Technology/Science
U.S. Power Grid Attack Could Cause $70B Insurance Losses: Lloyd’s Report
A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water ...
United Airlines Travelers Faced With Two-Hour Flight Disruption
United Airlines resumed flights yesterday morning after a computer fault halted all U.S. departures for about two hours, disrupting travel for thousands of passengers in the second such setback since ...
Pacific El Niño Turbocharged by Tropical Cyclones
The El Niño forming across the Pacific has been turbocharged by a series of tropical cyclones that helped to shift the direction of trade winds, potentially adding to warming that's evoking ...
SpaceX Still Doesn’t Know Why Falcon 9 Rocket Exploded
SpaceX is still homing in on why its Falcon 9 rocket exploded after liftoff last week, unable to resolve conflicting data radioed back to the ground before the explosion, CEO Elon Musk said on ...
ISO and SFAA Announce Web-Based Reporting Solution
ISO and The Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) have launched a new Web-based tool to help make it easier for surety and fidelity bond carriers to manage the growing amounts of ...
Friday Afternoon Cyber Scam Cost Hedge Fund $1.2M and CFO’s Job
The finance chief at Fortelus Capital Management LLP got an alarming phone call just as he was getting ready to leave work on a Friday. The caller said he was from Coutts, the London-based hedge ...
Group Backed by Tesla’s Musk Probing Artificial Intelligence Risks
Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has turned his worries about the rise of artificial intelligence into an international research program. The Musk-backed Future of Life Institute ...
Move Over Uber Drivers: Autonomous Taxis Offer Green Benefits
According to a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a system of driverless taxi fleets would both be cost-effective and greatly reduce per-mile emissions of greenhouse ...