How to avoid having plastic seas with homemade biotechnology
More than 200 kg of plastic is thrown into the seas and oceans every second. This plastic disintegrates over time due to ultraviolet rays and friction with air and water to form microplastics. These are finally digested by marine animals and climbing the food web ends up having an impact on our health as well. […]
DOOR-TO-DOOR MOBILITY. Keys to the sustainable mobility of the future
Lidia Montero, responsible for Smart Mobility of inLab FIB will explain the advantages of creating “Digital Twins for mobility strategies” at the Door-to-door mobility day, where the keys to the sustainable mobility of the future are explored. The day will be held on May 31 at Casa Seat, we encourage you to attend, admission is […]
ABAC Therapeutics and UPC search for new molecules to tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria
The collaboration will allow advancing research against what is already considered the next pandemic ABAC Therapeutics, a leading company in the research of new antibiotics, collaborates with the BIOCOM-SC research group and inLab FIB laboratory of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) to develop computer tools focused on discovering antibiotics of specific activity […]
Can we predict how busy the buses will be?
Last April 22, the newspaper El País, published a news item created by two technical project managers of inLab FIB, experts in Data Science and Big Data, Albert Obiols and Gonzalo Recio. The recently published news, explains how through historical data and neural networks, we can create predictive models that allow us to know the […]
Fet a mida – Mobile phones also catch viruses
In recent weeks, there has been a trend on social media to talk about Pegasus, a spy virus only available to countries, following the discovery of this type of malware on the devices of some political figures. For this reason, René Serral and Manel Medina, professors at the FIB, have been invited to the space of […]
Art, computer science and artificial intelligence come together this Sant Jordi at the UPC to create and give unique digital roses as gifts
Artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science applied to art make it possible to generate an image with deep learning generative models. With this technology, the UPC offers, this Sant Jordi 2022, the possibility of choosing a rose, or generating one of your own, based on the style of more than 180 artists, from Albert Ràfols […]
UPC, SEAT and Volkswagen Group Innovation look for new strategies to improve the performance of the powertrain and batteries of electric vehicles of the future
The inLab FIB of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) collaborates with SEAT and the Volkswagen Group Innovation (Wolfsburg, Germany) in the ‘Predictive eBoost’ project, focused on designing new strategies, based on Machine algorithms Learning and data analysis, to improve the efficiency and performance of electric vehicle motors and batteries. Electric vehicle batteries are becoming […]
Is Artificial Intelligence creative nowadays?
Artificial Intelligence is now proving that it is capable to be creative by showing great skills in tasks that involve imagination, such as creating text and art. Creativity has been always attributed as a main human characteristic that could never be reproduced by machines or algorithms, at least not in the near future. However, nowadays, […]
FlowCrypt the Chrome extension for message encryption
It is common to find ourselves in situations where we have to send documents with sensitive information by email, or share passwords via WhatsApp or Slack. The moment this sensitive information is sent, we give up the certainty that the information remains private. We may think that by using the HTTPS communication protocol we ensure […]
Pentesting – What is it and what its procedure is
In order to mitigate possible failures in different network environments or systems, in recent years, companies have been forced to periodically test their own infrastructures to correct anomalies and holes that endanger the integrity, availability and confidentiality of their assets. This set of tests is what is called penetration testing. The philosophy of pentesting is […]