Diego Martín Moreno What are Blockchain and Smart Contracts? Blockchain is the new technology for the treatment of data that everyone speaks about, but what is blockchain? Blockchain is a chain of blocks in which we have stored information,...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence vs Cognitive Computing: What’s the difference? The media hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing is unquestionable at the moment. They seem to appear everywhere on the Internet in the press, blogs, conferences and events...
AI of Things Deep Learning and satellite images to estimate the impact of COVID19 Motivated by the fact that the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused worldwide turmoil in a short period of time since December 2019, we estimate the negative impact of...
Cascajo Sastre María eSIM cards are here to boost the IoT SIM cards are much more than what they appear to be. Within an apparently simple rectangular metal chip encased in a plastic carrier is a miniature computer! SIM stands...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Hiding Keys Under the Mat: Governments Could Ensure Universal Insecurity The doorbell rang. “Who will be ringing now?” asked Brittney Mills, as she struggled to get off the couch. Her eight months of pregnancy were beginning to hinder her...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Developing a Tool to Decrypt VCryptor Ransomware (Available on NoMoreRansom.org) Discover how VCryptor ransomware works and the tool we have developed as part of NoMoreRansom.org to decrypt it.
Cristina de la Cruz How do we talk to Aura in different countries? The implementation of Aura, Telefónica’s Artificial Intelligence, in Spain, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Germany has revolutionised the way customers interact with the company. Currently, and depending on the...
Sarah Rojewski Transformation of customer service and sales in Germany with Aura I was invited to the event “Women in AI & Data” organized by databricks and hosted by Microsoft in Munich. It seems like a trendy topic but the founder...
Jose Palazón Our vision of Aura: more than just a digital assistant This week I participated for the first time in the Telco AI Summit, which took place in London. During the presentation entitled “Our vision of Aura: much more than a digital...
Miryam Artigas Telefónica receives the award as a leading AI company at the GLOTEL Awards thanks to Aura Last week, Telecoms.com, the digital transformation news platform, held the seventh edition of the Global Telecoms Awards (GLOTEL Awards) in central London. Like every year, experts from around the...
Richard Benjamins. The RAE launches LEIA with Telefónica, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook Last Friday, Chema Alonso and I had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the 16th Congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE) in Seville organised...
Óscar Mancebo Movistar Living Apps, a new technological experience in the home The fact that Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising and transforming the telecommunications sector is nothing new. Users, accustomed to dealing with virtual assistants and chatbots, increasingly rely on digital transformation. Anticipating...
Cristina de la Cruz Telefónica merges home communications through Aura Ecosystem Telefónica has been introducing technology into its customers’ homes for years, and now it is taking a step further by implementing Artificial Intelligence at home, through Movistar Home and Movistar Living Apps. An entire...
Fernando Menéndez-Ros The expansion and future of Aura, Telefónica’s AI A few years ago, Telefónica began a digital transformation process with the aim of seeking simplification, adaptation and the comprehensive digitalisation of the Company through the design and implementation...
Cristina de la Cruz Hacker Women are driving Aura, Telefónica’s Artificial Intelligence Telefónica is the pioneer telco in introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI), through Aura, to facilitate communication with its customers. Behind this initiative, one of the Company’s most ambitious, the profiles...
Fernando Menéndez-Ros Telefónica: a data and Artificial Intelligence driven company Last week Chema Alonso, Chief Data Officer of Telefónica, and Irene Gómez, Director of Telefónica Aura, gave a keynote speech about the company’s vision and ongoing projects on data...
AI of Things 5 AI uses in Photography On our blog, we enjoy sharing the applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in sectors that may surprise you. Previously, in “Dining with Data” we saw how customers...
AI of Things Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active in so many countries...
Diego Samuel Espitia Detecting the Indicators of An Attack We always choose to implement prevention and deterrence rather than containment mechanisms in security. However, the implementation of these mechanisms is not always effective or simple to set up...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 23-29 Attack against SonicWall by exploiting a possible 0-day in its VPN appliances Firewall manufacturer SonicWall has issued a security alert warning that it has detected a sophisticated attack against...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
