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A generous $18 million lead grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will support the construction of the state-of-the-art Helmsley Computer Science Building at Ben Gurion University. It will contain 60 offices and lab space for each faculty member.

Road safety, traffic flow and drone-detection solutions took the top prizes at Jerusalem College of Technology’s 6th annual women’s hackathon Hack.Her.It. 150 students, many mothers with babies on their laps, used the latest AI in a 46-hour challenge from Elbit, Rafael, Amazon, Intel, Safe Lane, and more.

Israel’s Quantum Machines (see previously) has signed three agreements with Korean companies, organizations and government research institutes. The alliances will help accelerate the development of quantum computing technology.

At the 2023 Tel Aviv Cyber Week Conference last week, UAE cyber chief Mohamed al-Kuwaiti said, “Thank God for the Abraham Accords...” He revealed that Israel recently helped the UAE fend off a serious DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyberattack.

The EuroTech Universities Alliance gave Technion Professor Charlotte Vogt their top EuroTech Future Award for her outstanding contribution to the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. She is researching catalysts that convert CO2 into useful products.

Israel’s CarobWay (see previously) is to introduce its clean-label, low glycemic index (GI) sweetener at IFT FIRST 2023 in Chicago (July 16-19). A gummi and an energy bar prototype containing the carob-derived sugar replacement will illustrate the new sweetener's capabilities.

Israel’s Loora.AI allows individuals to improve their English skills without having to rely on expensive, one-on-one tutors. Loora is a safe, always-there, iPhone AI tutor for practicing conversational English. Available on subscription in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Israel’s Memphis.dev gives software developers a fast way to build links for communicating between applications and transmitting masses amounts of data (streaming) from one place to another. Thousands of developers have downloaded and recommended the Memphis message broker.

Gentle Giant Studios used the XiP Desktop 3D printer of Israel’s Nexa3D (see previously) to produce high-quality prototypes for Disney Pixar’s new “Elemental” movie. Nexa3D’s xMODEL17-Clear resin achieved the desired visual effects for the fire and water characters.

A from Israel’s Code for Israel (see previously) have created a website “Ani Al Ze” (Hebrew for “I’m on it”) to help PTSD sufferers combat procrastination. The website is currently offered by NATAL, an Israeli non-profit that treats citizens suffering from war- and terror-related trauma.