Patrick Buckley How AI is helping fashion retailers stay afloat With an estimated current global market value surpassing 406 billion USD, the fashion industry is one of the most significant yet vulnerable industries out there. In an ever-worsening socio-economic...
AI of Things Where are people from Madrid going during the upcoming December holidays? During the early December bank holiday many of us take the opportunity to relax, discover new places or return to our countries of origin. This time, as a further...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Enjoy Connected Beer Going out to grab a beer we could say is a tradition now in Spain. Spaniards consume more than 3,500 million liters per year. What you may not know...
Olivia Brookhouse How to build a Smart City: with IoT and Big Data A smart city is defined as a high-performance urban environment, where the aim is to optimize the use of resources and access to services. Smart cities take advantage of technological...
Nacho Brihuega Zerologon, Patch or Die! Zerologon. If you are in the IT world and haven’t heard this name yet, you should be worried. Keep reading. Zerologon is possibly the vulnerability of this “special” year and...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Is Wrong with Quantum Cryptography That the World’s Largest Intelligence Agencies Discourage Its Use Quantum cryptography does not exist. What everyone understands when the term “quantum cryptography” is mentioned is actually the quantum key distribution (QKD). And this is precisely what I want...
Patrick Buckley COVID-19 Shines a light on the huge possibilities of AI in Education In 2020 remote learning platforms have become essential for students around the world as a result the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these platforms incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology which continues to...
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...
AI of Things Rebuilding Mocoa with Big Data The possibilities of Big Data to contribute to social good are infinite and has proven itself as an indispensable tool to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The natural...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Big Data help reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? The disturbing images and videos of the Amazon ablaze last month were truly shocking and saddening. Not only trees, but wildlife, animals, habitats and homes burned to the...
Richard Benjamins. Towards a new Big Data ecosystem to mitigate Climate Change Big Data can be used to help fight Climate Change [1],[2],[3]. Several projects have analysed huge amounts of satellite, weather and climate data to come up with ways to...
AI of Things Analysing tourist profiles in Spain with INE Tourism is one of the main sectors of economic activity in Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Economy in...
AI of Things Mobility patterns in Lima and Callao based on Big Data technology We often think of Big Data as something exclusive to private companies. But one of the clearest applications is that of public bodies who want to improve the lives...
AI of Things Big Data joins the fight against cancer The medical community continues to make ground breaking discoveries every day, but with a survival rate of only 50% (Cancer Research UK), we still have a long way to...
AI of Things Ready for a Wild World: Big Data is key for humanitarian issues The Big Data for Social Good event organized by LUCA, “Ready for a Wild World“, took place on May 24th and brought together experts from relevant global organizations and...
AI of Things Using Data to Manage Emergency Situations Content originally written by Carmen Rodríguez, intern at LUCA, and Javier Carro, Data Scientist within LUCA’s Big Data for Social Good area. What would you say if we told you...
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...
ElevenPaths 4 Tips to Secure Your Data We surf the Internet on a daily basis. Many of us are already considered digital natives. Yes, it is almost an extension of us, but are we really aware...
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...
