Technology/Science
Toyota Launches $1B Center Focused on Creating Smart Cars That Don’t Crash
Toyota Motor Corp. is spending $1 billion to form a research institute focused on the artificial intelligence and robotics technology it needs to make cars that can overcome driver errors and reduce ...
Novarica: U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Market Slowly Warming to Online Sales
Few carriers in the U.S. small commercial insurance market are relying on direct online sales right now. But the number is growing, and it could become quite large within the next five years, ...
Buffett’s Railway Company Helped Lead Successful Effort to Delay Train Safety Tech
When an Amtrak passenger train derailed in Philadelphia in May, killing eight people and injuring scores more, the railroad industry's campaign to delay a Dec. 31 deadline to install technology to ...
US and UK Will Jointly Test Global Financial Firms’ Cyber Security
The US and British governments will hold a joint exercise to test cyber security and information sharing arrangements involving global financial institutions, according to the UK National Computer ...
Japanese Car Makers Feeling the Heat of Disrupters Google, Apple
The days of cheap and cheerful cars like the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla may be numbered as technology firms Google and Apple muscle into the auto industry, and change the way people own and drive ...
Wal-Mart Follows Amazon in Seeking Drone Permit for Home Delivery
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with ...
KPMG: Driverless Cars Could Drastically Reduce U.S. Personal Auto Insurance Sector
The U.S. personal auto insurance sector could shrink by 60 percent within 25 years as autonomous vehicles catch on, vehicles become safer and both trends reduce the number of accidents, KPMG said in ...
Hackers Targeting $330B Space Economy
Space, the "final frontier," is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival ...