Category : JPost

Category : JPost - Hi-Tech

Entrepreneur Amir Belson joins forces with GIBF

Belson is the founder of numerous successful medical device companies, such as Neoguide Systems (acquired by Intuitive Surgical in 2009), Vascular Pathways (acquired by CR Bard in 2014), Zipline Medical (acquired by Stryker in 2019), Qoo...

Delivering sushi, Israeli drone test looks to the future

Is the world headed for a time where takeout food, emergency medical supplies, and everything in between are delivered by drones, flying throughout the skies? And if so, what will that mean for our personal privacy, security and sanity?A...

Israeli Big Data unicorn Bright Data, is breaking down barriers of public web space

Big Data is all around us, it surrounds us, and in today’s digital age the possibilities tied to the collection and implementation of these large data sets are far-reaching and, in a sense, literally endless.Nowadays Big Data plays a key...

Microsoft Israel GM calls to nearly double hi-tech workers immediately

If Israel’s hi-tech arena wants to grow, it needs to get more people involved, said Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, corporate vice president at Microsoft Corporation, who also serves as the general manager of its Israel-based R&D Center...

How expensive is living in Israel? Less than you thought

How much do things cost in Israel compared to other countries? Much less than is commonly believed, according to a new study by the Shoresh Institution.Heavily-cited OECD price calculations for the years 2005-2017, included distortions t...

Users of the BIT money transfer app claim they were hacked and robbed thousands of shekels

Users of the popular Israeli BIT money transferring app complained on social media that their accounts were hacked into and that they were out thousands of shekels, N12 reported on Saturday.“I received a message that someone just signed...

BIRD to invest $3.5m. in two homeland security projects

The Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has awarded funding to two homeland security projects, each between a US and an Israeli company. The projects are selected by the US Department of Homeland Se...

Nation building is the history of American business - analysis

The American empire is not disintegrating. Americans are reassessing national values, vision, mission and strategies. It is the regular exercise of any healthy enterprise. She still reigns supreme as the most powerful cultural, political...

Video game streaming service Twitch targeted by massive data leak

The video game streaming service Twitch was the target of a massive data breach Wednesday, with an unidentified hacker leaking 125 gigabytes of data, including source code and user payments, to the online imageboard 4Chan, according to P...

Meet the man leading a revolution in AI-based sensor platforms

‘We are creating a multi-layered ‘iron dome’ that will protect our loved ones,” said Dr. Haim Amir. “I strive to give everyone peace of mind. “And in many ways – Essence is already doing just that.”Amir believes innovation and creative t...

Israeli tech companies looking to prevent the next building collapse

While a recent wave of residential building collapses has homeowners reeling, Israeli start-ups are already creating the tools that will help prevent future disasters, said Amalia Paz, co-founder of the Bricks Proptech Innovation Center...

Tech Buzz: October starts off with a bang

The first full week after the holiday season of the new Jewish year 5782 saw the Start-Up Nation continue where it left off, with frantic acquisition and investment activity.Israeli hi-tech companies raised more than $17.5 billion in the...

Newly-found Iranian cyber-espionage may pose 'real threat' to Israel

Iranian threat actors are running a highly targeted cyber-espionage operation against global aerospace and telecommunications companies, stealing sensitive information from targets around Israel and the Middle East, as well as in the Uni...

Israel's DreaMed gets FDA clearance for diabetes solution

DreaMed Diabetes AI has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to expand its platform’s target population to patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, it said Wednesday in a press release.The company’s Advisor Pro...

Facebook's six-hour outage - what was the price?

As of 5 a.m. Tuesday morning, Facebook stock took a nose-dive and was down by 4.89%, after Monday night's blackout, when the company's servers all crashed at once, leaving millions of users without Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp or Messen...