Author: David Rutman

Like a plot from the anthology television series “Black Mirror,” the Screen Actors Guild says it is battling the studios for control over the digital replicas of performers that could be used “for the rest of eternity.” The studios counter that they have offered groundbreaking protections from misuse of images. Artificial intelligence has become a […]

UBQ Materials, an Israeli climate tech developer, was awarded the Plug and Play Sustainability Award for its work with Maxion, an automotive supplier, to create returnable plastic pallets and separators using UBQ, an innovative climate-positive material derived from unsorted and unrecyclable household waste. The material offers a sustainable alternative to oil-based resins, significantly reducing the […]

The Israel Innovation Authority has announced its strategic focus on bio-device innovation as part of the National Bio-Convergence Program. The authority has also announced a NIS 113 million tender for the establishment of a center that will provide research and development infrastructure for bio-devices based on bio-chips. The tender is directed at companies dedicated to […]

Israeli start-up Electreon is set to install an electric stretch of road that will charge passing electric vehicles in France, following its victory in a public tender. Together with European toll road operator VINCI, Electreon’s Wireless Electric Road System (ERS) will be built into a section of the A10 highway, South West of Paris.  Electreon […]

New social media network Threads, which launched July 5, continues to break records and cause a global storm as the number of users continues to rise, standing at around one hundred million worldwide.  However, as numbers continue to rise, those living in the European Union have been left out in the cold as various regulatory […]

Following the Bank of Israel’s decision not to raise its key interest rate on Monday, there is a question as to whether or not any government bodies are working to mitigate the country’s inflation. While that responsibility typically falls to both parties, some experts fear that the current government is too preoccupied with pursuing its […]

Wall Street stocks opened slightly higher on Monday while oil prices declined, as investors digested Chinese data that heightened worries of an economic slowdown and looked ahead to a key US inflation report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.32% to 33,843.7, the S&P 500 gained 0.18% to 4,406.78 and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.06% […]

The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) received its excavation permit on Sunday to build the new Tal Campus, which will be dedicated to empowering religious women to get jobs by expanding their education and career opportunities. “JCT is the leading Israeli institution of higher education providing academic training for religious women,” Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion […]

The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) has announced the introduction of a program aimed at propelling technological leadership in three critical sectors: delivery technology, health-tech utilizing Bio-Convergence technologies, and technology solutions for schools and campus security. With a budget of NIS 40 million, the program aims to foster collaboration among companies and technologies within a unique […]

An increasing number of countries are repatriating gold reserves as protection against the sort of sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, according to an Invesco survey of central bank and sovereign wealth funds published on Monday. The financial market rout last year caused widespread losses for sovereign money managers who are “fundamentally” rethinking their […]