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lundi 29 février 2016

Going Green in Electronics

The Green Electronics Council continues its push for sustainability and efficiency through standards and technology. In this Q&A with Electronic Design Technology Editor Maria Guerra, GEC’s Jeff Omelchuck shares the organization’s plans and ways that engineers and companies can participate.
The Green Electronics Council continues its push for sustainability and efficiency through standards and technology....

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Thoughtful Board Design Unlocks the Promise of GaN

Gallium-nitride (GaN) transistors fabricated on silicon substrates can boost efficiencies and help shrink the footprint of power supplies.

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USB Type-C™. The future is coming, are you ready?

Sponsored by: Keysight Technologies
Access the USB Type-C Learning Center to get more information about this exciting new technology and how to test it, including application notes, videos and webcasts. Keysight is the leader of Type-C testing solutions – let us help you create a faster path to done!

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Meet RobotShop: a new Genuino reseller in Canada

This week we’re happy to  introduce a new Genuino Reseller from Canada with Julie Gendron of RobotShop!

Julie GendronRobotshop

- Tell us a bit more about RobotShop

At RobotShop, we specialize in personal and professional robot technology and offer a wide range of robotic products and services in this sector. We have offices in USA, Canada and France. Our vision is to be the world leading source for personal and professional robot technology that help increase the pleasure, knowledge, liberty and security of individuals. We are also committed to promoting and advocating the interest and necessity of robotics use towards positive ends, allowing humanity to attain a better world.

- What’s your company’s super power

Putting robotics at your service!

- What’s your favourite Arduino or Genuino project?

We enjoy Arduino robots and projects from beginners that are starting in robotics. For example this Arduino robot from a beginner on the Let’s Make Robots Blog and forum. We like it because it represents the Arduino and Genuino brand well with a simple and fun “do it yourself” / hobbyist project. This is the meaning of Arduino; for anyone to be able to build a robot or interactive project easily. This is why we help the way we can, by providing Arduino tutorials that can help beginners as well as more advanced Arduino users.

Contacts

RobotShop Store Website Canada  – FacebookTwitter –  Google+



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Vodafone Hit by Landline Network Outage

Vodafone suffered an outage which knocked out part of its landline network across New Zealand for around 5- hours. Click here for more.



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Indian Operators Revamp Merger Talks

Plans for a merger between two of India's larger mobile networks have been revamped, according to local reports. Click here for more.



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Wearable Device Display Unit Shipments to Hit 39 Million by 2016

The growing popularity of smartwatches, fitness monitors and other wearable applications is driving up shipments of the displays used in these devices, from 34 million units in 2015 to 39 million in 2016. Click here for more.



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Telefonica selects Ericsson for global UNICA program

Telefonica has selected Ericsson as one of the main global partners in their cloud-based virtualization project, known as UNICA. Click here for more.



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Thai MVNOs form Trade Alliance

Four virtual network operators have formed a trade alliance to seek a stronger bargaining position with their joint airtime provider. Click here for more.



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Ericsson and Cisco partner to create next-generation network for 3 Italia

Ericsson has been selected by 3 Italia to transform its mobile IP backbone network. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/21vnhfw

Top 10 Cool and Unusual Bean Bags

Indian Court Upholds Dropped Calls Compensation Claims

An Indian court has upheld plans by the telecoms regulator to force mobile networks to offer compensation to customers when their network drops a call. Click here for more.



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Ericsson and Cisco partner to transform Vodafone Portugal IP Mobile Backhaul

Ericsson, via its global business and technology partnership with Cisco formed in November 2015, has been selected for the Vodafone Portugal Mobile Backhaul Evolution. Click here for more.



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How tablets and YouTube can empower people with intellectual disabilities

Research from Concordia University in Montreal shows that mobile technologies like tablets and smartphones can go a long way in helping people with ID face these challenges. Click here for more.



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vendredi 26 février 2016

Memory Primed as the New Competitive Weapon

With traditional memory nearing its end of life, new technologies have emerged that can transition memory from a standard commodity check-off—and into a powerful competitive advantage.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1Qm9Cg9

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Gmail draining mobile data plans

A new app-usage finding, conducted through millions of Opera Max users, shows that on average over 30% of all data is used by apps running in the background. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1RshZco

Top 10 Tasty Ways You Can Eat Potatoes

Latin America's first virtualized core network live with Digicel

Ericsson has deployed a complete network functions virtualization (NFV) solution to the core network of Caribbean operator Digicel. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/24sH6TI

LTE Carrier Aggregation to Power 61% of Smartphones Shipped in 2020

Nearly 350 million smartphones shipped in 2015 supported LTE Carrier Aggregation (CA), representing 23% of total smartphone shipments for the year, Click here for more.



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jeudi 25 février 2016

Mississippi State University - Bagley

For more than 100 years, the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University has been at the forefront of education and research. Advancing in every aspect, the college is committed to pursuing excellence in education, as well as providing an environment for personal growth, innovation, and development.

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Moving to Deterministic ICE

A happy medium between in-circuit emulation (ICE) and a virtual environment with software-based test perhaps exists with Deterministic ICE.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1p8Pasp

Share your feedback on AdSense, AdMob, and other Google publisher solutions

It’s time to share your feedback! To improve our product and services, we send out a survey to a group of publishers every 6 months. The next survey will be sent soon and we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Your feedback and comments are important to us, and we really do read and consider everything you write. Thanks to previous suggestions, we’ve launched a number of new features to improve our services and help you grow your earnings. These include a new Optimization tab that provides tips on increasing your revenue, improved AdSense interface for easier user navigation and more transparency on our policies.
You may receive a survey by email over the coming weeks. To make sure that you are eligible to receive the survey email, please 
Whether you’ve completed this survey before or you’re providing feedback for the first time, we’d like to thank you for sharing your valuable thoughts. We’re looking forward to feedback!





Posted by Dan Makarov
 AdSense Publisher Happiness Team


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Fine Pitch Right Angle & Horizontal SMT Spring-Loaded Connectors

Mill-Max introduces .050” pitch spring-loaded RA and HSMT connectors which offer space-saving spring-loaded solutions for a variety of interconnect applications.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/24ruZ9k

The mobile Internet is rapidly transforming the way that Nigeria does business

With sub-US$50 smartphones on the way, rapid improvements to telecom infrastructure, and the availability of affordable cloud applications, the mobile Internet is rapidly transforming the way that Nigeria does business. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1oCwEIg

Ericsson and Orange in Internet of Things trial with EC-GSM-IoT

Ericsson, Orange and Intel have completed one of the first live trials of EC-GSM-IoT technology for Internet of Things optimized for, low-cost, low-complexity devices Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1OwFb4J

In-App Message Centers Generate 8-Times More Response Than Push Notifications

High-performing apps see average message center read rates of 44%, increasing to 49% for retail apps, meaning nearly half of all messages sent are opened and read. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1QfTX5s

Top 10 Weird And Unusual Tourist Attractions In Italy

Ericsson 5G field trial achieves peak downlink throughput over 25Gbps

Ericsson 5G Radio Prototypes are currently delivering more than 12Gbps mobile experience per user, in live networking environments with downlink throughput of more than 25Gbps using MU-MIMO. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1TGCNjF

Wireless Satisfaction Increases, Despite Rising Cost of Smartphones

Overall satisfaction with the wireless purchase process has risen to a record high, despite a rise in the cost of smartphones and the cutback in device subsidies by wireless carriers, Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1RpsCwO

mercredi 24 février 2016

GPU Targets Smartphones with Hardware Virtualization and Multi-Domain Security

Imagination Technologies extends its value line of high-volume, low-cost GPUs with the PowerVR Series 8XE.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1TzKA1F

Maximizing Automotive Battery Power

Battery technologies are steadily improving, while automotive battery-management systems are optimizing the run time and lifetime of batteries.
Battery technologies are steadily improving, while automotive battery-management systems are optimizing the run time and lifetime of batteries.

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Announcing the launch of AMP in Search

Speed matters, particularly on mobile devices. People are likely to abandon websites after just three seconds if the content doesn’t load quickly. This is bad for the user trying to access content, and also for the publisher whose business depends on users engaging with content. That’s why, last October, we joined others across the industry to announce the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, an open source initiative to make the mobile web as fast as possible.

Earlier today, Google announced that web pages created using AMP will appear when relevant in the Top Stories section of the search results page, giving users a lightning-fast experience --- early tests have found that AMP pages load an average of four times faster and use 10 times less data than equivalent non-AMP pages.


A key goal of the AMP Project is to ensure that publishers’ existing business models are supported. To that end, AMP in Search will have what could be termed as version one of some new features aimed at helping publishers earn money and understand and engage their audience. Full details are on Github and on the AMPProject.org site, but here are the highlights:

  • Ads: Advertising pays for a lot of the great journalism that we all love to read for free, so it’s essential that publishers can run ads on AMP pages with the ad servers and networks of their choice, in multiple formats (including native ads), and with full control over where they appear on the page. AMP also supports the new viewability metrics advertisers and publishers use to measure how users are engaging with ads. Currently publishers can choose from more than 20 ad tech providers who have developed support for AMP, including DoubleClick and AdSense. You can read more about the ads support in AMP in general here.
  • Subscriptions: For many publishers, subscriptions and paywalls are critical to the bottom line. AMP lets publishers retain full control over which readers can access which stories, to ensure that publishers can continue to make money via subscriptions on their AMP pages. Visit Github for more details on subscriptions in AMP.
  • Analytics: Analytics are important to publishers because they help them understand what people like to read and how they read. AMP provides an analytics framework that lets publishers measure data like pageviews, users, time spent, and more. The insights provided by these kinds of metrics can help publishers create appealing stories, build brand loyalty and ultimately make money. Learn more about the analytics support in AMP here and specifically about Google Analytics in AMP here.

While we’re excited to have collaborated with the industry to bring this project forward and improve the mobile web for users, we’re just scratching the surface of what’s possible. There’s much work ahead for the open source AMP project and we’re looking forward to the benefits this will bring to users, publishers and advertisers

Posted by Craig DiNatali
Director, Global Partnerships

Nitin Kashyap
Product Manager


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Electric Vehicle Charger Hits New Efficiency Level

Kettering University researchers have partnered with HELLA, an automotive electronics company, to develop a compact vehicle charger that marks a big step forward in efficiency.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1mXZdir

Multiprotocol Wireless SoC Targets IoT Connectivity

Silicon Labs’ new Wireless Gecko SoCs integrate an ARM Cortex-M4 core with a 2.4 GHz radio and advanced hardware cryptography.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1TGcU3q

32-bit ARMv8-A Core Targets IoT Space

ARM’s new 32-bit Cortex-A32 core fills out the low end of the ARMv8-A architecture. It targets low-power applications such as mobile IoT devices.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1LceXJT

Q&A: Using FPGA Prototypes for Software Development

Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with Tom De Schutter, Director of Product Marketing and Physical Prototyping for Synopsys, about using FPGA-based prototypes for software development.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1S13wX6

Georgia Tech discovers how mobile ads leak personal data

The personal information of millions of smartphone users is at risk due to in-app advertising that can leak potentially sensitive user information between ad networks and mobile app developers, Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1KJF8rC

Tanzania Gets Fully Interoperable Mobile Money System

Tigo Tanzania has announced that customers of its Tigo Pesa mobile money service will now be able to move funds between any of the country's mobile money operators, Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1KJDmXA

One in Five Tablets Sold in 4Q15 Was a Detachable

In the last quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% YoY. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1STiCiy

SoftBank deploys Ericsson virtual MME and Ericsson Cloud Platform

Ericsson has successfully executed a large-scale cloud transformation project with SoftBank, one of Japan's leading mobile operators. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1RmBanX

Top 10 Safety First Dogs Using Safety Helmets

Orange Israel Rebrands as Partner

Israel's Partner Communications is dropping the Orange brandname, which is has licensed from France Telecom since it was set up in 1999. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1OuepKr

Ericsson and Vodafone announce strategic partnership on 5G technologies

Vodafone Group is partnering with Ericsson and a number of other partners to research 5G technologies and prepare its networks for a transition towards the new mobile standard. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1Ouc7e7

U.S. Phones Hammered by a Record 2.3 Billion Robocalls in January

Americans were plagued by an estimated 2.3 billion robocalls in the month of January, marking a 54.7% month-over-month increase in the number of robocalls received, Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1R0ySbv

Top 10 Ram Packed Ways To Stuff a Loaf

mardi 23 février 2016

USB Type-C: The Power Tool for Next-Generation Electronics

USB Type-C serves as a common standard for hosts as well as receptacles, thus displacing both Type-A and Type-B connectors.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1SRE6MA

Reduce MCU Power in IoT Apps with These Techniques

Designers can choose from a number of options when trying to meet the Internet of Things’ low-power demands for wireless mobile devices.
Designers can choose from a number of options when trying to meet the Internet of Things’ low-power demands for wireless mobile devices.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1L9TnG7

ARM Extends Cortex-R Series to Handle 5G

5G is still on the horizon, but ARM’s new Cortex-R8 has arrived to handle it.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/21dxXiI

Monitoring Solitary Bees Using Open Technology

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“Bees in the Backyard” is a citizen science technology project to investigate the nesting behavior of Mason bees, created by Mike Teachman, amateur bee enthusiast and Paul Perrault senior field applications engineer.

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Mason bees are somewhat unique because, unlike honeybees, they are solitary, every female is fertile, there are no worker bees, they carry pollen on their bellies, they nest in holes and are vital to pollination of many fruit trees.

The idea behind the project was to turn each bee’s entire nest into a capacitive sensor with the use of off-the-shelf open source hardware like Arduino Uno:

Following the innovative work of the UPEI in using non-invasive capacitance sensors to detect bees entering and exiting a hive, we decided to extend this study to determine if we could measure not just a bee moving past an opening in a hive, but actually measure bee activity, along with a sense of their deliveries. This involved the invention of a new type of non-invasive sensor, along with the development of a measurement system that would be used to gather large amounts of data.

 

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The plan for the team for 2016 is to improve the project deploying an improved monitoring system at the same site and in particular:
• Develop a new capacitance sensor tube with increased accuracy
• Improve the visual appeal of nesting block and associated electronics
• Develop algorithms to mine the measurement dataset for bee activity patterns

Watch other videos on this youtube channel and read more about the project on Spectrum IEEE.



from Arduino Blog http://bit.ly/1LEpWHb

Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Casinos

Top 10 Best Online Poker Rooms

French Regulator to Monitor Rural Coverage Quality

France's telecoms regulator, Arcep is launching its first observatory for monitoring mobile operators' deployments in sparsely populated areas. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1L8uhHI

China Smartphone Market Sees Its Highest Shipment Ever of 117.3 Million in Q4 2015

This is an 8% Year-Over-Year (YoY) growth vs the same period last year, partly driven by China's annual singles day online shopping festival in November and Huawei's strong shipments in the quarter. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1L8uhHw

Top 10 Ways To Recycle and Reuse Tin Cans

Ericsson, Tencent and SmarTone optimize Hong Kong network for WeChat performance

Ericsson, Tencent and Hong Kong's SmarTone are collaborating to optimize the Hong Kong operator's mobile network for performance of WeChat, a social networking app Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1TCxUrT

Samsung Pay Processes Half a Billion Dollars of Transactions

Samsung says that its mobile payments service, Samsung Pay has reached a global milestone - about five million registered users processed over 500 million dollars in the first six months, Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1TCxSQN

Ericsson selected by Idea Cellular for 4G rollout

Ericsson has been selected by Idea Cellular, the 3rd largest mobile services operator in India, with over 170 million subscribers, to deploy a 4G/LTE network Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1Rk8DiO

China's MVNOs Prepare for Breakthrough 2016

China's MVNOs recorded 10x growth in subscriber numbers in 2015, though their 20 million strong customer base still suffers from marginal usage profiles and low spend, Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1Rk8D2z

lundi 22 février 2016

Trojan 77: a gamified simulation of the Trojan virus

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Trojan 77 is a gamified simulation of the Trojan virus running on Arduino Uno. The Trojan is a malware designed to provide unauthorised remote access to a user’s computer amongst other harmful possibilities and this prototype was designed to be exhibited at a technology museum to show the most important effects the virus. Inspired by the tilting labyrinth game, the prototype simulates a few key effects of the Trojan virus like passwords leaking out, files being deleted and culminating in a system crash.

Trojan 77  was created by a team of Physical Computing students (Dhrux Saxena, Gunes Kantaroglu, Liliana Lambriev, Karan Chaitanya Mudgal) at CIID:

The idea of designing something analog to explain a digital construct was an exciting challenge to undertake. The way that computer viruses operate can be very complicated and hard to explain without overloading people with detailed information. Making this information visual via animated projections helped to communicate the effects in a fun and memorable way.

The Trojan moved through several prototyping stages. Initially, the wooden structure was built, followed by the maze. The structure as a whole became functional with the addition of Arduino and Processing. Two servo motors controlled by a joystick enabled the tilt while the movement of the ball triggered distinct light sensors which in turn triggered events in a Processing sketch mapped onto the maze.

The students created also a great video documentary  to explain the project with a style inspired by the work  of Charles and Ray Eames:



from Arduino Blog http://bit.ly/1TvVjtM

Artificial Intelligence Gets its Head out of the Cloud

MIT researchers have developed a new chip that could run AI programs locally, making conclusions about data without having to route it through the cloud.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1RjbJDH

Addressing Security Vulnerabilities in Embedded Applications Using Best Practice Software Development Processes and Standards

Sponsored by: Programming Research LTD
Many embedded systems and "connected” IoT products lack proper security due to outdated software development practices. Organizations now know they need to incorporate security into the software SDLC, yet many lack security expertise and are struggling with how to implement best practices.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1LCNBYj

Developing Secure Embedded Software

Sponsored by: Programming Research LTD
Most organization put considerable focus on software quality, but software security is different. Embedded development presents the challenge of coding in a language that’s inherently insecure; and quality assurance does little to ensure security.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1OqCZf4

How IoT is Making Security Imperative for All Embedded Software

Sponsored by: Programming Research LTD
Many IoT products lack proper security due to outdated software development practices. Hackers and criminals are acutely aware that many of the security procedures and applications in use today were designed to defend against attacks in the PC era – not current IoT threat vectors.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1KEJr7C

Ransomware, Backdoors, and Privacy

Technology editor Bill Wong talks about ransomware, backdoors, security, and privacy issues.

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from Electronic Design http://bit.ly/1XIf7L5

Mobile Devices Become a New Target for Spam and Malware Attacks

In 2015, cybercriminals continued to send out fake emails from mobile devices and notifications from mobile apps containing malware or advertising messages. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1Tv6IKk

150 million connected and communicating things in the Nordics by 2020

By 2020, there will be more than five connected devices per person totaling 150 million connected things in the Nordics. Digitalization and new IoT ecosystems, spearheaded by connected cars, are fuelling growth - and this is just the very beginning. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1Qwpr9y

Worldwide Smartphone Sales Grew 9.7 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2015

This was their slowest growth rate since 2008. In 2015 as a whole, smartphone sales reached 1.4 billion units, an increase of 14.4 percent from 2014. Click here for more.



from Cellular News http://bit.ly/1QUOYn4

Journey to 5G: Singtel partners with Ericsson to ready LTE network for IoT

Singtel and Ericsson have announced their partnership to ready Singtel's 4G LTE network to support the expected rapid growth of connected devices. Click here for more.



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