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Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup October 12 – October 25, 2024

Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup December 21 – December 27, 2024

December 27, 2024David Rutman

Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup December 21 – December 27, 2024 New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli Startup FIZE Medical Launches Early Kidney Disease Detection Device with Advanced Fluid Monitoring TechnologyFIZE Medical is an Israeli medtech startup that offers the FIZE-kUO, a groundbreaking device, anchoring FIZE’s fluid management platform technology, detects early signs of […]

Medieval Icelandic Sagas: Discovering Hidden Stories from the Viking Age

December 27, 2024David Rutman

Iceland boasts a long and rich literary tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. Remarkably, for a nation of only 380,000 people, it has produced a wealth of renowned writers; it’s even been said that half of all Icelanders write books. “Previously, the theory was that Iceland was so dark and barren that the Icelanders […]

A Bisl Torah~Publicize Your Miracle…Tonight

December 26, 2024David Rutman

Each night of Hannukah, we ritually place the lit Hannukiah in the window, one that opens to the outside world. The rabbis of the Talmud called this, “pirsumei nisa.” We are meant to publicize the miracle of Hannukah, a spiritual and military victory in which the Jews rededicated a defiled and desecrated Temple in the […]

AI-Powered Drug Platform Transforms Deadly Virus into Breakthrough Medical Technology

December 26, 2024David Rutman

Professor Sangmin Lee of POSTECH’s Department of Chemical Engineering, working with 2024 Nobel Chemistry Laureate Professor David Baker of the University of Washington, has developed a novel AI-driven therapeutic platform that mimics complex viral structures. Their groundbreaking research was published in Nature. Viruses, with their spherical protein shells designed to encapsulate genetic material for replication […]

‘A Complete Unknown’ Leaves You Wondering How Its Main Character Feels

December 25, 2024David Rutman

Even though he is the subject for dozens of books, released 40 albums (not counting the 17 volumes in the “Bootleg Series” and the nearly 20 officially released live albums), and has appeared in or been the subject of a dozen movies, Bob Dylan remains one of the most emotionally opaque performers. Arguably one of […]

Climate Change and Global Productivity Drop as Human Activities Increase, Study Warns

December 25, 2024David Rutman

The rapid rate at which human-caused climate change is altering terrestrial carbon stores threatens to undermine current mitigation efforts unless behavioral changes are implemented quickly. Using a dozen long-term global GPP Gross Primary Production datasets, scientists from Nanjing Agricultural University quantified the evolution of global GPP trends. Anthropogenic climate change has been a prominent issue […]

Hanukkah’s Light Brigade

December 25, 2024David Rutman

Antiochus Epiphanesdeclared: “Let’s sacrifice a pig,”and in the holy sanctuariestook steps to be the biggest wig,far greater than the Jewish Godwho hates the smell and taste of swine,declaring thus the first jihadagainst the Jews of Palestine. The Maccabees were very brave,abhorring gifts of pagan porkers;like Britons, none would be a slave,these ancestors of most New […]

Marking the Words of Maccabees

December 24, 2024David Rutman

“We are in a historic time,” he began. Decrying the holding of hostages and the “deplorable evil” of brutality of Israel’s enemies, looking into the eyes of the soldiers standing in formation around him, the commander invoked the faithful fighters of our people’s past. “We are not alone,” he then thundered, voice rising with emotion. […]

How Today’s AI Systems Compare to Alan Turing’s Original Vision: A Historical Analysis

December 24, 2024David Rutman

A perspective published November 13 in Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal, argues that contemporary artificial intelligence systems have finally achieved Alan Turing’s vision from over 70 years ago: machines capable of genuine experiential learning and human-like conversation. Authored by Bernardo Gonçalves of the University of São Paulo and the University of Cambridge, the paper […]

NASA’s Solar Probe Makes Historic Flyby, Sets New Record for Closest Approach Ever to Sun

December 23, 2024David Rutman

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is healthy and operating normally as it approaches its record-breaking solar flyby on Christmas Eve. “This is one example of NASA’s bold missions, doing something that no one else has ever done before to answer longstanding questions about our universe,” said Arik Posner, Parker Solar Probe program scientist at NASA Headquarters […]