Author: David Rutman

The Israeli shopping center chain BIG has announced its intention to join the looming nationwide protest this Tuesday if the Knesset votes to pass a highly-criticized bill associated with the government’s judicial reform plans during its first reading on Monday. “In order to protest unusually and prevent the passing of the legislation, we will participate […]

A new research study conducted by the Digital Futures at Work Research Center (Digit) warns of a widening gap between organizations in the UK that have embraced artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled digital technologies and those that have not. The nationally representative survey revealed that only 36% of UK employers have invested in AI-enabled technologies such as […]

Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year. “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” read Sweeney’s first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet […]

Large crowds celebrated Mahaneh Yehuda’s 100th anniversary on Sunday, with the market abuzz with a cooking competition, clowns-on-stilts, and several concerts. The next day, the city commemorated the event by hosting the world’s first international convention of historic markets. “The shuk is one of the symbols of Jerusalem,” said Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at the […]

Twitter’s claim that Meta Platforms stole trade secrets to build its new microblogging site may be the first volley in a legal battle between the social media giants, but experts say Twitter would have to clear a high hurdle if it sues. In a letter sent on Wednesday, Twitter alleged that Meta used its trade […]

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform in a letter sent to the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro. Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged more than 30 million sign ups, looks to take on Elon Musk’s Twitter by leveraging Instagram’s billions of […]

World stocks fell for a third straight day, as strong US jobs data bolstered bets on another US interest rate hike this month and tit-for-tat trade salvoes between China and the United States also dampened sentiment. Traders watched the traditional driver of global borrowing costs, the 10-year US Treasury yield US10YT=RR, climb to a fresh […]

The average monthly gross salary of employees in Israel rose by 5.3% in May 2023 to NIS 12,009, compared with May 2022, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports. Almost the entire rise was eroded by inflation, which was 4.6% over the 12-month period.  The average monthly gross salary in May fell from NIS 12,622 in […]

With Twitter already on the ropes, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg delivered another blow to Elon Musk on Wednesday, ramping up the tech billionaires’ rivalry with the launch of Instagram’s much-anticipated companion service Threads, a challenger to Twitter. “Let’s do this. Welcome to Threads,” Zuckerberg wrote in his first post on the app, along with a fire […]

A new technology developed by Israelis could help reduce cycling accidents and improve safety for bikers in traffic. The novel chip was developed as a collaboration between Autotalks, an Israeli company that produces V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) chips for technology designed to prevent vehicle crashes, and Canyon Bicycles, a German manufacturer of road bikes, mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, […]