LUCA Traffic spikes before football games? The effect of the World Cup in Germany Post written by Telefónica NEXT Once every four years, The FIFA World Cup brings fans together in a month of surprising events. Every game is different, but each is filled...
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...
Luis Simón Gómez Semeleder Now cycling is safer thanks to drones and IoT How many of us don’t feel safe overtaking a bike on the road? The truth is that while driving a car we could be presented with a dangerous situation,...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Smart gas stations and how to find them In the last few years, gas stations started to offer travelers a wide range of possibilities beyond mere refueling. This increases competition between service stations, which is forcing these...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Zoom Seeks to Be More Secure and Purchases Keybase The most downloaded video call app during the quarantine responds to criticism for its serious security and privacy issues.
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Google report 17% of Microsoft vulnerabilities. Microsoft and Qihoo, 10% Who finds more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products? What percentage of vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft, other companies or vulnerability brokers? How many flaws have unknown discoverers? Over this report we have analyzed...
LUCA Are you Ready for a Wild World? Don’t miss out on Big Data for Social Good 2018! Ready for a Wild World? Our next Big Data for Social Good event will be dedicated to Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness Although we often associate Big Data with worries...
LUCA Can mobile phone traces help shed light on the spread of Zika in Colombia? Content written by Daniela Perrotta, ISI Foundation researcher and UN Global Pulse fellow and Enrique Frias-Martinez, Researcher, Telefonica Research, Madrid. Originally posted on the UN Global Pulse blog. Nowadays, thanks...
LUCA Using Big Data to combat Air Pollution in Brazil Content originally written by Raquel Carretero Juárez, for the Telefonica Public Policy Blog. Telefónica Brazil is using mobile network Big Data to monitor air pollution in São Paulo (Brazil) and...
LUCA Predictive Analysis and Machine Learning improving quality of life for refugees The refugee crisis is an ongoing issue that is sadly growing by the day. Currently, it is believed that roughly 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced...
LUCA SafePost: Technology available to the user at any moment Today SafePost was born, a new service that allows publication on social media and the sending of emails by using SMS. The mobile technology is building a better world...
LUCA III Impact Innovation Talks: Big Data’s new challenges, achievements and opportunities Yesterday, the 16th of November, the III Impact Innovation Talks was held and was organized by Telefónica Open Future together with PWN Madrid. This third edition of a talk series with the slogan #WomansAge aims...
LUCA The stand-out moments of BDID2017 (I) : Thank you for enjoying this day with us! Last Tuesday, the 31st of October, we celebrated the Big Data Innovation Day 2017 enjoyed a fantastic afternoon. The main Auditorium of Distrito Telefonica was full of guests and many others followed...
LUCA GSMA Announces new developments in BD4SG Initiative Last week, September 19th, the GSMA announced, at the United Nations General Assembly Week in New York, new developments in its Big Data for Social Good Initiative. Eduardo Navarro, President...
LUCA Big Data combating crime in New York Original content from Lourdes Tejedor, Community Manager and Editor at Telefonica. One city: New York; one problem: crime. How can we contain and control it? When and where is it...
LUCA A World-Changing Combination: Dr. Claire Melamed on Big Data, Collaboration and the SDGs Dr. Claire Melamed is the Executive Director of Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), where she leads efforts to collaborate on leveraging data to meet the UN’s Sustainable...
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...
Richard Benjamins. How to measure your data maturity? Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become very popular these days, and many organizations have started their data journey to become more data-driven and take automated, intelligent decisions....
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...
LUCA Expert Systems in the World of Medicine Written by Sergio Sancho Azcoitia, Security Research en ElevenPaths Since its appearance a few years ago, expert systems have been applied in different fields. Due to their effectiveness they have...
