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<br /><ul><li><strong>Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Delhi alumni have rolled out the world’s first automotive crutches that have the potential to stand on their own. <br /></strong></li><li><strong>Priced at ₹2,999, the device is likely to launch on the e-commerce websites by mid-August. <br /></strong></li><li><strong>It is useful for patients with <keyword id="512476" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Spinal-cord-injury">spinal cord injury</keyword>, fracture and <keyword id="1752391" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="arthroplasty">arthroplasty</keyword> of Knee and hip joints.</strong></li></ul>Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi alumni rolled out the world’s first automotive crutches. And, they have the potential to stand on their own. <br /><br />The product was developed by a startup called Flexmotiv which was started by IIT Delhi students Arvind S.A, Adepu Srinivas and Girish Yadav. They were assisted from AIIMS, New Delhi.<br /><br />“It is the world’s first self-standing axillary crutch. At an initial stage of using the crutch, there is always a requirement of support, but Flexmotiv is designed in a way that can be used without taking any support,” Arvind SA, the co-founder of Flexmotiv<a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/education/flexmotiv-worlds-first-self-standing-crutch-designed-by-iit-delhi-alumni-5892807/"> told </a>the Indian Express.<br /><br />The product intends to help the elderly and the handicapped, by presenting an easy-to-use solution for walking disabilities. It is also useful for patients with spinal cord injuries, fractures and arthroplasty of knee and hip joints.<br /><br />The crutches can support users in sloped areas and is also useful for trekkers. The product has been tested on over 150 users and has received 600 orders already, Daily Pioneer <a href="https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/state-editions/iit-d-develops-self-standing-auxiliary-crutch-to-help-divyang.html">reported</a>.<br /><br /><strong>E-commerce debut soon</strong> <br /><br />Priced at ₹2,999, the device is likely to be sold on e-commerce websites like Amazon, Flipkart by mid-August. In fact, the developers have been trying to push the product on Amazon “before August 15,” Arvind said.<br /><br />Unlike the normal crutches that are rubbered at the ends, the Flexmotiv is a leg-shaped structure with ‘toe and heel’ at the ends. This is designed to allow users to walk through muddy roads and bumpy areas.<br /><br />The developers hit upon the idea after a friend’s accident. It took nearly two years to develop it. <br /><br />“The device is designed in a way that it improves the surface adaptability thus reducing the jarring forces from 5% - 10% while walking thereby improving the user performance by 10% - 20%,” he added. <br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/whatsapp-messages-origin-can-be-traced-says-iit-madras-professor/articleshow/70603973.cms">After Indian government, IIT professor points out how WhatsApp messages can be traced</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/iit-incubated-startup-launches-interactive-arm-for-stroke-victims/articleshow/70598302.cms">IIT incubated startup launches interactive arm for stroke victims</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/all-the-iits-filled-their-vacant-undergraduate-seats-across-23-campuses/articleshow/70533327.cms">All the IITs filled their vacant undergraduate seats across 23 campuses</a><br />

IIT Delhi alumni launches the world’s first automated crutch that can stand on its own

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<p>Last week, as thousands of Russian troops <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-war-ukraine-2014-8">streamed into Ukraine</a>, Putin issued a statement reminding the world that Russia was a nuclear-armed power.</p>
<p>"Russia is one of the most powerful nuclear nations," he <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/31/putin-threatens-nuclear-war-over-ukraine.html">said</a>. <span>"This is a reality, not just words."</span></p>
<p>Putin is certainly playing up the threat of his strategic arsenal. This month, Russia is conducting a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-strategic-nuclear-forces-are-holding-a-major-exercise-soon-2014-9">massive drill</a> simulating the <keyword id="6354810" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Defense">defense</keyword> of its strategic nuclear sites that will involve more than 4,000 soldiers. And as columnist and historian Anne Applebaum recently <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-war-in-europe-is-not-a-hysterical-idea/2014/08/29/815f29d4-2f93-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html">noted</a>, commentators in Russia are now claiming that Putin is "weighing the possibility of limited nuclear strikes" against targets in eastern Europe, at least creating the impression that the Russian president is keeping his options open.</p>
<p>The situation recalls tensions between the USSR and the U.S. during the closing decade of the Cold War. </p>
<p>In 1983, relations between the U.S. and the USSR were under almost unprecedented strain after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Olympic boycotts, and increasingly hardline leadership in Moscow. Both sides began to put into place new intermediate-range nuclear weapon systems that could reach a target in only a matter of minutes. </p>
<p class="p1">"Both sides now are putting weapons in to place that can reach each other in seven, eight minutes," Tom Nichols, a professor at the Naval War College, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bcvjj4PAE">told</a> National Geographic. This reduced "the amount of time for a decision about whether or not to begin a nuclear war, about whether or not to incinerate the entire northern hemisphere from minutes to seconds." </p>
<p class="p1">To deter the possibility of a U.S. nuclear first-strike, the Soviets created a system called Perimeter, also known as "Dead Hand."</p>
<p class="p1">The Dead Hand was a computer system that could autonomously launch all of the USSR's nuclear weapons once it was activated, across the entirety of the Soviet Union. </p>
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<p class="p1">Dead Hand was a weapon of last resort. It was created to ensure that even if the Soviet leadership was wiped out, a nuclear response could still be launched against the West and NATO in retaliation. </p>
<p class="p1">After Dead Hand was activated by Soviet <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/08/world/russia-has-doomsday-machine-us-expert-says.html">military officials,</a> "the first thing it does is check the communication lines to work out if there's anyone alive and in charge of the Soviet military," Alok Jha, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Handbook-Alok-Jha-ebook/dp/B00LSX4TV4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1409844762&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=the+doomsday+handbook">The Doomsday Handbook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bcvjj4PAE">told</a> National Geographic. "If they're not alive, it takes over." </p>
<p class="p1">If Dead Hand did not detect signs of a preserved military hierarchy, the system would perform a check for signals of a nuclear attack, such as a change in air pressure, extreme light, and radioactivity.</p>
<p class="p1">If the system concluded that a nuclear strike had taken place, Dead Hand would proceed to launch all of the remaining nuclear weapons from all of the silos throughout the Soviet Union at targets across the Northern Hemisphere. </p>
<p class="p1">Of course, no system is fool-proof, and there are concerns that Dead Hand could still operate at some level within the modern Russian military and accidentally trigger the launch of Russia's active nukes. </p>
<p class="p1">"We've since asked the Russians if it's still on," Nichols <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/five-ways-nuclear-war-could-still-happen-10665">writes</a> at The National Interest, "and they've assured us, with complete confidence, that we should mind our own business." </p>
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<h3 class="p1">Russia's Modern Reliance On Nuclear Weapons</h3>
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<p>There's a possibility that Dead Hand was dismantled when the Soviet Union fell - but nuclear weapons are still an integral part of Moscow's defense architecture, even without a semi-automated doomsday machine in place.</p>
<p>The limited use of nuclear weapons has remained an official center point of Russian military strategy since a policy of nuclear "de-escalation" was officially adopted by Putin in 2000. </p>
<p>De-escalation is "the idea that, if Russia were faced with a large-scale conventional attack that exceeded its capacity for defense, it might respond with a limited nuclear strike," Nikolai N. Sokov, a senior fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, <a href="http://thebulletin.org/why-russia-calls-limited-nuclear-strike-de-escalation">wrote</a> for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. </p>
<p>This is a military strategy that envisions that "<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">the threat of a limited nuclear strike that would force an opponent to accept a return to the status quo ante," Sokov notes. "Such a threat is envisioned as deterring the United States and its allies from involvement in conflicts in which Russia has an important stake, and in this sense is essentially defensive."</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Although de-escalation is intended to be a defensive strategy, Russia has included simulations of nuclear strikes in all large-scale military exercises since 2000 to make the threat credible. This might be one of the reasons Russia is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-strategic-nuclear-forces-are-holding-a-major-exercise-soon-2014-9">staging</a> a massive strategic nuclear exercise this month, amidst intensifying conflict in eastern Ukraine.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to experts, de-escalation is a principal aspect of Russian military doctrine due to the country's relative weakness in terms of conventional military strength, compared to the NATO states. The reliance on the threat or possibility of nuclear counter-measures is the only way that Russia can stand up to the combined strength of the U.S. and NATO in the event of all-out war. </span></span></p>
<p class="p1">"Russia is acutely aware of its conventional weakness," Nichols <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/five-ways-nuclear-war-could-still-happen-10665">writes</a> at The National Interest. "[E]ven as they torment Ukraine right under NATO's nose, the Russians know that they have no chance against NATO without nuclear weapons." </p>
<p class="p1">However, as Nichols <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/welcome-russian-nuclear-weapons-101-10432?page=4">notes</a>, Moscow knows that its reliance on nuclear weapons is an unsustainable crutch, and that Russia's conventional forces are still sorely in need of modernization.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="p1">Below is a video from National Geographic on the establishment of the Soviet Dead Hand system: </p>
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Russia May Still Have An Automated Nuclear Launch System Aimed Across The Northern Hemisphere

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Delta damaged a 12-year-old's mobility scooter on a flight from Atlanta to New York on Monday.</li><li>The girl, who has a broken ankle, has been housebound since and finds it difficult to move.</li></ul><p>A 12-year-old was left housebound for days after Delta damaged the mobility scooter she was using after breaking her ankle.</p><p>Shaquanna Cross was travelling with Chelsie Paul on a Delta flight from Atlanta to New York's JFK airport on Monday. When the scooter was returned, Cross found it was "in pieces", with a broken seat and damaged wheels.</p><p>"For their employees to handle an important medical machine without any care in the world is unacceptable to me. I went to file a claim at the airport and had to wait over 2 hours just to do that," Cross told Insider.</p><p>Since returning home, Chelsie Paul hasn't been able to leave and has relied on Cross to move between rooms.</p><p>"She has crutches too but she doesn't know how to use them that good," Cross said. "So she's been in the house until her new one comes.</p><p>"I have to help her around the house, she holds on to me and hops around with the one good foot she has. I'm being used for extra help and support."</p><p>Through five days of sending several complaint emails, Cross has been sent the same automated response each time that indicated someone would reply within 30 days.</p><p>"Their employees need to do better because it is totally unacceptable to have them mistreat someone's medical device like they did my daughter's," Cross said.</p><p>Delta has faced recent issues with the handling of luggage for disabled passengers. In early July, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-forgot-break-wheelchair-jfk-new-york-plane-travel-chaos-2022-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">Insider reported</a> how its staff failed to put a passenger's wheelchair on his flight from New York to Ireland.</p><p>In a statement, Delta told Insider it had been in touch with Cross to speed up the process of reimbursing her for the scooter. </p><p>"Delta takes the care and transportation of mobility devices very seriously and understands that any mishandling has a direct impact to a customer's daily life. We sincerely apologize for this experience and we're working directly with the customer to make things right via repairs and compensation," a spokesperson said.</p>

Delta damaged a 12-year-old's mobility scooter, leaving her housebound for days while her mother bought a replacement

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="108481" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Baltimore">Baltimore</keyword> police officer was charged on suspicion of assault and misconduct in office after slamming a grocery store shopper improperly wearing a face-covering onto the concrete floor, according to the city of Baltimore.</li><li>Detective Andre Pringle, 45, is a 23-year veteran of the <keyword id="2842897" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Baltimore-Police-Department">Baltimore Police Department</keyword> and was suspended with pay after the incident.</li><li>Following the alleged assault, the shopper received probation after pleading guilty to one count of violating orders under a state of emergency.</li></ul><p>A Baltimore police officer is facing criminal charges on suspicion of slamming a shopper onto the concrete floor for improperly wearing a mask in April, <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MDBALTIMORESAO/2020/12/21/file_attachments/1631838/Pringle%20Final%20Indictment.PDF">according to a recent indictment</a> from the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.</p><p>Detective Andre Pringle, 45, was charged last week with second-degree assault and misconduct in office for the act of aggression against Brandon Walker, a 25-year-old who is alleged by the city to have entered a Shoppers Supermarket grocery store with a face mask resting atop his head, but without covering his mouth or nose.</p><p>Pringle is a 23-year veteran of Baltimore's police department and has since been suspended with pay, according to a <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-officer-charged-over-covid-mask-20201230-mfvy7qr3tngfpo4oujdism37t4-story.html">report from the Baltimore Sun</a>.</p><p>"At all times, Officer Pringle was a sworn public officer, acting under color of his office," according to a press release from the office of the state attorney in Baltimore. "The physical assaults were not accidental, consented to, nor legally justified."</p><p>In mid-March, face masks were required to be worn in public areas and indoor buildings per orders from both the mayor of Baltimore and the <a href="https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Masks-and-Physical-Distancing-4.15.20.pdf">governor of Maryland.</a></p><p>After entering the store without a face covering, court documents allege that Walker was asked by a Shoppers' manager to wear his face mask properly, but he refused. Walker was then asked again to put on a mask by store security to comply with the governor's order or leave, but Walker declined, leading the store manager to summon Pringle.</p><p>Prosecutors allege that after Pringle told Walker to leave the store, the two began to walk to the exit as Walker screamed expletives at the detective. As the two entered the enclosed area between the two sets of automated doors, Walker then stopped walking and glared at Pringle before turning back around, leading Pringle to push Walker out of the store and then slam him onto the concrete ground, face-first.</p><p>"Detective Pringle caused physical harm to Mr. Walker," prosecutors allege. "The contact was the result of an intentional, harmful, offensive, and unwanted touching by Detective Pringle."</p><p>Walker was using a crutch and had a cast on his right foot at the time of the incident, according to the indictment.<a href="https://www.stattorney.org/media-center/press-releases/2168-baltimore-police-department-officer-indicted-for-second-degree-assault-and-misconduct-in-office"></a></p><p>Walker had been charged with failure to obey, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, assault, and trespassing, but the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/police-officer-charged-with-assaulting-man-not-wearing-mask/2020/12/30/0cf516e8-4af9-11eb-97b6-4eb9f72ff46b_story.html">charges were dropped in November</a>. He received probation after pleading guilty to one count of violating orders under a state of emergency.</p><p>Detective Pringle will face no more than 10 years in prison if convicted on the assault charge. According to the Sun, he is scheduled for arraignment on April 9, 2021 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.</p>

A Baltimore police officer has been charged with assaulting a shopper for not wearing a face mask correctly

<p><div type="image" title="Giphy" height="1138" width="2338" msid="75815616" hostid="261"></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword>'s purchase of <keyword id="1846353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Giphy">Giphy</keyword> makes perfect sense: both companies want to serve as many people as possible, without any coherent point of view or aesthetic.</li><li>GIFs were once a vital and unique artform, but Giphy indexed them and made the same GIFs appear again and again — with boring and predictable consequences.</li><li>Facebook did much the same for the wider web, stultfying <keyword id="1532112" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="internet-culture">internet culture</keyword>.</li><li>This is an <keyword id="6356002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="opinion">opinion</keyword> column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p>On May 15, Facebook announced that it had purchased Giphy, the searchable GIF repository, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-acquires-giphy-gif-database-instagram-reported-400-million-2020-5">for a reported $400 million.</a> The service will be under the Instagram umbrella; Giphy is already integrated with the app. </p><p>Since it was founded in 2013, Giphy has grown into an essential tool for millions of internet users who can't quite express themselves in words and need a character from Doctor Who to help. Facebook's acquisition, then, makes perfect sense: one company that has made the internet less creative fun and more formulaic is buying another company that has done the same.</p><h2>In their early days, GIFs were a hallmark of internet fluency</h2><p>At the start of the 2010s, animated GIFs were the most versatile file format on the internet, having grown out of their rudimentary MySpace form. These GIFs were more dynamic than still images but more lightweight than uploading a full video, making them easy to drop into things like email. The animated GIF was particularly popular on Tumblr, where obsessive fans clipped out their favorite TV characters and moments and facial expressions in order to assemble moodboards. </p><p>In tandem, popular Tumblr blogs like <a href="https://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/">What Should We Call Me</a> recontextualized these images as "reaction GIFs," which are exactly what they sound like. Instead of sending an eyeroll emoji, you can use a GIF of <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/bitch-please-blerg-BB8Gx0CaEASHu">Tina Fey rolling her eyes</a>.</p><p><div type="image" title="reaction gifs" height="1500" width="2000" msid="75815618" hostid="261"></div></p><p>The GIF became cultural currency. Users kept bulging folders of hundreds of reaction GIFs. They began speaking of effective GIF deployers as having good "GIF game." </p><p>The ability to make a GIF was, for a brief window, a specialized skill only practiced by people with working copies of Photoshop, exporting individual frames from video clips and layering them. Media organizations that didn't want to run afoul of copyright restrictions began GIFing pop culture into shareable bits perfect for social media. (See: <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/akdobbins/mad-men-gif-for-the-ages">'Mad Men' GIF For The Ages</a>, Buzzfeed, 2009.)</p><h2>And then Giphy stepped in</h2><p>But there was no easy way to find just the right GIF, and that's where Giphy came in. Founded in 2013, Giphy scraped a bunch of GIFs from the internet, tagged them, indexed them, and ranked them algorithmically. Suddenly, GIFs were available to everyone, not just the obsessives with the folders. </p><p>Shortly after Giphy was founded, Twitter announced <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/479307198901026816">support</a> for uploading GIFs (actually re-encoding them as video files to save bandwidth) in 2014. Soon after, in 2015, <a href="https://mashable.com/2015/05/29/facebook-gif-support/">Facebook relented</a> as well. In 2016, Apple released iOS 10, with Giphy search tools integrated into its messaging software.</p><p>Whether by design or intent, Giphy's search tools led to a noticeable monotony in GIF culture. The same principles that apply to Google also seem to apply to Giphy: if you're not in the top three results, you might as well not exist. Reaction GIFs became flattened and less diverse. </p><p>If you're active on Twitter, at least once a day — assuming you follow normies or are a normie — you'll see <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-1zSz5MVw4zKg0">Jonah Hill dragging his finger across his neck</a>, or <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/sweaty-hvq8ONQhQ1XLq">this one particular spit take</a>, or <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/michael-jackson-comments-popcorn-pUeXcg80cO8I8">Michael Jackson</a> or <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/popcorn-reaction-this-gonna-be-good-tFK8urY6XHj2w">Stephen Colbert</a> eating popcorn, or the <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/9jumpin-wow-nice-well-done-xT77XWum9yH7zNkFW0">guy from Australia's Got Talent with his jaw on the floor</a>, or <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/mtv-yes-oscars-all-of-this-YPKIJdwYWJ3Ik">Meryl Streep and JLo applauding at the Oscars</a>, or <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/jay-z-listening-hiLLD9o1wTB3a">Jay-Z nodding his head</a>.</p><p><div type="image" title="mark zuckerberg giphy" height="1380" width="2684" msid="75815620" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Giphy's integration with larger platform also forced the company to sweep some of the more, um, eccentric parts of GIF culture under the rug.</p><p>Shortly after iOS 10's release, Apple had to contend with <a href="https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/theres-actual-hardcore-porn-hiding-in-ios-10-nsfw-1786670537">porn GIFs</a> and <a href="https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/theres-my-little-pony-porn-hiding-in-ios-10-1786653053">My Little Pony erotica</a> appearing in iMessage GIF-search results. (Apple quickly put a <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016-09-15-gifs-ios10-imessage-briefly-turned-up-porn.html">stop</a> to them.) Similarly, searching for a GIF using Instagram's Giphy integration gives you a small, pre-approved sample of possible results. When users rely on services like Giphy for curation, and Giphy itself has to bend to the whims of mega-platforms like Facebook or iOS, things get real boring real fast.</p><h2>Facebook has similarly flattened the internet</h2><p>This pattern of behavior — growth, increased scrutiny, eventual homogeneity — is what makes Giphy perfect for Facebook, an enormous company that tries to serve so many disparate audiences it has no idea what it stands for, and whose sorting algorithm has made the once-vibrant web into a stale and infuriating place. </p><p>Facebook is structured around the News Feed, which means that anyone trying to get attention on the platform caters to the whims of that algorithm. It's why all headlines seem to have the same format, and why videos and livestreams started appearing more frequently. By funneling all of the internet through a dominant, centralized system with its own internal — and opaque — rules, everything begins to look the same.</p><p>Facebook and Instagram's dominant aesthetic is lowest-common-denominator cutesy pablum that feigns having a point of view or personality without actually having one. Such is the cost of aggressively centralizing disparate audiences onto a single service. Facebook consolidated the internet, sucking up diverse message boards and blogs and fan websites, and made it boring and formulaic and a slog. Giphy centralized GIF culture in the same way.</p><p>Facebook has also acquired a company that is hooked into many of its competitors, posing significant privacy and antitrust issues. </p><p><div type="image" title="A man opens the Facebook page on his computer in Abuja, Nigeria March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde" height="4476" width="5968" msid="75815622" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Disney briefly <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/25/baby-yoda-gifs-removed-over-disney-copyright-issues-star-wars-the-mandalorian-mando">took GIFs of Baby Yoda off of Giphy</a> last year, due to a momentary (and largely unexplained) spat over copyright. But that was when Giphy was a relatively small company. Now it's part of Facebook, and rights holders may be much more eager to go after Facebook's very fat wallet.</p><p>It's entirely possible that Facebook might choose to purge these possible IP headaches rather than deal with the associated costs and paperwork, wiping out years of accumulated digital memorabilia — and further flattening the already paltry landscape. (This would not be a new strategy: years ago, Yahoo acquired Geocities, only to unceremoniously <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/now-closing-geocities-a-relic-of-webs-early-days/">kill it off</a> when it couldn't figure out what to do with it.)</p><p>It's entirely possible that Facebook might choose to purge these possible IP headaches rather than deal with the associated costs and paperwork, wiping out years of accumulated digital memorabilia — and further flattening the already paltry landscape.</p><p>Giphy and Facebook have both made the web boring and predictable and stifling. Just as Facebook's News Feed became a crutch for users, a convenient and perilous way to let automated systems do your web-surfing for you, Giphy's database is also a crutch, making the formerly individual task of GIF gathering and curation into a project of the collective hive mind. Both have had a stultifying effect on internet culture. These two companies were made for each other.</p><p><em>This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author(s).</em></p><p><em><a href="http://feldman.cool/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Feldman</a> is a full-time gamer living in Brooklyn. He writes about technology on occasion.<br /></em></p>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/opinion-facebook-giphy-internet-worse-perfect-marriage-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Giphy ruined GIFs, and Facebook ruined the internet. They're perfect for each other.

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Joshua Lott/Getty Images</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>A <a href="http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/09/Polarizing-Content-and-Swing-States.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new study</a> conducted by Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project found that "low quality political information" and "ideologically extreme" junk <keyword id="6355005" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="News">news</keyword> flooded 12 battleground states in the run-up to Election Day, strategically targeting pivotal voters before and after November 8.</p><p>The study is the first to document on a large scale how propaganda and conspiratorial information was "strategically disseminated" throughout the country during the election. The researchers said they based their analysis on a dataset of 22,117,221 tweets collected between November 1-11 that contained hashtags related to <keyword id="6358883" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Politics">politics</keyword> and came from users with traceable locations.</p><p>They found that "junk news, characterized by ideological extremism" and "misinformation" was shared more than expected among Twitter users in swing states like Florida, New Hampshire, Virginia, Michigan, and Ohio during that 10-day period.</p><p>"Many of the swing states getting highly concentrated doses of polarizing content were also among those with large numbers of votes in the Electoral College" the researchers wrote.</p><p>The Oxford report adds to a growing list of questions about whether the Russians had any help in deciding who to target.</p><p>The possibility was first raised by congressional investigators like Rep. Adam Schiff earlier this month, after Facebook said in a statement that about 25% of the ads purchased by Russians during the election "were geographically targeted."</p><p>Many analysts have said they find it difficult to believe that foreign entities would have had the kind of granular knowledge of American politics necessary to target specific demographics and voting precincts. </p><p>As Facebook has faced heavy scrutiny over its laissez-faire approach to information-sharing and ad sales, however, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/technology/twitter-russia-election.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter has remained largely silent</a>. The company hasn't yet addressed questions about how instrumental automated accounts - known as "bots" - were in spreading fake news and Russian propaganda.</p><p>The ability to build those bots anonymously allowed the Russians to spread misinformation on a large scale with virtually no effort. Twitter often shuts down these bot accounts, but as a matter of policy never reveals details about why the accounts were terminated.</p><p>Russia's influence operations are not new, nor are they confined to the United States. But as former FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers testified in March, the operations intensified noticeably in the run-up to the 2016 election. </p><p>At one point, Russia's infamous troll factories <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">were likely being paid</a> by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. Facebook believes that one of those factories, Russia's Internet Research Agency, was behind the bulk of inauthentic accounts that purchased the divisive political ads during the election.</p><p>Twitter representatives testified behind closed doors before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Thursday. Both panels have invited Twitter and Facebook to be interviewed in public this fall about the Russian influence campaign, but the companies have yet to accept.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-defector-escapes-6000-miles-trek-on-crutches-2017-9">The story of a North Korean amputee's 6,000-mile escape on crutches</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Pandora</span></p><p class="caption">Roger Lynch, CEO of Pandora, is bullish on the company's ad-based streaming music business.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Spotify and Apple Music have been dominating the streaming music business of late, growing their number of users by the tens of millions.</strong></li><li><strong>But Roger Lynch, CEO of Pandora, thinks his company's service can carve out a profitable niche next to those two giants.</strong></li><li><strong>Pandora has been shedding users and ad revenue in recent quarters, but Lynch has been taking steps to shore up both. </strong></li><li><strong>While Pandora offers a subscription streaming service, Lynch thinks its best opportunity could be with its core ad-based service.</strong></li></ul><p><br />The digital music business has taken a decided shift toward subscription streaming services, and Spotify and Apple are dominating the market.</p><p>But Roger Lynch insists there's still a place for Pandora.</p><p>"I definitely think there's room," said Lynch, the CEO of Pandora, in an interview this week with Business Insider.</p><p>Nearing <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pandora-ceo-roger-lynch-of-dishs-sling-tv-2017-8">his first anniversary as the streaming music company's boss</a>, Lynch discussed his plans and strategy for Pandora. Despite dominating the internet radio market, Pandora has never posted a full-year profit since becoming a public company in 2011. Lately, the company has seen its sales growth slow to a crawl and its losses swell as its total number of users and the number of hours they tuned into its service declined markedly.</p><p>Those user and usage declines have come as Apple Music and Spotify have garnered new subscribers by the millions.</p><p>Despite that, Lynch is convinced there are bright days ahead for Pandora. That may not be shocking given his position at the company. But what may be surprising is where he sees the company's best opportunity.</p><h2>Pandora is doubling down on its free service</h2><p>Rather than focusing on Pandora's own subscription music business, Lynch is doubling down on its older advertising-based internet radio service. The company <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pandora-is-spending-110-million-to-buy-a-startup-thats-trying-to-become-the-google-of-audio-advertising-2018-3">recently acquired AdsWizz</a>, an ad technology company. Last fall, it addressed a longstanding complaint of customers of its free service, introducing a new feature that allows them to play songs of their choice on demand - after watching a video ad. And this week, it announced a deal with Snap that builds off that feature, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi3rqq16ZzcAhWDA3wKHWsTDSsQFggnMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarkets.businessinsider.com%2Fnews%2Fstocks%2Fpandora-stock-rises-after-company-announces-snapchat-partnership-6289623&amp;usg=AOvVaw0CiNnJt7uYW6lxohLp5UaK">allowing customers of its ad-supported service to share full songs with each other through Snapchat</a>.</p><p>"For us, our free service really is our core business," he said. "It's not about … using our free service to drive subscriptions. It's about increasing engagement in that and driving ad revenue."</p><p>The <keyword id="35666" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="advertising">advertising</keyword> market for radio is about $16 billion, Lynch noted. But just like what's happening in video, that market is starting to shift from traditional sources to online services. Pandora is already the biggest player in digital radio ads, and the AdsWizz puts it in an even better position, Lynch said.</p><p>"If you believe in the growth of digital audio, both with subscriptions and with ads ... I think Pandora is incredibly well positioned for that," he said.</p><h2>Lynch has a plan to shore up Pandora's ad revenue</h2><p>But despite that shift, Pandora's advertising revenue has actually been slipping lately. Pandora's ad sales fell 4 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period a year earlier after dropping at a 5% annual rate in the fourth quarter. In its quarterly report for the first quarter, the company blamed the ad sale decline on selling fewer ads than it had a year earlier.</p><p>Right now, Pandora doesn't sell all of its ad inventory and it sells some of its ad spots for relatively low rates, Lynch said. But the company thinks it can improve its performance in both areas, thanks in part to its AdsWizz acquisition.</p><p>AdsWizz focuses on so-called programmatic advertising for digital audio services. Programmatic ad services allow companies to automate the process of selling advertising spots and to avoid having some go unsold. AdsWizz should allow Pandora to sell out its ad inventory and increase the money it sees per impression from delivering ads without having to increase the number of ads it actually serves up to users, Lynch said.</p><p>"All those factors go into improving the monetization on digital audio for us," he said.</p><h2>He also thinks he can fix Pandora's decline in users</h2><p>Pandora's ad revenues have slipped as the company has shed users. Its number of active monthly users fell from 81 million in the fourth quarter of 2016 to 72.3 million in the first quarter.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Greg Sandoval/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's company has been gaining users even as Pandora has been losing them.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Some might see that as evidence that consumers are moving away from Pandora to Spotify and Apple Music. During that same time period, for example, Spotify's total users worldwide grew from 123 million to 170 million. But Lynch pointed to a different factor.</p><p>When Pandora asked why people stopped listening to its services, the vast majority of them said it was because they couldn't play a particular song or album on demand. The company's free radio service allows users to create radio stations that are inspired by particular songs, but they couldn't just start playing them.</p><p>Pandora launched in December a feature that addresses just that objection. Users can now listen to just about any song they want on demand, but they have to watch a 15-second video ad first.</p><p>For the company, the feature has an added benefit - those kinds of ads are in high demand, Lynch said. Pandora can just about guarantee users will watch them, and users generally don't object to them, because they get rewarded for watching them.</p><p>"That ad unit is incredibly valuable," he said, continuing: "Advertisers love it."</p><h2>Lynch thinks Pandora complements Spotify, rather than competing with it</h2><p>Regardless, Lynch believes Pandora can exist comfortably side-by-side with Apple and Spotify even though they all now offer similar services, because users perceive Pandora differently from the other two.</p><p>Pandora made a name for itself by creating lots of different radio stations that appeal to a variety of tastes and for customizing playlists for users based on what it knew about their personal musical tastes. Spotify stands for something different - the ability to play whatever song you want when you want it, Lynch said. To put it a different way, Pandora offers more of a lean-back experience than Spotify, he said.</p><p>"I doubt there are many people who would have both Spotify and Apple Music," he said. "There are a lot of people who would use Pandora in addition to one of those services."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hands-free-crutch-iwalk-stand-crutches-2018-6">This hands-free crutch takes the strain off your hands, wrists and arms</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Ford</span></p><p class="caption">A rendering of the revived Central Station.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/ford">Ford</a> has developed a massive development plan for a new-mobility corridor stretching from Detroit through its revamped headquarters in Dearborn to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.</strong></li><li><strong>CEO <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jim-hackett">Jim Hackett</a> is bringing his "design thinking" innovation and management approach to the task of remaking the 100-plus-year-old company.</strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/f-stock">Ford</a> has bought a huge, crumbling rail station near downtown Detroit and intends to combine it with a plan to revive the city's Corktown neighborhood to be a center of the carmaker's Smart Mobility efforts.</strong></li></ul><p><br />Ever since Jim Hackett took over as CEO of Ford last year, the auto industry and Wall Street have been trying to figure out his plan to keep the 114-year-old carmaker relevant in the 21st century, as brash new arrivals such as Waymo and Tesla change the way we get around.</p><p>Hackett - who was CEO of furniture manufacturer Steelcase before being invited to join Ford by none other than board Chairman Bill Ford - won't be rushed. But gradually, details of his visions for the company are emerging.</p><p>The latest involves a long-neglected train station adjacent to downtown Detroit and over a million square feet of new workspaces in the Corktown neighborhood of Motown.</p><p>"It's a really exciting time, now that I've been here a little over a year," Hackett told Business Insider. "With Bill, I get to make a statement that the strategy is taking hold."</p><p>Hackett assumed the CEO role in May of 2017, when Mark Fields was ousted amid a lagging stock price even as the automaker was racking up quarter after quarter of profits. Tesla had passed Ford in market capitalization in April of 2017, and the Ford board wanted to drive home a new story. Specifically, the board wanted to make it clear that the automaker, founded in 1903, was a car company <em>and </em>a mobility company.</p><h2>Ford's CEO deals with a host of new and old rivals</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>CES</span></p><p class="caption">Hackett at CES in 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>There was also the not inconsequential matter of Ford's annual profits. While solid, they weren't hitting the targets set by Fields. Crosstown rival General Motors was exiting struggling regions - GM sold Opel, its main European division, in 2017 - and investing heavily in self-driving tech, spending half a billion to acquire Cruise Automation in 2016 and later joining with Japan's SoftBank this year to pump another $3.35 billion into the former San Francisco startup.</p><p>Ford wasn't sitting still. It bought a majority stake in ArgoAI, a Pittsburgh artificial-intelligence firm, in 2017, to the tune of $1 billion. And it continued to stick with its own self-driving agenda, aiming for a full autonomous rollout by 2021 and acquiring both Autonomic and Transloc earlier this year to bolster is Smart Mobility division.</p><p>It helps that Ford has the best-selling vehicle in America, the Ford F-150 pickup. Moving close to a million units every year, the truck prints money and has given Hackett the cash he needs to swing for the fences. But Hackett knows that the F-Series can be both a boon and crutch. Ford can't afford to get left behind as the <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="transportation">transportation</keyword> landscape is altered, not just in the US but globally</p><p>"We make vehicles we're proud of, but we're also making our system for fit and evolving our production thinking," he said. "The cars we're making are becoming more intelligent."</p><h2>Smarter vehicles for a smarter world</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Ford</span></p><p class="caption">Ford is also transforming its Dearborn HQ.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Smarter vehicles for a smarter world - it's a guiding principle for Hackett and a clue that the onetime University of Michigan football player likes his technology with a human touch. </p><p>The massive Corktown project is now a case in point. As part of a billion-dollar-plus transformation of Ford's Michigan facilities, including its 60-year-0ld headquarters in Dearborn, the company recently took over the dilapidated Michigan Central Station, a shuttered icon that dispatched its last train in the late 1980s.</p><p>The plan to is make it the centerpiece of a Corktown revitalization and create a new-mobility ecosystem in the Detroit area that connects downtown to Dearborn and even draws in the nearby University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor and the Ford-supported American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti Township.</p><p>According the carmaker, the Corktown project will also provide some residential housing, along with significant office and business spaces for other companies. Hackett will shares details at a presentation on Tuesday, June 19, with a community open house to follow on Friday, June 22, continuing through the weekend.</p><p>Ford has already started moving into the area. Its electric-vehicle group, Team Edison, has taken up residence at a Corktown facility called the Factory in May (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ford-to-increase-electric-vehicle-investment-to-11-billion-executive-2018-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electrification will see an $11.1-billion investment</a> at Ford in the coming decade). The ultimate goal is for much of Ford's new mobility initiatives - effectively, the company of the future, with 2,500 employees - to work in Detroit.</p><p>"I like our odds," Hackett said.</p><p>"This creates tremendous momentum, and Ford's a momentum play right now," he added, pointing out that although he was pleased that Ford has stepped up to seize the opportunity to continue the revival of Motown after its 2013 bankruptcy, Detroit was doing fine on its own.</p><h2>Why good design also needs to be good business</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Ford</span></p><p class="caption">A rendering of what the long-unused Central train station will become.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>For Hackett, Corktown and the Central Station is a serious business investment.</p><p>"It's one-plus-one equals three," he said. "We need to attract and retrain talent for the kinds of design problems we face."</p><p>Where younger, technologically skilled employees live and work matters. Hackett said that Ford has already seen the needle moving in terms of recruitment with ArgoAI in Pittsburgh, so the company wants to make Detroit seem just as appealing.</p><p>And cars increasingly aren't just bumpers and tires and engines - they're rolling computers that are learning to drive themselves, talk to each other, and generate enormous amounts of lucrative data that's shared with the cloud. In fact, Ford thinks the data business could generate double the profit margins the company has historically seen on vehicles, potentially as high as 20%.</p><p>For Hackett, keeping Detroit in the mobility game and bolstering Bill Ford's commitment to the area as the center of the transportation industry is a challenge for design thinking, the CEO's preferred way to tackle huge issues. The urban context for the Corktown development is integral to Hackett's approach.</p><p>"Design thinking is about addressing a number of layers in a problem," he said, noting that the connection of smarter vehicles with a changing urban environment and the arrival of cloud computing is a rare historic opportunity. </p><p>"We can improve the environment and get vehicles to orchestrate and harmonize," he said.</p><h2>Hackett isn't marching to Wall Street's pace - but he presides over a powerful cash-machine</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Ford</span></p><p class="caption">The Ford F-150 pickup truck.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p> The thinking-man's CEO that Hackett symbolizes has been frustrating Wall Street, which is having an easier time with GM's more aggressive tactics. But Hackett isn't just restructuring Ford - he's redesigning the company. A paramount consideration is that the truly big opportunity will be missed, as the industry is trapped between its profitable past and a future that could, in the nightmare scenario, completely eliminate its history and give the 21st century to nimble new companies that are based nowhere near Detroit.</p><p>It isn't enough for Ford to say that it will always have the F-150, although Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, a Ford bull, says that the pickup business alone could bring in $42 billion, with profits that would make it a Fortune 40 enterprise on its own. </p><p>"Out of all the companies under our coverage, we believe that Ford has the greatest opportunity to show it has a hand to play in Auto 2.0, particularly given that its Auto 2.0 efforts have yet to be validated externally," Jonas wrote in an early June research note. "Its Auto 1.0 business has levels of value potentially vastly underestimated by the market."</p><p>So Hackett knows he has the investment capital to work with and a core business that, if returned to what he calls "fitness," can continue to thrive. That doesn't mean he thinks he has a blank check. </p><p>"At the end of the day, we have shareholders, and there needs to be a return on investment," he said. " The fitness thing is about making that even better."</p><p>Bill Ford sounded a similar note. In a statement, he called the Central Station "a powerful symbol of Detroit's struggles and now its resurgence," but he also stressed that "Ford's investment in Corktown is far from symbolic."</p><p>He added that Ford isn't "just making a bet on Detroit" but "making a big bet on the future for<br />Ford and the future of transportation."</p><h2>Insiders are optimistic</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP/Carlos Osorio</span></p><p class="caption">Ford Chairman Bill Ford.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Internally, the company is optimistic. The teams that have already moved from Dearborn to Corktown love being in an urban setting, and while outsiders might be daunted by Hackett's long-term thinking, insiders know that the CEO's objectives make sense: smart vehicles for a smart world is Hackett's version of former CEO Alan Mulally's "One Ford" rallying cry, which got the company through the 2009 financial crisis and the meltdown of the US auto industry.</p><p>Hackett is also aware that cultural change can't be rushed, something he learned at Steelcase, when he shifted the company (founded in 1912, just nine years after Henry Ford started his automaker) from creating furniture to rethinking the way that people work. </p><p>After looking at the plan to update the Dearborn campus, Hackett said that the company realized it needed more space. That's when the chance to create a new-mobility corridor stretching from Corktown to Ann Arbor, through Dearborn, appeared. </p><p>The Central Station, opened in 1914, has been in a suspended state of decay for over two decades (actually characterized at times as a ruin). Designed by the same architecture firm that did New York's Grand Central Terminal, the structure is a symbol of America's early 20th-century ambition and enthusiasm for rail travel, ironically later surpassed by the automobile. The Central Station is certainly big enough to handle anything Ford might throw at it: at 500,000 square feet, it consists of a soaring Beaux-Arts train station and an 18-story office tower. </p><p>Remaking that much real estate in the image of smart mobility won't be quick. </p><p>"I like to think about it as part of our five-year-plan," Hackett said of the overall Corktown project. "It's going to take us about four years to get it all built, in both Detroit and Dearborn."</p><h2>Transforming Ford by transforming its culture</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Ford</span></p><p class="caption">Ford's Corktown Factory.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>But the cultural transformation is already underway. The auto industry is still a realm of corner offices and top-down management, but Hackett, with his Silicon Valley connections, wants to alter that.</p><p>Ford HQ won't move out of Dearborn, an International-style building that's officially known as the Henry Ford II World Center and informally referred to as the "Glass House." It was where Ford II, "The Deuce," reigned as Ford CEO until 1979. But a "Mad Men" type of work experience isn't what Hackett has in mind.</p><p>"The nature of work has really changed," he said, simultaneously avoiding taking credit for having spurred this change while at Steelcase. "People like me aren't sitting in private offices anymore. We work in teams instead of hierarchies and need to have deep discussions."</p><p>Deep discussions, presided over by Hackett, are what has been keeping Wall Street up at night as far from Detroit, in Silicon Valley, numerous innovators are trying to reimagine mobility at a breakneck pace. But none of the new entrants - not even Alphabet's Waymo and CEO John Krafcik, an auto industry veteran who now oversees a self-driving effort that's been in business since 2009 - are as complicated as Ford.</p><p>The company sold 6.6 million vehicles in 2017, in nearly every corner of the globe. It brought in $158 billion in revenue and employed over 200,000 people. In that context, Hackett is a heavyweight, while the new guys are bantamweights as best.</p><p>And the Central Station/Corktown undertaking is a heavyweight move.</p><p>"I think what's promising about this is that there's been no construction of this new world until now," he said. "By anybody."</p> <p class="tagline">Get the latest Ford stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/f-Quote"> <strong>here.</strong></a></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-built-plug-in-hybrid-cop-car-2017-11">Ford has built a plug-in hybrid cop car</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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