Technology/Science
Driver Skills Diminishing as Automated Tech Takes Hold
If your car can hit the brakes in an emergency and check your blind spots, will that make you a worse driver? Increasingly, automakers are worrying it may. Driver-assist technology that keeps cars in ...
Insurance Distribution Is Evolving Into a Core System
With technology advancements and expansion racing one another in the insurance industry, it's becoming ever more evident that distribution is evolving into a core system. Insurers haven't said so in ...
Compare.com Proves Insurance Disruption Won’t Happen Quickly: CEO Rose
Disrupting an industry that has been doing things the same way for a generation takes time. Take it from one major insurance disruptor – compare.com. The online insurance comparison marketplace ...
Reinsurers Turn to Fintech Startups for Diversification in Soft Market
When Micah Carr-Hill wanted to insure Chief, the labrador that helps with his son's autism therapy, he found an ally in Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer. The German company had just teamed up ...
HBO Tried to Delay Hacker Data Release With $250,000 Offer
Time Warner Inc's HBO network last month offered $250,000 to cyber criminals who hacked into its computer system, asking them to extend a deadline for paying a much larger ransom, according to an ...
Tesla Developing Self-Driving Trucks, Pushing for Tests in Nevada
Tesla Inc is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according ...
AIG Execs: Cyber Insurance Demand Will Soar in China, Asia Following WannaCry Attack
Demand for cyber insurance from firms in Greater China and elsewhere in Asia is poised to soar, based on enquiries received after the "WannaCry ransomware" attack earlier this year, executives at ...
Socure Raises $13.9M; Insurance Industry Among Buyers of Company’s Digital ID Verification Tech
Socure, a developer of digital identity verification predictive analytics technology, raised nearly $14 million in a Series B venture financing round from backers with insurance industry investment ...