Quantum Computing: Intel

Posted on December 3, 2020 by GilPress

Intel aims to achieve quantum practicality–commercially-viable quantum computing–by the end of this decade.

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Quantum Computing: Honeywell

Posted on December 2, 2020 by GilPress

Honeywell’s quantum computer is ready for companies eager to find out what will be the impact of the next era of computing on their business.

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Quantum Computing Consortia

Posted on December 1, 2020 by GilPress

The Quantum Economic Development Consortium and The Chicago Quantum Exchange are two examples of government-academia-industry collaboration in the race for global quantum supremacy

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AI by the Numbers: 84% of Americans are worried about data collection for Covid-19

Posted on July 21, 2020 by GilPress

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of AI highlight the current state of adoption of AI by enterprises worldwide, the future of deep learning, and consumers’ attitudes regarding Covid-19 contact tracing.

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Will Work From Home Last Beyond the Pandemic?

Posted on July 16, 2020 by GilPress

Remember we were so worried about AI killing jobs only a year ago? Now that a coronavirus is killing people around the world, the future of work has turned in a new direction, becoming virtual and remote, rather than physical and local. The digital transformation of work has finally arrived. But will it last?

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Dr. Yair Schindel, aMoon Managing Partner, on Covid-19 and Investing in Medtech

Posted on July 1, 2020 by GilPress

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When VC aMoon was established in 2017, “the premise was to invest heavily in the convergence of technology and biology, healthcare and data,” says Dr. Yair Schindel, its Managing Partner. Schindel and Marius Nacht, the other founder of the Israeli venture capital firm which has raised to date more than $1 billion, were talking to potential investors about “the coming tsunami of healthtech” over the next 10 years. “Now we see things happening that we only expected to see three or five years from now,” says Schindel. “In that sense, Covid put everything on steroids.”

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Pandemic Tech Trends and Startups

Posted on June 24, 2020 by GilPress

At the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference on June 22, 2020, Stav Erez and Dr. Jonathan Wiesen presented the top 10 tech trends emerging from the current global pandemic

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Will a Worldwide Healthcare Data Platform Help Fight Future Pandemics?

Posted on June 18, 2020 by GilPress

To respond effectively to a global pandemic, governments need to have access to very large volumes of healthcare data, collected over a long period of time with patient privacy protected, and sourced from many locations and populations around the world.

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Travel During and After the Pandemic

Posted on June 17, 2020 by GilPress

Herzliya, Israel-based Pangea announced today a platform and a process with which governments worldwide can issue a smart card that facilitates entry into airport terminals and airplanes. The card has the holder’s photo, a digital signature, a chip, and a hologram, includes up-to-date encrypted data on the holder’s Covid-19 profile, and can be securely linked to a country’s medical database.

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AI by the Numbers: Mixed Results for Enterprise AI

Posted on June 16, 2020 by GilPress

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Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of AI highlight the mix results of implementing AI in the enterprise; the increased adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Work From Home (WFH) practices as a result of Covid-19; and China as the largest source of top-tier AI researchers, with more than half of them working in the US.

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