Technology

How do you make solar energy even more efficient and cost effective? According to Israeli startup XFloat you do it by putting large numbers of photovoltaic panels on water and making them turn to track the sun.  Photovoltaic technology converts light from the sun into electricity using solar cells. These cells or panels can be […]

Driverless cars are the future. But for the ordinary motorist, that future is still a way off. The AI that drives autonomous vehicles is clever, but not clever enough. Yet. It struggles with what engineers call “corner cases” – the unexpected and unpredictable set of circumstances that currently call for human, rather than artificial intelligence. […]

For people diagnosed with serious illnesses such as cancer, the treatment period can mean a maze of emotions, appointments and medical jargon that can often prove overwhelming.  Israeli startup Belong.Life, created by the son of a cancer patient, has built an entire social media platform around the specific needs of people undergoing treatment – and […]

Renting or buying a new property is widely regarded as one of the most stressful things you can do, and is only exacerbated when confronted by a vast empty space without the furniture or trappings that make a house a home.  An Israeli startup has created an augmented reality (AR) app that allows prospective tenants […]

How do you maximize food production and prevent waste in your supply chain at a time when climate change and a growing global population are placing an increasing strain on resources?  According to Israeli startup Blue Circle, you do it in the same way you protect your technology from hackers: with artificial intelligence, machine learning […]

In 1976, a Philadelphia hotel hosted an annual convention to celebrate American war vets – but just days after its close, 25 attendees had died of what was believed to be a spate of sudden heart attacks. The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) later found that a specific bacterium – bred in the cooling […]

Beekeepers have a sixth sense. They listen to the buzz of their hive and instantly know the health of the bees. That’s fine if you have just a handful of hives. But bees are big business and big bee companies typically have thousands or tens of thousands of hives. Farmers rent them as they need […]

As the digital world expands to every area of our lives, we have become used to automated banking – with our transactions carried out instantly and with just one click.  But behind the ease with which we move our money about is still a meticulous process of verification, known as compliance, ensuring that our transactions […]

Moshe, a computer programmer who suffers from a life-long stutter, tried every kind of treatment to ease the jaw spasms, severe facial twitches and feelings of suffocation he experienced whenever he spoke. But every time he’d step out of a clinic or treatment center, he had no way of preserving the methods he had just […]

Tens of thousands of senior citizens in Israel and the US are playing online brainteasers developed by an Israeli startup to help improve their memories and stave off the cognitive decline that can come as we – and our brains – get older.  Tel Aviv-based Effectivate offers 25 different games for what it calls brain […]

Indoor drones developed by an Israeli startup are on security patrol. They’re flying along the corridors of office buildings and they’re keeping an eye on warehouses, factories, data centers and other premises. The AI-powered drones drop from their ceiling-mounted docking stations autonomously, fly their pre-planned route and raise an alert if they spot intruders, doors […]

An Israeli startup is using artificial intelligence to make a person’s face unrecognizable, in order to safeguard their privacy in medical imagery.  RealizeMD subtly alters facial features through an AI process of manipulation, turning the patient into someone else entirely and preserving only original properties of the specific area that underwent reconstructive or cosmetic treatment.  […]

 An Israeli startup has bioengineered milk protein to create a wide range of dairy products – using mushrooms and no cows. And, the company says, their products are healthier, greener and cheaper to create.  Haifa-based ImaginDairy uses freely available DNA codes for milk proteins to recreate their DNA, the company’s CEO and co-founder Eyal Afergan […]

A new treatment for people with peanut allergies may decrease the severity of the life-threatening symptoms they experience upon accidental exposure to the seed. While the therapy developed by Israeli startup Ukko is similar to the existing oral immunotherapy (OIT) treatment, the company says it does not carry the risk of triggering anaphylaxis.  OIT builds […]