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Dallas-based Hunt Perovskite Technologies, part of the privately owned group of companies managed by the Ray L. Hunt family, has been chosen to receive $2.5 million in funding from the United States Department of Energy.

The award comes from the DOEs perovskite initiative, specifically titled the Solar Energy Technologies Office Fiscal Year 2020 Perovskite Funding Program. Out of the Department of Energys Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, the program supports the research and development of perovskite photovoltaic (PV) devices. The intent is to eventually lead to manufacturing and performance validation.

But according to the DOE, theres some major challenges when it comes to perovskite technologies being commercially successful.

Science Daily describes halide perovskites as soft and flexible materials that could make solar cells more efficient at significantly less cost. Perovskites have the potential to be even more efficient than silicon because less energy is wasted when converting solar energy to electricity, researchers note. The problem is that theyre too unstable to use.

Last year, the DOE announced the new program dedicated to funding projects that could increase access to reliable electricity by improving the countrys understanding of perovskite stability. Eventually, the department hopes to enable the domestic production of high-efficiency perovskite devices.

Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT) is one of the 22 selected to receive a total of $40 million.

The local company, which was created and incubated within Hunt Energy Enterprises, Hunts energy technology venture business unit, specializes in the development of highly stable and efficient metal halide perovskite materials. HPTs goal is to use those materials in single-junction PV solar panels for the utility-scale market.

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For the $2.5 million DOE projecttitled Slot-Die Fabrication of Lead-Safe, Robust, and Stable Metal Halide Perovskite ModulesHPT will work to demonstrate perovskite PVs manufacturability, scaling, durability, and chemical safety. The team will develop highly efficient, durable, and lead-safe perovskite solar PV modules using HPTs slot-die coating manufacturing process.

HPT, acting as principle investigator, will collaborate with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

This isnt HPTs only award, though.

HPT will also serve as co-principle investigator and partner in two other DOE perovskite projects: a $1.5 million award to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and a $1.25 million award to UNC.

To be selected for one award is indeed an honor, but to be part of three separate awards is outstanding, Michael D. Irwin, chief technology officer for HPT, said in a statement. These awards further validate the quality of our research in making durable and efficient perovskite technology a commercial reality, and we are grateful to the DOE for their faith in our work.

With SLAC, HPT and the DOEs National Renewable Energy Laboratory will use advanced characterization tools to study perovskite, with the goal to enhance the efficiency and intrinsic stability of PV materials and devices.

With UNC, HPT and the DOEs National Renewable Energy Laboratory will study and develop efficient, stable formamidinium-cesium perovskite solar PV materials and devices.

Being selected for three awards clearly shows the great potential of HPT, Professor Jinsong Huang, a Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor at UNC, said in a statement. The joint awards with HPT will help us to work together to solve the upscaling and stability issues of perovskite solar cells and transfer the university innovations into industrial products.

Matt Tranchinalong with EarthX founder Trammell S. Crow and smart tech platform GridMarketis helping island communities navigate climate change with options for local, affordable energy.

Dallas-based HEN Infrastructure, newly launched by Hunt Energy Network and Manulife Investment Management, will supply ERCOT with some 500MWs of distributed energy across the state. It's timely, given the recent winter freeze, but the deal has been in the works for years. That's because Hunt Energy Network CEO Pat Wood and his team see batteries as the wave of the future"and the future is coming a little faster than we thought."

eCarra and O3 Energy have started a partnership dedicated to bringing environmentally conscious practices to Dallas and the country. Together, the two companies are creating sustainable clean energy solutionslike solar parking lots.

For local early education teachers and students, Dallas-based Atmos is funding around 78,000 one-year subscriptions to Vooks, a first-of-its-kind animated storybook streaming platform.

The Texas indoor farm would be the startup's third climate-controlled, solar-powered facility that grows produce sustainably and locally. CEO Mark Schulze says Revol's high-tech greenhouses will make it the largest producer of indoor lettuce by the end of 2021.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, FreeWheel, a Comcast Company, announced a significant milestone in digital and linear TV convergence: the rollout of a new technology that allows sellers to deliver video advertising, using aggregated and de-identified data, on an addressable basis across platforms from a central decisioning platform. Through this solution, a single linear TV advertising avail can be utilized by different advertisers, a form of advertising known as audience addressable. The technology is currently being piloted by Comcast and Charter Communications to enable cross-platform, deduplicated addressable advertising.

FreeWheels audience addressable technology is an important innovation for both FreeWheel and the industry as a whole. This release marks the first time a company has been able to offer true, multiplatform, addressable audience targeting across all screens, including linear TV, using FreeWheel technology.

At FreeWheel, were dedicated to making the TV buying process simpler, and in many cases, that means making it more like buying digital, said Dave Clark, General Manager, FreeWheel. This is a true addressable linear solution that makes TV advertising more targetable and more measurable, while simultaneously opening up the scale of available addressable impressions. This capability will change the way both sellers and buyers approach integrated TV and video advertising.

FreeWheels new technology allows advertisers to execute audience-level addressable targeting on a traditional linear (QAM) set-top box using real-time ad decisioning and consistent with privacy obligations, opening up a broader range of available impressions. Previously, addressable TV campaigns would only use a portion of targeted impressions from a given ad avail; the remainder would generally be used for promotional spots, PSAs, or direct response advertising. Or, in some cases, if the unused impressions fit the desired criteria, they could be scheduled for another advertiser. With this new audience addressable solution, the addressable campaign is executed from one platform with a single unified decisioning engineFreeWheels MRM platformthat can make the most informed ad decision for an advertisers business, taking into account yield and business rules.

This new solution delivers addressable, cross-platform campaigns on both digital and linear screens, fulfilling true video unification, said David Kline, Executive Vice President at Charter Communications, and President of Spectrum Reach. Its what TV buyers and sellers alike have been striving for over the past several years, and now its here.

For inventory owners like Comcast and Charter, FreeWheels addressable technology provides the ability to deliver deduplicated reach to advertisers and opens up additional impressions for possible use in other addressable campaigns, a benefit when targeting specific audience segments. For advertisers, this improves their ability to reach more customized audiences and measure overall performance results for their cross-platform TV and video campaigns.

This solution will enhance our ability to deliver target audiences in a more unified fashion across linear and streaming TV, said James Rooke, General Manager, Effectv. We know that addressability is an important tactic in terms of being able to deliver more efficient incremental reach and improved overall campaign performance. We look forward to now scaling this capability as part of our broader focus on deploying audience-based, multi-screen marketing solutions for our clients.

While Comcast and Charter are the first inventory owners to offer this technology to their buyers, it will be available to other MVPDs later this year.

About FreeWheelFreeWheel, A Comcast Company, empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We provide the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal results for marketers.

With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video. For more information, please visit freewheel.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a partnership with Pure Biologics to accelerate the discovery of immuno-oncology antibody-based drugs.

Twists unique technological approaches and abilities allow for the rapid generation of diverse synthetic libraries with novel and recent data-based randomization schemes. Combined with our immuno-oncology pipeline and scientific background in the field of therapeutic bispecific antibodies and antibodies bearing protein fusions, we expect this partnership to accelerate our discovery pipeline and build a base for research expansion in the future, said Filip Jelen, Ph.D., CEO of Pure Biologics SA.

Under the terms of the agreement, Twist Biopharma, a division of Twist Bioscience, will grant Pure Biologics access to select synthetic antibody phage display libraries derived only from sequences that exist in the human body and further optimized by leveraging state-of-the-art approaches, including artificial intelligence and big data analytics. Certain libraries among the portfolio are deliberately tailored to match chosen classes of biological targets as well as to enhance bispecific antibody forming capabilities. Together, the companies will work to discover, validate and optimize new antibody candidates against targets useful for immuno-oncology applications. Pure Biologics will pay Twist annual technology access fees in addition to future payments for preclinical, clinical and commercial achievement for any antibodies resulting from the collaboration.

We look forward to augmenting Pure Biologics immuno-oncology pipeline with first-in-class bispecific antibodies identified and designed using our robust discovery and optimization engine, commented Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. Highly selective, potent bispecific antibodies that bind to multiple targets have the potential to change the way cancer is treated in the future.

About Pure Biologics

Pure Biologics SA (WSE (PL): PUR) is an emerging biopharmaceutical company focused on the biological drug and non-systemic therapies discovery and development. We operate in the areas of immuno-oncology and rare neurological diseases, conducting research for the selection and development of active molecules antibodies and aptamers.

About Twist Biopharma

By leveraging our unique ability to manufacture DNA at scale, we can construct proprietary antibody libraries precisely designed to match sequences that occur in the human body. This library of libraries gives our partners an integral and unbiased resource for antibody therapeutic discovery and optimization. This precise and rational approach to library fabrication combined with sophisticated bioinformatics and software expertise expedites antibody discovery by decreasing risk, increasing speed, and lowering the failure rate for antibody therapeutic development.

About Twist Bioscience Corporation

Twist Bioscience is a leading and rapidly growing synthetic biology and genomics company that has developed a disruptive DNA synthesis platform to industrialize the engineering of biology. The core of the platform is a proprietary technology that pioneers a new method of manufacturing synthetic DNA by writing DNA on a silicon chip. Twist is leveraging its unique technology to manufacture a broad range of synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS) preparation, and antibody libraries for drug discovery and development. Twist is also pursuing longer-term opportunities in digital data storage in DNA and biologics drug discovery. Twist makes products for use across many industries including healthcare, industrial chemicals, agriculture and academic research.

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GUANGZHOU, China, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dreame Technology, the leading innovative company in smart home cleaning appliances, has been awarded as the Fastest Growing Brand of 2020 at 2021 AliExpress Merchant Annual Summit. By virtue of their outstanding product quality and intelligent user experiences in home cleaning, Dreame cordless stick vacuum T20, V11, V10 have been ranked as the top sellers on AliExpress.

Dreame TechnologyAward Winner of the Fastest Growing Brand of 2020 on AliExpress

Since joining AliExpress in 2018, Dreame Technology has expanded its worldwide market rapidly, covering key countries such as the US, France, Poland, Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, Holland, Korea and Japan. Starting from 2020, sales volume of Dreame cordless stick vacuum has achieved the TOP 1 in AliExpress French market and successfully become one of the best new brands in Europe. When the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the global economy in 2020, Dreame still performed well among AliExpress global market with more than $14 million of sales value, 4 times higher than the previous year. During the 2020 AliExpress Black Friday, Dreame official store ranked the highest sales value within the home cleaning appliance category.

Dreame Technology always attaches great importance on product innovation and user experience. Through in-depth market research and analysis, Dreame's R&D team realizes that robot vacuum users have strong demand for advanced obstacle avoidance. Under such circumstance, Dreame Technology is going to launch its new product Dreame Bot L10 Pro robot vacuum and mop to provide smart home cleaning solutions on AliExpress platform in May.

The innovative HIGH PRECISION 3D obstacle avoidance system adopted by Dreame Bot L10 Pro can scan the surroundings in real time, help the machine recognize and avoid obstacles quickly and accurately. The dual-laser LiDAR technology and the new SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) algorithm enables L10 Pro to reconstruct 3D mapping and optimize the cleaning route and avoid bumping.

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"We're honored to receive the Fastest Growing Brand Award by AliExpress. It motivates us to make breakthroughs and put users on top of our mind. Dreame Technology aims to develop the world-class products in smart home cleaning appliances," said Frank Wang, International Marketing Director of Dreame Technology.

Both empowered with groundbreaking 150K RPM high-speed motors to ensure powerful and deep cleaning, Dreame cordless stick vacuum T30 and V12 can generate up to 185AW and 190AW suction power separately. This unparalleled power means Dreame cordless stick vacuum T30 and V12 can remove deep-seated dust and debris more thoroughly than any other cleaners in the market.

Dreame Technology is expected to introduce Dreame Bot L10 Pro, Dreame cordless vacuum cleaner V12 and T30 on Amazon and AliExpress in May and June this year.

About Dreame Technology

Established in 2015, Dreame Technology, an innovative consumer product company focuses on smart home cleaning appliances with the vision to empower life through technology.

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NEW YORK, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Cobwebs Technologies Ltd.announced today that several enterprises have deployed its AI-powered WEBINT platform for their cyber attribution and assets protection.

Enterprises need to protect their digital assets, such as business processes, their proprietary applications, Intellectual property, and online products and services. They need to get valuable, intelligent takeaways for optimal asset security in order to minimize risk and protect their business. This entails assessing the security of corporate digital assets, which requires an open-source intelligence tool for situational awareness in real-time. CobwebsAI-powered WEBINT platformmonitors the surface, deep, and dark web to extract and analyze relevant data to amplify corporate intelligence and security policies.

Once digital assets are breached or stolen, cyber attribution is needed to preserve open-source intelligence data extracted from all layers of the web for evidence. As a critical part of effective online investigations, investigators deploy cyber attribution to collect data and gather evidence, recover deleted files, and access open-source data on all layers of the internet. By adding digital or cyber forensics to an investigation, a combination of best-practice techniques and technology is achieved.

"Our leading web intelligence platformautomatically extracts targeted critical insights from big data with advanced and powerful AI machine-learning algorithms. Designed to meticulously race through and scan endless digital channels of the web, our solution analyzes huge amounts of data to help enterprises to protect precious assets,"stated Shay Attias, Founder & CTO of Cobwebs Technologies. "In addition to gathering information, our WEBINT platform has the capability of analyzing content from OSINT websites, such as various social media platforms. The platform utilizes highly sophisticated algorithms in order to identify information on message boards and social media platforms in various languages. It uses social analytics features to gain social media insights, draw conclusions, and provide information that can be used proactively to prevent theft of digital assets before such takes place. Moreover, the platform presents data in readable forms such as graphs or generate alerts when relevant information crops up to enable faster response times in time-sensitive investigations as well as cases that rely on digital intelligence."

A growing number of enterprises use Cobwebs AI-powered web intelligence platform for detecting, analyzing, and monitoring threats and risks aimed at their assets and operations. The platform's predictive analytics and machine-learning algorithms that collect and analyze big data, enable SOC engineers and analysts to take preemptive measures based on full awareness of the threat landscape relevant to their assets. More specifically, enterprises use the aggregated and analyzed OSINT pertaining to threats, risks, and incidents related to their organization and assets. This allows them to get in-depth insights and reports with topic, location, and demographic for smarter, data-driven decisions.

In general, automated threat intelligence technology, such as the WEBINT platform of Cobwebs, can search for and reveal anonymous threat actor details by intricately zoning in on an enterprise's brand and business performance, followed by analyzing objectives, groups, and locations. This also allows enterprises to gain simplified detection of data breaches via monitoring of darknet marketplaces for stolen data. Moreover, the enterprise will be able to monitor its situational awareness on the open, deep, and dark web with AI-powered data collection using robust technology in real-time. Since such an open-source intelligence tool also employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms, the enterprise will be able to get insight into the sentiments and context in multiple languages.

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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 15, 2021) - NetCents Technology Inc. (CSE: NC) (FSE: 26N) (OTCQB: NTTCF) ("NetCents" or the "Company"), a cryptocurrency payments company, is pleased to announce the addition of Marcie Verdin as Executive Vice President, Card and Solutions Development.

"The opportunity to work with NetCents to lead the market in merchant processing and cryptocurrency wallet issuing is nothing short of my career dream come true," stated Marcie Verdin, EVP, Card Solutions and Product Sales at NetCents Technology. "But more importantly, my ability to help NetCents create a new economy benefitting merchants, consumers, financial institutions, and fintech partners is what sold me. Building sustainable value propositions that drive frictionless commerce and enable companies and consumers to thrive in next-generation ecosystems has been my passion. NetCents is truly setting the course for the future of commerce."

As the Company continues its rapid growth and international expansion, the executive team has similarly evolved to meet growing customer demand and optimize internal operations. Marcie will be focused on accelerating the Company's growth and scale to service customer needs globally and lead and expand new product development.

"We continue to be laser focused on streamlining and enhancing the merchant and user experience to continue to drive mass adoption of cryptocurrency as a payment method and build our team to be able to meet our mission," stated Clayton Moore, Founder & CEO of NetCents Technology. "The addition of Marcie, with her decades of experience in next-generation payment solutions, card issuance, and merchant acquiring, brings invaluable experience to the NetCents executive team as we continue to grow at triple digit pace in 2021. I'm looking forward to working with Marcie to deliver on the many innovations the team has in progress, her unique combination of payment leadership and forward-looking business acumen is exactly what NetCents needs at this stage of our journey."

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Marcie brings over 25 years of payments, internet security, and strategic consulting experience to her new role. Marcie recently served as the Head of Enterprise Portfolio Management FIS, where she drove massive organizational change initiatives. FIS is a financial technology services provider providing the top financial services firms globally solutions underpinning $9 trillion in annual transaction value - supporting the majority of the leading Private Equity, Bank and Insurance Companies worldwide. In her role at FIS, Marcie managed a portfolio which included $600M in annual spending supporting 300+ project managers driving $8B in revenue. During her six-year tenure at FIS, she also served as Head of Core Processing Products for Merchants and Financial Institutions. She led the development of next-generation payments solutions like card controls and instant account issuance for issuers and the deployment of NFC terminals for merchants.

Prior to FIS, Marcie held senior leadership positions at Mastercard, including Senior Vice President and Group Head Global Product, developing and delivering global commercial card business plan resulting in market share gain and position from number 3 to 2, delivering 30% year-over-year change in volume growth. Marcie had previously worked at Visa and American Express, focused primarily on the global expansion of card-based B2B payments. Marcie also worked as a pioneer in internet security at Verisign, running its International Affiliate Program. Early in her career, she was a consultant for Accenture Consulting.

Marcie holds her Bachelor's degree in Marketing from Loyola University, New Orleans. When she is not driving payments innovation, she can be found on stage or on the soccer field volunteering her time and talents to impact the community.

About NetCents

NetCents Technology Inc, the transactional hub for all cryptocurrency payments, equips forward-thinking businesses with the technology to seamlessly integrate cryptocurrency processing into their payment model without taking on the risk or volatility of the crypto market. NetCents Technology is registered as a Money Services Business (MSB) with FINTRAC.

For more information, please visit the corporate website at http://www.net-cents.com or contact Investor Relations: investor@net-cents.com.

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