Richard Benjamins. From Data Exhaust to Data-Driven: How CEOs face Big Data Since Big Data became a buzzword in the board room of companies some years ago (thanks to McKinsey’s report “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”), many...
LUCA The Deep Learning Hype Written by Alfonso Ibañez, Data Science manager at LUCA consulting analytics In the era of Big Data a day does not pass without us reading some news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine...
Víctor Deutsch “Eurobeer”, artificial intelligence and a financial system without banks Among the challenges of the digital economy is security by default. Innovation, artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain … a whole series of enabling technologies for new business models but security...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The End of Internet as we know it This post is part one of a two post series that will explore how communications are not only affected by the paradigm shift of connecting everything but a driving...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 9-15 Sunburst shows code matches with Russian-associated malware Kaspersky researchers have found that the Sunburst malware used during the SolarWinds supply chain attack is consistent in its characteristics with Kazuar, a...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón How to Track COVID-19 Infections, Discover Contacts On WhatsApp or Share Your Genes While Keeping Your Privacy When you sign up for a new social network, such as WhatsApp, you are often asked if you want to find out who among your contacts is already part...
Ana Zamora Hackathons are not just for developers By Glyn Povah, Head of Global Product Development at LUCA. Hackathon is derived from the English words “hack” and “marathon”, and if you Google the word “hackathon” you’ll get something...
Ana Zamora LUCA’s MWC 2017 Roundup The week started big at MWC with Telefónica’s launch of AURA, the “brains” of its 4th platform. With Aura, we enter into a new phase of Telefónica, the era...
Ana Zamora LUCA reshapes tourism insights at SDWC 2017 Last Friday, the first edition of the World Conference on Smart Destinations took place in Murcia. More than 100 experts from over twenty countries discussed trends such as digital...
Ana Zamora Open Algorithms, what are they? Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye explains Yves – Alexandre de Montjoye is a lecturer at Imperial College London’s new Data Science Institute. As a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard IQSS, his main field of research focuses on metadata...
Ana Zamora LUCA Talk 2: Big Data as a Force for Good In the world of data, we tend to focus on how Big Data technology can optimize our organizations, maximize revenues and make our organizational processes more efficient. However, there is...
Ana Zamora Voluntechies, bringing virtual reality to hospitalized kids One of the amazing aspects of working with technology is the potential social good you can do with it. Here at LUCA we strongly believe in the power of...
Ana Zamora LUCA Talk 1: Using Big Data to understand mobility and pollution Last Monday we hosted our very first LUCA webinar with great success, with more than 140 people connecting to our live stream. Technology, and more specifically Big Data, is enabling...
Ana Zamora Chema Alonso stars in “Big Data, Living with Algorithms” Yesterday evening, RTVE launched the first in a series of documentaries entitled “Documentos TV”, showing just how digital our daily lives have become and how the control of these...
Ana Zamora 5 LUCA events for your diary It’s been a busy month here in LUCA HQ, with lots of things going on such as the presentation of our analytics dashboard to the Movistar cycling Team and...
Ana Zamora Millennials want to use data for social good, but will privacy stop them? This article was originally posted by Florence Broderick on the WEF Live blog as part of the 2017 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Imagine a world where the...
Patrick Buckley How IoT technology is helping candy producers make sweet profits! From chocolate bars to lollipops, gumdrops to Haribos, the confectionary industry is now worth an estimated 210$ billion worldwide. With the industry experiencing strong growth, it is no surprise...
Carlos Ávila WhatsApp terms and conditions update – a cheeky move? Surely by now many have already accepted the new terms and privacy policies without really knowing what they were about or their impact on the privacy of their data,...
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...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
