Facebook to Reach Space with Israeli Satellite
Facebook announced this week that its Internet.org initiative and France-based satellite communications company Eutelsat are teaming up to bring satellite internet to sub-Saharan Africa. The two companies will offer separate internet services in the region, both to launch during the second half of 2016, according to an Eutelsat said today. The plan is to offer connectivity directly to Internet users and communities, as opposed to providing a backbone connection to commercial internet service providers. The two companies will split the entire capacity provided by the forthcoming AMOS-6 satellite under development by the Israeli satellite company Spacecom.
How Israel’s High Tech Aims to Help the Elderly
More and more elderly people worldwide are joining the technology revolution, and technology is coming to meet them halfway. In Israel, one of the world’s high-tech capitals, companies are racing to develop new applications and products for the senior citizens set. The technologies those Israeli startups offer to the elderly include: Video Therapy, a solution aimed at improving the efficiency of therapy for older citizens by allowing them to interact with their trainer via video-call; and Atlas Sense, unobtrusive, wearable technology that can read and transmit a subject’s vital signs to monitor their health, and even detect if a person falls.
SpaceIL is 1st Google Lunar XPRIZE Team to Book Ride to the Moon
SpaceIL, a team of Israeli engineers and educators, has secured a ride to the moon with an official launch contract for its unmanned spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The exciting news was quickly shared by international media as the Israeli contract will now extend the competition’s deadline to the end of 2017. The SpaceIL spacecraft will hitch a ride in a specially designed capsule on the Falcon 9 and separate itself from the launcher. It will then use navigation sensors to guide it to the Moon.
The New Nonprofit Start-Up Nation Central Connects New Companies with Investors
Looking to spread the gospel of Israel’s tech savviness, New York-based billionaire CEO and Elliott Management hedge fund founder Paul Singer set up Start-Up Nation Central to connect business and government leaders with the people and technologies that can solve their most pressing challenges. In a sense, Start-Up Nation Central is a project to actualize a central theme of the book – using Israeli technology to solve problems. Paul Singer’s idea, added Senor, was to bring these global challenges to the world’s top problem-solvers — Israeli innovators.
Israel’s DeepOptics Is Developing an Alternative to Multifocal Lenses, Eliminating Distortion and Segmentation
Wearers of multifocals (“progressive” eyeglasses) must look through the top of the lenses for distance, through the middle for intermediate distance and through the bottom for close reading. Many people find it hard to adjust to the limited field of view per distance and even get headaches from the distortions. If your progressive glasses could let you see about two years into the future, you’d notice an alternative on the horizon: Omnifocals from the Israeli company DeepOptics.
Boston Scientific Confirms Option to Buy Israeli co MValve
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced that it has closed an additional round of financing with Israeli company MValve Technologies Ltd. and has an exclusive option to buy the mitral valve developer. In July 2014, “Globes” reported that Boston Scientific invested $15 million in MValve, and at that time had obtained an exclusive option to buy the Herzliya-based company for $200 million. Boston Scientific said it has been providing MValve with funding since 2012.
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