Technology/Science
Data System in Third U.S. Pipeline Company Hobbled After Cyber Attack
A third U.S. pipeline company reported its electronic system for communicating with customers has stopped working, a day after a cyberattack resulted in a similar shutdown. The Department of Homeland ...
Uber Self-Driving Car Fatality: Daughter of Victim Settles, Other Family Retain Lawyer
More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first ...
Atlanta Struggles to Recover From Cyber Attack, Relying on Paper and Phones
Atlanta's top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into ...
Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 3)
Founders and investors in InsurTech carriers need to prepare themselves—mentally and financially—for a long rough road to profitability, and they need to find reinsurers who are both flexible and ...
Dispatches from InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 2)
Statutory financial statements are painting an unattractive picture for three InsurTechs that have chosen to become real insurers so far. In Part 1 of this three-part article, we revealed that loss ...
Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 1)
"All the insurance players will be InsurTech" is a phrase we have uttered on many occasions in the past few years, but some InsurTechs have chosen to be insurers. Real insurers. Which means they file ...
Lord & Taylor, Saks Data Breach: Millions of Payment Cards May Be Compromised
Retailer Hudson's Bay Co on Sunday disclosed that it was the victim of a security breach that compromised data on payment cards used at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America. One cyber ...
Tesla Acknowledges Vehicle Autopilot Activated Before Fatal Crash
Tesla Inc said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles ...