LUCA 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...
LUCA Podcast #1: The Challenges of working with data This is the first of a series of podcasts where, Richard Benjamins, Data & AI Ambassador for Telefonica/LUCA, will share with us his thoughts and reflexions about these Technologies. Richard...
Beatriz Sanz Baños What is Smart Retail? The implementation of IoT technology in the Retail sector allows offering personalized shopping experiences through smart stores. Thanks to information collected, processes can be optimized and more effective strategies can...
Beatriz Sanz Baños It’s one thing to be told you’re safe and it’s another thing to feel safe We can confirm that Smart Cities nowadays are already a reality and not a futuristic promise that is yet to come. Although there is still a long way to...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: PyeongChang Olympics: A New False Flag Attack? A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution,...
ElevenPaths Dumpster diving in Bin Laden’s computers: malware, passwords, warez and metadata (I) What would you expect from a computer network that belongs to a terrorists group? Super-encrypted material? Special passwords? The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released...
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...
Olivia Brookhouse How to learn Python: the most important skill for employers The application of Artificial Intelligence to optimize Big Data and provide Data Insights is becoming a necessity to all business processes, therefore programmers are in hot demand. Designing effective...
Olivia Brookhouse The Big Data and IoT applications fighting coronavirus The coronavirus pandemic has truly turned our lives upside down, changing how we work, study and interact in every way. The global health crisis has tested every government’s ability...
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...
Gabriel Bergel Risk Analysis Applied to COVID-19 Our CSA Gabriel Bergel shows you how to apply the Risk Analysis methodology to the management of the COVID-19 threat.
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...
