Mining industry leaders meet again at PDAC 2017
One of the world’s leading minerals and mining event has kicked off with a bang. The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s...
Cryptographers Demonstrate Collision in Popular SHA-1 Algorithm
On February 23rd, a joint team from the CWI Amsterdam and Google announced that they had generated the first ever collision in the SHA-1...
Our connected devices: the greatest privacy threat of all?
Smart-television maker Vizio agreed to pay a penalty this month for spying on 11 million customers. According to the Federal Trade...
Is the Self-Driving Car the New Big Brother?
If Data and Privacy issues related to Autonomous Cars are not handled properly, they could kill the business. An interesting article...
Surveillance: Your Cubicle Has Ears—and Eyes, and a Brain
Sensors and AI can keep tabs on employees better than any boss. Employers have long wanted to know how their workers spend their time....
CIA Plus Meetup tackles IoT privacy and security
IOT (Internet of Things), and privacy and security implications.
Legacy Big Data Analytics, IoT Tools Unable to Meet Demand
Only twenty-seven percent of executives believe that big data analytics infrastructure installed five years ago will still be able to...
Healthcare Innovation: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, IoT May Change Healthcare in 2017
Big data technologies, like artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, are likely to have a major impact on healthcare delivery...
Robots Over Roughnecks: Next Drilling Boom Might Not Add Many Jobs
The inevitable advance of technology and automation has upended industries such as car manufacturing and food processing. Now robotics is...
We need disruptive innovation in the mining sector, as well
Rick Howes is chief executive officer of Dundee Precious Metals. While declining metal prices have cast a negative light on the status of...
