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Tata AIG collaborates with Drone Federation of India for Drone Insurance
“With the government taking active steps to support drone manufacturing and drone operations in India, we will soon see proactive usage of drones in activities like mining, construction, surveillance, transport, fire-fighting, law enforcement, agricultural and topographical data acquisition, insurance assessments, media and entertainment,” said Smit Shah, Director – Partnerships, DFI.
Facebook will pay $550 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it illegally stored user data
Facebook said it had 2.89 billion monthly active users of its products around the world, but growth stagnated in the US and Canada on the main social network — the primary source of advertising sales. Monthly active users hit 2.5 billion on the main network as of Dec. 31, slightly topping analysts’ estimate of 2.49 billion.
Worldwide sales of smartphones decline for 1st time since 2008
“2019 was a challenging year for smartphone vendors, primarily due to oversupply in the high-end sector in mature markets and longer replacement cycles overall,” Research Vice President at Gartner, Annette Zimmermann said.
Saudi prince may have sent spyware via Whatsapp to hack Bezos’ phone: Probe
The technical experts hired by Bezos concluded “with medium to high confidence that Bezos’ iPhone was compromised via malware sent from a WhatsApp account used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman,” said the report by FTI Consulting, first reported by the online news site Vice.
Real-time payments platforms have increased fraud losses for 4 out of 5 APAC Banks:Survey
“While the convenience of real-time payments is great news for customers, increasingly, banks have zero time to clear a transaction or payment. AI can’t slow down the clock, but it can help create systems that are radically quicker to recognize a transaction that smells likely to be fraudulent,” said Dan McConaghy, president of FICO in Asia Pacific.
“Banks will need to move beyond passwords and OTPs and add biometrics, device telemetry and customer behavior analytics to keep up with the changing payments landscape,” he said.
Hopeful all countries will come together on AI regulations: Sundar Pichai
Pichai added he is clear-eyed about the risks of technology, but the risk of AI is failing to work on it, because it can affect billions of people
Ransomware exposure driving up cyber insurance costs
Cyber-insurance premiums started rising 5% to 25% late last year, said Robert Parisi, U.S. cyber product leader at Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
IBM calls for rules to curb bias in Artificial Intelligence
The European Union is considering new, legally binding requirements for developers of artificial intelligence to ensure the technology is developed and used in an ethical way. IBM advised a European committee of academics, experts and executives that recommended avoiding unnecessarily prescriptive rules.
EU privacy regulators expected to raise fines under GDPR data protection rules
Regulators in France, Germany and Austria levied the biggest fines so far, while the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. topped the list for the number of data breaches notified to their authorities, the survey by law firm DLA Piper found. France’s data protection commission, the CNIL, last January slapped Google with a 50 million-euro fine over transparency, information and consent failures.
Boeing 737 MAX: Company finds ‘new minor’ software glitch in grounded aircraft
Boeing is rewriting software that played a role in crashes five months apart in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people and led regulators to ground the plane worldwide in March 2019.