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Israeli customers will soon be using smart carts – with a touch screen, cameras and barcode reader – to shop for household essentials. A2Z Smart Technologies is supplying 1,000 of them to HaStok’s 40 outlets across the country. Every item added to the smart carts is recognized and added to a displayed shopping list, automatically […]

A new factory in Israel’s Negev desert can store up to four gigawatts per hour of energy – which could potentially power three million homes. Rooftop solar panels gather electricity during the day and boil water into steam. That in turn heats crushed rocks to super-high temperatures. The rocks can hold the heat for several […]

ChatGPT will be integrated into customer service chatbots powered by an Israeli startup to deal with queries even faster. CommBox will now be able to create automated reports summing up a customer’s entire conversation and telling human agents the next step to solve the customer’s problem. Until now, agents needed to create manual summaries of […]

An Israeli startup behind car sensors that can spot a pedestrian from 200 meters has raised $30 million. Adasky’s thermal sensor, which is about the size of a wine cork, is implemented in cars to help improve pedestrian safety. It absorbs thermal energy and heat emitted by objects around it, and can pick up slight […]

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure – and that’s the way it is for nearly 100,000 Israelis, thanks to a new app.  They’re getting discounts and coupons on anything from surfing and rock climbing lessons to online eco-friendly clothing and beauty stores, just by filming themselves properly disposing of litter they find outside.  “We […]

A new discovery about the origin of red blood cells could help cancer patients and anemic patients.  Researchers now know that the hormone EPO (erythropoietin), which binds to cells in the bone marrow and turns them into oxygen-carrying red blood cells, originates from specific kidney cells.  This process enables the creation of two to three […]

An Israeli startup that provides AI with “long-term memory” has raised $100 million. Pinecone has built a database that stores all the information and knowledge that AI models and Large Language Models use to function. Its database, which has massive amounts of information, describes complex data – like strings of text, whole documents, videos, and […]

An Israeli food tech startup has produced the world’s first 3D-printed fish filet that can go from printer to plate in minutes.   The printed fish is based on cultivated cells of grouper fish and was produced by Steakholder Foods, which uses bio-printing and bio-inks to develop meat products.  Unlike fully-cultivated meat products, which still require […]

Israel has developed the world’s first sunscreen that protects coral reefs, as well as human skin. Not only is it formulated without ingredients that harm the reefs, it actually contains minerals that nourish their growth.  The resort city of Eilat has partnered with marine and skincare specialists to develop Reef Relief, a sunscreen that includes […]

Israel is to become one of the first countries in the world to sell real, cow-free dairy products.  The health ministry has granted a first-of-its-kind permit to Remilk, a startup that produces real milk proteins from yeast, to sell its non-animal dairy products to Israelis.  “This permit is an initial breakthrough and a genuine milestone […]

In 2004, Lake Victoria, Africa’s biggest lake, turned a sickly shade of green almost overnight. It became contaminated with cyanobacteria, a type of algae, and the 500,000 people of Kisumu City, Kenya, temporarily lost access to their drinking water. This wasn’t an isolated incident. In fact, around 40 percent of the world’s lakes and reservoirs […]

The vast majority of unicorns – companies valued at over $1 billion – that were founded in Israel now have their headquarters in the US. Eighty-eight out of Israel’s 98 unicorns have moved their HQ there, according to the United States – Israel Business Alliance (USIBA).   The US is now the headquarters of 88 […]

Amnon Shashua, CEO of autonomous driving tech company Mobileye, has received the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement. At a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday (Wednesday April 26th), he warned that proposed judicial reforms may undo everything Israel has worked so hard to achieve. “We must join forces and solve the current crisis […]

Tonight is Yom HaZikaron, the day Israel remembers and honors the soldiers who fought and fell to protect it. The national remembrance day commemorates the 24,068 IDF soldiers, police officers, prison wardens, victims of terrorism, and Israeli intelligence agents who have been killed since 1860. But there are nearly 60,000 wounded and disabled veterans who […]

Israeli tech that freezes and destroys early-stage breast tumors may be a viable treatment for women suffering from endometriosis. A new study used IceCure Medical’s cryoablation system – which utilizes extremely cold liquid to destroy abnormal tissue – to treat 42 women with endometriosis, a chronic, painful and incurable disease where tissue similar to the […]