AI of Things Can Mobile Data combat Climate Change in Germany? One of our favourite topics here at LUCA is using Big Data for Social Good, to measure our progress on Sustainable Development Goals. Three of the 17 goals are...
AI of Things Commuter Traffic: Can Big Data solve the problem? When we sit in our daily traffic jams, many of us may think: Where do the other commuters come from? Where are they on their way to? Are we...
Florence Broderick Big Dating: Could AI be the real matchmaker on Tinder? Online dating platforms such as Tinder, Happn and Hinge are seeing exponential growth, slowly sliding on to the home screens of smartphone users all over the world. Last week...
Ana Zamora LUCA at Big Data Spain 2016: Our Full Roundup Over the past 2 days our LUCA team have been in full force at the Big Data Spain 2016 event, which was held this year in Kinepolis in the...
Richard Benjamins Open Data and Business – a paradox? While Open Data has a wide range of definitions, Wikipedia provides one of the most commonly accepted: “Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available...
Florence Broderick The Data Transparency Lab Conference 2016 kicks off tomorrow By Ramon Sangüesa, Data Transparency Lab coordinator. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Tahoma; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} This week the 2016 edition of the Data Transparency Lab conference...
AI of Things Big Data Spain 2016: Your chance to join the LUCA team? This week on the 17th and 18th of November, Big Data Spain 2016 will be taking place bringing together over 1000 Big Data experts from all over the world...
AI of Things Chatbots? New? You haven’t met ELIZA By Dr Richard Benjamins, VP for External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at the moment. We definitely live in the...
Richard Benjamins Big Data and Elections: We shine a light on Trump and Clinton Twitter is widely used as a tool to understand and predict phenomena in the real world. Today on our blog, we have been using Twitter to understand the US Presidential...
AI of Things Can Big Data and IOT prevent motorcycle crashes? Most of us are familiar with the dangers involved in driving motorbikes, with motorcyclists being 27 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths creates an addon to make Firefox compatible with Certificate Transparency Certificate Transparency will be mandatory in Chrome for new certificates in late 2017. This means that the webpages will show an alert if protected by certificates not present in...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
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....
