Category: Technology

The Ring Nebula (M57) from Webb Space Telescope, is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring of the Ring Nebula (M57) is about one light-year across, but this remarkable exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with deep exposure to infrared light. Strings of […]

Given the current hype surrounding ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence programs, one might have thought that AI was a very new technology with a very short history. However, it has taken many years of research and development to get to this stage, and Israelis – and Jews generally– have played an important role in […]

SOS is a Morse code maritime distress signal (dot-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash-dot-dot-dot), first used in 1909. It has been translated as “Save our souls” or “Save our ship” and has become a universal call for help.  In Israel, SOS takes on a new meaning: Save our start-ups! Start-ups in Israel are in decline. It leads us to ask: […]

As ChatGPT, the innovative AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, gains popularity among workers in the United States for accomplishing routine tasks, a cloud of uncertainty hovers over its future. Businesses have begun questioning the extent to which ChatGPT should be embraced while safeguarding against potential data security breaches and intellectual property leaks. This intriguing juxtaposition […]

In a significant move reflecting the changing landscape of cybersecurity, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a global cybersecurity solutions provider, has recently announced its intention to acquire Perimeter 81, a notable player in the Security Service Edge (SSE) sector. The planned acquisition, valued at around $490 million, is aimed at bolstering Check Point’s […]

There are several parallel projects running across the world to save the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum), one of Africa’s captivating and iconic wildlife species. With the death of last male in 2018 and with only two females alive, the species is functionally extinct. The most famous of these projects is an international research […]

ChatGPT has been touted as a tool that is going to revolutionise the workplace and home. AI systems like it have the potential to enhance productivity but could also displace jobs. The ChatGPT website received 1.5 billion visits last month. Though no comprehensive statistics exist, these users are likely to be relatively educated, with access […]

Lamborghini will reveal its first electric vehicle (EV) concept at this year’s Monterey Car Week in California, August 18 to 20. Lamborghini will debut “the prototype” of its new 2+2 model battery-electric car next week, which will have a “new body style, new tech,. It will be very recognizable but also be something completely new.” […]

Zoom in on this impressive new image from the James Webb Space Telescope and you will see a gigantic question mark in space. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution image of a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in near-infrared light. There, in the background appears […]

Despite its tremendous success in predicting the existence of new particles and forces, the Standard Model of particle physics, designed over 50 years ago to explain the smallest building blocks of nature, isn’t the complete “theory of everything” physicists have been longing for. The theory has several problems. It neither describes gravity nor the unknown […]