LUCA How can Big Data help to improve the financial scoring process? Content written by Daniel Torres Laguardia, Head Scoring (data product) Michael wants to apply for a financing of its recent TV purchase, and wait… he needs to be checked. And after...
Paloma Recuero de los Santos Artificial Intelligence: a “very human” technology What makes us human? The answer to this question is not simple, it’s not easy to define what makes us human.We can try to find the answer from a...
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 Innovating with IoT Startups create products and technological solutions that anticipate the needs of the future, helping us in the transition to the digital age. However, they need resources so that time...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón 2019 Won’t Be the Year When Quantum Computers Replace the Cryptography That We All Use What would happen if a fully error corrected quantum computer of several thousands of logical qubits started working today? Public key infrastructures would fall down. The secrets of the...
Sergio De Los Santos Apple introduces up to 14 signatures in XProtect given the malware flood for Mac What is Apple doing about Shlayer malware? We analyze the main tools that MacOS is using to face this threat.
Richard Benjamins. LUCA’s first 70 days We are almost at the end of 2016, which has been a big year for the world of Big Data. One important milestone was the creation of LUCA, Telefonica’s...
Richard Benjamins. Can machines think? Or are humans machines? This is the last in a series of three post about some fundamental notions of AI. The objective of these series of three posts is to equip readers with...
Richard Benjamins. How “intelligent” can Artificial Intelligence get? This post is the second in a series of three posts, each of which discuss the fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence. In our first post we discussed AI definitions,...
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...
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...
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...
Richard Benjamins. Telco Data Analytics: what’s next in Big Data for Telcos By Lora Mihova, Strategy Manager at LUCA and Richard Benjamins, Director External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. The European version of Telco Data Analytics Conference took place on...
Richard Benjamins. Big Data Week 2016: Forget Big Data, Artificial Intelligence is the new kid on the block Yesterday, the LUCA team attended the first day of Big Data Week. BDW is a global community that organizes an annual event focusing on the social, political, and technological...
Richard Benjamins. The 6 challenges of Big Data for Social Good Many of us are familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations for 2030 and increasingly more and more companies and organizations are contributing to their achievement. However, there...
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 7 priorities of a company when adopting Blockchain Last week I shared with the 101Blockchainscommunity of professionals and digital innovators the Blockchain vision we have at Telefónica and how companies can create value by adopting this technology. If...
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...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises We hear of increasingly more applications of Artificial Intelligence ranging from improved medical diagnosis to autonomous vehicles to automatic translation to voice recognition. But when we look at the...
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...
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...
