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EFF, Human Rights Watch y más de 70 grupos de la sociedad civil solicitan a Mark Zuckerberg que proporcione a todos los usuarios y usuarias un mecanismo para apelar ante la censura de contenidos en Facebook La libertad de expresión del mundo está en sus manos, dicen estos grupos al director ejecutivo de Facebook San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation y más de 70 grupos de derechos humanos y digitales pidieron hoy a Mark Zuckerberg que añadiera transparencia y responsabilidad real al proceso de eliminación de contenidos de Facebook. Específicamente, los grupos exigen que Facebook explique – claramente –   cuánto contenido elimina, correcta o incorrectamente, y que proporcione a la totalidad de sus usuarios un método justo y oportuno para apelar estas eliminaciones y ver la restitución de su contenido. Mientras que Facebook ya está bajo una enorme -y creciente – presión para eliminar material que es verdaderamente amenazante, sin transparencia, imparcialidad ...

Federal Researchers Complete Second Round of Problematic Tattoo Recognition Experiments Despite igniting controversy over ethical lapses and the threat to civil liberties posed by its tattoo recognition experiments the first time around, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently completed its second major project evaluating software designed to reveal who we are and potentially what we believe based on our body art. Unsurprisingly, these experiments continue to be problematic. The latest experiment was called Tatt-E, which is short for “Tattoo Recognition Technology Evaluation.” Using tattoo images collected by state and local law enforcement from incarcerated people, NIST tested algorithms created by state-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences and MorphoTrak, a subsidiary of the French corporation Idemia. According to the Tatt-E results, which were published in October , the best-performing tattoo recognition algorithm by MorphoTrak had 67.9% accuracy ...

EFF, Human Rights Watch, and Over 70 Civil Society Groups Ask Mark Zuckerberg to Provide All Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship on Facebook World’s Freedom of Expression Is In Your Hands, Groups Tell CEO San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and more than 70 human and digital rights groups called on Mark Zuckerberg today to add real transparency and accountability to Facebook’s content removal process. Specifically, the groups demand that Facebook clearly explain how much content it removes, both rightly and wrongly, and provide all users with a fair and timely method to appeal removals and get their content back up. While Facebook is under enormous—and still mounting—pressure to remove material that is truly threatening, without transparency, fairness, and processes to identify and correct mistakes, Facebook’s content takedown policies too often backfire and silence the very people that should have their voices heard on the platform. Politic...

Shohei Hagane is one of the students from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology who has completed his summer internship with Schneider Electric in last August. He worked with the team Solution Business Development, under Industry Business. He has described his internship experience as below.   Choosing the best place for summer internship I found out about internships at Schneider Electric from my friend who met SE employee during one of events. There were 3 main reasons why I have chosen SE for internship. First of all, Schneider Electric is a global specialist in energy management and automation. I was looking for a platform for me to learn on the world class standard solutions and work environment. It was also interesting to have a chance to discover how they use IoT -enabled solutions and discover EcoStruxure – the next generation of active energy management and automation architecture. The second important thing was that Schneider Electric offered me a longer pe...

In this era of low oil & gas commodity prices, improvements to process and technology efficiencies begin to emerge as a critical success factor. Aging assets across application areas that were economically viable when oil prices were high, are now too inefficient to compete in a low-commodity-price economy. According to McKinsey & Company benchmarking research, a 10% improvement in oil & gas industry production efficiency can yield up to $220 million to $260 million bottom-line impact on a single brownfield asset. These types of potential gains are too enticing to ignore. Fortunately, new technology breakthroughs in the area of digitalization now make it possible for oil & gas companies to seize upon these efficiency improvement gains without having to incur high CAPEX and OPEX. In fact, the World Economic Forum is predicting that by 2025, new digitalization technologies will add $220 billion in value to the oil and gas industry. Digitalization, and the Industrial ...

If you recall from my prior blog , a ‘free standing pod frame’ allows you to install containment as well as the power, cooling, and networking to the pod, independent of the IT racks. I discussed how these free-standing pod frames can reduce the time it takes to deploy equipment in an IT room by 20%.  This savings comes primarily from reducing the labor involved with constructing/installing ceiling and floor structures traditionally used to mount services (networking, power, cooling distribution).  Depending on your business, reduced time to “go-live” can translate into increased revenue, new customers, happier customers, competitive advantages, etc.  Regardless of the specifics, time is money. Along with time savings comes capex benefits (the focus of this blog). We conducted a detailed cost analysis and demonstrated a 15% cost savings over deploying traditional pods.  This analysis is part of the white paper that my colleague, Patrick Donovan, & I recently pub...

By: Rachel K. Carson, MarCom Intern for Process Industries How many times in your life have you wished that you could go back and redo a moment in time? We think to ourselves, if we knew then what we know now, how much better of a decision we could have made ! Unfortunately, in our own lives, there is no way of predicting the future. However, that’s not true in operations. With Asset Performance Management , predictive analytics give you the chance to predict future failures, successes, etc. within your mining operations. Software asset solutions suddenly make predicting the future of your mine a possible feat. Making the Smarter Choice The prediction of potential equipment failures and digitalization of procedures and maintenance activities is of utmost importance nowadays. As digitalization breeds a new era for mining, the opportunity of new chances and growth arise. Mines are quickly realizing the importance and increased benefits of asset performance management for the maximum...