Author: David Rutman

LayerX, an Israeli startup and the leading provider of Secure Enterprise Browser Extension solutions, today announced it has raised an additional $11 million in an extension of its Series A funding round. This brings the company’s total funding to $45 million. The extension round was led by Jump Capital, with continued support from existing investors […]

Israeli startup Lightrun, a leading platform in Developer Observability, has announced the closing of a $70 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $110 million. The round was led by prominent investors Accel and Insight Partners, with additional participation from Citi, Glilot Capital, GTM Capital, and Sorenson Capital. Founded in 2019 by […]

A groundbreaking study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that hand gestures do more than emphasize speech—they actually help listeners predict what will be said next. Using advanced virtual avatars and a combination of behavioral and EEG data, scientists found that hand movements play a key role […]

In a dramatic cosmic find, MIT astronomers have discovered a planet located about 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly breaking apart. This extraordinary world, roughly the mass of Mercury, orbits its host star at a blistering pace—completing a full orbit every 30.5 hours—and is disintegrating under extreme heat. A Hellish World in DecayThe newly […]

The AI revolution has reshaped our world over the past three years, with tools like ChatGPT built on a powerful linguistic insight: natural language follows statistical patterns. Large language models excel by predicting the next word based on previous ones. But they miss a crucial aspect of human communication— meaning beyond words. A groundbreaking study […]

New research from The University of Texas at Arlington reveals that microplastics continue to infiltrate waterways, even after undergoing modern wastewater treatment processes, raising serious environmental and health concerns. Microplastics—tiny plastic particles measuring five millimeters or smaller, roughly the size of a pencil eraser—originate from the breakdown of larger plastic waste. Due to plastic’s affordability, […]

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking methodology that could revolutionize maritime transport by replacing traditional diesel engines with pneumatic propellers on ferry boats. According to a new study published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management, researchers successfully demonstrated that two air motors—each generating 250 kW of power—could effectively replace diesel engines. These pneumatic motors provided […]

The intensifying legal battle between global payroll and HR tech giants Deel and Rippling took a dramatic new turn on Friday, as Israeli unicorn Deel filed a lawsuit against Rippling, alleging a “pattern of behavior” that it claims threatens the integrity of the entire HR industry. The countersuit comes in response to Rippling’s earlier legal […]