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MONDAY, FEB. 3, 2020

FUTURE WORLD
How Area Universities Prepare Tech Workers for Rapid Change

North Texas has more than 40 higher learning institutions. Inside is a collection of pioneer programs taught by world-class faculty members that incorporates on-the-job training and monitors the pulse of our rapidly changing technological landscape.

 
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Jobs of the Future: The Hottest Areas of Tech Education

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TRANSPORTATION TECH
Ryder Expands Truck Sharing Platform COOP to North Texas

Ryder allows people to safely share and rent trucks through its peer-to-peer digital platform.

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MOST-READ
Dallas Innovates' 10 Most Popular Stories in January

Take a look back on the stories that grabbed our readers' attention last month.

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TEAMING UP

Hedera Hashgraph Joins the Fight Against Coronavirus by Powering a Data Visualization Tool

Dallas' Hedera Hashgraph, which has an enterprise-grade distributed public ledger, is teaming up with blockchain-enabled app developer Acoer to provide useful information on the coronavirus outbreak to scientists, researchers, and journalists. 

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Your daily catch-up of what's new + next in Dallas-Fort Worth.
TECH BYTES

5 hospitals that partnered with big tech in January
On the Becker’s Hospital Review list was Dallas-based Children's Health, which partnered with Amazon to provide Amazon Hub lockers for patients, families, and employees so they could receive and return packages at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

This Fort Worth-area library lets you check out tools, carpet cleaners and more
The Bedford library is launching a new program called Library of Things that allows card holders to check out things other than books, like an Instant Pot home repair tool kit. It's a "natural extension" of the library adding STEM kits, according to the Star-Telegram, and was made possible by a $3K grant from Dallas' Atmos Energy.

PARTNERSHIPS

Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/northeast-tarrant/article239851333.html#storylink=cpyRedburn said funding for the Library of Things came from a $3,000 grant from Atmos Energy awarded to the Bedford Library Foundation. She said that former mayor Jim Griffin approached Atmos about the funding for the Library of Things project.

Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/northeast-tarrant/article239851333.html#storylink=cpy

ScoreSense Leverages Machine Learning to Take Its Customer Experience to the Next Level
Dallas-based One Technologies and data management provider Arrikto Inc. are partnering to incorporate Machine Learning into One Technologies’ ScoreSense credit platform.

EXPANSIONS

Amazon’s at it again—this time with a warehouse in Far East Dallas
Online retail giant Amazon is expanding its distribution footprint in North Texas with another large warehouse lease, per the DMN. Amazon has leased the 419,626-square-foot Eastpoint Distribution Center in Far East Dallas, which is owned by Dallas-based by Dalfen Industrial.
To read more (and get our week's Top 10), head here.
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Meet the Future 50: North Texas Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know

No matter which of our six buckets you look at—startup, enterprise, invention, education, innovation, or creative—you're sure to find leaders capable of disrupting industries, benefiting society, or changing the world.


These Are the 7 Trends That Could Shape Our Future

DFW Universities Rank Among Nation’s Top Online Educational Programs

International Influence: How 5 Local Developers Are Making a Mark on North Texas’ Skylines
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"There are always setbacks. Learn from every experience. Every time you are doing something that’s out of your comfort zone, you are leveling up."

Veena Somareddy
Co-founder
Neuro Rehab VR
…on advice she’d give female entrepreneurs, via Forbes.
 

"It’s such a good time to be a female entrepreneur and a technologist," Somareddy told Forbes. "There are so many opportunities out there because of the rapid growth of innovation."

In 2017, Somareddy launched Neuro Rehab VR to create engaging, motivating, and customized VR/AR exercises to help people strengthen and form new neural pathways in the brain. After winning UTD’s Big Idea Competition, she gained access to mentors and expanded her reach from being a technologist with no business experience.
 
“But, I learned how to pitch, how to have a business sense around technology, and how to grow a business. Most importantly, I learned how the healthcare industry works," Somareddy said. "Having this background knowledge of the healthcare industry has been crucial for our company’s success.“


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