Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub and Yariv Bash were in Los Angeles last week in an effort to raise $10 million for the construction of a robot that they hope to send to the moon.
The roast of Facebook (and a little myspace bashing)
A court in Buenos Aires has ordered Google to stop recommending anti-Semitic and racist websites to users. The injunction issued May 17 comes following a complaint filed by several Jewish organizations. The decision came on the World Day of the Internet.
A joint project between Yad Vashem and Google will make public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs easier. Israel\’s national Holocaust museum and archive and the Google search engine on Wednesday announced that they had made 130,000 photos and documents from the museum\’s archive available online. The photos can now be searched directly from Google using regular key words.
It was at a conference 15 years ago in the raw months following Yitzhak Rabin\’s assassination that an unlikely Israeli trio — a young Navy officer, a leading businesswoman and a senior bureaucrat — hatched a plan for Israel\’s future. It wasn\’t exactly a plan for the future, but a plan to plan for the country\’s future in an entirely new way: one focused on long-term strategic thinking to propel Israel into the world\’s top 15 socioeconomic powers. Last week, the goal of becoming a nation with one of the highest GDPs — the type of dramatic \”leapfrog\” growth that would see incomes and other quality-of-life metrics boosted across the socioeconomic divide — went from an idea to headline news when the goal was adopted as policy by the Israeli government.
Israel will take part in a pilot program to encourage Israeli advertising agencies to allocate more resources to advertising on YouTube.
No Web sites that choke your browser. No waiting for YouTube clips to buffer. No email attachments too big to send. No files that take forever to download. No “Loading – please wait” messages, or spinning beach balls, or slowwwwly lengthening bars meant to tame your mounting impatience.
Google removed Nazi-related applications from its Android downloads following protests from Jewish users.
\” . . . In Fairfax High School, I had a brilliant and wise instructor of advanced placement European History who used to say: \’Do not put all your faith in one man. For surely he will disappoint you.\’ And he also said: \’40 million Frenchmen can be wrong\’ . . .\”\n\n
No more. The world has changed and so has dating. Today, when we date someone, it\’s no longer just the two of us. No. Now, it\’s always a threesome: you, him and that all-intrusive technology. It\’s what I call a \”Menage a Tech.\”
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