Technology/Science
The Mathematics of Earthquakes: Student Applies Financial Model to Seismic Data
A computational science doctoral student at the University of Texas at El Paso has successfully tied a new mathematical modeling process to the study of earthquakes. "The model that we applied to the ...
Battery Combustion Risk Forces Recall of Samsung Galaxy 7 Smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co. recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones because of a faulty battery and announced a global replacement program, days before archrival Apple Inc. is set to unveil its newest ...
New Technologies: A Double-Edged Sword for Insurance Companies
The insurance industry is on the horns of a dilemma: how to use new technologies to improve their operations and how to insure the risks these new technologies present to their customers. Situation ...
Warren Buffett’s Railroad at Forefront of Commercial Drone Testing
Before some cutting-edge online retailer can use a drone to drop granola bars on your doorstep, a railroad born when Abe Lincoln was in Congress will first have to iron out the kinks. BNSF Railway ...
Cambridge Mobile Telematics Partners With Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance to Develop Behavior-Based Telematics Program
Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ADI), a global insurance company, have formed a strategic partnership to bring a behavior-based telematics program to Japan. ...
Bitcoin Exchanges Face Growing Cyber Hacking Risks
When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency. The cyber theft -- the ...
Europe Flood Risk: A New Growth Opportunity for the Industry
Flood events are not restricted by geopolitical borders. In a landmass with multiple adjacent countries such as Europe, flood risk can have a wide-reaching impact on both business and ...
Are Wearable Clouds the Next Innovation in Data Storage?
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud — a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into ...