Category: Business

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Be careful – very careful! – when logging in to any website/service these days if it requires that you go through a two-factor authentication through your mobile device, whether you use Apple or Android devices. The federal government has warned that hackers have committed a breach that could steal your passwords. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure […]

Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup December 14 – December 20, 2024 New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli AI-Powered Chargeback Prevention Platform Justt Fights Payment Fraud with Machine LearningJustt is an Israeli startup developing an AI-based chargeback management to fight fraudulent chargebacks. The firm closed a $30 million Series C funding round, led by Zeev […]

Decart is an Israeli startup that offers an efficiency-focused AI research lab. The firm raised $32 million in a Series A funding round led by Benchmark. This raise comes just six weeks after Decart came out of stealth last month when it raised $32 million in a Series A funding round led by Benchmark, taking […]

Chainalysis, a major company that offers cryptocurrency investigation and compliance solutions to global law enforcement agencies, regulators, and businesses, has acquired Israeli blockchain startup Hexagate. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Calcalist reported that it was for $60 million. Founded in 2023, Chainalysis offers cryptocurrency investigation and compliance solutions to global law […]

Breathing, acting as a conductor, orchestrates hippocampal brain waves during sleep, a process essential for memory consolidation, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. This groundbreaking study provides the first evidence of a direct link between breathing rhythms during sleep and key hippocampal brain waves—slow waves, spindles, and ripples—in humans. While the role of these […]