LUCA Under a week to go until #BDID2017! We are now less than 1 week away from Big Data Innovation Day, which will be held on the 31st October 2017 along with the first anniversary of the launch of...
LUCA The rise of data-driven education Here at LUCA, we like to use our blog to discover and explore how Big Data can be used in parts of society that have historically been closed off...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Barriers to IoT adoption Internet of Things is constantly growing. There are more and more objects in our familiar environments that work connected through the network. It makes our everyday activities easier in...
Beatriz Sanz Baños 7 objects that you did not know are IoT Internet of Things, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence keep expanding to all areas of our lives, improving the productivity of companies, governments and people. The amount of everyday objects integrate...
ElevenPaths CryptoClipWatcher, our new tool against crypto clipboard hijacking techniques Since 2017, this technique is becoming quite popular. Cryptocurrency in general is a new target for malware, and mining Bitcoins is not profitable anymore in regular computers (maybe Monero...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (II) In the first part of this article we explained how Bayesian inference works. According to Norman Fenton, author of Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks: Bayes’ theorem is...
Fernando Menéndez 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 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...
Chema Alonso The birth of Aura and its presentation in Microsoft When I became Chief Data Officer at Telefónica, I was faced with new challenges and possibilities as I began carrying out this new role in the company. One of...
Óscar Mancebo Movistar Home, the reinvention of the home thanks to Artificial Intelligence At the 2018 edition of MWC, we announced that we were working on Movistar Home, a device aimed at reinventing the home incorporating Aura, Telefónica’s artificial intelligence, for its...
Cristina de la Cruz Do Virtual Assistants improve the user experience with telcos? Virtual Assistants are more and more relevant in people’s daily lives, especially when it comes to requesting traffic information, reminders, weather reports… However, when it comes to interacting with...
Fernando Menéndez “Artificial Intelligence is amazing, but it must act with principles and values.” This week, Telefónica has played a very important role as a Global Partner Leader in the Digital Enterprise Show (DES 2019), Europe’s largest professional forum dedicated to the digital...
Fernando Menéndez “Data, Cloud and AI are the fuel for digital transformation.” The TM Forum 2019 has recently taken place in Nice (France), a forum that encourages the industry’s association and drives the digital transformation of companies, that was attended by...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport19H1: 45,000 apps removed from Google Play, 2% of them detected by antiviruses Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just...
Alfonso de la Rocha Gómez-Arevalillo The truth behind Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency It’s been almost a week since Facebook’s public release of Libra Blockchain, a decentralized programmable database promoted by Facebook to support a low-volatility cryptocurrency. Opiniated rivers of ink have...
Stefan Leadbeater 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 is so many countries around the...
LUCA The best Data Science certifications Over the last 10 years, the amount of data we have generated has soared to unprecedented heights. It is said that by 2020, each person will be generating 1.7...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Warning About Normalizing Data For many machine learning algorithms, normalizing data for analysis is a must. A supervised example would be neural networks. It is known that normalizing the data being input to...
