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Walmart and Intel Are Bringing Their Holiday Drone Light Show to Dallas

by | Dec 2, 2020
On Dec. 5 at the Cotton Bowl, Walmart is hosting a free holiday experience that features Intel's drones choreographed to popular holiday songs in the air.
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Mark Cuban Foundation Offers Free AI Bootcamps Through Partnerships with Walmart, Elevate, and Headstorm
by | Aug 24, 2020
In its second year, the initiative brought tech programming to 42 underserved DFW students through three virtual sessions. It plans to host another round of AI Bootcamps in Dallas, El Paso, Omaha, Chicago, and Green Bay later this year.
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WIT Empowerment Day Lets Women Pitch Their Toy, Game, and Play Products
by | Sep 30, 2019
At this annual event—coming to Dallas Market Center tomorrow—female entrepreneurs and inventors can get feedback, advice, and mentoring from Walmart buyers and other industry leaders.
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Walmart’s Dallas Optical Facility Frames its Success With Glasses by the Tens of Thousands
by | Apr 10, 2019
Walmart's manufacturing plant located in the Stemmons Corridor looks a bit like a 1950s-era school building, but a look inside the facility reveals 320 full-time associates and a variety of robotic machines producing tens of thousands of custom-crafted eyeglasses each week.
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At the Helm: Intuit VP of Design on Being ‘Design-Led, Through and Through’

by | Sep 24, 2018
Intuit has embraced design thinking, says Intuit VP of Design James Helm. He talks with Dave Moore about the thinking that precedes formal design and how the company retains designers who may get multiple recruiting calls each week.
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Money Talks: Don Relyea Takes User Experience to the Bank
by | Sep 24, 2018
Don Relyea — who Incorporated a 19-person core design team to BBVA Compass within a couple weeks — says that the addition of designers to global banking firm BBVA is introducing constructive problem-solving to operations across 35 countries.
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My second year (in teaching high school English), things began looking up. I cracked the code and figured out how to motivate students. I had lessons I could improve upon. And I started getting curious — what could the sciences teach me about how we learn? Most of what I read at that time could be classified as pop psychology — secondhand accounts of “brain science” studies. ...One particular study involved our sense of smell and memory. I had been reading Robert Jutte’s 2004 book “A History of Senses,” and I stumbled upon this interesting remark: “Our sense of smell is most directly linked to memory.” Hmm — smell and memory are linked. I began to think how this could be applied to some of our creative writing assignments... Excerpt from “Seductive Interaction Design,” by Stephen Anderson [Sources: Capital One, Stephen Anderson]
Custom Build: An Acquisition and Ties to Higher Ed Led UX Thoughtleader to Capital One’s Garage
by | Sep 24, 2018
Q+A | Stephen Anderson, head of design at Capital One’s Garage, (literally) wrote the book on “Seductive Interaction Design.” He talks about finding talent and how design thinking is applied to daily life.
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Tatiana Miller, executive director of design at USAA [Photo, logo: USAA]
Users First: An Interview With USAA’s Tatiana Miller
by | Sep 24, 2018
Q+A | Tatiana Miller, executive director of design at USAA, tells Dave Moore how the company invests in design, what she's most proud of, and how she manages some 60 creative professionals.
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It’s a Year-Round Produce Harvest at Eden Green Technology in Cleburne

by | Jun 28, 2018
The company showed off its state-of-the-art, 44,000-square-foot facility in Cleburne where there’s row after row of 18-foot stalks, each with 36 plants growing from floor to ceiling.
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Emerging Technologies Summit: Harnessing AI, Blockchain & IoT for Future Disruption
by | Apr 23, 2018
The two-day event at UTD brought together experts from IBM, the SEC, and tech startups to discuss ways these technologies could change the world.
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Q+A: Walmart Technology’s Carlos Riojas Talks Big Data, AI & Improving Operations
by | Apr 13, 2018
The world's largest retailer choose North Texas to locate one of its first Walmart Technology offices outside Bentonville, Arkansas. One reason: It had more computer science hires from UTD than any other university.
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Don Morphy Founder Daniel Mofar aims to change the landscape of men's fashion.
‘Rising Star’ Fashion Label Don Morphy Opens First Pop-Up Store
by | Mar 20, 2018
The fashion startup's clientele now includes notables such as former Dallas Cowboys star Emmitt Smith, actor Morris Chestnut, mega-pastor T.D. Jakes, and NBA players Dwight Howard and Tyson Chandler.
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ALDI Pilots Delivering Groceries in Dallas, 2 Other Cities

by | Aug 18, 2017
An increasing number of grocers are finding ways to make food shopping easier for their customers.
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JPMorgan Chase Aims to Use 100 Percent Renewable Energy
by | Aug 1, 2017
In Texas, JPMorgan Chase has 584 branches covering 8 million square feet of space that includes its new 1.2 million-square-foot campus in Plano.
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Dallas’ iuzeit Working to Become Standard in Product Reviews
by | Jul 31, 2017
The goal is to make iuzeit the Rotten Tomatoes of consumer electronic reviews, taking reviews from experts, consumers, and friends in your social network and aggregating them in one place.
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Wal-Mart Has Towering Answer to Online Pickup
by | Jul 7, 2017
The nation's largest retailer put one of its first vending machines for online orders in The Colony as one of six planned for North Texas in coming months.
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