Israeli speech-processing startup Cordio Medical monitors patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) by smartphone

Founded this year, the startup was also one of 9 companies participating in the Intel accelerator program in Tel Aviv.

US and Israeli researchers have been able to uncover the brain's code for pronouncing vowels. The discovery may hold the key to allow people with almost complete paralysis to be able to speak by connecting the brain to a computer.