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To encourage safer driving in Rhode Island, and to gain insight into how telematics can influence driving behavior, Amica Insurance has partnered with

Some of the most unique computers in the world are housed in the Rogues Galley, a collection of uncommon architectures hosted by Georgia Tech’s Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH). Last September, the gallery received its first member, the Emu Chick, and this year CRNCH researchers have made considerable progress programming the Chick to the benefit of CRNCH and their industry partner, Emu Technology.

When Arun Saigal and WeiHua Li decided to spin-out MIT's App Inventor tool, the drag-and-drop service for building your own app had already reached 4.3 million registered users who made more than 13 million apps. Thunkable, which ultimately grew out of MIT in December 2015, hopes to reach the same success as the original tool did and democratize app creation by making it easy for people around the globe to build both Android and iOS apps, regardless of programming experience.

BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida-based Bankers Insurance recently expanded the use of Hi Marley's intelligent conversation platform to handle property claims from the first major hurricane of the 2018 season – Hurricane Florence.

Drag-and-drop app builder startup Thunkable has launched a cross-platform version of its product that lets users create apps that work across Android and iOS.

The app builder is targeted at non-coders and first time developers, with the bold claim that the platform lets “anyone create beautiful and powerful apps”.