Amputee Animals: This Sea Turtle Can Swim Again With His New Fighter Jet Inspired Wings

It’s amazing what science and technology can do today, like giving a disabled sea turtle the ability to swim again. Hofesh, meaning “freedom” in Hebrew, is a sea turtle living in Israel who lost his two left-side fins when he was entangled in a fishing net four years ago. The amputations immobilized the poor sea… Continue reading Amputee Animals: This Sea Turtle Can Swim Again With His New Fighter Jet Inspired Wings

Israeli Students Create Fake Traffic Jam in Waze App Hoax

It’s pretty cool when you’re assigned by your school to hack a mobile app, like when these Israeli students were assigned to hack Waze. The assignment was to demonstrate what malicious hackers could do by creating a fake traffic jam on the app, which provides real-time traffic updates and notifications to people on the road.… Continue reading Israeli Students Create Fake Traffic Jam in Waze App Hoax

Google Acquires 2-Month-Old, ‘Sounds as Passwords’ Startup SlickLogin

Google has acquired SlickLogin, an Israeli security startup based in Tel Aviv. SlickLogin is less than two months old. SlickLogin technology allows users to log into websites using a high frequency sound, silent to human ears, communicated between a computer and a smartphone, generating a new audio signal for each login. The security system is… Continue reading Google Acquires 2-Month-Old, ‘Sounds as Passwords’ Startup SlickLogin

Facebook Acquires Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo to Help Reduce the Cost of the Internet for All

How can the Internet become more affordable for everyone one day? Well, Facebook has just acquired Onavo, a mobile analytics company to help use data more efficiently and make that dream possible. Onavo, is an Israeli-based startup that will greatly aide Facebook’s internet.org inititiative, to help bring the Internet to those without. Facebook is set… Continue reading Facebook Acquires Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo to Help Reduce the Cost of the Internet for All