Israeli energy leader envisions ‘a world where plastic is not a problem’

Three prominent women technologists – Galit Sasson, Chief Operational Engineer at Mekorot’s Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant, Dr. Rotem Shemesh, Head of R&D and Customer Service at Carmel Olefins (part of Bazan Group), and Inna Braverman, Co-Founder & CEO, Eco Wave Power Ltd. – participated in a panel discussion at the Jerusalem Post Women Leaders […]

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A rare condition makes other people’s faces look distorted. Why a new case is important

If you’ve seen portraits painted by Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, you might not be surprised to hear that both men may have suffered from a disorder that affects how faces are perceived. Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) is a condition where faces appear distorted, and sometimes even demonic. In most cases, these distortions alter how images of […]

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The New Lightweight Portable Invisibility Shield 2.0

Invisibility Shield 2.0 The new lightweight portable Invisibility Shield 2.0 offers next-level cloaking and packs down small. The new Invisibility Shield 2.0 has a front face that’s 17% larger than before, and the Megashield is three times bigger, towering at 6ft (1.8m) tall. It’s spacious enough to conceal multiple people standing side by side. Invisibility […]

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Top investors at Women Leaders Summit: Invest in relevant teams

Jerusalem Post Deputy Editor-in-Chief Tamar Uriel-Beeri sat down with Israeli tech leaders Rotem Shacham, Nofar Amikam and Liat Shaked, to discuss the impact of technology in business and the future of Israel’s technology sector at the Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit on March 27. Although Israel has become renowned for its bustling technology sector, […]

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We built an AI tool to help set priorities for conservation in Madagascar: what we found

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from them – can have many uses in nature conservation, such as remote monitoring (like the use of camera traps to study animals or plants) or data analysis. Some of these are controversial because AI can be trained to be biased, […]

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Stunning New Image of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

EHT Collaboration A stunning new image of the Milky Way‘s black hole revealed strong magnetic fields spiraling at its edge. A new snapshot from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has unveiled, previously unseen, magnetic fields swirling out from the border of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A (Sgr A). For the first time, the heart […]

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My search for the mysterious missing secretary who shaped chatbot history

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Distinctive Collections archive is quiet while the blizzard blows outside. Silence seems to be accumulating with the falling snow. I am the only researcher in the archive, but there is a voice that I am straining to hear. I am searching for someone – let’s call her the missing […]

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dark matter may form exploding stars – and observing the damage could help reveal what it’s made of

Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades, yet which we know has an enormous influence on normal matter in the universe, such as stars and galaxies. Through the massive gravitational pull it exerts on galaxies, it spins them up, gives them an extra push along their orbits, or […]

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turning off TikTok is a big risk for the Democrats

Popular social media platform TikTok stands accused of holding US data in China, fostering censorship, and spreading disinformation. Its popularity poses a dilemma for US politicians, but especially Democrats who have heavily relied on the app to reach its core base of young voters. Is it “time up” for TikTok in the US? And will […]

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