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To all of our Carrier Management readers: Happy New Year! With the advance of 2020, we are also announcing the launch of something new on our website: Readers can now post comments about the stories ...XILO Raises Seed Funding, Hoping to Help Agents Compete With Lemonade
XILO, a San Diego-based InsurTech, announced at the end of 2020 that it has raised just over $2 million in seed financing to fuel development of an SaaS platform for insurance agents. In an indirect ...
Commercial Lines InsurTech Bold Penguin Snatches Up E&S Brokerage Tech Platform xagent
Bold Penguin, a commercial insurance exchange technology platform launched in 2016, announced it has acquired xagent, an independent, single-entry, multi-quote platform for standard and surplus lines ...
Growing Evidence of Vitamin E Acetate Link to Vaping Ills
Most patients stricken in a wave of vaping-related injuries had vitamin E acetate in their lungs, U.S. health officials found, reinforcing a suspected link between the compound and an outbreak that ...
NIST Study Finds Race Bias In AI Face Scanning Tech
Many facial recognition systems misidentify people of color more often than white people, according to a U.S. government study released on Thursday that is likely to increase skepticism of technology ...
FBI Cyber Warning: Some TVs Too Smart, and Other CM Risk Alerts
A recent FBI warning says smart TVs could leave users vulnerable to cyber criminals. Deepfakes may soon become impossible to detect. Drug-resistant superbugs may be teaching each other how to fight ...
Personal Info of 15M Canadians at Risk After LifeLabs Hacking
Canadian laboratory testing company LifeLabs disclosed on Tuesday that it had suffered a cyber attack that may have compromised the personal information of some 15 million customers, primarily in the ...
Will Emotion AI Make Human P/C Claims Adjusters Obsolete?
Renowned machine learning researcher and New York Times bestselling author Kai-fu Lee has described the era we are living in as "the age of implementation," a time period during which artificial ...