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Lloyd’s chooses 11 Start-Ups for developing products on claims and cryptocurrencies

For the seventh cohort, the InsurTech start-ups have been selected based on solutions geared towards three key themes: claims, data and models, and cryptocurrencies. Additionally, for the second cohort in a row, the Lloyd’s Lab accepted wildcard entrants who presented solutions outside of the core themes.

These start-ups focus on important areas such as anti-money laundering, robotics and construction. The teams will be working to create insurance products and solutions which can be adapted to the Lloyd’s market.

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Railways invites bids for hydrogen fuel-based tech for trains

“The retrofitting of diesel-powered DEMU and converting it into hydrogen fuel-powered train set will not only save the cost to the tune of Rs 2.3 crore annually by converting from diesel to hydrogen, but also save the carbon footprint (NO2) of 11.12 kilo tons per annum and particulate matter of 0.72 kilo tonnes per annum,” the statement said.

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Tech titans Amazon, Google, Microsoft join US cyber team to fight ransomware

The tech giants are among firms signed on to be part of a Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative intended to combine government and private skills and resources to fight hackers, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

“With these extraordinarily capable partners, our initial focus will be on efforts to combat ransomware and developing a planning framework to coordinate incidents affecting cloud service providers,” said CISA director Jen Easterly.

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Government has no plan at present to block any social media platform: MoS IT

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the government receives various grievances from users about hate content on social media platforms and responds to them in an appropriate way.

The government regularly interacts with social media intermediaries on various issues, including issuing advisories to make these intermediaries safe and accountable to users,. he said.

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Moody’s to acquire risk modelling firm RMS for $2 billion

The acquisition will immediately increase Moody’s insurance data and analytics business to nearly $500 million in revenue and will accelerate the development of the company’s global integrated risk capabilities to address the next generation of risk assessment.
With over 400 risk models covering 120 countries, RMS is the world’s leading provider of climate and natural disaster risk modeling serving the global property and casualty (P&C) insurance and reinsurance industries.

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Medium, heavy passenger EVs increase from 124 in 2018 to 1,356 as on date: Gadkari

In a written reply to a query in the Lok Sabha, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said the number of electric vehicles registered for transport of cargo has increased from 6,246 in 2018 to 27,645 as of date, according to Vahan 4 records.

Gadkari said that under the Phase-I of Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India (FAME India) scheme, 425 electric buses were supported.

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