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#1 UK Car Theft Crisis Pits Manufacturers Against High-Tech Gangs

Jun 20 2025 // To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport.Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household...

#2 Wildfire Experience Inspires New Contents Claims Insurtech

May 29 2025 // When Michael Balarezo emerged from the basement office of his Boulder, Colo., home in December 2021, smoke plumes from the nearby Marshall Fire were visible from his driveway.Balarezo, his wife and daughter swiftly stowed...

#3 3 Emerging Risks to Watch: 6G Wireless Technology, Autonomous Trucks, Kratom

Apr 21 2025 // It seemed not so long ago that many wireless carriers were in a race to 5G, touting the speed of their networks to consumers. Now, the successor to that network is in development and could bring a bounty of potential...

#4 Florida County Leads With High-Tech 911 Emergency Response System

Jul 16 2025 // NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the scene to...

#5 Big Tech’s Data Center Boom Poses New Risk to Grid Operators

Mar 21 2025 // Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as Boston. So power company officials were alarmed when a big chunk of those...

#6 Hard Market, High Tech: Agriculture Insurance Adapts

Mar 24 2025 // Faced with heightened climate risks and political uncertainties, insurers writing agribusiness and farm and ranch are deploying data analytics and technology as they grapple with a hard market and the need for greater...

#7 Trump’s Antitrust Trio Heralds Big-Tech Crackdown to Continue

Dec 13 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump’s antitrust picks are likely to take a hard-line on the tech giants, and a harder line on corporate consolidation than the average Republican.All three of the new administration’s...

#8 Technology’s Grip on Modern Life Pushing Us Down a Path of Digital Land Mines

Aug 2 2024 // “Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for...

#9 Employers Turn to New Technology to Safeguard Workers From Extreme Heat

Jul 26 2024 // McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — At the start of every work day, construction worker Charles Smith puts on the essentials: hard hat. Safety glasses. A reflective vest. And a small, watch-like band for his wrist.But rather than...

#10 Insurtechs’ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Part I – Delos

Jan 21 2025 // While the Los Angeles wildfires inch closer toward containment, estimates of insured losses continue to creep higher.CoreLogic said the industry price tag of the Palisades and Eaton fires could land between $35 billion and...

#11 US Appeals Court Takes Aim at Big Tech Liability Shield

Aug 29 2024 // A US appeals court has struck down a long-standing argument from social media platforms: that a federal law grants them blanket immunity from being held accountable for user harms – even the wrongful death of children.In...

#12 Tech Industry Trade Group Sues Arkansas Over Social Media Laws

Jun 30 2025 // A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas Friday over two new laws that would place limits on content on social media platforms and would allow parents of children who killed themselves to sue over content on the...

#13 Baltic Sea Cable Cuts Can’t Be Accident, EU Tech Chief Says

Jan 14 2025 // The European Union’s new digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, suggested the repeated damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea couldn’t be fully accidental, as leaders from the region prepare to gather for a NATO...

#14 Claims Service, Tech, Communication Top Independent Agent Concerns

Feb 26 2025 // Claims, communication, and technology are the top three concerns for independent agents when placing new business with a carrier, according to insurtech Vertafore.The findings were the result of a survey of nearly 1,300...

#15 Apple, Meta Fined as EU Presses Ahead With Tech Probes

Apr 24 2025 // Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big...

#16 Big Tech Wants AI to Be Regulated. Why Do They Oppose a California AI Bill?

Aug 22 2024 // California legislators are set to vote on a bill as soon as this week that would broadly regulate how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed in California even as a number of tech giants have voiced broad...

#17 Making Friends With the Future: Agency Tech Moving at a Faster Pace Than Ever Before

Oct 21 2024 // That used to be one of my biggest beefs as an agency owner — I have all of these pieces of tech and none of them talked to each other,” Vonda Copeland, co-owner and vice president of operations at Copeland...

#18 EU AI Act Checker Reveals Big Tech’s Compliance Pitfalls

Oct 17 2024 // Some of the most prominent artificial intelligence models are falling short of European regulations in key areas such as cybersecurity resilience and discriminatory output, according to data seen by Reuters.The EU had long...

#19 Tech Update: Lloyd’s Backs BreachBits; ZoJacks Prevents Water Claims; Eagleview Expands Drone Options

Apr 24 2025 // Washington, D.C.-based BreachBits has received an investment of an undisclosed amount from Lloyd’s in what is the London-based global insurance marketplace’s third strategic innovation investment from among...

#20 Premium Insurance Demand Rises With Global Travel Disruptions

Jun 16 2025 // With flight cancellations, delays and other disruptions on the rise, leisure travelers are being increasingly discerning over the level and type of insurance they buy and businesses are turning to specialist advisory...