IDHUS Institute

Artificial Intelligence, Companies and businesses

When artificial intelligence controls the economy

Jul 14, 2020

The ups and downs of prices that occur continuously in the currency markets are normally managed by the law of supply and demand, through which national and international operators who buy and sell financial assets in these exchanges manage and regulate with the thousands of orders to acquire or release the securities present in their investment portfolios. It is well known that a large part of these operations, if not almost all of them, are in the hands of powerful computers with specialized software that analyze every millisecond the different existing possibilities to sell when the market can provide profits,…

Big data, information and privacy, Smart Home and domotics

Home, “smart” home

Jun 22, 2020

The impact that new technologies are beginning to have on our society is not a new topic of discussion, nor something that has been at all revealing to those of us who have been analyzing for some time how all the development of elements such as blockchain, 5G communications technologies and the incipient development of 6G by China, and the protocols developed to support the so-called cryptocurrencies and their impact on the global economy are going to force us all, as human beings and members of a society that is advancing at tremendously high speeds for what we have been…

Mobility and transportation, Smart Grids and energy

Avocado biofuel?

May 17, 2020

In times of economic uncertainty, there is no political leader who does not wish to have a goose that lays golden eggs and generates resources at the same pace as the economic system urgently needs them. The trillions of euros and dollars put in place in recent weeks to counteract the negative impact of covid-19, or rather, the shutdown of the economy due to the global pandemic, testify that the goose that lays the golden eggs in the form of the Fed's or any other central bank's banknote printing machine is not enough to keep markets and businesses afloat, due…

Mobility and transportation

Seeking customers for autonomous cars

Apr 11, 2020

The cars of the American company Waymo, owned by Google's Alphabet, are somewhat lonely these days as they test autonomous driving on the streets of San Francisco. With virtually the entire country confined to their homes, Americans no longer take the car except on those occasions permitted by state and federal governments and authorities, and, somehow, any autonomous car (AV) that currently has to test drive in "real" time and in normal situations, is having a much easier time passing all the tests it may encounter, There are no children on the streets playing with balls that can run away,…

Smart Grids and energy

Let the wind blow

Mar 25, 2020

The development of technology to increase the use of renewable energies, mainly solar and wind, has gone hand in hand with a reduction in the cost of their generation, which has substantially increased in many countries that are advocating a change in strategy and diversification of the energy sources they need to sustain the functioning of their societies and infrastructures. Although there are still technical, environmental and political complications to be able to expand the use of these energies three or four or many more times, the path seems to be marked in a safe and stable way to increase…