When this article came out in May of 2019, I was genuinely excited. Microsoft and Sony form cloud gaming and AI partnership Microsoft and Sony are forming an unusual partnership to work on cloud gaming and AI together. Sony's services will…www.theverge.com It signified to me the shift of power in the future gaming industry. The threat from Google was so big, that it made the two largest rivals in the gaming industry, Playstation and Xbox, unite. …

October 1st, 2020 — These are my 5 favorite features announced today at FCS2020: 1. Brand Collaborations A new interface will help brands connect with group leaders for sponsored collaborations. The feature that has been available for pages before and will now roll out to groups as well. 2. Group Chats Strike Back Chats for Groups were one of my favorite features…

“Crash courses” for busy techies — Tired of promising yourself that you’ll finish that online course for your side project on the weekend at home? Starting today, developers in Jerusalem can join short “crash courses” to help you get going — as part of Side Project Club. Side Project Academy focuses on designing courses for a…

From 70+ companies. Refreshed Weekly. More than 430 companies still in the pipeline. — Tonight, at the final Happy Hour JLM for 2018, we announced a project we had been working on for the past few months — a new Made in JLM job board that has 20x-50x more jobs than our current one, and the largest board ever available for local Jerusalem tech…

If you work at Intel, volunteered, and can fill out a really short form before the end of the year. — Intel’s corporate giving program matches employee volunteer hours for their favorite nonprofit organizations. For every hour you report of volunteer activity in the community this year, Intel will give $10. Each employee can report up to 1000 hours per year. Donations are yearly and there are only a few days…

Finding Global Opportunities With The Misrad-less JLM Remote Board — Earlier this May Shay Ke created the Misrad-Less group, a community for “office-less” freelancers and remote workers in Jerusalem. Over the past 6 months, Almost 300 freelancers and remote members joined the group — and we know many more are out there. A supportive ecosystem for freelancers is a crucial…

What You Missed About Facebook’s New $10M Grant Project — In June of 2017, Facebook updated its core mission to: “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”. …

HackJLM Is Now Society Labs — 2017 And The Search For A New Name One year ago, we launched our first event, an overnight hackathon for Jerusalem’s tech community. We opened up our nonprofit Made in JLM’s platforms and data to the pubic, so that volunteers could contribute in the development of the tools that help the community they themselves are a part of…

Autonomy means you have permission to experiment. It’s the freedom to choose how you achieve your goal. You can play, and whether you win or lose, you can see how your own choices influenced the outcome. You aren’t punished for failing, but encouraged to try again, and do better. Competence…