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Israeli startup Cortica says it has developed an AI-based technology that allows cars and computers to see and understand their surroundings by mimicking the function of the brain of mammals (Courtesy).
April 21, 2019, 5:42 pm
Israel’s Cortica seeks to nip at Mobileye’s heels with brain-mimicking tech
Tel Aviv-based startup hopes to see ‘massive deployment’ of its chips for self-driving cars on the road by 2021
By Shoshanna Solomon
Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a digital time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018. (Yoav Weiss)
February 18, 2019, 4:38 pm
With sights set on the moon, Israel to launch privately funded spacecraft Friday
Beresheet set to touch down in the Sea of Tranquility on April 11; $100 million project, paid for mostly by Jewish donors, would make Israel 4th country to land a craft on the moon
By Melanie Lidman
Opher Doron, general manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' space division, speaks beside the SpaceIL lunar module, in a special "clean room" where the space craft is being developed, during a press tour of their facility near Tel Aviv, Israel, July 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Ilan Ben Zion)
October 10, 2018, 9:30 pm
Israel’s maiden moon launch pushed off to early 2019
SpaceIL says unmanned probe blasting off a month later than planned, blames Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm for setback
By AFP
Tesla CEO and founder of the Boring Company Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago, on June 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
August 13, 2018, 9:28 pm
Musk says he’s talking with Saudi fund to take Tesla private
Tesla CEO says his tweet that funding for step has been secured came because he left meeting with ‘no question’ deal could be secured
By Tom Krisher
Members of the rescued soccer team and their coach sit during a press conference discussing their ordeal in the cave in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, July 18, 2018 (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
July 18, 2018, 4:56 pm
Thai cave boys speak of ‘miracle’ rescue after hospital discharge
Soccer players are all in good physical condition, despite surviving for days on water that dripped down the side of the cave
By Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI and Jonathan KLEIN
An F-16I fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force's 119th Squadron prepares to take off during an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 2:05 pm
Blast from the past: 8 things to know for March 21
With the open secret now out, coverage looks at details of the 2007 raid on a Syrian nuclear reactor, the intel failures leading up to it and why it was kept under wraps until now
By Joshua Davidovich
Inventor Elon Musk. (CC BY Heisenberg Media/Wikipedia)
March 20, 2018, 10:33 pm
Elon Musk denies meeting with Israeli startup Cortica
After report of talks with AI company, Tesla mogul says he’s never heard of it, and is only in country to take his kids on spring break trip
By Shoshanna Solomon
Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 8th Negev Conference in Dimona on March 20, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
March 20, 2018, 5:42 pm
Netanyahu says ‘flood’ of African migrants worse than Sinai terrorists
Prime minister says border wall only thing keeping vast numbers of illegal migrants out of country
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Stray dogs. (JDMaddox/ iStockphoto, Getty Images)
March 20, 2018, 3:01 pm
Who’s not a very good boy? 10 things to know for March 20
Abbas refuses to be the US’s puppy, Netanyahu is dogged by more legal trouble, NY Times pieces get defanged, and self-driving cars may get a shorter leash
By Joshua Davidovich
Inventor Elon Musk. (CC BY Heisenberg Media/Wikipedia)
March 20, 2018, 12:27 pm
Tesla mogul Elon Musk visits Israel, to meet AI startup Cortica
Musk on Tuesday says the Cortica report is ‘completely false’; has breakfast with Netanyahu
By Shoshanna Solomon
Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017, in Adelaide, Australia, on September 29, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS)
March 20, 2018, 10:38 am
Billionaire Elon Musk gets serious at Masada, parties in Jerusalem bar
CEO of electric cars Tesla posts pictures of himself in the Holy Land; meets with Netanyahu
By Shoshanna Solomon
This image from video provided by SpaceX shows the company's spacesuit in Elon Musk's red Tesla sports car which was launched into space during the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018. (SpaceX via AP)
February 7, 2018, 11:55 pm
Space roadster overshoots Mars, now headed for asteroid belt
Elon Musk confirms Tesla launched aboard world’s most powerful rocket went beyond trajectory, still hails flight as success
By Marcia Dunn
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy takes off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)
February 6, 2018, 11:17 pm
With sports car on top, SpaceX launches world’s most powerful rocket toward Mars
Falcon Heavy blasts off on its highly anticipated maiden test flight; CEO Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster could orbit sun ‘for a billion years’
By Marcia Dunn
US President Donald Trump points to the sun as he arrives to view the solar eclipse, on August 21, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
December 12, 2017, 8:52 am
Trump tells NASA to send Americans to Moon
US president wants to establish foundation for eventual trip to Mars and ‘perhaps someday to many worlds beyond’
By Jerome Cartillier
Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks below a computer generated illustration of his new rocket at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide on September 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS)
September 29, 2017, 12:39 pm
SpaceX’s Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022
Rockets could also be used to travel anywhere on earth within 30 minutes
By Glenda Kwek
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