Global insurtech funding hit a seven-year low of $4.25 billion in 2024, marking a challenging year for the sector, though AI-focused companies showed resilience by securing $2.01 billion across 119 deals, according to Gallagher Re’s Global Insurtech Report. Total insurtech funding in 2024 — down 5.6 percent from $4.51 billion in 2023 — represents the … Read more
But, of course, you need to make the fuel there in the first place. The obvious choice for that is water, which can be split to produce hydrogen and oxygen. We know there is water on the Moon, but we don’t yet know how much, and whether it’s concentrated into large deposits. Given that uncertainty, … Read more
A marble statue of Aphrodite (Hellenistic or Roman period) discovered at Blakhiya, in the Gaza Strip, on display at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva (Switzerland), October 3, 2024. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP This marble figure of Aphrodite should have disappeared. It should have been pulverized in the blast that reduced Jawdat Khoudary’s private museum in … Read more
The Council of Europe (CoE) is preparing to amend its legal definition of terrorism, to largely replicate key elements of the European Union’s (EU) definition in its Counter-terrorism Directive 2017 (and previous Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism 2002). The proposed definition aims to make the CoE definition more comprehensive than the CoE’s existing Convention on … Read more
Feb 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Website Hacking Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a credit card stealing malware campaign that has been observed targeting e-commerce sites running Magento by disguising the malicious content within image tags in HTML code in order to stay under the radar. MageCart is the name given to a malware that’s capable of … Read more
