XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, and IBM Watson, IBM’s AI technology for business, today announced the Grand Prize Winner in the $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Challenge. First launched in 2016, the five-year global competition looked…
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, this evening (Tuesday, 22 June 2021), visited Ben-Gurion International Airport, toured the testing facility and held an assessment regarding the coronavirus. Participating in the discussion were the Health Minister, the Transportation Minister, the Interior Minister, the…
Several israeli start-ups on Vivatech 2021: – Canditech allows companies to see the people behind the resume using tailor-made job simulation tests, which are the best predictor for job suitability. This unique holistic approach empowers recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate technical skills…
The Red Sea Reef Foundation (RSRF) has awarded research grants to five scientists from Israel and Jordan – including two from Bar-Ilan University — who are studying the Red Sea’s coral reef, one of the world’s largest marine refuges from…
Israeli researchers have found a natural and symbiotic way to expedite the growth of pine trees by involving edible fungi mushrooms in their early years of growth. Throughout human history, mushrooms have played an integral role in many early cultures…
A study published this week in Nature: Scientific Reports suggests that addressing a common cognitive deficit in people with depressive symptoms may help address those symptoms. Researchers at Hebrew University, Dominican University, and Posit Science Corporation found a significant correlation between deficits in the cognitive skill…
Cyberattacks on the Colonial oil pipeline in the US and a municipal water supply in Florida have again highlighted the vulnerability of vital infrastructure lifelines. IXDen has created the world’s best technology to protect our water, electricity, gas, oil and other critical…
Happiness might lead to better health but does it help you live longer? That’s a question that researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) took on in a longitudinal study they began back in the 1990s. They looked at the impact of…
The 44-hour hackathon also included solutions to solve parking lot issues, detect a hand signal used for people in distress from domestic abuse, data analysis to prevent bullying in schools, and a wearable device for the hearing impaired that vibrates…
Red palm weevils could arguably be called a global palm tree pandemic. Over the last decade they have migrated across the globe, laying their eggs in the trees so their larvae can munch on the tree as they grow. The…
