Facebook eyes $1bn deal for GPS app Waze
Facebook is in talks on a potential $1 billion deal to buy the Israel-based GPS mobile navigation app Waze, The Wall Street Journal reported.
May 10, 2013
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Israeli high-tech pioneer Efraim Arazi dies
Efraim "Efi" Arazi, a pioneer of Israel's powerful high-tech industry who helped develop technology that allowed for a video recording of the first moon landing, has died. He was 76.
Apr 15, 2013
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Researchers discover a way to avoid decoherence in a quantum system
(Phys.org) —A team of physicists in Israel has used the scattering of a photon when it strikes an atom to better understand the process of decoherence. In a paper the team has published in the journal Science, the group ...
Mar 08, 2013
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Israeli cellphone provider says it was not hacked
Major Israeli cellphone provider Pelephone has ruled out a cyberattack as the cause for its service disruption.
Feb 04, 2013
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NASA marks 10 years since loss of Columbia, crew
NASA will honor the seven astronauts who perished when the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed 10 years ago.
Feb 01, 2013
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Israeli prize honors foreign scientists, architect
(AP)—Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize this year will honor American, German and Austrian scientists as well as an architect from Portugal.
Jan 02, 2013
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Archeologists unearth King David era temple near Jerusalem
(Phys.org)—Israel's Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced that archeologists have unearthed a temple within walking distance of Jerusalem that appears to be approximately 2,750 years old. Artifacts fo ...
Dec 28, 2012
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Click, print, shoot: Downloadable guns possible (Update)
Downloading a gun's design plans to your computer, building it on a three-dimensional printer and firing it minutes later. No background checks, no questions asked.
Dec 21, 2012
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Google launches Dead Sea Scrolls online library
More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls—and thousands of years after they were written—Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership ...
Dec 18, 2012
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Google teaming with Israeli high-tech startups
Google is searching for promising Israeli high-tech companies.
Dec 10, 2012
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Archaeologists discover shipwrecks, ancient harbor on coast of Israel
A team of archaeologists from the University of Rhode Island, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the University of Louisville have discovered the remains of a fleet of early-19th century ships and ancient harbor structures ...
Nov 28, 2012
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UN nuclear agency reports being hacked
(AP)—The International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged Tuesday that one of its servers had been hacked after a previously unknown group critical of Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program posted contact details for ...
Nov 27, 2012
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$100M pledged to US-Israeli electric car venture
U.S.-Israeli electric car venture Better Place says investors have pledged it $100 million in additional financing.
Nov 01, 2012
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Iran: Drone hit by Israel not 'latest' technology
(AP)—Iran's defense minister says his country has drones far more advanced than the unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah and downed by Israel earlier this month.
Oct 28, 2012
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Fearful flyers willing to pay more and alter flight plans, according to travel study
Fearful flyers seek flight attributes that may be primarily reassuring, such as schedule, aircraft size and carrier origin, but have little effect on the low, actual risk according to a study published in the Journal of Tr ...
Oct 15, 2012
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