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Tiny Cameras, Sensors Help Reduce Risks in Cars With Automated Driving Tasks
Automakers are using tiny cameras, sensors to track drooping heads, steering wheel monitors and audible alerts to ensure drivers pay attention when using advanced driver assistance systems, like ...
Unlearn, Relearn and Deep Learn or Be History: Carrier Implications of Machine Learning
Something weird happened recently: My mum asked me if I had heard of this thing called machine learning (ML). Other than thinking she is hanging out with the wrong crowd, it got me thinking how ...
General Motors Mass Produces Self-Driving Chevy Bolt Test Vehicles
General Motors Co. says it has built 130 self-driving Chevrolet Bolt electric cars at a factory in suburban Detroit, making it among the first automakers to mass produce self-driving vehicles. The ...
Insurers Lead The Pack in Appointing Chief Digital Officers
Insurers – both from the property/casualty and life sectors – are far ahead of other industries in appointing a chief digital officer, according to Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting ...
American Express Boosts Next Insurance’s Series A Round to $35M
Next Insurance, a digital insurance agency for small to medium businesses, announced that American Express Ventures has joined its previously announced Series A Round led by Munich Re/HSB Ventures. ...
Cognitive Computing Takes Off
Cognitive computing is catching on fast among property/casualty insurance companies, which are embracing the new technology in pursuit of labor efficiency more than labor replacement—at least for ...
Cape Analytics Brings Cutting-Edge Property/Data Analytics Offerings to 8 More States
Cape Analytics, a startup that relies on machine learning, computer vision and geospatial imagery to produce propriety property data for insurance carriers and others, is expanding. After a start in ...
Blockchain Insurance Broking Deal Arrives in Bitfury/Risk Cooperative Tie-Up
U.S. technology company The Bitfury Group said on Friday it had formed a strategic partnership with advisory firm Risk Cooperative to use the blockchain digital ledger in the $60 billion insurance ...