Category: Technology

Autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider Percepto has announced a successful Series C funding round, raising a combined total of $67 million for its autonomous drone-based technology. Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) led the funding round, with participation from new investors Zimmer Partners and a major US energy company. With this latest round, Percepto’s total investment […]

Intel Israel has had record exports of $8.7 billion for the year 2022-2023, accounting for 1.75% of Israel’s GDP and 5.5% of its hi-tech exports, the company reported this week. Despite facing several rounds of layoffs over the past year, Intel Israel has showcased its resilience and commitment to the Israeli market, it said. According […]

Given recent major advancements in machine learning, it is no surprise that the technology’s market has experienced notable growth in recent months, with a projected increase from $26 billion in 2023 to $226b. in 2030. Despite this progress, only half of machine-learning models successfully reach production, and those that do, often encounter issues such as […]

British Airways (BA), the BBC, Ofcom and Boots were among a number of organisations that were reportedly victims of a major recent cyber-attack, resulting in the breach of numerous staff details. The stolen data is said to include staff names, staff ID numbers and national insurance numbers (although, importantly, not banking details). But, other than […]

The chicken sheds I conduct research in are enormous – over three-quarters the length of a football field and 20 metres wide. In each house, around 28,000 near-identical broiler chickens, which are the type we use for meat, are reared in six-week production cycles. My research helps farms find ways to improve the welfare of […]

Elbit Systems unveiled new products to counter drone threats and anti-aircraft missiles on Thursday ahead of the Paris Airshow which begins next week. The Israeli defense electronics company revealed a new Electronic Warfare (EW) capability which uses the digital radar warning receiver, part of Elbit’s self-protection EW suite, to enable the detection and identification of […]

Several polls in the past couple of years (including from Ipsos, YouGov and most recently Savanta on behalf of Kings College Policy Institute and the BBC) have been examining the kinds of conspiratorial beliefs people have. The findings have led to a lot of concern and discussion. There are several revealing aspects of these polls. […]

Global cyber threat intelligence data provider Cybersixgill has introduced “Cybersixgill IQ,” a generative artificial intelligence solution that marks a significant breakthrough in the field of cyber threat intelligence (CTI). Leveraging the company’s deep and dark web data, as well as Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and contextual information about organizations’ attack surfaces, Cybersixgill IQ stands out […]

Microsoft and Google have recently made big investments in two of the most valuable companies in artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, has received a staggering investment of US$10 billion (£7.8 billion) from Microsoft, while Google has invested US$300 million in Anthropic. The companies’ financial support for AI has pushed an ongoing rivalry in […]

Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and Margalit Startup City New York announced a new “ClimateTech insurance” collaboration with the corporate venture arm of Australia and New Zealand’s largest general insurer, IAG Firemark Venture, to develop technologies and discover startups that could measure and mitigate climate change risks. “As extreme weather conditions and climate change are increasingly […]