Author: Zech

About 10 years ago, while we were cozily roasting golden marshmallows around a campfire with some new friends, my dad asked the couple we were with, “How did you two meet?” The anxiety was palpable. “Online,” the man replied gruffly. Online dating, which until recently was secretive, almost embarrassing, and certainly untalked about, has taken over most of dating. Even if you’ve never tried it yourself, you’ve probably picked up at least one friend’s phone and swiped left and right on countless face photos. (If you haven’t tried it yet, you should. It’s a lot of fun.) Approximately 70 million…

Post-industrial revolution economies adopted the “get, make, dispose” model to achieve their modernization goals faster. The challenge of growth at that time was to consume resources without considering the damage it caused to the environment. However, things started changing as countries started realizing the damage caused by such an unsustainable growth model.The circular economy seeks to address this problem by eliminating waste altogether. It aims to extend the life and usage period of resources, materials and goods, rethink products and business processes, create creative solutions and service models, and encourage more sustainable consumption patterns. According to the Circularity Gap Report…

Airlines, media, retailers, hospitals, banks and basically every organization that relied on CrowdStrike’s services to protect their Microsoft systems from viruses and malware are still recovering from Friday’s unprecedented global IT outage, which affected 8.5 million Windows devices. Experts and analysts have seen the incident as a wake-up call for a more resilient and less monopolistic global digital infrastructure, warning that the world could become more vulnerable to such disruptions and become the “new normal.” An unprecedented power outage Customers around the world of Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike began experiencing “blue screens” on their Windows systems on Friday after…

Italian public bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (CDP) and Italy’s largest lending institution Intesa Sanpaolo executed a transaction worth €25 million last Thursday using blockchain technology, whereby Intesa Sanpaolo invested in an equal amount of bonds with a maturity of four months. The transaction took place on the Polygon network, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain. “The bond, with a face value of 25 million euros, has a maturity period of four months and a fixed coupon at maturity of 3.633% per annum,” reads a press release issued by Intesa Sanpaolo, marking the success of Italy’s large-scale experiment with distributed…

27 artificial intelligence startups gathered at Google’s offices for an event in their honor, organized by the tech giant. These are the ventures that Google has selected to support a 4 million shekel fund established to advance AI in Israel. In addition to financial support, Google will support the companies through access to its experts in various fields. “If it’s hard to run a company during wartime, it’s even harder for a startup. You have to keep developing in a wartime situation, when the world stops and your employees are missing. But we got through it, we succeeded and…

Unity Software Inc. (NYSE:U – Get Free Report) Director, Michelle K. Lee sold 800 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, July 18. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.02, for a total transaction value of $14,416.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 8,815 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $158,846.30. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be accessed on the SEC’s website. Unity Software Stock Performance NYSE:U opened trading at $16.21 on Friday.Unity Software Inc.’s one year low is $15.15 and high…

The biotechnology associations EuropaBio and Bio Deutschland were apparently prompted to recall Ursula von der Leyen’s (EPP) speech before her confirmation as EU Commission President, in which there was no mention at all of biotechnology, which had been much touted during her previous term. In the European Parliament, Ursula von der Leyen won an absolute majority with 401 votes out of 719, and delivered a speech setting out new priorities after the previous Parliament’s Green Deal. Military equipment to equip Europe with an air defense system capable of fighting against foreign enemies of democracy even without the United States, a…

Chipmaker AMD is aiming to position itself as a major player in AI-enhanced personal computers (AIPC) through strategic hardware innovation to power a new era of powerful applications, a company executive said. By taking a holistic approach that integrates technologies across CPU, GPU, and NPU, we are creating a powerful ecosystem that supports the development of powerful AI applications.”This broad approach enables AMD to serve a variety of markets with enhanced AI capabilities, from high-performance gaming systems to lightweight laptops,” said John Anguiano, senior director of product marketing at AMD. The California-based company unveiled its latest lineup of Ryzen mobile…

On the surface, most Israeli tech companies, big and small, were taking care to support their customers and post diplomatic LinkedIn messages offering concrete solutions for rebooting computers in the midst of a shocking global crash. But behind closed doors, a good number of champagne bottles were being popped.4 View Gallery Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk and Wizz founder Assaf Rapaport (Photos: Ryan Froese and Omar Hacohen)CrowdStrike may be an unfamiliar name to many, but it is a darling of the global cybersecurity market and the toughest rival to almost all Israeli cybersecurity companies. CrowdStrike is a name synonymous…

New Delhi: US-based IT giant Microsoft estimated that the outage affected 8.5 million computers worldwide. The technical glitch occurred on July 19, the same day that cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike rolled out a routine update. The glitch caused IT systems from airlines to news channels to crash, disrupting their daily operations. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s updates affected 8.5 million Windows devices. We are deploying hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts to work directly with customers to restore service,” Microsoft said in a blog post.Why were home computers not affected?CrowdStrike’s products are primarily used by large organizations that require strong…