Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Mickey Bresman, CEO and Co-Founder of cybersecurity leader Semperis, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 New Jersey Award winner. The Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program, now in its 37th year, is one of the most prestigious business awards in the world for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. The award honors entrepreneurs whose ambition, courage, and ingenuity have driven their companies’ success, transformed their industries, and made a positive impact on their communities. Bresman was selected by an independent j ..read more

Windows Defender can be hijacked to ignore malware, falsely recognize benign files as malicious and even delete critical system files to render a machine inoperable, two Israeli researchers demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference here on Aug. 9. Tomer Bar and Omer Attias of SafeBreach also introduced an automated tool called Defender Pretender that can replicate their attacks, as long as the version of the Microsoft Malware Protection Platform is earlier than 4.18.2303.8. The tool can be found at https://github.com/SafeBreach-Labs/wd-pretender. Microsoft catalogued the attack method ..read more

Imagine your devices being charged invisibly through the air, without any cables in sight. It sounds like magic. WSJ explores whether long-distance wireless charging is safe and how long it’ll be before you have it at home. Read more in the Wall Street Journal ..read more

The number of research papers investigating the potential of AI in healthcare is rising rapidly, almost as fast as the launch of new versions of generative AI and chatbots. The successful deployment of AI in real-life healthcare settings, however, is evolving slowly. The good news is that a number of healthcare providers and focused startups such as Diagnostic Robotics, are making steady progress towards a more predictive, personalized, even personal practice of healthcare. Read the full article in ,Forbes ..read more

ClearML, the leading open source, end-to-end solution for unleashing AI in the enterprise, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the "Best MLOps Platform" award in the sixth annual 2023 AI Breakthrough Awards by AI Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global artificial intelligence (AI) market. ClearML recently announced several groundbreaking solutions that helped the company win the “Best MLOPs Platform” category, including its recent release of ClearGPT, the first generative AI platform th ..read more

In a first-ever collaboration, the face of the fruit industry in Chile is being revolutionized as A.I.-driven robots pick apples in Linares. This remarkable endeavor is the result of a partnership between Tevel, an Israeli robotics startup, and Unifrutti, offering a glimpse into the future of the agriculture industry. Tevel’s autonomous harvesting system was deployed in Unifrutti Chile’s apple orchards from March to May, harvesting several varieties of apples and picking the highest-quality fruit with unparalleled efficiency. German Illanes, General Manager of Unifrutti in Chile, said “We at ..read more

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY FORBES The idea for this article germinated in a restaurant bathroom. Before my meal arrived, I went to the men’s room and saw one of their employees leave a toilet stall and just walk by the sign we all know from public establishments: “Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work.” Well, he didn’t wash his hands, and during my meal I wondered how actively involved he was in the preparation of my food. As health and hygiene become, at least in some places, more advanced and efforts to increase environmental sustainability rise, I wondered who was doing interestin ..read more

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY FORBES By Yaron Carni and Danielle Shapira of Maverick Ventures Israel While artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly powering a digital health boom, AI is still very much in its infancy when it comes to mental and behavioral well-being. This isn’t really a surprise, as the ability to understanding human thoughts and feelings --not ‘merely’ crunching blood test data or medical scans for signs of disease-- is much harder than telling if a person’s kidney is about to fail. Boosting one’s mood or providing personalized treatments for psychiatric d ..read more

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY CTECH The Israel-based company develops eye drops intended to alleviate farsightedness caused by aging Clinical-stage eye drop company Orasis Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has raised $13 million in series B, the company announced Tuesday. The round was led by California-based ophthalmology-focused Visionary Ventures, with participation from investors including from Sequoia Capital, SBI Japan-Israel Innovation Ventures, and New York-based LifeSci Venture Partners. Following the investment, Visionary Ventures' Jeffry Weinhuff and SBI's Masafuyu Tanaka will join Orasis' board of d ..read more

Tel Aviv’s startup scene underwent a transformation around 2019, moving from a system of “Holy Grail exits,” as Eli David, CEO of StartUp Link, puts it, to “building companies not looking to sell to Google right away.” As has always been the case, the military is still the main source of founders—not least because almost everyone passes through it, but also for its emphasis on problem-solving and a focus on cybersecurity, AI, and robotics. There’s growth in Web3, gaming, and productivity startups while countries like India are coming online as customers. “We have a brain-drain problem”, admits ..read more