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A First-of-Its-Kind ‘Tech Sandbox’: Equinix Launches 5G and Edge Tech Development Center in Dallas

Equinix's new 5G ETDC is an incubator and proving ground for 5G co-innovation. Customers can assess, incubate, and test 5G services and edge solutions.

The new "tech sandbox" at the Infomart is a production-ready interconnection environment from the radio network to the cloud.
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OncoNano Expands Research Collaboration With UT Southwestern to Advance New Cancer Therapies
by | Sep 22, 2021
Southlake-based OncoNano Medicine uses pH-sensitive nanoparticle technology to "light up" cancer for real-time surgical imaging. The multi-year collaboration will seek to uncover new cancer therapies that can benefit from OncoNano's technology. OncoNano raised $50 million in Series B funding in June.
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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 7
by | Sep 20, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's sensor mapping to a global coordinate system, Apple's method for supporting antenna beamforming in a cellular network, Intuit's sentiment analysis of conten,Luraco's  body scanning detection for advanced robotic massage chairs, Monarc's projectile delivery system, ShockWatch's impact indicator, and UIPath's scheduling robots for robotic process automation.
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Shavelogic razor startup funding
Dallas’ Shavelogic Hones Its Edge With $100 Million in New Growth Capital
by | Sep 17, 2021
The cutting-edge razor brand introduced a new shaving system last year, after a decade-plus of R&D, more than 150 global patents, and legal battles with Gillette. Now Shavelogic plans to expand innovation and market reach to upgrade the shave.
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Dallas Invents: 143 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 31

by | 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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Nominate Now: BioNTX Dennis K. Stone Award Recognizes Positive Impact in North Texas Biotech and Life Science Research
by | 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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Nanoscope Awarded $1.5 Million Grant for Eyesight Gene Therapy as it ‘Takes Steps to Go Public’
by | 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.
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Dallas Threat Detection Platform Lands $16 Million in Series A Funding to Fuel Advances and Expansion
by | Sep 14, 2021
Evolon Technology develops proprietary tech that turns surveillance video into real-time actionable information. CEO Kevin Stadler says market and tech trends are "creating a perfect storm" for the fast adoption of innovative security systems to protect an organization's critical assets and infrastructure.
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Dallas Invents: 144 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 24

by | 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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State Farm’s Tech Astra Summit to Encourage Young Girls to Pursue STEM
by | 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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Bank of America Set a Company Record for Patents Granted In the First Half of 2021. One Big Reason? Addison’s Manu Kurian.
by | 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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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 17
by | Aug 31, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Textron Innovations' autonomous package delivery aircraft, Siemens Industry Software's chain testing and diagnosis using two-dimensional scan architecture, Bank of America's IoT versatile nodes, Wilson Electronics' multiple antenna repeater architecture, IBM's prioritizing workload, Speedgrocers' method for order fulfillment. Bell Textron's VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans, and Capital One's vehicle purchasing tools.
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Fort Worth’s Skeeter Hawk Is Out to Conquer Mosquitoes For Labor Day Weekend and Beyond

by | 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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Dallas-Based BreachQuest Emerges From Stealth With $4.4M in Seed Funding From the Founders of Tinder and Other Leading Investors
by | 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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Dallas Invents: 138 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 10
by | 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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Plano Siemens HQ Expands Hiring as it Widens Applications for Digital Twin Tech
by | Aug 21, 2021
Siemens Digital Industries Software headquarters is hiring like gangbusters. Siemens CFO Timo Nentwich, who moved to Dallas from Berlin last October, says the company has moved far beyond enabling the designs of airplanes and cars, into analyzing entire manufacturing processes.

“Few people know that we’re running a large operation like this out of the Plano office,” the CFO said.
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