Technology/Science
Lloyd’s Neighbor, Walkie Talkie, Seeks Shade from Car-Melting Beam
The owners of the 37-story skyscraper in the City of London financial district known as the Walkie Talkie are seeking permission to mount sun-shading gear to block a car-melting light beam cast by ...U.S. to Unveil Voluntary Guidelines for Corporate Cybersecurity
The U.S. government is expected on Wednesday to release the final version of voluntary standards meant to help U.S. companies in nationally critical industries better protect themselves against cyber ...
Praedicat Launches Cloud-based Casualty Model; Mines Data from Published Science
Praedicat, the world's first liability catastrophe modeling company, announced the launch of its flagship software product, CoMeta on Tuesday. CoMeta delivers commercially-relevant analytics for ...
‘The Mask’ Revealed; Researchers Find Cyber Spies Targeting Govt. Agencies, Energy Cos .
A computer security software firm has uncovered what it calls the first cyber espionage campaign believed to be started by a Spanish-speaking country, targeting government agencies, energy companies ...
Early California Wildfire Season Could Be Unprecedented
California's worst drought in decades is feeding what may become a devastating wildfire season, one that is starting about five months early. Extremely dry conditions have sparked 487 wildfires so ...
RMS Releases New Models for U.S. Convective Storms, China Typhoon
RMS announced Monday that it has released new views of risk for U.S. and Canada Severe Convective Storm (SCS) and China Typhoon. According to the Newark, Calif.-based firm, the new versions of these ...
Pacific Winds Slowing Global Warming, Study Says
Stronger Pacific Ocean winds may help explain the slowdown in the rate of global warming since the turn of the century, scientists said. More powerful winds in the past 20 years may be forcing warmer ...
Towers Watson Releases UBI Auto Insurance Model
Towers Watson has launched DriveAbility 2.0 Score, an analytical scoring model designed for the automobile insurance industry. DriveAbility 2.0 Score includes a GPS version with location-specific ...