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Global specialty cyber reinsurance MGA Envelop Risk See full company profile “> announced it has promoted Graeme Bell to group chief operating officer and Simon Welton to the role of EVP – underwriting performance and strategic partnerships. Bell joined as a non-executive director in 2020, moving to an executive position as group chief legal officer in 2021 at the same time as Envelop’s $130m Series B fundraise from SoftBank. Alongside that he has served as interim COO since 2023 and is also a director of both Envelop’s US broker, DataStream Cyber Insurance and its Bermuda Class 3A reinsurer, Augmented Re.…

Niantic and Capcom unveiled that the location-based game Monster Hunter Now will get an update with new content and a monster related to Monster Hunter Wilds. Monster Hunter Wilds is a PC and console game launching on February 28. The companies said they’re adding a monster dubbed Chatacabra, an amphibian with a big tongue. Chatacabra in Monster Hunter Now. On top of that, Monster Hunter Now will get cosmetics that are inspired by Monster Hunter Wilds. That includes a version of a Seikret mount and a Hope armor set, as well as Hope versions of game weapons. The next season…

It was a rough weekend for TSLA as public protests of CEO Elon Musk and his actions at DOGE overwhelm Tesla showrooms as calls from shareholders to fire America’s most powerful immigrant grow louder. Plus, solid-state batteries and a brand-new, affordable EV from Kia on today’s rapidly escalating episode of Quick Charge! We’ve also got word that Xi Jinping could be holding approval of Elon’s (supervised) Full Self Driving software hostage until the US backs off its proposed tariffs against China, and a new purchase from Cummins could make drop-in hybrid kids a commercial reality for construction and mining operations sooner than…

At least two workstation specialists have put supercharged PCs with Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs on sale over the past few days. The most impressive of them all is the Bizon ZX5500 which packs up to seven (yes, seven) water-cooled 32GB RTX 5090 GPUs in a tall tower casing. This is the best GPU ever built and buying it through system builders seems to be the only way to avoid months-long wait.While BizonTech’s solution will probably feature in our best workstation guide, it is not as expansive as Comino’s Grando server, which has eight RTX 5090 GPUs, but the latter has…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How we keep warm at home accounts for 17% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. The UK cannot reach net zero emissions, and end its contribution to climate change, without ending its reliance on natural gas as the dominant source of heating. As elsewhere in Europe, heat pumps (which use electricity to draw heat out of the air or ground and circulate it indoors) are regarded as the best way to reduce carbon emissions. But are people ready to ditch their gas boilers? My colleagues and I spent three years researching what people need, want and…

“Deere’s performance in the first quarter highlights our continued focus on optimizing inventory levels of both new and used equipment amidst the uncertain market conditions our customers are facing,” said John C. May, chairman and chief executive officer. “We’re seeing compelling evidence that our efforts are positioning the company to successfully navigate the current environment.”Net income attributable to Deere & Company for fiscal 2025 is forecasted to remain in a range of $5.0 billion to $5.5 billion.  “The stability of our net income guidance not only reflects our resilience in a challenging market but also enables our sustained strategic investments…

Local LLM usage is on the rise, and with many setting up PCs or systems to run them, the idea of having an LLM run on a server somewhere in the cloud is quickly becoming outmoded.Binh Pham experimented with a Raspberry Pi Zero, effectively turning the device into a small USB drive that can run an LLM locally with no extras needed. The project was largely facilitated thanks to llama.cpp and llamafile, a combination of an instruction set and a series of packages designed to offer a lightweight chatbot experience offline.But, due to the Pi Zero being eight years old,…

Technology is changing the way pharmaceutical companies discover and develop new drugs. For Matt Studney, who joined Merck as a chemical engineer, technology changed the course of his career. In 2017, the pharma giant was one of several healthcare businesses breached by a cyberattack. Studney was tasked with leading the company’s recovery. Studney said the experience gave him a deep, inside look into Merck’s technology stack. Now, as vice president of information technology of Merck Research Labs, his responsibilities include identifying and implementing new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, that support the company’s drug research. It’s a big change from…

Sustainability tech has been all the buzz in the last few years. Investors are hunting promising ESG businesses, governments are pushing ambitious legislation, and companies are getting on board to adopt new solutions. Sustainability funding is projected to reach unprecedented levels, with BCG Henderson Institute estimating accumulated global investment to achieve net zero to hit $75 trillion by 2050.  And yet, behind the curtain, the picture isn’t quite as rosy. According to Statista, VC investment in sustainability and climate tech has been steadily declining since 2021. While AI startups often manage to secure funding rounds within mere weeks, sustainability-focused companies…

Dear Readers, I’m thrilled to share the news today that four STAT reporters have won the George W. Polk Award, one of the most prestigious honors in American journalism, for their series that highlights how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. Long before the killing last December of a top executive sparked extraordinary interest in United Health, reporters Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence and their editors recognized that the conglomerate’s anticompetitive behavior and emergence as a modern-day Standard Oil set it apart and deserved months of our…