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With global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) at near-peak levels – Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) sees global LNG demand growing to 305MMtpa in 2018 and 490MMtpa by 2030 – energy companies are investing in floating LNG (FLNG) in a bid to meet demand, but at reduced cost. A flexible midstream asset, FLNG avoids the costly pipeline infrastructure typically required to move gas onshore. The vessel typically offers processing equipment to accommodate a variety of gas conditioning environments, including storage, enabling O&G companies to generate more profits from offshore LNG reserves. FLNG is moveable, allowing it to evade extreme weather, for example, and can be relocated and reused. Not surprisingly, technology is playing an important role in the design and operation of these floating assets. Digitalization in the form of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twins have the potential to reduce costs, improve safety and optimize...

We’re in the Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, thinks people want targeted advertising. The “overwhelming feedback,” he said multiple times during his congressional testimony, was that people want to see “good and relevant” ads. Why then are so many Facebook users, including leaders of state in the U.S. Senate and House , so fed up and creeped out by the uncannily on-the-nose ads? Targeted advertising on Facebook has gotten to the point that it’s so “good,” it’s bad—for users, who feel surveilled by the platform, and for Facebook, who is rapidly losing its users’ trust. But there’s a solution, which Facebook must prioritize: stop collecting data from users without their knowledge or explicit, affirmative consent. It should never be the user’s responsibility to have to guess what’s happening behind the curtain. Right now, most users don’t have a clear understanding of all the types of data that Facebook collects or how it’s an...

Minnesota Supreme Court Ruling Will Help Shed Light on Police Use of Biometric Technology A decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday will help the public learn more about how law enforcement use of privacy invasive biometric technology. The decision in Webster v. Hennepin County is mostly good news for the requester in the case, who sought the public records as part of a 2015 EFF and MuckRock campaign to track mobile biometric technology use by law enforcement across the country. EFF filed a brief in support of Tony Webster, arguing that the public needed to know more about how officials use these technologies. Across the country, law enforcement agencies have been adopting technologies that allow cops to identify subjects by matching their distinguishing physical characteristics to giant repositories of biometric data. This could include images of faces , fingerprints, irises, or even tattoos . In many cases, police use mobile devices in the field to scan and ide...