Google Takes Sides
Gush Etzion residents were recently surprised to be redirected from google.co.il to google.ps, the Palestinian site of the popular search engine. “It’s unfortunate that the Google company, which is a business entity and not a political body, has decided that the residents of Judea and Samaria belong to the Palestinian Authority,” wrote Director-General of the […]
Technion Scientists Develop Biological Computer
Scientists at Haifa’s Technion University have developed a complex computer made entirely of biological materials.  The computer is capable of iterative calculations (where the output of one calculation becomes the input of the next) and researchers demonstrated its ability to divide binary numbers by three. The advantage of such a machine is not speed or […]
Popular Israeli App Raises Takeover Interests
Waze, the popular mapping application for smartphones, has attracted the interest of several industry giants recently, including Facebook and Google. Â Its takeover negotiations with Facebook recently collapsed, but Waze is still launching its Facebook Events feature, integrating Events into its route-mapping services. Waze was created in Israel, and is unique in two important ways. Â First, […]
Bionic Eye May Help The Blind See
Israeli scientists have developed a bionic eye that may be able to help those born blind to see. Â A Bar Ilan University team developed the eye, which consists of a bionic contact lens which collects information transmitted by a tiny camera, then converts that information into electrical impulses. Â The impulses are sent through the cornea […]
