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At its press conference at the CES, Intel announced a new collaboration between Israel's Mobilay and Ordnance Survey, the UK government mapping agency. As part of the collaboration, the high-resolution mapping and positioning data of the vehicles produced by the cameras installed in vehicles will be combined with the mapping data of the British government

Check Point Software Technologies, a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, announces it has acquired ForceNock Security of Tel Aviv. Founded in 2017, ForceNock, developed a Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) technology which utilizes machine learning, behavioral and reputation-based security engines. Check Point plans to integrate ForceNock’s technology into its Infinity total protection architecture

Check Point's cyber investigators, Eran Voknin and Alon Buxiner, have identified serious security weaknesses in the most popular network game in the world - Fortnight. Fortnight has a variety of platforms. Every month nearly 80 million players use Fortnight. The weaknesses found by the researchers enable, in effect, total control over the personal accounts of the users of the game, including the user's personal details, including his credit card information, and the total data on the acount. The users who play with him. The weaknesses allow an attacker to make in-game purchases in his...

The Israeli company, Sealantis which was established on the basis of technology developed at the Technion, was sold for $ 25 million and royalties from future sales to Advanced Medical Solutions (AMS) The company develops medical adhesives based on technology from the Technion, which mimics the mechanism of adhesion of algae to rocks under water. "This is a basic research inspired by a natural phenomenon that developed into applied technology, was patented and finally became a product that will enable hundreds of thousands of patients to be treated." Advanced Medical Solutions (AMS), a...

The gender disparities in the salaries of employees in high-tech are 26% on average. According to a new study published by the Finance Ministry's chief economist. The study also found that women constitute 60% of the lowest wage quintile in high-tech, compared with 51% of this quintile in the other industries. In contrast, they constitute only 13% of the highest quintile of wages in the high-tech sector, compared with 21% in the other industries

LivePerson, a leading provider of advanced customer and brand communication platforms, is recruiting 50 employees for its development centers in Israel. The company develops advanced communication platforms between customers and brands and assists the world's leading brands to digitize their service centers using advanced technologies such as Big Data, AI and Machine Learning. The company is currently traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and posted a 7% growth in the share following a positive recommendation from Oppenheimer

The Innovation Authority launches a special track for start-ups established by women: 75% grants for R & D for enterprises owned by entrepreneurial women. The purpose of the Innovation Authority is to double the number of initiatives supported by the Authority within two years. In the framework of the approved track, the financing for enterprises owned by women entrepreneurs (at least 33% ownership and managerial technological role in the company) will be 75% for a first-year R & D grant and 70% for the second year . The budget ceiling will be up to NIS 2.5 million in the first year and...

Three of the world's most recognized and innovative football clubs, Arsenal, Liverpool and Premier League Manchester City will leverage True View technology to capture each and every element of football from every angle. The technology recreates the action on the field and offers it from an ideal point of view or from the player's point of view. It does this by using Intel's unmatched data processing capability with one goal - to pass the experience on to fans. The technology was developed at Intel Israel by the Intel sports team, which is run by Dudu in Nayoun Imagine that you are...

Symantec announced the acquisition of Luminate Security, an Israeli start-up that develops a platform for secure access to enterprise applications in a single-value connection. According to estimates, the scope of the transaction is more than 200 million USD. Lumenate was founded by experienced entrepreneurs. The company's CEO, Ofer Samadry and, Leonid Belkind and Eldad Livni former Check Point's employees. until recently the Israeli company raised $ 14 million. Luminate has 40 employees in Israel and in the UD

A research group from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University, under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shashua, has succeeded in proving mathematically that methods leading the field of artificial intelligence can help to understand phenomena in quantum physics, "This is an exceptional event in which the leading scientific journal in physics publishes the work of researchers from another field - computer science, and we are at a turning point in which computing power and methods Modern artificial intelligence, allow cross-domain contribution, and for example will...