Boyan Slat is a 23-year-old Dutch inventor, and founder of the highly ambitious Ocean Cleanup project.

And in a little over a week, the group will embark on a complex plan to reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by half within the next five years.

This Is The Biggest Effort To Clear 1 Trillion Plastic Pieces From Our Oceans Over Next 5 Years

The initiative has been a long time coming, having first been started by Slat in 2013 at the tender age of 18. Five years later, having raised over $31 million for the project, The Ocean Cleanup project has conducted close to 300 scale model tests and has mapped the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in depth.

Also called the Pacific trash vortex, this is basically a vortex of trash circulating through the North Pacific Ocean, thanks to how ocean currents cross the region. It’s estimated there is around 80,000 metric tons of plastic in the patch, about 1.8 trillion pieces, stretching across 1.6 million square kilometres.

On September 8 Ocean Cleanup will deploy what it calls System 001 from California. It’s basically a 600-meter-long floater that sits on the surface of the water, with a three-metre-long skirt that extends below. Both of these stop plastic from escaping the device, trapping and amassing it all as the trash is pushed towards it by ocean currents. It then needs to be emptied every four to six weeks, in order to have it collect more and keep marine life from settling there.

System 001 can reportedly collect about five tons of ocean plastic per month. If successful, the group intends to eventually deploy a total of 60 systems in the fleet. Altogether, they’d be able to gather about 14,000 tons of plastic from the ocean each year.

“After fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre (current vortexes), combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90 percent of ocean plastic by 2040,” the company says on its website.

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There are those who remain skeptical about the project of course, saying it tackles the effects and not the cause of the problem. It is a start however, and Slat’s team refuse to let criticism weigh them down. In fact, they believe their project will be successful.

“While the need for a cleanup is clear, the engineering behind developing an efficient system that can survive at sea for decades is hard,” Slat wrote in a blog post. "It took years for our skilled team, which currently consists of scientists and engineers with around 400 years of offshore engineering experience between them, to develop the technology.”

That’s why they want to start as quickly as possible, and clean up as much plastic as they can. The hope is that the world will come around to reducing the source of plastic pollution, but they don’t want to wait for that day to rid our oceans of the damage already caused.

NASA working for better cancer treatments in space

In a new video published by the US space agency as part of the AngieX Cancer Therapy study, the team led by NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor were shown examining endothelial cells that come from blood vessels.

NASA working for better cancer treatments in space

Several cartridge-shaped containers on board the ISS currently host the cells as they undergo varying amounts of chemotherapy exposure. (Image Source: YouTube/NASA)

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are conducting a blood cell experiment which may improve treatments for cancer, the media reported. In a new video published by the US space agency as part of the AngieX Cancer Therapy study, the team led by NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor were shown examining endothelial cells that come from blood vessels.

Several cartridge-shaped containers on board the ISS currently host the cells as they undergo varying amounts of chemotherapy exposure. The team is conducting blood experiments in space because sometimes, cells act differently in the weightless environment of orbiting spacecraft, called microgravity. Because these orbiting cells perform more like they normally do inside the body, cancer researchers can more accurately test the cells for chemotherapy responses, the report said.

In the video, Aunon-Chancellor said the flat endothelial containers feel “all nice and warm and comfortable,” because they are kept at body temperature aboard the space lab. “We’ve had them for almost two months now up here in ISS. We feed them. We give them nutrients, they are like miniature crewmembers living with us.” According to NASA, endothelial cells housed within culture dishes (in vitro) in microgravity seem to perform as if they were in blood vessels within a living organism (in vivo) on Earth.

“The study may facilitate a cost-effective method that does not require animal testing, which may help develop safer and more-effective vascular-targeted drugs,” the project page on NASA stated.

Rising CO2 Pollution Isn't Just Warming The Planet, It's Making Our Crops Less Nutritious

Pollution is the environmental issue nipping at our heels, but it’s so dangerous because of how many different effects it has. Not just global warming, now scientists say it could also cause a serious global nutritional crisis within the next 100 years.

Rising CO2 Pollution Isn't Just Warming The Planet, It's Making Our Crops Less Nutritious

According to a new study by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, rising carbon dioxide levels could be drastically reducing the amount of nutrition we gain from crops. The thing is, increasing amounts of CO2 tend to adversely affect the zinc and protein contents in crops. Where these crops would otherwise recycle it for photosynthesis, too much CO2 presence would cause them to incorporate more in their tissue, thereby diluting other nutrients. This, means we won’t be able to receive the nutrition our bodies need from the amount of food we’re capable of eating. 

The study states that, if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise to 550 parts per million (ppm) it could create an additional 175 million zinc deficiencies and 122 million protein deficiencies in the global population. Unfortunately, that level of CO2 poisoning is something we might be on track to hit by even later this century. In addition, close to 1.4 billion women and children under five will also live in regions at high risk of iron deficiency.

scientists conducting this study have admittedly taken a few liberties as far as assumptions for this study go. However, it does fall in line with other similar recent studies. As far as carbon dioxide levels go, a study last month indicated rising pollution levels could cause the world to lose 126 million life years by 2020, as well as a loss of iron and zinc concentration in crops.

Even more worrying, countries in Asia and Africa (like us for example) which tend to have large poor populations will face the brunt of the impact. That’s especially true if our staple diet in the country doesn’t change. Of course, we didn’t need another reason to see how bad pollution and global warming are but here it is anyway.

Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) will invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business.

Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber for self-driving cars

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Uber is pictured during the presentation of their new security measures in Mexico City, Mexico April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Ginnette Riquelme/File Photo

Toyota, one of the world’s largest carmakers, and Uber [UBER.UL], the leading ride-hailing service, are widely seen as lagging the competition in developing self-driving cars.

Their deal deepens an existing relationship and reflects CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s strategy of Uber developing autonomous vehicles through partnerships, rather than on its own.

The deal also breathes new life into Uber’s self-driving business. Since a self-driving Uber SUV killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in March, Uber has removed its robot cars from the road, laid off hundreds of test drivers and shuttered operations in Arizona, its autonomous testing hub.

The investment values Uber at $72 billion, matching the valuation Uber received in a deal with Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) self-driving unit Waymo this year.

Uber will combine its autonomous driving system with Toyota’s Guardian technology, which offers automated safety features such as lane-keeping but does not enable a vehicle to drive completely autonomously.

The combined technology will be built into Toyota’s Sienna minivans, to be deployed on Uber’s ride-hailing network starting in 2021, Uber said.

FILE PHOTO: Visitors look at car models on the Toyota stand during the 88th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, March 7, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

The companies’ aim is to solve the enormously challenging problem of how to mass produce self-driving cars for shared fleets, including ride-hailing services.

Jeff Miller, Uber’s head of business development for strategic initiatives, said the partnership “really paints the picture of how we envision deploying autonomous technology in the long term.” That includes licensing its autonomous technology to carmakers and enlisting a third party to own and maintain the fleet.

The third party that will operate the Toyota autonomous fleet has not yet been chosen, Miller said.

For the Japanese automaker, the “agreement and investment marks an important milestone in our transformation to a mobility company as we help provide a path for safe and secure expansion of mobility services like ride-sharing that includes Toyota vehicles and technologies,” its executive vice president Shigeki Tomoyama said in a statement.

SELF-DRIVING PLANS

Toyota has been less aggressive than some rivals on moving toward full-fledged autonomous driving, expressing caution about the technology and focusing on partial autonomous systems like Guardian. But it has invested in research and plans to begin testing self-driving electric cars around 2020.

A Toyota official said the company would continue its research into self-driving technology, and that it would not combine its research efforts with Uber.

Uber has admitted its technology lags Waymo, and the crash in Arizona was a further setback in development and testing. The Toyota partnership puts pressure on Uber to resume testing on public roads, but the company has run up against regulators and politicians with safety concerns. Miller said Uber plans to have autonomous cars back on public streets by the end of the year.

Khosrowshahi, who took over Uber a year ago, has recently explored options that include more partnerships as well as a potential sale of the self-driving business, separate sources have told Reuters. The self-driving unit is a significant contributor to Uber’s losses, which in the second quarter were $891 million.

Uber has a deal to buy cars from Volvo, outfit them with Uber’s technology and maintain them, a more labor-intensive project than the Toyota plans.

The company also has a partnership with Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) in which the carmaker proposes to put its own self-driving cars in Uber’s ride-hailing network.

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Khosrowshahi’s partnership strategy is a shift. Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick had insisted on developing a proprietary self-driving system and called autonomous cars “existential” to Uber.

Previously, Uber and Toyota partnered on an electric mobility project. Two years ago, Toyota invested an undisclosed sum in Uber and the two companies partnered on a car-leasing program for Uber drivers. Uber has since shuttered its U.S. leasing business.

NASA’s Spitzer telescope completes 15 years in space

Launched into a solar orbit in 2003, Spitzer has illuminated some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, revealed a new ring around Saturn, and peered through shrouds of dust to study newborn stars and black holes.

With its infrared vision and high sensitivity, Spitzer has contributed to the study of some of the most distant galaxies in the known universe. (Image Source: YouTube/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

 Spitzer telescope completes 15 years in space.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope – which was initially scheduled for 2.5-year primary mission – has completed 15 years of space exploration. Launched into a solar orbit in 2003, Spitzer has illuminated some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, revealed a new ring around Saturn, and peered through shrouds of dust to study newborn stars and black holes. It assisted in the discovery of planets beyond our solar system, including the detection of seven Earth-size planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, among other accomplishments.

"In its 15 years of operations, Spitzer has opened our eyes to new ways of viewing the universe,” said Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in the US. “Spitzer’s discoveries extend from our own planetary backyard, to planets around other stars, to the far reaches of the universe. And by working in collaboration with NASA’s other Great Observatories, Spitzer has helped scientists gain a more complete picture of many cosmic phenomena,” he said. With its infrared vision and high sensitivity, Spitzer has contributed to the study of some of the most distant galaxies in the known universe.

The light from some of those galaxies travelled for 13.4 billion years to reach Earth. As a result, scientists see these galaxies as they were less than 400 million years after the birth of the universe. In recent years, scientists have utilised Spitzer to study exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, although this was not something the telescope’s designers anticipated.

Spitzer also played a key role in one of the most significant exoplanet discoveries in history: the detection of seven, roughly Earth-size planets orbiting a single star. The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system was unlike any alien solar system ever discovered, with three of its seven planets located in the “habitable zone,” where the temperature might be right for liquid water to exist on the planets’ surfaces. Their discovery was an enticing step in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

“The study of extrasolar planets was still in its infancy when Spitzer launched, but in recent years, often more than half of Spitzer’s observation time is used for studies of exoplanets or searches for exoplanets,” said Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, Spitzer’s project manager at JPL. “Spitzer is very good at characterising exoplanets, even though it wasn’t designed to do that,” said Storrie-Lombardi. Spitzer has logged over 106,000 hours of observation time. 

Thousands of scientists around the world have utilised Spitzer data in their studies, and Spitzer data is cited in more than 8,000 published papers. Spitzer’s primary mission ended up lasting 5.5 years, during which time the spacecraft operated in a “cold phase,” with a supply of liquid helium cooling three onboard instruments to just above absolute zero.

The cooling system reduced excess heat from the instruments themselves that could contaminate their observations. This gave Spitzer very high sensitivity for “cold” objects. In July 2009, after Spitzer’s helium supply ran out, the spacecraft entered a so-called “warm phase.” Spitzer’s main instrument, called the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), has four cameras, two of which continue to operate in the warm phase with the same sensitivity they maintained during the cold phase.

This Drone Will Sense Your Mood & Deliver A Cup Of Coffee Wherever You Are. No Kidding.

The one disadvantage of technology making our lives easier is that we don’t know where to draw the line with convenience. That’s how you end up with unnecessary and eye roll-worthy developments like mood-sensing coffee delivery drones.

This Drone Will Sense Your Mood & Deliver A Cup Of Coffee Wherever You Are. No Kidding.

Yeah, that’s actually a real thing IBM has just patented, probably because there’s no more pressing need than getting a scalding hot beverage down your throat as soon as you think of it. The company plans for a future where your drink is delivered to you wherever you are via air, as well as a way to flag down a passing drone for a coffee, like you would a waiter with flutes of champagne.

According to the listing at the US Patent Office, IBM envisions a future where drones carrying coffee are directed to public spots and thoroughfares where quite a few people are generally about. Then, it uses scanners connected to the UAV to “identify an individual among the people that may have a predetermined cognitive state.”

Basically, if you’re tired or sad, or bored, a coffee drone detects that and automatically hands you a dose of some good old caffeine.

Details on the sensing technology the drones would use aren’t particularly clear. To get a read on your cognitive state, they could be sucking up all kinds of data from the time of day, to facial expressions, (to dare we say it), brain activity scans from wearables. One can only imagine the outcry over privacy invasion that would generate.

IBM is really going all out with the patent though, describing a gimbal arm to avoid spilling the coffee over the heads of people the drone flies over, as well as a built-in heater.

Well, at least this way you could grab your coffee without taking a detour away from your work route.

Uber, Airbus enlisted to help Japan develop flying cars

Uber Plans Paris Flying-Car Lab as CEO Sees Future in 3D The technology, just like aviation, would need to win approvals from several regulators that can take many years.

Flying cars that can zoom over congested roads are closer to reality than many people think. (Image: Bloomberg)

Uber, Airbus enlisted to help Japan develop flying cars.

Japan is making a push to develop flying cars, enlisting companies including Uber Technologies Inc and Airbus SE in a government-led group to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade. The group will initially comprise 21 companies and organizations, including Boeing Co, NEC Corp, a Toyota Motor Corp-backed startup called Cartivator, ANA Holdings Inc, Japan Airlines Co, and Yamato Holdings Co, according to a statement Friday from the trade ministry in Tokyo. Delegates will gather Aug 29 to help chart a road map this year, it said.

The Japanese government will provide appropriate support to help realize the concept of flying cars, such as creation of acceptable rules,” the ministry said.

Flying cars that can zoom over congested roads are closer to reality than many people think. Startups around the world are pursuing small aircraft, which were until recently only in the realm of science fiction. With Japanese companies already trailing their global peers in electric vehicles and self-driving cars, the government is showing urgency on the aircraft technology, stepping in to facilitate legislation and infrastructure to help gain leadership.

Uber Plans Paris Flying-Car Lab as CEO Sees Future in 3D The technology, just like aviation, would need to win approvals from several regulators that can take many years. That would also happen only when safety standards are set by agencies, without which commuters won’t embrace the flying craft.

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"It’s necessary for the government to take a lead and coordinate on setting safety standards,” said Yasuo Hashimoto, a researcher at Tokyo-based Japan Aviation Management Research. “They are trying to set a tone for the industry ahead of other countries.”

Japan’s Economy Minister Hiroshige Seko told reporters this month that flying cars could ease urban traffic snarls, help transportation in remote islands or mountainous areas at times of disasters, and can be used in the tourism industry. Boeing Is Getting Ready to Sell Flying Taxis in the Next Decade.

Many have already had a head start in the race. Uber, which will invest 20 million euros ($23 million) over the next five years to develop flying car services in a new facility in Paris, has set a goal of starting commercial operations of its air-taxi business by 2023. Kitty Hawk, the Mountain View, California-based startup founded and backed by Google's Larry Page, in June offered a glimpse of an aircraft prototype: a single-person recreational vehicle. Other global companies envisioning this new form of transportation include Volkswagen AG, Daimler AG and Chinese carmaker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd Japanese carmakers have not yet announced their plans to develop flying cars.

How This Military-Developed Radar Technology Can Help Self-Driving Cars Navigate In Snowy Areas

Self-driving vehicles use a combination of sensing technologies to be effective, usually optical cameras, and lidar. Unfortunately, both of these rely on reflected light and are made problematic  by snowy conditions. However, there may be a way around it.

MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory long ago developed a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system to help the military detect landmines. However a startup named WaveSense has been attempting to apply that technology to self-driving cars, and they may have just succeeded. 

GPR scans the ground underneath a vehicle upto a depth of around 10 feet, building a picture of what’s going on beneath the surface you’re driving on. In self-driving cars, WaveSense compares this data to GPR data that’s previously been collected for road networks, and is then capable of placing the car to within even a few centimetres.

Sure, you can say that this technology relies on the roads being mapped beforehand, but then again so does lidar. In fact, WaveSense says remapping with ground-penetrating will be required less frequently because the rock underneath a road isn’t as likely to change as the actual ground.

THE HUSKY VEHICLE MOUNTED MINE DETECTION SYSTEM, THE ORIGINAL GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR USER

There’s also the plus point that adding a GPR sensor isn’t expensive at all, only costing about $100 per vehicle according to the startup’s CEO. After all, it’s been through heavy development and testing by the military and is about as rock solid as it can get. In addition, it’s the first sensing method for self-driving cars that’s completely unfazed by snow and its reflectiveness.

Google Assistant to now read good news of the day

The feature will work on any Google Assistant-enabled device, including phone, Smart Display or Google Home smart speaker.

The daily dose of good stories will be curated and summarised by the Solutions Journalism Network, a non-partisan, non-profit organisation. (Image: Bloomberg)

To brighten up your day as you wade through a sea of bad news, Google Assistant will now deliver curated good news – stories about people who are solving real-life problems across the world. “Tell me something good” is a new experimental feature, currently available for Assistant users in the US. Just say “Hey Google, tell me something good” to receive your daily dose of good news, Google said in a statement.

"Real people are making progress solving real issues and hearing about those stories is a crucial part of a balanced media diet,” said Ryan Burke, Creative Producer, Creative Lab at Google.

The daily dose of good stories will be curated and summarised by the Solutions Journalism Network, a non-partisan, non-profit organisation.

"Solutions journalism empowers and energises audiences, helping to combat negative news fatigue. We’re exploring how to incorporate more solutions journalism wherever you access Google News,” the tech giant said.

The feature will work on any Google Assistant-enabled device, including phone, Smart Display or Google Home smart speaker. The Google Assistant can now connect with more than 5,000 devices at your home.

"That includes cameras, dishwashers, doorbells, dryers, lights, plugs, thermostats, security systems, switches, vacuums, washers, fans, locks, sensors, heaters, AC units, air purifiers, refrigerators, ovens, we can keep on going!” Michele Turner, Director, Smart Home Ecosystem at Google, recently wrote in a blog post.

Meet The Best Piece Of Gaming Hardware Ever Built, Promising To Revolutionize Graphics Forever

At Gamescom this week, Nvidia released its latest GPUs, the first based on the new Turing architecture and the Nvidia RTX platform. In other words, we’ve just got the best gaming chips we’ve ever seen yet, and it’s going to change how you experience PC gaming. 

IMAGES COURTESY: NVIDIA

The new chips fuses next-generation shaders with real-time ray tracing, as well as all-new AI capabilities. In fact, it’s probably the biggest generational jump in performance we’ve seen in a while.

The new Turing architecture includes something called a dedicated ‘RT Core’. This is hardware designed to power ray tracing. For those of you out of the loop. Ray tracing is a complex technique to render realistic lighting by calculating how individual rays of light will interact with different objects in a scene. This gives you realistic reflections and shadows, ones that you’d be hard pressed to tell from a sight actually in front of your eyes. Unfortunately this is immensely taxing on a chip, and has been too resource-intensive to achieve in real time, at least until now.

One of the new lines is Quadro RTX, which is meant for professional use rather than gaming. This shows in the price tag, with the flagship Quadro RTX 8000 costing a whopping $10,000, when it ships at the end of the year.  

THE NEW TURING ARCHITECTURE

On the other hand, there’s the more consumer-focused RTX 2000 series. Thanks to Turing architecture, these chips are also capable of achieving real time ray-tracing, and will succeed the GTX 1080 as the pinnacle of Nvidia's gaming crown.

lineup includes the RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti. With this arsenal, Nvidia is promising “up to 6X the performance of previous-generation graphics cards.” In fact, they’re boasting of achieving even 4K gaming at 60 fps on the most demanding titles. Manufacturers like MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte have all already said they’re including the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. Even game developers like EA, Square ENix, and Epic Games are on board with titles like Battlefield V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Metro Exodus.

The RTX 2070 is clocked at 1410MHz, with 2304 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6 RAM, the lightest of the bunch. The RTX 2080 meanwhile is clocked at 1515MHz with 2944 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6 RAM. However while both offer performance alongside ray tracing, only the 2080 is designed for overclocking. The RTX 2080 Ti meanwhile is the flagship of the bunch, and is clocked at 1350MHz with 4352 CUDA cores and 11GB of GDDR6 RAM. For those of you modding your own PCs, Nvidia recommends a 650W power supply, as the regular RTX 2080 draws up to 215 watts.

Pre-orders on the RTX 2000 series chips begin today, with the 2080 and 2080 Ti being available starting September 20, and the 2070 in October. The RTX 2070 will run you up $499 (Rs 51,200 here in India), the RTX 2080 at $699 (Rs 68,500), and the RTX 2080 Ti at $999 (Rs 1,02,500)

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New Nvidia gaming chips aim to boost realism of graphics

Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) on Monday released a new generation of gaming chips that combine its latest “ray tracing” technology and artificial intelligence to give gamers access to more realistic graphics.

NVIDIA computer graphic cards are shown for sale at a retail store in San Marcos, California, U.S. August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake

New Nvidia gaming chips aim to boost realism of graphics

At a Gamescom 2018 press conference in Cologne, Germany, Nvidia rolled out its newest generation of gaming chips - the RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. They are based on its recently launched chip blueprint called “Turing,” which Nvidia is also using for higher-priced chips announced last week for game designers, movie makers and other computer graphics professionals.

The chips will range from $499 to $999 and will be available in retail stores starting Sept. 20, Chief Executive Jensen Huang said at the event.

The biggest selling point of the gaming chips released on Monday is an improvement in so-called “real-time ray tracing,” or the ability for the chip to simulate how light rays will bounce around in a visual scene, which helps video games and other computer graphics more closely resemble shadows and reflections in the real world.

Part of how the new chip achieves high resolution graphics quickly is a special section of the chip that finishes most of the image but then uses artificial intelligence to guess what the unfinished pixels should look like. That task was difficult to do well in the past, Huang said in his presentation.

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“We’re using artificial intelligence to generate resolution that we otherwise wouldn’t have,” Huang said. “We can now for the very first time generate missing pixels that are actually right.”

Gaming produced $5.5 billion of Nvidia’s $9.7 billion in revenue for its most recent fiscal year, up 36 percent from the year before. Last week, Nvidia’s largest and oldest business of selling graphical processing units, or GPUs, for video game players beat analyst estimates, bringing in $1.8 billion compared with estimates of $1.75 billion

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