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...
Ana Zamora #LanzamosLUCA: Dave Sweeney on using Mobile Data to disrupt Transport and Tourism This week we share the launch presentation of Dave Sweeney, our Commercial Lead for Public and Transport sectors in the UK. Dave told us all about about how mobile...
AI of Things The 5 most in-demand Big Data profiles in 2017 With Big Data falling off the Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Cycle this year, and Artificial Intelligence now hogging the limelight, we decided to take a look at the most...
Ana Zamora Big Data and Tourism: How this Girona Festival became Data-Driven Every year, from the 9th to the 17th of May, Girona celebrates the “Temps de Flors”, one of the most popular flower festivals in Europe. For ten days, the...
AI of Things International call traffic may tell you more than first thought This post debates the value of international phone calls in understanding society. Telefónica has a wide global infrastructure of networks which can be used by other service providers to carry...
Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence: What even is that? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest topic out there at the moment, and often it is merely associated with chatbots such as Siri or other cognitive programs such as...
Florence Broderick Telefónica Mannequin Challenge Today in the office we decided to do our very own Mannequin Challenge, bringing together employees from all over Telefónica. This viral internet craze has even frozen the internet...
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...
Innovation Marketing Team Empowering women in entrepreneurship: 10 female – led startups in Germany In Germany, only about 15% of startups are initiated by women. Sadly, the figure has been stagnant for years. Additionally, female-led startups receive significantly less Venture Capital than those...
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
ElevenPaths How to cause a DoS in Windows 8 explorer.exe We have discovered by accident how to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) in Windows 8. It’s a little bug that is present in the last version of the...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
Florence Broderick Showing certificate chain without validating with Windows "certificate store" (C#) Java has its own independent certificate store. If you wish to view natively in Windows a certificate extracted from an APK or JAR file Windows may not find the...
