In December 2018 I wrote the following article warning about the possibility that has just been borne out by the 2019 Annual Report of the National Security Department (Informe Anual 2019 del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, i.e., the threat of…
Many companies and organizations hold Christmas card competitions for their employees’ children: GMV is no exception. This year with a difference, however: GMV’s Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Department (BDA) decided, as a small experiment, to take part with an…
Just when it seemed we were getting used to dodging fraudulent emails and disbelieving Fake News, the new technologies are throwing up new, more powerful and hard-to-dodge threats. After Spain’s last general election held on 10 November a humorous video…
SOME BASIC DIGITAL TWINNING CONCEPTS Digital twinning has been identified by Gartner as one of 2019’s top 10 strategic technology trends. It has plenty of applications: HAZOP & virtual commissioning: studies of probability and risks Production monitoring and optimization Predictive…
On the morning of 4 November rumors began to run about a ransomware attack that had hit several Spanish firms. It seemed to be a case of déjà vu at first; only a couple of years previously, after…