The Future of Password Protection is in Selfies
Everyone hates using passwords, especially on a mobile device. And everyone knows it’s not hard for a hacker to steal your password anyway. When Israeli startup IsItYou looked for an easier and more secure way to authenticate users, founder Benjamin Levy didn’t have to look farther than the mirror.
It only takes a selfie to set IsItYou’s face-recognition technology into motion, allowing users to authenticate themselves quickly without having to remember a password. The technology was designed with unique proprietary anti-spoofing technology to achieve low false-reject and false-acceptance rates.
Intel on Its Way to Export Israeli Accelerator
Intel has announced its Ingenuity Partner Program (IPP), an accelerator program that will provide assistance, mentoring, and connections to companies that Intel Israel accepts into the program. And like other successful tech accelerators that got their start in Israel – notably the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, now a flagship program of the company worldwide, Intel Israel sees IPP as a model to be built and developed in Israel and duplicated elsewhere in the Intel empire, said Intel Israel IPP director Roy Ramon.
Israel Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel Presents Reforms to Reduce Food Prices
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel on Sunday unveiled a plan to tackle the high cost of food in Israel, which he hopes to include in the Economic Arrangements Law that passes annually alongside the budget.The reforms are to focus on the heavily regulated markets for eggs, fish, goat and sheep milk and other agricultural products, using a variety of tools from tightening price controls to easing taxes and obstacles for hiring foreign workers.
Crowd Computing Power Cuts Tel Aviv Research Time by 37,000 Years
It could have taken researchers at Tel Aviv University and Tsinghua University 37,000 years to figure out how carbon nanotubes help filter out impurities from flowing water. But thanks to a crowdsourced computer platform, in which tens of thousands of computer users around the world contributed their processing power, the process was cut down to about a year.
Israel and Germany Mark 50 Years of Collaboration with Innovation Day
The Israeli Ministry of Economy and the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy are celebrating 50 years of Israeli-German relations. In cooperation with the Israel Export Institute, the economy departments recently invited 150 senior officials and businesspeople to a Germany-Israel Innovation Day. During the Germany-Israel Innovation Day 2015, 25 senior spokespeople from both countries took part in four panels on digital media, cyber-security, life sciences and smart transportation.
