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FBI Wish List: An App That Can Recognize the Meaning of Your Tattoos We’ve long known that the FBI is heavily invested in developing face recognition technology as a key component in its criminal investigations. But new records , obtained by EFF through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit , show that’s not the only biometric marker the agency has its eyes on. The FBI’s wish list also includes image recognition technology and mobile devices to attempt to use tattoos to map out people’s relationships and identify their beliefs. EFF began looking at tattoo recognition technology in 2015, after discovering that the National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the FBI, was promoting experiments using tattoo images gathered involuntarily from prison inmates and arrestees. The agencies had provided a dataset of thousands of prisoner tattoos to some 19 outside groups, including companies and academic institutions, that are developing image reco...

In the past 10 years, the data center industry transformed itself.  We’ve gone from first hearing the term cloud computing to talking about edge computing and driverless cars in a little more than a decade. The progress and performance made have been tremendous. And it really got us thinking. What if we compared the performance of the data centers back then with today’s data centers to see how they’re performing and to determine what progress we’ve made as an industry? So, we modeled three step function examples that have made a significant impact — UPS improvements, containment, and economization — and our model showed about an 80 percent reduction in losses just using those three technologies. We have increased physical infrastructure efficiency by about 80 percent by providing more efficient architectures and more efficient products. And this finding prompted this question: What will drive the next 80 percent of data center improvements in the next 10 years? We know that if...

In the colocation business, consistency pays, whether it’s in the infrastructure you employ or the processes used to manage data centers. The $25 billion colocation provider Digital Realty is realizing nearly $1 million in annual savings by employing Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure TM  to deliver standard solutions and configurations for customers of all sizes. EcoStruxure is an open, interoperable system architecture that employs Internet of Things (IoT) technology to enable a new level of monitoring and control over data center equipment and operations. It is helping Digital Reality keep up with the exponential data growth its customers are experiencing, says Kevin Dalton, VP of Global Engineering and Design for the company. “Over the last year, we took the effort to standardize our global platform. We used Schneider’s EcoStruxure platform to make sure that we can provide not only consistent monitoring and measuring but the same look and feel on a global basis,” Dalton says. L...