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There’s a kids’ game in which a line of players whisper a word or a phrase to their neighbor. It’s called Broken Telephone in the US, or Chinese Whispers in the UK. The winner is the first team to accurately transmit the message all the way along the line. Plants do the same thing. They […]

Modern medicine has developed effective ways to deal with almost all complications in childbirth, except one. Shoulder dystocia – when one of the baby’s shoulders becomes stuck during delivery – is the single emergency that’s most likely keep obstetricians awake at night. They have just five to seven minutes to get the baby out or […]

Reverse cameras are now fitted as standard on virtually every new car. But truck drivers use less advanced technology to check what’s behind them. They climb out of their tractor (the cab, or front of the truck), walk to the back of the trailer, make sure it’s clear, climb back inside the front. And then […]

It’s 2023, and window cleaners on ropes, with a bucket of soapy water, are still cleaning the world’s tallest buildings. We’ve made huge leaps in technology, from electric vehicles to gene editing, from AI and 3D-printing to nano-satellites. But even today, the overwhelming majority of skyscraper windows are washed by hand. Ido Genosar believes there’s […]

How do you select the best candidate for a job when you have a stack of over 100 applications? Face-to-face interviews simply aren’t practical at that scale, and resumes give you the hard facts, but miss out on the soft skills. MyInterview says it is rethinking the “archaic” recruitment process and offering an effective solution […]

OrCam is already one of Israel’s startup successes, with a device that literally helps the blind to “see”. It reads text to the user – anything from a newspaper to a cereal packet. It also recognizes people, identifies objects, and helps the user find their way around. The Jerusalem-based company was established by Prof. Amnon […]

Go back a generation or two and people had a job for life. Many were employed by the same company from the day they started work until they received a gold watch on their retirement. Technology, globalization, work-life balances and the internet have changed all that. Millennials and Gen Zs (anyone born in the 80s […]

Dubai’s diamond trade with Israel increased by more than two-and-a-half times in 2022, up from $665.5 million to $1.75 billion. Israeli diamond companies have been operating in the country since the Abraham Accords normalized relations in September 2020. Before that there were no official trade links between the two countries, although diamonds were bought and […]

Professor Raphael Mechoulam, the father of cannabis research, has passed away at the age of 92. His pioneering work in Israel directly improved the lives of millions of patients across the world who now benefit from the drug’s medicinal properties. Throughout a long, passionate and distinguished career, he made more contributions to the field of […]

Artificial intelligence is helping millions of people get their devices fixed over the phone – with no human intervention. Show the computer your faulty internet router, home alarm or washing machine and in 70 percent of cases it will sort the problem out for you there and then. It’s learned to recognize different makes and […]

Say hello to your digital twin. Deep tech experts in Israel can capture a highly realistic 3D image of you using multiple cameras and AI. They then bring your twin to life either doing things they’ve actually filmed you doing – playing guitar, taking a golf swing, jumping out of a plane – or things […]

In decades gone by grandparents could only dream of being able to video-call their grandchildren. Today the reality is that they can, readily and for free. But the experience is often a disappointment. Kids fidget, lose interest, get hungry, wander off, fail to engage. In short they just aren’t great at talking to a screen. […]

Former US President Donald Trump famously challenged the voting system that brought his rival Joe Biden to power in November 2020. He claimed the software in electronic voting machines could flip votes between candidates. Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro contested the outcome of the election in October 2022, after losing narrowly to Luiz Inácio Lula […]

Israel’s biggest supermarket chain is offering shoppers an AI device that clips onto their cart and recognizes the items they select. A pair of cameras monitors all purchases and automatically adds them to the bill. Shoppers authorize payment as they leave the store, using a pre-registered credit card. Shufersal, which has 395 outlets in Israel, […]

Remilk has been given the go-ahead to sell its cow-free milk in Singapore. The Israeli startup produces a protein by precision fermentation that is identical to cow-derived whey protein, but without using a single animal cell. It says its milk alternative is “indistinguishable in taste and function from traditional dairy but without lactose, cholesterol, and […]