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According to CNBC, Walmart shoppers "[43]will soon see more third-party ads on screens in Walmart self-checkout lanes and TV aisles; hear spots over the store's radio; and be able to sample items at demo stations." From the report: For Walmart, selling ad space to its wealth of existing partners is another way to capitalize on the company's huge reach and to expand into higher-margin businesses. The discounter has nearly 4,700 stores across the U.S., with roughly 90% of Americans living within 10 miles of a Walmart store. In the U.S., about 139 million customers visit Walmart stores and its website or app each week. The company plans to ramp up in-store ads using its approximately 170,000 digital screens across its locations as well as 30-second radio spots that will be available to suppliers later this year and can target a specific store or region. And it's hoping at least one of the new advertising initiatives will be easy to digest: free samples in stores on the weekends. It tried out the new in-house approach of selling sampling stations in Dallas-Fort Worth and plans to offer the option in more than 1,000 stores across the country by the end of January. Advertising still drives a small sliver of Walmart's overall revenue. Its global advertising business hit $2.7 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in late January. That's less than 1% of Walmart's total annual revenue. Yet it is becoming a more meaningful growth engine for Walmart. CEO Doug McMillon said earlier this year that he expects company profits to grow faster than sales over the next five years, driven in part by higher-margin businesses, including advertising. In the most recent fiscal year, Walmart's global ads business grew nearly 30% and its U.S. ads business, Walmart Connect, rose about 40%. That's a sharper gain than the approximately 7% increase in Walmart's total revenue and Walmart U.S. net sales during the period. apply tags__________ 171522114 story [44]United States [45]Fitch Downgrades US Credit Rating From AAA To AA+ [46](bbc.com) [47]53 Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:57AM from the breaking-news dept. The US government's credit rating has [48]been downgraded following concerns over the state of the country's finances and its debt burden. From a report: Fitch, one of three major independent agencies that assess creditworthiness, [49]cut the rating from the top level of AAA to a notch lower at AA+. Fitch said it had noted a "steady deterioration" in governance over the last 20 years. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called the downgrade "arbitrary". It was based on "outdated data" from the period 2018 to 2020, she said. Investors use credit ratings as a benchmark for judging how risky it is to lend money to a government. The US is usually considered a highly secure investment because of the size and relative stability of the economy. However, this year saw another round of political brinkmanship over government borrowing. In June the government succeeded in lifting the debt ceiling to $31.4 trillion but only after a drawn-out political battle, which threatened to push the country into defaulting on its debts. When Congress returns from its summer recess, lawmakers will have to work to reach an agreement on next year's budget before the end of September to prevent a government shutdown. "The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance" relative to peers, said Fitch in a statement. "In Fitch's view, there has been a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters, notwithstanding the June bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt limit until January 2025," the rating agency said. Ms Yellen said she "strongly" disagreed with Fitch's decision. "Treasury securities remain the world's preeminent safe and liquid asset, and... the American economy is fundamentally strong," she said in a statement. apply tags__________ 171519624 story [50]Space [51]Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid [52](gizmodo.com) [53]6 Posted by [54]BeauHD on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:00AM from the promising-new-tool dept. An asteroid-hunting algorithm called HelioLinc3D has [55]spotted a potentially hazardous 600-foot-long space rock that's currently about 4 astronomical units from Earth. The asteroid is 2022 SF289 and "swings by Earth on the opposite side of its orbit, classifying it as a potentially hazardous asteroid (or PHA)," reports Gizmodo. From the report: "Potentially hazardous" merely means there is some chance the object could impact Earth, and thus it is worth keeping an eye on. What's significant about 2022 SF289 is not that it is hazardous, but that it was spotted by a new algorithm called HelioLinc3D. The recent asteroid spotting demonstrated that the algorithm can detect near-Earth asteroids with fewer observations than traditional methods. Because the Rubin Observatory is not yet up and running, HelioLinc3D was tested using the University of Hawaii's ATLAS survey. "By demonstrating the real-world effectiveness of the software that Rubin will use to look for thousands of yet-unknown potentially hazardous asteroids, the discovery of 2022 SF289 makes us all safer," said Ari Heinze, a scientist and researcher at the Rubin Observatory and the University of Washington, and the principal developer of the new algorithm, in a university [56]release. "This is just a small taste of what to expect with the Rubin Observatory in less than two years, when HelioLinc3D will be discovering an object like this every night," said Mario Juric, a scientist at the Rubin Observatory, director of the DiRAC Institute, astronomer at the University of Washington, and leader of the team behind HelioLinc3D, in the same release. "From HelioLinc3D to AI-assisted codes, the next decade of discovery will be a story of advancement in algorithms as much as in new, large, telescopes," Juric added. The Rubin Observatory is now expected to commence its observations in early 2025, though we'll have to wait and see if that timeline sticks. apply tags__________ 171519604 story [57]AI [58]Nvidia AI Image Generator Fits On a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes To Train [59](decrypt.co) [60]31 Posted by [61]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:30PM from the less-is-more dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Decrypt: In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI art creation tools, Nvidia researchers have introduced an innovative new text-to-image personalization method called [62]Perfusion. But it's not a million-dollar super heavyweight model like its competitors. With a size of just 100KB and a 4-minute training time, Perfusion [63]allows significant creative flexibility in portraying personalized concepts while maintaining their identity. Perfusion was presented in a [64]research paper created by Nvidia and the Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Despite its small size, it's able to outperform leading AI art generators like Stability AI's Stable Diffusion v1.5, the newly released Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), and MidJourney in terms of efficiency of specific editions. The main new idea in Perfusion is called "Key-Locking." This works by connecting new concepts that a user wants to add, like a specific cat or chair, to a more general category during image generation. For example, the cat would be linked to the broader idea of a "feline." This helps avoid overfitting, which is when the model gets too narrowly tuned to the exact training examples. Overfitting makes it hard for the AI to generate new creative versions of the concept. By tying the new cat to the general notion of a feline, the model can portray the cat in many different poses, appearances, and surroundings. But it still retains the essential "catness" that makes it look like the intended cat, not just any random feline. So in simple terms, Key-Locking lets the AI flexibly portray personalized concepts while keeping their core identity. It's like giving an artist the following directions: "Draw my cat Tom, while sleeping, playing with yarn, and sniffing flowers." Perfusion also enables multiple personalized concepts to be combined in a single image with natural interactions, unlike existing tools that learn concepts in isolation. Users can guide the image creation process through text prompts, merging concepts like a specific cat and chair. Perfusion offers a remarkable feature that lets users control the balance between visual fidelity (the image) and textual alignment (the prompt) during inference by adjusting a single 100KB model. This capability allows users to easily explore the Pareto front (text similarity vs image similarity) and select the optimal trade-off that suits their specific needs, all without the necessity of retraining. It's important to note that training a model requires some finesse. Focusing on reproducing the model too much leads to the model producing the same output over and over again and making it follow the prompt too closely with no freedom usually produces a bad result. The flexibility to tune how close the generator gets to the prompt is an important piece of customization apply tags__________ 171519538 story [65]Open Source [66]Pixar, Adobe, Apple and Others Form Alliance For OpenUSD To Drive Open Standards For 3D Content [67](linuxfoundation.org) [68]33 Posted by [69]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:00PM from the joined-forces dept. Some of the largest tech companies, including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia, have [70]announced the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to [71]promote and develop Pixar's 3D Universal Scene Description technology. From the Linux Foundation: The alliance seeks to standardize the 3D ecosystem by advancing the capabilities of Open Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD). By promoting greater interoperability of 3D tools and data, the alliance will enable developers and content creators to describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects and build an ever-widening range of 3D-enabled products and services. Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers robust interoperability across tools, data, and workflows. Already known for its ability to collaboratively capture artistic expression and streamline cinematic content production, OpenUSD's power and flexibility make it an ideal content platform to embrace the needs of new industries and applications. The alliance will develop written specifications detailing the features of OpenUSD. This will enable greater compatibility and wider adoption, integration, and implementation, and allows inclusion by other standards bodies into their specifications. The Linux Foundation's JDF was chosen to house the project, as it will enable open, efficient, and effective development of OpenUSD specifications, while providing a path to recognition through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). AOUSD will also provide the primary forum for the collaborative definition of enhancements to the technology by the greater industry. The alliance invites a broad range of companies and organizations to join and participate in shaping the future of OpenUSD. apply tags__________ 171519026 story [72]Businesses [73]Employers Feeling More Pain In Return-To-Work Policies [74](fortune.com) [75]112 Posted by [76]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:20PM from the then-and-now dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [77]lpq shares a report from Fortune: We're now finding out the damaging consequences of the mandated return to office. And it's not a pretty picture. A trio of compelling reports -- the Greenhouse Candidate Experience report, the Federal Reserve's Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), and Unispace's Returning for Good report -- [78]collectively paint a stark picture of this brewing storm. Unispace [79]found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren't ready for the serious problems that would result. Meanwhile, a staggering 76% of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules, [80]according to the Greenhouse report. Moreover, employees from historically underrepresented groups are 22% more likely to consider other options if flexibility comes to an end. In the SHED survey, the gravity of this situation becomes more evident. The [81]survey equates the displeasure of shifting from a flexible work model to a traditional one to that of experiencing a 2% to 3% pay cut. Flexible work policies have emerged as the ultimate edge in talent acquisition and retention. The Greenhouse, SHED, and Unispace reports, when viewed together, provide compelling evidence to back this assertion. Greenhouse finds that 42% of candidates would outright reject roles that lack flexibility. In turn, the SHED survey affirms that employees who work from home a few days a week greatly treasure the arrangement. Interestingly, Unispace throws another factor into the mix: choice. According to its report, overall, the top feelings employees revealed they felt toward the office were happy (31%), motivated (30%), and excited (27%). However, all three of these feelings decrease for those with mandated office returns (27%, 26%, and 22%, respectively). In other words, staff members were more open to returning to the office if it was out of choice, rather than forced. apply tags__________ 171519002 story [82]Canada [83]Facebook and Instagram's News Blackout In Canada Starts Today [84](engadget.com) [85]44 Posted by [86]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:40PM from the following-through-with-their-threats dept. Starting today, Facebook and Instagram users in Canada will [87]no longer be able to view or share news links or see videos and photos published by publishers and broadcasters. Engadget reports: Meta made the decision in response to Canadian legislators passing the Online News Act. The law requires certain platforms to negotiate revenue-sharing agreements with news organizations. The aim is to address the collapse in advertising revenue that news outlets have struggled with over the last two decades amid the growth of online services. "News links and content posted by news publishers and broadcasters in Canada will no longer be viewable by people in Canada," Meta [88]said. "We are identifying news outlets based on legislative definitions and guidance from the Online News Act." Any content shared by international news organizations won't be visible on Facebook and Instagram in Canada either. apply tags__________ 171518870 story [89]The Military [90]Biden Reverses Trump Decision, Keeps Space Command In Colorado [91](politico.com) [92]92 Posted by [93]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:00PM from the moving-sucks dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: President Joe Biden has determined that Colorado Springs [94]will be the permanent headquarters of U.S. Space Command, reversing a Trump administration decision to move the facility to Alabama, the Pentagon announced Monday. The decision will only intensify a bitter parochial battle on Capitol Hill, as members of the Colorado and Alabama delegations have spent months accusing each other of playing politics on the future of the four-star command. The command was [95]reestablished in 2019 and given temporary headquarters in Colorado while the Air Force evaluated a list of possible permanent sites. With an eye on Russia and China, its job is to oversee the military's operations of space assets and the defense of satellites. Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Biden notified the Department of Defense on Monday that he had made the decision, after speaking with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and weighing the input of senior military leaders. "Locating Headquarters U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs ultimately ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period," Ryder said in a statement. "It will also enable the command to most effectively plan, execute and integrate military spacepower into multi-domain global operations in order to deter aggression and defend national interests." Austin, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and U.S. Space Command chief Gen. James Dickinson all support Biden's decision, Ryder added. The most significant factor Biden weighed in making the decision was the impact such a move would have on the military's ability to confront the changing threat from space, according to a senior administration official, who like others was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations. Keeping the headquarters at Colorado Springs "maintains operational readiness and ensures no disruption to its mission or to its personnel," according to the official. The command is set to achieve "full operational capability" this month, the official said. A move to Alabama, by contrast, would have forced the command to transition to a new headquarters in the mid-2020s, and the new site would not have been open until the early to mid-2030s, the official said. "The president found that risk unacceptable, especially given the challenges we may face in the space domain during this critical time period," according to the official. apply tags__________ 171518812 story [96]AI [97]Meta Is Reportedly Planning An Abe Lincoln Chatbot As Part of a Public AI Push [98]17 Posted by [99]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:20PM from the expect-honest-answers dept. According to the [100]Financial Times, Meta is [101]preparing to launch AI-enabled chatbots with unique personalities, such as a surfer personality and a chatbot based on Abraham Lincoln. Engadget reports: This is an attempt to boost engagement across Meta's social media platforms, as human-like discussions tend to be more interesting than droll robotic responses. The company hasn't announced which of these platforms would host Abe Lincoln and his pals, though previous reports indicated Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp would be recipients of this new technology. Meta staffers are calling these chatbots "personas" and they could launch as soon as September. These personas will provide a new way to search and they'll even offer recommendations, similar to how current chatbots work, though ChatGPT and the rest don't have Abraham Lincoln on the payroll (just don't ask him about the best local opera houses.) FT notes that the chatbots could also collect vast amounts of personal data, something Meta has [102]never shied away from. After all, you'll likely share more personal details with a human-like companion than one devoid of personality. The vast majority of Meta's [103]yearly revenue comes from advertising, so go ahead and tell your good friend Abe all about your likes and dislikes. [104]What's the worst that could happen? apply tags__________ 171518744 story [105]Hardware [106]A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments [107](science.org) [108]73 Posted by [109]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:40PM from the remarkable-claims dept. Derek Lowe, a medicinal chemist and freelance writer on science and pharmaceutical topics, [110]comments on the latest developments around last week's remarkable claim of a [111]well-above-room-temperature superconducting material at ambient pressure, dubbed LK-99. Here's an excerpt from his post: As of this morning, there are (as yet not really verified) [112]reports of replication from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. At least, a video has been posted showed what could be a sample of LK-99 levitating over a magnet due to the Meissner effect, and in different orientations relative to the magnet itself. That's important, because a (merely!) paramagnetic material [113]can levitate in a sufficiently strong field (as can diamagnetic materials like water droplets and frogs), but these can come back to a particular orientation like a compass needle. Superconductors are "[114]perfect diamagnets," excluding all magnetic fields, and that's a big difference. The "[115]Meissner effect" that everyone has been hearing about so much is observed when a material first becomes superconductive at the right temperature and expels whatever magnetic fields were penetrating it at the time. All this said, we're having to take the video on the statements of whoever made/released it, and there are other possible explanations for the it that do not involve room-temperature superconductivity. I will be very happy if this is a real replication, but I'm not taking the day off yet to celebrate just based on this. And even though I'm usually more of an experimental-results guy than a theory guy, two other new preprints interest me greatly. One is [116]from a team (PDF) at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, [117]and the other (PDF) is from Sinead Griffin at Lawrence Berkeley. Both start from the reported X-ray structural data of LK-99 and look at its predicted behavior via density functional theory (DFT) calculations. And they come to very similar conclusions: it could work. This is quite important, because this could mean that we don't need to postulate completely new physics to explain something like LK-99 - if you'd given the starting data to someone as a blind test, they would have come back after the DFT runs saying "You know, this looks like it could be a really good superconductor..." [...] I am guardedly optimistic at this point. The Shenyang and Lawrence Berkeley calculations are very positive developments, and take this well out of the cold-fusion "we can offer no explanation" territory. Not that there's anything wrong with new physics (!), but it sets a much, much higher bar if you have to invoke something in that range. I await more replication data, and with more than just social media videos backing them up. This is by far the most believable shot at room-temperature-and-pressure superconductivity the world has seen so far, and the coming days and weeks are going to be extremely damned interesting. apply tags__________ 171518688 story [118]Piracy [119]Reddit Beats Film Industry, Won't Have To Identify Users Who Admitted Torrenting [120](arstechnica.com) [121]35 Posted by [122]BeauHD on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:00PM from the nice-try dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Film companies lost another attempt to force Reddit to identify anonymous users who discussed piracy. A federal court on Saturday [123]quashed a subpoena (PDF) demanding users' names and other identifying details, [124]agreeing with Reddit's argument that the film companies' demands violate the First Amendment. The plaintiffs are 20 producers of popular movies who are trying to prove that Internet service provider Grande is liable for its subscribers' copyright infringement because the ISP allegedly ignores piracy on its network. Reddit isn't directly involved in the copyright case. But the film companies filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena demanding "basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information" for six users who wrote comments on Reddit threads in 2011 and 2018. "The issue is whether that discovery is permissible despite the users' right to speak anonymously under the First Amendment," US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler wrote in her ruling against the film copyright holders. "The court denies the motion because the plaintiffs have not demonstrated a compelling need for the discovery that outweighs the users' First Amendment right to anonymous speech." The film companies seeking Reddit users' identities include After II Movie LLC, Bodyguard Productions, Hitman 2 Productions, Millennium Funding, Nikola Productions, Rambo V Productions, and Dallas Buyers Club LLC. As Beeler's ruling on Saturday noted, they sought the identities of two users who wrote about torrenting on Grande's network in 2018 [...]. The companies also sought identities of four users who commented in a 2011 thread. "I have grande. No issues with torrent or bandwidth caps," one user comment said. Another Reddit user wrote, "I have torrented like a motherfucker all over grande and have never seen anything." Reddit's [125]filing (PDF) pointed out that the statute of limitations for copyright infringement is three years. The film companies [126]said (PDF) the statute of limitations is irrelevant to whether the comments can provide evidence in the case against Grande. apply tags__________ 171517696 story [127]Earth [128]UNESCO Says Venice Should Be Added To Heritage Danger List [129](washingtonpost.com) [130]43 Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:41PM from the closer-look dept. The United Nations' cultural protection agency, UNESCO, plans to recommend adding Venice [131]to its list of World Heritage sites in danger, as the iconic island city faces simultaneous threats from climate change, mass tourism and rapid urban development. From a report: The designation, meant to encourage remedial actions and marshal international support for World Heritage sites, is recommended in a UNESCO report published Monday ahead of its World Heritage Committee meeting in September. The List of World Heritage in Danger identifies dozens of sites that are "threatened by serious and specific dangers," such as armed conflict or natural disasters. It includes Odessa in Ukraine, which was added in January because of war-related threats, and the Everglades in Florida, which faces environmental degradation. The proposal by UNESCO is the latest alarm bell over the future of Venice -- one of the world's most fragile and popular cities -- as well as the Italian government's efforts to protect it. Built across 118 small islands, the city was first designated as a World Heritage site in 1987 for its architectural splendor and work of master artists including Giorgione and Titian, among others. "It is tragic that the state of conservation of one of the most treasured cultural sites in the world is of such concern" that experts are considering Venice for the "in danger" list, Helene Marsh, a professor of environmental science at Australia's James Cook University who has researched climate change and World Heritage sites, said in an email. A warming world poses an "existential threat" to preservation and conservation, Marsh said. apply tags__________ 171517158 story [132]NASA [133]Search for Voyager 2 After Nasa Accidentally Sends Wrong Command [134](theguardian.com) [135]70 Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:04PM from the hopefully-not-a-voyager dept. Nasa engineers [136]hope to re-establish contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft after sending a faulty command that [137]severed communications with the far-flung probe. From a report: The spacecraft is one of a pair that launched in 1977 to capture images of Jupiter and Saturn, but continued on a journey into interstellar space to become the farthest human-made objects from Earth. The space agency lost contact with Voyager 2, which is now more than 12bn miles away, when mission staff accidentally beamed the wrong command to the distant spacecraft more than a week ago. The command caused the probe to tilt its antenna away from Earth, and although the direction it is pointing in changed by only 2%, the shift was enough for engineers operating receivers on Earth to lose touch with it. Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, were launched within a couple of weeks of one another to explore the planets and moons of the outer solar system. Voyager 1 is still in contact with Earth and nearly 15bn miles away. In 2012, it became the first probe to enter interstellar space and is now the most distant spacecraft ever built. Voyager 2 hurtled into interstellar space in 2018 after discovering a new moon around Jupiter, 10 moons around Uranus and five around Neptune. It remains the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system's giant planets at close range. apply tags__________ 171516852 story [138]Google [139]YouTube Uses AI To Summarize Videos in Latest Test [140](theverge.com) [141]16 Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:22AM from the how-about-that dept. Google is experimenting with the use of AI to [142]auto-generate YouTube video summaries, according to a notice on a support page dated July 31st. From a report: The page, which we spotted via Android Police, notes that these summaries will only appear next to a limited number of English-language videos, and will only be viewable by a limited number of users. They'll appear on YouTube's watch and search pages, and are intended to give a brief overview of a video's contents without replacing its existing description written by a human. "We're starting to test AI auto-generated summaries on YouTube, so that it's easier for you to read a quick summary about a video and decide whether it's the right fit for you," the support page reads. Further reading: [143]Forget Subtitles. YouTube Now Dubs (Some) Videos with AI-Generated Voices. apply tags__________ 171516774 story [144]Facebook [145]Meta To Seek User Consent for Targeted Ads in the EU [146]37 Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:52AM from the changing-times dept. Meta intends to ask users in the European Union [147]for their consent before allowing businesses to target advertising based on what they view on its services such as Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant said on Tuesday. From a report: Meta said the change is to address a number of evolving regulatory requirements in the region and stems from an order in January by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, Meta's lead EU regulator, to reassess the legal basis on how it targets ads. Facebook and Instagram users had effectively agreed to allow their data to be used in targeted advertising when they signed up to the services' terms and conditions, until the regulator ruled it could not process personal information in that way. "Today, we are announcing our intention to change the legal basis that we use to process certain data for behavioural advertising for people in the EU, EEA (European Economic Area) and Switzerland from 'Legitimate Interests' to 'Consent'," Meta said in a blog post. apply tags__________ [148]« Newer [149]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [150]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll What's your favorite machine to play games on? 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