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How nonlinear careers could drive Jerusalem’s hi-tech rise

At American Innovation Forum in Jerusalem, business leaders say discipline, risk-taking, and adaptability are key to the capital’s hi-tech future.

American Innovation Forum panelists Orit Greenbaum Lipski, Muawyah Akash, and Tamir Goodman, moderator Anna Ahronheim, and JYP Forum founder Marc Faust, in Jerusalem, Israel, May 20, 2026.
Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv

Microsoft probes Israel defense ties, top executive exits amid fallout

A Microsoft keyboard

Microsoft will allow pausing Windows updates without time limit

Hacker. Autonomous AI Agents.

AI startup Mercor faces mass litigation following data breach - report


The quietest place on earth will drive you insane

In 2015, Microsoft built a room that is now officially designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the quietest place on Earth.

 Radio frequency anechoic chamber, Antennas Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The interior surfaces are covered with pyramidal Radiation Absorbent Material (RAM) which are made of rubberized foam impregnated with mixtures of carbon and iron.

Here is everything you need to know about lay-offs and dismissals - explainer

Companies across the world are being forced to lay off thousands of people due to recession.

 The Google logo at Alphabet's Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California, in 2018.

Israel launches Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

Israel declared it would invest in transforming the country's ecosystem into a global source of inspiration for the development of low-carbon technologies.

 View of the Microsoft offices in Herzliya, Israel, on May 28, 2021

First Excel NFTs include renderings of Ukraine's Zelensky

All proceeds from the first-ever Microsoft Excel NFTs will go to the victims of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 First Excel NFTs, with some rendering Ukraine's president Zelensky, go on sale.

Why did Russia's cyber warfare against Ukraine fizzle out?

The vice president of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center grants insight into the sudden lack of aggression from Russia at the war's outbreak.

 John Lambert, vice president of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center

Israeli cloud company CloudZone announces new Portuguese branch

The branch will be headed by former FlipKick CEO Nuno Tavares

Attendees at Amazon.com Inc annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2017.

Microsoft scales down Russia operations due to Ukraine crisis

"We have made the decision to significantly scale down our operations in Russia," a Microsoft spokesperson said.

 Smartphone is seen in front of Microsoft logo displayed in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021.

Microsoft disables Iran-linked hacker group targeting Israeli companies

Lebanon-based POLONIUM group targeted over 20 Israeli companies using Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage platform.

 EVEN AFTER THE Cyberserve/Atraf disaster, Bennett is more afraid of overregulation than he is of lacking the power to save the private sector from its own occasional cyber laziness or cheapness.

2022 sets the record in Jewish youth groups visiting Israel

After two years of the pandemic, 2022 has been a record year in the last decade so far in the arrival of Jewish youth groups from all over the world.

 Jewish youth groups arrive in Israel thanks to Maccabi World Union.

NVIDIA to hire 1000 more workers for its Israel R&D center

Tech giants' interest in Israel reflects the broader state of the global tech industry.

 NVIDIA's Israel R&D center.