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Google seeks to stamp out Israelis' interest in conversion therapy

Tech giant joins hands with some of the country's most prominent LGBT rights groups to launch an awareness campaign about the risks involved in the practice as company data shows Israelis lead the world in searches for the term

Hadar Gil-Ad , 19:35 , 06.22.21

Boeing to use anti-jamming system from Israel’s Elbit in F-15s

U.S. aviation giant says cooperation with Israeli company 'demonstrates Boeing’s commitment to partner with Israeli industry to advance the capabilities of the F-15 platform'

Reuters, Yoav Zitun , 17:15 , 06.22.21

Israel cites progress in airborne laser that shoots down drones

Military official says plane-mounted prototype successfully shot down several drones in a recent test over the Mediterranean Sea and hails cost-effective technology, complementing country's existing air defenses

News Agencies, Ynet , 19:41 , 06.21.21

Israeli scientists invent artificial ‘nose’ for detecting bacteria

Ben-Gurion University researchers say technology could have many potential uses including food quality control, detection of poisonous gases, assisting in lab work and environmental monitoring

TPS , 22:23 , 06.20.21

Israel develops camouflage tech that makes soldiers ‘invisible’

Polaris Solutions unveils 'Kit 300', which was developed in cooperation with the Defense Ministry and is made out of special thermal visual concealment material that makes troops increasingly difficult to distinguish from landscape

Maya Margit\The Media Line , 17:04 , 06.15.21

IDF welcomes its second advanced 'patrol corvette' warship

Sa'ar 6 will be part of four-ship squadron of German-made Thyssenkrupp vessels, which will oversee the defense of Israel's territorial waters and its offshore gas rigs; it's designed to offer better attack capabilities than its predecessor Sa'ar 5

TPS, Ynet , 14:30 , 06.10.21

Instagram overhauls algorithm after accusations of anti-Palestinian bias

Photo-sharing app's employees claim moderation system incorrectly flagged posts as associated with 'violence or dangerous organizations'; company rejects claims posts were targeted due to their political nature

Oshrit Ben-El , 19:45 , 05.31.21

How Israeli startups made a splash in Europe

With its huge market, geographical proximity to Israel and similar time zones making it easy to get foothold on the continent, it should come as no surprise that there are reportedly 24,223 Europeans now employed by Israeli tech firms

Daniel Sonnenfeld/The Media Line , 09:00 , 05.29.21

Israeli scientists develop bio-sensor to help prevent crop failures

In new groundbreaking research, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have introduced molecular bio-sensors inside potatoes that allow for real-time monitoring of stress signals within the plants

TPS , 21:31 , 05.25.21

Facebook running special center to respond to content on Israeli-Gaza conflict

Social media platform says operations center will allow it to closely monitor the situation and better tackle misinformation, hate speech and calls for violence circulating online amid deadly fighting

Reuters , 22:05 , 05.19.21

Can AI help end the misery of infertility?

Israeli startup AiVF is using artificial intelligence to identify which embryos are most viable during IVF treatments, potentially cutting short a lengthy, painful and expensive process and helping childless couples to make their greatest dream come true

Tal Shahaf , 13:59 , 05.19.21

Chilling simulation illustrates intensity of rocket launches on Israel

Data scientist Yoav Tepper collected the information published by Home Front Command and created a video showing when and where Gaza rockets were fired to across eight days of fighting

Tal Shahaf , 14:08 , 05.18.21

Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts

Data rights groups fear 'discriminatory' algorithms at work, demand greater transparency as social media watchdog receives over 200 complaints about deleted posts, suspended accounts related to Sheikh Jarrah

Reuters , 21:41 , 05.10.21

Google seeks to save the Yiddish language

Software giant launches open-source photo translation web app that uses machine learning and image recognition to give cultures the AI tools they need to protect their spoken tongues themselves

Ynet , 15:27 , 05.06.21

Intel to invest $600 mln to expand chip, Mobileye R&D in Israel

Chip maker is investing $400 million to turn its Mobileye unit HQ in Jerusalem into an R&D campus for developing self-driving car tech, and another $200 million to build an R&D center in Haifa

Reuters , 09:37 , 05.03.21

Iranian hackers said to launch cyberattack on H&M Israel

Hacker group N3tw0rm threatens to publish data stolen from clothing giant's servers if requirements not met in latest incident in host of ransomware attacks; experts estimate more such attacks ahead

Tal Shahaf , 21:54 , 05.02.21

How CLICKONET Helped Shay Benhamou with his Tech company during COVID-19

Only the Tech industry unlike all others, moved into high gear for accommodating the sudden boost in demand of remote working and collaboration solutions, with most businesses going digital

Clickonet , 14:53 , 05.02.21

Google and Tel Aviv University launch AI research program

The program includes 10 projects whose aim is to support development of artificial intelligence usage in a variety of fields, including Zoology, electrical engineering and even Bible studies

i24NEWS , 22:51 , 04.28.21

Apple Pay to launch in Israel on May 5

With the reopening of the country's economy and the installation of EMV terminals in 90% of businesses, Israel is set to join the 62 countries in which Apple's digital payment service is already live with over a billion and a half users

Yisrael Wolman , 15:56 , 04.27.21

Israel's high-tech world strikes out from 'Silicon Wadi'

Hoping to escape the hiring wars of central Israel, companies are moving out to the Western Negev and other further-flung locations, helped by a year of remote working that highlighted the possibilities of a non-office workforce

Tara Kavaler/The Media Line , 13:51 , 04.24.21

Facebook says it halts hackers tied to Palestinian security

Social media giant says Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party used fake and compromised accounts to trick people in the Palestinian territories, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Libya to install malware to gain access to their phones

Associated Press , 23:22 , 04.21.21

Israel picks Amazon, Google for flagship cloud project

With an investment of NIS 4 billion, the 2 tech giants will create a multi-year Nimbus project that will provide a comprehensive solution for the provision of cloud services to the government, the defense system and the public

Reuters , 19:18 , 04.21.21

Why a U.S. hospital and oil company turned to Israeli facial recognition startup

Growing number of businesses and organizations embrace AnyVision's software as critics say the technology compromises privacy, targets marginalized groups and normalizes intrusive surveillance

Reuters , 18:12 , 04.20.21

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

4-pound Ingenuity rises 3 meters above ground for about 40 seconds; project manager MiMi Aung calls flight 287 million kilometers away 'ultimate dream'; craft carries piece of fabric from Wright Flyer, humanity's first powered aircraft from 1903

Associated Press , 14:22 , 04.19.21

4 million Israelis caught up in Facebook users' data breach

Leaked information includes full names, Facebook IDs, phone numbers, email addresses; breach first detected by Israeli cybercrime specialist Alon Gal of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, who first posted about it in January

Hagar Bohbot , 14:48 , 04.04.21