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Tyler Technologies

Tyler Technologies Software Will Help Orphans Around the World

by | Jul 17, 2018
The Plano tech company developed the software for use by Both Ends Believing, a nonprofit dedicated to helping orphans in many developing nations.
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Doritos Blaze
Doritos Blaze, Busta Rhymes Team for Hip-Hop Music Contest
by | Jul 17, 2018
The "Blaze the Beat" contest looks to give an aspiring hip-hop artist a "major breakthrough," with a $50,000 prize and an opportunity to perform at an upcoming music festival.
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STEM education
National Math and Science Initiative CEO Talks Spreading STEM Education & What’s Inspired Him Along the Way
by | Jul 16, 2018
Bernard Harris Jr. was the first African-American to walk in space, and now he's leading the Dallas-based National Math and Science Initiative to help encourage young people through its STEM curriculum.
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On Tap: ForwarDFW, Tap Into Your Genius & IBM Summer Startup Party
Browse our curated selection of events to plan your next week — and beyond.
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An illustration (fig. 6A) from Toyota’s patent No. 10011222 demonstrating a system including a steering wheel-shaped shell with two layers that illuminates LED lights when force is applied.

Dallas Invents: 68 Patents Granted for Week of July 3

Patents granted include Toyota’s steering wheel that illuminates via touch; AT&T’s electrical switch that generates signals through acoustic inputs; Frito-Lay’s method for removing part of a food product through an “abrasive stream”; and Conduent Business Services’ method to create a classifier that predicts a user’s personality type.
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DFW Transportation Group Says it’s Exploring Hyperloop as Option to Connect Area Cities
by | Jul 11, 2018
The Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council will seek proposals later this year for a Tier 2 Environmental Impact Statement for the high-speed corridor connecting Dallas, Arlington, and Fort Worth.
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Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Takes Step to Enhance Aircraft Cybersecurity with New Contract
by | Jul 10, 2018
The contract will enable the partners to work on reducing the cyber threat to the Lockheed Martin aircraft supply chain.
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comedy
Stomping Ground is Dallas’ First Nonprofit Theater on a Mission to ‘Enrich the Community with Comedy’
by | Jul 10, 2018
The theater, with a new location in the Design District, is a stage and training center for the city’s comedians, but it’s also harnessing the power of laughter for therapeutic benefits.
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Discovery: UTSW Realizes Brain Receptor Structure, UTA’s Patented New Tech Aids Disabled

by | Jul 6, 2018
Plus, you'll find research on treatments for glucocorticoid-caused glaucoma and improving nuclear waste storage. Here are some of the research projects underway in North Texas aimed at making our lives better.
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On Tap: The Apprentice Projects, New Urbanism Symposium & Coffee With the Kids
Browse our curated selection of events to plan your next week — and beyond.
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An illustration from the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System’s patent No. 10007336 demonstrating a mobile, low-cost three-dimensional gaze estimation. The headset may include an “eye-tracking camera and scene camera to create multi-dimensional pictures in the direction of the user’s view.
Dallas Invents: 96 Patents Granted for Week of June 26
Patents granted include the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System’s low-cost, mobile 3D point of estimation headset; Mary Kay’s method for topical skin care treatment using plant extracts; Roka Sports’ garment for aquatic sports to help improve performance; and Capital One’s system of using a bounding shape to place augmented reality objects.
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Jimmy and Brooke Sweeney
Couple Set to Open Indie Theater in Fort Worth’s Foundry District
by | Jul 2, 2018
The 50-seat art house theater will be a single screen cinema and event space with an emphasis on screening local and independent films as well as cultivating a supportive environment where discussion is encouraged.
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The CEO insider video podcast hosted by Trey Bowles

CEO Insider Video Podcast
Hosted by Trey Bowles

The Dallas Entrepreneur Center's new video podcast series highlights emerging CEOs in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Trey Bowles interviews Glen Collins of Switch for the first edition of CEO Insider, a video podcast.
CEO Insider: Hear From Social Good Mover Glen Collins on Being an Entrepreneur
by | Jul 2, 2018
In this inaugural episode of The Dallas Entrepreneur Center's new series, co-founder Trey Bowles talks with Glen Collins of Switch Creative and Good Work, an interactive design studio and web and mobile development company.
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Innovation Study: DFW Should Embrace its Sprawl & Work Together to Propel its Growth, Identity as ‘Hub for Innovation’
by | Jun 29, 2018
After a monthslong research study, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Southern Methodist University, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, and Accenture have released a “guidebook” to help North Texas’ innovation economy thrive into the future.
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Discovery: E-Whiskers May Lead to Electronic Human Skin, $750K Grant to Fund Neutrino Research
by | Jun 29, 2018
Also, a collaborative study looks at how important exercise is to good health for those diagnosed with depression. Here are some of the research projects underway in North Texas aimed at making our lives better.
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