landscape pavers for ground installation of photovoltaic panels, and Ventamatic's climate smart fan ventilation,
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by David Seeley |
Aug 17, 2021
The eighth annual IC3 Summit will be a forum for leaders from startups to large multinationals in the biotech, pharma, healthcare, and academic communities. A key summit speaker will be Admiral Brett Giroir, M.D., the former White House COVID-19 "testing czar."
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 11, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AiBUY's dynamic binding of content transactional items, Alliance Sports Group's lighting system, Compass Datacenters' air dam for a datacenter facility, Microsoft's distributed processing architecture, Siemens' low pin count reversible scan architecture, and TI's technique to deter theft from automated teller machines.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 4, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Mirelz's virtual try-on coordination via communications sessions, Stackpath's cryptographic network protocol escalation path, VitalTech Properties' standing desk biometrics, AirWatch's multi-persona management and devices, Atense's storing and using multipurpose secret data, Commercial Metals Company's emissions collection system, Chad Dorsey Design's fireplace surround, Magnus Inventions' picture hanging marking tool, inRegen's bioactive renal cells, and VPay's virtual payment card fraud detection.
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