Richard Benjamins LUCA’s first 70 days We are almost at the end of 2016, which has been a big year for the world of Big Data. One important milestone was the creation of LUCA, Telefonica’s...
AI of Things LUCA’s First White Paper: Surviving the AI Hype LUCA has published its first white paper today entitled “Surviving the AI Hype – Fundamental concepts to understand Artificial Intelligence“. Written by Dr Richard Benjamins, this piece aims to...
AI of Things Our Christmas Lip Sync It’s been a busy few months since our LUCA launch in October, but finally the time has come to have a few days rest and enjoy the festive spirit....
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT Trends for 2017, users in the spotlight 2016 has been the year when connectivity started to change driven by LPWA technologies and Personal IoT gains traction as a scenario where users are the main players. But...
AI of Things The refugee crisis and Syrian Civil War; a humanitarian issue reflected through data When we finish the year we always look to the past to weigh up the good and the bad moments of the year (trying to make the most of...
Richard Benjamins Can machines think? Or are humans machines? This is the last in a series of three post about some fundamental notions of AI. The objective of these series of three posts is to equip readers with...
AI of Things Where are people from Madrid going during the upcoming December holidays? During the early December bank holiday many of us take the opportunity to relax, discover new places or return to our countries of origin. This time, as a further...
AI of Things Marathon Commuters: Which nationalities spend most time travelling to and from work? Just 600 cities are projected to create more than 60% of global economic growth by 2025. Our reluctance to distribute population outside of these urban powerhouses has caused city...
Richard Benjamins How “intelligent” can Artificial Intelligence get? This post is the second in a series of three posts, each of which discuss the fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence. In our first post we discussed AI definitions,...
AI of Things Air Quality: How can Open Data and Mobile Data provide actionable insights? Today on our blog we’ve decided to take the mobility and traffic Big Data analysis we started here a little bit further, looking at the relationship between commuting and air...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Towards a smarter supply chain One of the recurring use cases that is always mentioned when talking about Blockchain is its application in supply chains. In fact, back in 2018, at Telefónica we were...
Florence Broderick Our CEO, Pedro Pablo Pérez, will represent Telefonica in the European Cyber Security Organization Brussels and the cybersecurity industry will earmark up to 1.8 billion euros in research TELEFONICA JOINS THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANIZATION AS...
Florence Broderick Mobile Connect winner of the 'Connected Life Awards' Mobile Connect is a multi-operator solution driven by GSMA for universal secure access. The user only needs to link their information to their mobile device solution to have quick...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
