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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...
Aug 22 2025 // Hurricane Erin is muddling computer models and making forecasters, analysts and traders question the accuracy of the outlook for heat, wind and storms across Europe next week.Erin, which churned through the Atlantic 330...
Aug 11 2025 // Artificial intelligence is quickly reshaping the insurance landscape, and Gallagher Re’s global head of insurtech, Andrew Johnston, warned in the company’s latest Global InsurTech Report that this trend...
Aug 13 2025 // Insurtech Superagent AI issued a press release yesterday to announce its goal of starting the first fully autonomous AI insurance agent by the end of the year.“We’re not just reshaping insurance. We’re...
Aug 20 2025 // Maryland’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising violated the Constitution, a federal appeals court says, because blocking Big Tech from telling customers about the tax violates the companies’ right to...
Aug 5 2025 // Hong Kong set a rainfall record for August after violent storms lashed the city on Tuesday, leading to flight delays and commuter chaos.About 356 millimeters (14 inches) of precipitation was recorded at the Hong Kong...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aug 7 2025 // Root Inc. swung to second quarter net income of $22 million versus a loss of $7.8 million a year ago during the same time.Results build off net income of $18.2 million for Q1 2025, reversing a loss of $6.2 million for Q1...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...