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As a major wireless show continues
this week in Barcelona, Spain, Apple is
highlighting the capabilities of its iPhone
cameras with a gallery of photos taken by its
users around the world.
Apple's campaign comes as Samsung unveiled
new phones with improved photo-taking
capabilities. The two companies have been
fierce rivals, and one research firm said
Tuesday that Apple bested Samsung as the
world's top smartphone maker in the last
three months of 2014.
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APPLE'S REMOTE PRESENCE:
Apple is turning over a large portion of its
home page, along with billboard and print
ads in dozens of cities, to photos from its
"Shot on iPhone 6" campaign. The company
collected photos from 77 users around the
world by combing through Flickr, Instagram
and other sites (and getting permissions
from the photographers). Apple is featuring
57 photos and three videos from those users
at http://apple.com/worldgallery . The rest
are on print ads.
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Apple is seeking to show that people can
take quality images with iPhones, without
needing to buy and carry a stand-alone
camera. The photo captions describe what
makes each image stand out and present
tips and information on any apps and
accessories used.
The campaign launched Sunday just as
Samsung Electronics Co. announced its new
Galaxy S6 phones, which promise improved
focus, low-light capabilities and color
adjustments to account for ambient light.
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THE ORIGINAL:
Before iPhones came around, there was the
BlackBerry. But iPhones - and later, Android
phones - showed people that smartphones
can do much more than email and calls.
BlackBerry was late in modernizing its
Operating system to offer those capabilities.
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At the show Tuesday, BlackBerry CEO John
Chen reiterated the company's "philosophical"
shift away from merely making devices to
becoming a leader in software, especially for
businesses and even rivals such as Samsung.
Nonetheless, BlackBerry said it may launch
four new smartphones over the coming
year, including the BlackBerry Leap, a "low-
to-mid" market phone that will go on sale
in Europe in April. Although the Leap has a
touch-screen keyboard, BlackBerry's head of
devices, Ron Louks, told The Associated Press
that BlackBerry remains committed to making
models with its signature physical keyboards.
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DEFENDING REGULATION:
The head of the Fe | ‘ommunications
Commission is taking the defense of new
Internet regulations on the road. During a
keynote, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said
"there needs to be a referee" for the Internet.
The FCC's vote last week approved "net
neutrality" rules that prevent Internet
providers such as Comcast and Verizon from
slowing or blocking Web traffic or from
creating Internet fast lanes that content
providers such as Netflix must pay for.
Broadband providers and Republicans have
been critical of the new rules, and the FCC's
decision is expected to trigger industry
lawsuits that could take years to resolve.
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Wheeler did not specifically address the
political aspect of the decision, but said
"the people against it spawned all kinds of
imaginary horribles. This is no more regulating
the Internet than the First Amendment
regulates free speech in our country."
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VAULTS APPARENTLY BEING BUILT IN
APPLE STORES
The ever-popular Apple CEO, Tim Cook, has
been turning yet more heads recently - as
well as pricking a fair few ears. That's partly
because he has been touring Europe, paying
a visit to Apple's Covent Garden retail store in
London, as well as heading to Germany to visit
Chancellor Angela Merkel. But in the process,
he has also been revealing more about one
of the most eagerly awaited wearables of all
time: the Apple Watch.
We're still a month away from the Watch
hitting the shelves - that'll be in April,
following a March 9 launch event - but in
the meantime, Apple has been working
hard to not only finalize production, but
also prepare its sales operation for the
onslaught of products and demand. Cook
has also been giving us some indications of
just what the Watch will be able to do - and
they don't necessarily neatly correspond
with previous reports.
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A 'WATERPROOF' WATCH THAT MIGHT
EVEN REPLACE YOUR CAR KEYS
One declaration that Cook apparently made
about his own Watch - yes, that's right, he's
already wearing one - was that his constant
use of it extended to even wearing it in the
shower, at least according to the translated
version of iGen.fr. This contradicts the
company's suggestion in its early September
unveiling that the timepiece would not be
suited to such a watery environment, but if
true, it indicates that it will be delivered with
previously unknown water-resistant features.
In an interview with the British Telegraph
newspaper on his visit to the Covent Garden
store, Cook also revealed that the device was
"designed to be able to replace car keys" -
the idea being that instead of the "clumsy,
large fobs" presently in use, those wishing to
unlock the doors of their vehicle will be able
to elegantly do so with their wearable.
Although not all of the features that were
once planned for the Apple Watch - such
as various sophisticated health-tracking
capabilities - are reportedly set to make the
version that lands in our hands in the coming
few months, that doesn't prevent future
versions incorporating them.
If a car unlocking feature does get added to
a future Watch, it would fulfill a longstanding
aim by the company to improve car keys,
a recently-reported Apple patent having
focused on this technology in relation to the
iPhone. It would also help to make some
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sense out of the recent rumors that Apple
is developing its own car under the 'Project
Titan’ banner.
A STILL VERY IMPRESSIVE DEVICE
All of this shouldn't lead us to conclude
that the first Apple Watch that shortly hits
shelves won't be an amazing addition to the
burgeoning wearables market. It's clear, for
example, that there will still be some great
health features, from heart rate monitoring
to the gentle tapping of the wearer's wrist
if they haven't had sufficient exercise,
reminding them to stand up and go for a walk.
Credits will even be rewarded to those who
reach their metabolic targets.
The Watch will also be able to double up as
an ultra-safe and secure credit card, thanks
to the emergence of Apple Pay, with the
Cupertino firm not being informed of either
the goods that the wearer is purchasing or
their price. Cook has also promised message
filtering capabilities that will make reacting
to urgent messages - such as a family
emergency - a lot easier, while the battery
will also last a whole day, another exciting
new piece of information.
Indeed, in addition to fashioning the sleek
lines of the Watch itself, Apple's British
design genius Sir Jony lve has also handled
the special magnet technology of what Cook
has described as an "incredible" charger -
apparently created for both efficiency and
beauty. Considering all of these perks, it
shouldn't be a big shock that Cook would
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now struggle to live without it - declaring
that "I'm now so used to getting all my
notifications and all my messages. It's so
incredible just to do this.
"This will be just like the iPhone: people
wanted it and bought for a particular reason,
perhaps for browsing, but then found out that
they loved it for all sorts of other reasons."
WATCH SET TO TAKE APPLE STORES
BY STORM
Cook wasn't journeying around Apple's
European retail stores just to rouse morale
- by all accounts, it remains so high that
he barely needs to. He was also there to
talk about the challenge that the Watch's
release will undoubtedly cause to these
retail stores, as they aim to keep giving
customers the incredible and seamless in-
store experience that they are used to from
the Californian giant.
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As he told the Covent Garden staff, "We've
never sold anything as a company that people
could try on before" - something that may
necessitate "tweaking the experience in the
store". The buck there stops with the ex-
Burberry boss and woman who now oversees
Apple's stores, Angela Ahrendts, to whose
work Cook has paid handsome tribute.
As a matter of fact, and possibly to help
ensure that best possible experience, the
Watch will only be available to buy at launch
from Apple itself, and not from such non-
Apple stores as BestBuy or Walmart, at least
according to German distribution sources.
Such an exclusive deal mirrors that for the
iPhone when it was first released, a Cult
of Mac report suggesting that "Apple most
likely wants to keep the selling experience on
its terms until people are more familiar with
what an Apple Watch is."
That report also indicated apparent Apple
plans to house the expensive gold versions
of the Watch in dedicated vaults in Apple
Stores, with customers able to view the
pricier devices through glass cases. Backing
up Cook's words, the report also stated that
"customers will be able to ask specialists to try
the different models on, while smaller tables
are also supposedly planned so that the Apple
Watch Sport and others are better staged."
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POSSIBLY APPLE'S MOST EXPENSIVE
PRODUCT EVER
Officially, we don't know what prices the
various Apple Watch models will sell for until
the big launch... but that hasn't stopped
many people coming up with estimates.
According to a Business Insider article, Piper
Jaffray analysts are tipping the wearable to
effectively be much costlier than previously
imagined, on account of the bands, storage
cases and other extras that buyers will also
inevitably fork out for.
That could mean that the luxury version of
the timepiece - the Edition - has an average
selling price (ASP) of more than $7,500, a
big jump on the £4,999 that was previously
expected. Even a $10,000 ASP for the gold
version of the Watch hasn't been ruled out
by many informed commentators. Such
numbers could also significantly boost
Apple's profit from early Watch sales, amid
predictions of $5 billion per quarter in
revenue purely from the gold variant.
That said, no matter how adventurously Apple
eventually prices the Watch, it is unlikely
to come anywhere near the $75,000 that a
diamond-studded version of the timepiece by
luxury and couture product design company
Brikk could cost you. Some 30 luxury models
of the yet-to-be-released smartwatch have
been announced by the company, which it is
claimed "will afford unmatched opulence to
an exclusive clientele worldwide."
If you decide to go for one of these Brikk
Lux Watches, you'll have a choice of sizes of
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38mm and 42mm, as well as of such colours
as 24-karat yellow gold, 18-karat pink gold and
950 platinum. There will also, naturally, be
various bands to choose from. All three of the
line's editions - Standard, Deluxe and Omni
- are prepared via the disassembly of Apple
Watches and their subsequent repurposing
with the aforementioned luxury materials in a
"state-of-the-art laboratory".
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WATCH COULD SPEARHEAD
"EXPLODING" WEARABLES MARKET
All of the signs point to very exciting times
ahead for all fans of wearables and all things
Apple. The wider wearables market might
even "explode" as a result of the Watch's
introduction, to coin the term used by
CNNMoney's Daniel Burrus. Burrus was
among those back in 2010 to see the iPad
as a device that would bring a computing
revolution instead of flopping as had been
anticipated by many of his peers. He has
now expressed his belief that "Apple's
smartwatch will provide the necessary
momentum to get people using wearables,
in spite of all the naysayers."
We would certainly be hard-pressed to
disagree with him. Brace yourself for a 2015
that promises to be all about the Apple
Watch, at least as much as 2007 was about
the iPhone and 2010 was about the iPad. m
by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan
FIRST LOOK: SAMSUNG GETS A LOT
RIGHT WITH NEW S6 PHONES
Samsung’s new Galaxy smartphones improve in
two major areas: design and picture quality.
Samsung ramped up its camera technology in last
fall’s Galaxy Note 4, and the camera is even better
in the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge announced Sunday.
More importantly, the new phones have a more
stylish design.
| had less than 90 minutes to try out the new
phones in controlled settings, so it’s too early for
a definitive assessment. But I’m impressed with
what I’ve seen so far. The phones will start selling
in April, at prices not yet determined.
DESIGN
For years, Samsung phones have had removable
backs made of plastic. That allowed for battery
replacement, but made the phones look cheap.
I'm glad to see the metal frame and glass back
in the new phones. The phones are lighter than
before, even with metal.
The main S6 model feels boxy in my hands.
More recent iPhones have smoother, curved
edges. The S6 Edge curves on the left and right
sides to create side displays, so it feels better.
But boxy or not, | prefer Samsung’s new design
over its old models.
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CAMERA
The Note 4 camera was excellent for producing
images rich in color. However, the colors
sometimes felt unnatural, especially with
indoor shots. The S6 phones seek to fix that by
using their infrared sensors (normally used for
heart rate tracking) to better detect and adjust
for specific lighting conditions. This sounds
promising.
The S6 phones also sport better focus, borrowing
technology from Samsung’s stand-alone NX1
camera. You already can focus on a person
by touching that part of the screen. But if the
person walks away, the focus is off. With the
new technology, the focal point moves with the
person. It worked in my limited tests, though the
subjects were still blurry because of poor lighting
conditions. | may get better results outdoors.
One handy feature: Double tap the home button
anytime to open the camera app quickly, so you
don’t miss shots.
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BATTERY
You can no longer replace the battery with a
spare, but there’s fast-charging technology to
get you from zero to 50 percent in a half-hour.
Although | didn’t get to test this with the S6
phones, a similar feature worked well on the
Note 4.
With wireless charging, you can place the phone
on a special mat to charge it. No cords needed.
This will be handy when coffee shops and
restaurants start making these mats available.
Until then, | don’t mind the cord, especially as
wireless charging is slower.
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MOBILE PAY
When it launches this summer in the U.S. and
South Korea, Samsung Pay will let people pay
with a tap at retail stores. The service promises
to work at more places than Apple Pay because
it has backup technology that replicates
the magnetic-strip signals on plastic cards.
However, based on Samsung’s descriptions,
Samsung Pay will require a few more steps
than Apple Pay at checkout.
OTHER “TOUCHES”
The S6 phones have improved fingerprint
sensors. Before, you had to swipe down on the
home button; the phone wouldn't unlock if you
didn’t swipe correctly. Now, you simply touch
the home button, just as you do on iPhones. The
fingerprint ID will authorize mobile payments too.
Samsung also streamlined the software interface.
Currently, the menu of additional options is
accessed by tapping on the three vertical dots
on the top right. Why three vertical dots? Who
knows? That’s been replaced with the word
“MORE.”
Little touches like these will help make the
phones more accessible to customers.
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Image: AR Photo/Manu Fernandez
GOOGLE TO OFFER
OWN CELLULAR
NETWORK PLAN
Google will soon be offering cellular network
plans in a bid to bridge the gap between the
realms of Internet services and mobile device
software it dominates.
Vice President Sundar Pichai says Google, the
leading Internet search engine and mobile
software provider, is working with unnamed
network operators on developing a cellular plan.
“You will see us announce it in the coming
months,” he said at the Mobile World Congress
wireless show in Barcelona. “I think we are at
a stage where it is important to think about
hardware, software and connectability together.
“We want to be able to experiment along
those lines.”
Pichai called Google’s plan to offer cellular
services “a project” and insisted that the Internet
company isn’t a threat to traditional telephone
and Internet service providers.
Pichai compared Google’s latest move to
its decision to launch its own line of Nexus
smartphones, which he said Google uses not to
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compete with other smartphone makers, rather
to introduce innovations in the greater world of
mobile hardware.
“WNe don’t intend to be a network operator at
scale,” he said. “Our goal here is to drive a set of
innovations which we think the ecosystem should
evolve and hopefully will get traction. Again, we
will do it on a small enough scale so that, just like
Nexus devices, people see what we are doing
and hopefully carrier partners think our ideas are
good.”
Pichai offered finding a way to provide a
“seamless” Internet connection when a device
moves from Wi-Fi to cellular coverage as one
example of goals Google would like to target.
Pichai said that Google is also working on
“Android Pay,” a mobile payment system similar
to “Apple Pay,” that will work across all Android-
powered devices.
WILL SMITH'S
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COMMERCIAL RECEPTION
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FILM IS A KEY TEST OF SMITH'S
STAR POWER
Is Will Smith still a grade-A Hollywood star
after 2013's After Earth, the critical and
commercial flop in which he starred alongside
son Jaden? It's a question that many industry
observers and fans are asking, and if we were
going to get an answer to it any time soon,
it was always going to be in how his latest
effort - the romantic dark comedy Focus -
was received. Unfortunately, the answer was
inconclusive, with the film topping the box
office on lower-than-expected takings.
Let's get the essential facts out of the way
first. $19.1 million was enough to make
the Glenn Ficarra and John Requa directed
effort top dog at the North American box
office in its opening weekend. Given his
past all-conquering record with such epics as
Independence Day and Men in Black, Smith
has reason to be disappointed with one of the
lowest openings of his impressive career.
But then again, that seemingly
underwhelming figure was still enough to
end Fifty Shades of Grey's two-weekend spell
at the box office peak, and judging by the
words of Warner insiders, there don't seem to
be many worries about Focus's longer-term
financial prospects.
MIXED RECENT COMMERCIAL
FORTUNES FOR SMITH
The summer of 2013 wasn't a great one by
Smith's usual towering standards, Sony's
tentpole After Earth mustering a meager
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$27.5 million opening in North America, even
if it did fare better elsewhere. It was also
ravaged by the critics.
Focus is saved from at least some comparative
scrutiny with that film by its much smaller
size, reports suggesting that it was only $50
million in the making after rebates. However,
an opening higher than $22 million was
still the forecast among industry observers.
Nor was Focus any more of a success in the
overseas markets that have long proved so
resilient for Smith. It opened to $12.2 million
from 31 territories - about 30 per cent of the
marketplace - to make an international total
of $31.3 million.
The movie - a con-man caper also starring the
up-and-coming actress Margot Robbie and
300 star Rodrigo Santoro - topped the Russian
box office with $3.1 million, while $3 million
in the United Kingdom wasn't sufficient to
beat Fox Searchlight's The Second Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel, which opened to an amazing
$5.9 million.
REASONS FOR OPTIMISM, HOWEVER
Not only did Warner head honchos
mentioned in a report by The Hollywood
Reporter express their confidence that
Focus would go on to perform well
financially, but they also emphasized that
it was never the intention for its opening
to be ona par with Smith's bigger movies.
They also drew attention to bad weather
across much of the country that may have
adversely hit revenue.
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Jeff Goldstein, executive vp distribution at
Warner Bros., pointed out that "this was a
midrange-budgeted movie, and the strong
result reflected that. The severely inclement
weather in the Midwest and the South played
havoc at the box office." Smith, for his part, is
philosophical about the commercial side of
Hollywood, recently saying to the Associated
Press that "I can't allow the box office success,
or lack thereof, to determine my self-image."
That 88 per cent of the R-rated Focus's
watchers were over 25 might not give Smith
much reassurance of his appeal to the
younger generation of moviegoers. However,
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for
box office data firm Rentrak, perhaps made
the best final analysis with his declaration that
the film "still goes down on his balance sheet
as anumber one debut."
HOW FOCUS PLAYED WITH THE
REVIEWERS
The movie naturally centers around Smith's
character, an experienced con-man called
Nicky Spurgeon, who meets seasoned grifter
Jess Barrett - played by Robbie - in a nightclub.
She pretends that they have been caught by
her jealous husband in an attempt to seduce
and con him - a deception that Nicky sees
through. But what do the critics make of this
and the rest of the movie? In short, they both
love and hate it.
One such example of a very mixed review
was that of ABC's David Blaustein, who
described the movie as "overall, entertaining
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and surprisingly unpredictable. Though when
| say unpredictable, what | mean is some of
the twists are imaginative. And when | say
imaginative, | mean impossible. Even so,
Focus provides some fun moments, though
that lack of empathy for the main players
ultimately makes it a less-than-satisfying
experience."
NOLA.com writer Mike Scott, meanwhile, said
that the movie "suffers ever so slightly from
an episodic rhythm that puts more emphasis
on the main characters' relationship than an
overarching plot" - while admitting that "the
pieces click together nicely in what ends up
being an overall enjoyable package."
But Mick LaSalle of SF Gate had little good to
say about the movie's big star. In a review
entitled Will Smith just stole $12 from your
pocket, he pronounced Smith "not a strong
leading man", bemoaning that the actor's
"idea of playing romance is to act cool, and his
idea of playing cool is to act withdrawn and
serious. That means the eclipse of the thing
that made him a movie star in the first place,
his personality."
Variety's Chief International Film Critic,
Peter Debruge, was rather gentler on Smith,
suggesting that "this suave if quick-to-
dissipate divertissement shrewdly recasts
the star in the George Clooney mold - a good
look for the next stage of Smith's career."
THE FILM IS A TECHNICAL TRIUMPH
Whatever one may make of the acting
performances of Smith and Robbie or for that
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matter, the script, there's little denying how
visually impressive it is, with director Requa
being under no illusions as to the degree of
deception that was ironically required to pull
off the con man flick. "Any movie is a series
of lies," he has observed, adding: "But you
have to make sure the lies work so you don't
alienate the audience."
All of this was partly made possible by the
use of Apollo Robins as a consultant, the
self-described gentleman thief lending his
expertise in the conception and choreography
of original sleight-of-hand maneuvers.
However, it was also about ensuring
appropriate editing, which is where the Final
Cut Pro X program for the Mac came in -
Requa raving about how it "allowed me to
be involved with, and in control of, every
aspect of making our film."
Indeed, the major studio feature ended up
being entirely cut in Final Cut Pro X, achieving
even better than expected results. The film
was not only delivered in a timely fashion, but
also under budget. As Requa admitted, "We
got exactly the film we set out to make."
FOCUS - JUST ABOUT WORTH
A WATCH
Granted, verdicts on Focus seem pretty mixed
- but very few reviewers couldn't think of at
least something substantially positive to say
about Will Smith's latest movie. Forbes critic
Scott Mendelson, in an especially positive
review of what he called a "surprisingly
terrific little crime caper", said that it was
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“unlike anything else Will Smith, the once and
perhaps-future biggest movie star on Earth,
has ever made since actually becoming a
movie star."
He might be right about that - and
whatever you make of Focus as a piece of
entertainment, there's no doubting that Smith
has given us no shortage of great movies
already. It's just fascinating in its own right
to watch his recovery from the much-slated
After Earth, and the success - however muted
- of this latest movie does admittedly leave us
wondering what he'll do next.
Could the glory days soon be back for one
of Hollywood's undoubted leading men of
the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s? That particular
verdict will have to wait for another day, but
we're enjoying pondering the question. m@
by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan
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HP’S BIG DEAL:
TECH GIANT
BUYS ARUBA
NETWORKS
FOR $2.7B
Hewlett-Packard is buying wireless networking
company Aruba Networks for about $2.7 billion,
in what amounts to HP’s first major acquisition
since its disastrous purchase of a British software
company in 2011.
Aruba, based in Sunnyvale, California, makes
Wi-Fi networking systems for shopping malls,
corporate campuses, hotels and universities. Its
business has grown as more people are using
mobile devices at work, school and elsewhere.
Aruba may help HP capitalize on that trend, which
has cut into sales of traditional HP products such
as desktop computers.
The deal also could help HP compete with
tech rivals such as Cisco Systems and gain new
access to Asian markets, particularly in China.
Cisco currently sells about half of all commercial
wireless networking gear worldwide, according to
UBS analyst Amitabh Passi. He estimates HP and
Aruba combined will account for 20 percent of
global sales for such systems.
HP is seeking to expand its tech portfolio for
business customers at a time when it is preparing
to split into two companies - one focused on
selling computer systems and software to
businesses, and the other selling personal
computers and printers. That’s part of HP CEO
Meg Whitman’s plan for confronting a recent
decline in sales.
Buying Aruba gives HP “a faster growing, higher
margin business that fills a portfolio need without
‘betting the ranch’,” Bernstein analyst Toni
Sacconaghi wrote in a note Monday.
Palo Alto, California-based HP is one of the
industry’s giants, with $111 billion in sales last
year, but it has struggled to adapt to recent
tech trends and shifting customer preferences.
Whitman has focused on cutting costs and
reorganizing since she took the CEO job in 2011.
She recently signaled she was ready to resume
making strategic acquisitions, after buying a pair
of small software companies last year.
HP made a number of multi-billion-dollar
acquisitions under two CEOs who preceded
Whitman, and some of those deals proved
costly. HP paid about $11 billion for British
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cash for each Aruba share. That is slightly below
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marks a 37 percent premium to the roughly $18
that Aruba shares were trading for before talks
with HP were reported last week.
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deal, which they said would be worth about
$3 billion after factoring in cash and debt on
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With tens of millions of gamers now regularly
spectating video games online and in real-world
arenas, game developers looking to create
the next “StarCraft” or “League of Legends”
might learn a few lessons at this year’s Game
Developers Conference.
For the first time, the annual gathering of game
creators that’s usually centered on polygons
and artificial intelligence, was hosting a special
summit Tuesday dedicated to competitive
gaming - or esports (e-sports), as it’s known.
Influential esports figures were scheduled to
give talks with such titles as “Legal Issues in
Competitive Gaming” and “Building a Sport: The
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Design Philosophy of ‘League of Legends’
“We've had a few individual esports talks in the
past but nothing stand-alone,” said Simon Carless,
executive vice president at UBM Tech Game
Network, which hosts GDC and other technology
conferences. “This is an entire day dedicated to
esports that covers an entire breadth of topics,
from producing live esports events to including
more women in esports.”
Over the past 10 years, esports has evolved from
a niche genre of gaming to a lucrative spectator
sport capable of packing arenas like Los Angeles’
Staples Center and Seoul’s World Cup Stadium to
capacity for championship bouts of “League of
Legends,” the arena battle game developed by
Riot Games that’s easy for most folks to play but
difficult to master.
Carless said a survey by GDC organizers of
more than 200,000 developers found 79
percent believe competitive gaming is a
sustainable business model and 12 percent
were currently working on an esports-style
competitive multiplayer game. The rise of
spectating games is already reshaping how
many designers are approaching their latest
creations from the outset.
“There are a lot of people watching games
and not playing them, so that’s definitely a
consideration for future projects,’ said Chris
Ashton, design director at “Evolve” developer
Turtle Rock Studios. “I don’t know what that
means for the industry. | never thought | would
watch someone play through a game, but | have
done that on YouTube and enjoyed it.”
Despite dedicating a day to esports, most
attention at this year’s GDC, which runs
through Friday at San Francisco’s Moscone
Center, will likely be focused on virtual reality,
as it was last year. VR technology utilizes a
head-mounted display in concert with head-
tracking capabilities to transport wearers’ to
virtual worlds. Oculus VR, which Facebook
bought for $2 billion last year, is returning to
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GDC with several talks about how developers
can craft games for its VR platform.
y, which unveiled a prototype VR headset at
2014 conference called Project Morpheus,
expected to provide an update at an off-site,
_invite-only event Tuesday on its rendition of VR
that works in tandem with the PlayStation 4
console. Thus far, both Oculus and Sony have only
shown off prototypes at GDC and not revealed a
price or release date.
After announcing their own VR headset on
Sunday, HTC and Valve are expected to be on
hand at GDC to demonstrate the device called
Vive, which works with exterior base stations
to track users’ movements in spaces up to 15
feet by 15 feet. HTC said it plans to release a
Vive prototype for developers this spring and a
consumer edition sometime later this year.
Online:
http://www.gdconf.com
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complicated when his wife, Serena (Lawrence)
learns that she cannot bear children.
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1. Serena is based on Ron Rash's 2008 novel of
the same name.
2. The film was originally to be directed by
Darren Aronofsky, with Angelina Jolie as the
title character.
3. Lawrence and Cooper got along so well on
Silver Linings Playbook that they decided to
join forces again on Serena.
4. Filming took place at Barrandov Studios in
the Czech Republic from March to May 2012.
5. The movie premiered at the BFl London
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with a lead single - “Take U There’ - that
features Canadian musician Kiesza. Other
guests on the dance and house infused
album include Justin Bieber, Missy Elliott,
AlunaGeorge and 2 Chainz.
FIVE FACTS:
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VIRTUAL-REALITY HEADSET IN 2016
Sony plans on putting its virtual-reality headset
on consumers’ noggins next year.
The gaming and electronics company announced
Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference that
its VR system nicknamed Project Morpheus will
debut in the first half of 2016.
Sony Corp. originally unveiled a prototype of
the headset at last year’s gathering of video
game developers. The headset works in tandem
with Sony’s PlayStation 4 console and camera
by covering users’ vision and simulating virtual
worlds on screen.
Sony flaunted an updated version of the VR
headset prototype at Tuesday’s event. While
it largely resembles the prototype introduced
last year, the new version redistributes weight
toward the back of the user’s head and features
a screen that can slide back and forth to
accommodate eyeglasses.
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The new prototype also features a larger 5.7-inch
OLED screen that displays nearly a 100-degree
field of view and is capable of rendering imagery
at up to 120 frames per second. There are nine
LED lights on the headset’s exterior that are to
track movement.
No price was announced.
“Our goal with VR is to deliver a sense of
presence, making the player feel as though
they’ve stepped inside the world of a game,”
said Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer
Entertainment Worldwide Studios. “The new
Project Morpheus prototype brings us closer to
that goal, as it improves the visual experience and
tracking accuracy, both of which are critical to
achieving sense of presence.”
The company showed off the new prototype
at Tuesday’s event with four technical
demonstrations, including a game that utilized a
pair of PlayStation Move controllers to simulate
a shootout inside a lavish building in London and
a more passive presentation that featured tiny
robots responding to users’ movements.
Sony is among several gaming and electronics
companies working to bring VR into homes. HTC
and Valve announced plans Sunday to release its
Vive VR system to consumers later this year, while
Oculus VR has yet to reveal when its Oculus Rift
headset will be available to consumers.
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From the ground in this extreme northern part
of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding
ice seems to extend forever. What can't be seen
is the battle raging thousands of feet (hundreds
of meters) below to re-shape Earth.
Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice,
melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice
sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea -
130 billion tons of ice (118 billion metric tons)
per year for the past decade, according to
NASA satellite calculations. That's the weight
of more than 356,000 Empire State Buildings,
enough ice melt to fill more than 1.3 million
Olympic swimming pools. And the melting is
accelerating.
In the worst case scenario, Antarctica's melt
could push sea levels up 10 feet (3 meters)
worldwide in a century or two, recurving heavily
populated coastlines.
Parts of Antarctica are melting so rapidly it has
become "ground zero of global climate change
without a doubt," said Harvard geophysicist
Jerry Mitrovica.
Here on the Antarctic peninsula, where the
continent is warming the fastest because the
land sticks out in the warmer ocean, 49 billion
tons of ice (nearly 45 billion metric tons) are
lost each year, according to NASA. The water
warms from below, causing the ice to retreat
on to land, and then the warmer air takes over.
Temperatures rose 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3
degrees Celsius) in the last half century, much
faster than Earth's average, said Ricardo Jana, a
glaciologist for the Chilean Antarctic Institute.
As chinstrap penguins waddled behind him,
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Peter Convey of the British Antarctic Survey
reflected on changes he could see on Robert
Island, a small-scale example and perhaps early
warning signal of what's happening to the
peninsula and rest of the continent as a whole.
"| was last here 10 years ago," Convey said
during a rare sunny day on the island, with
temperatures just above freezing. "And if you
compare what | saw back then to now, the
basic difference due to warming is that the
permanent patches of snow and ice are smaller.
They're still there behind me, but they're smaller
than they were."
Robert Island hits all the senses: the stomach-
turning smell of penguin poop; soft moss that
invites the rare visitor to lie down, as if ona
water bed; brown mud, akin to stepping in
gooey chocolate. Patches of the moss, which
alternates from fluorescent green to rust red,
have grown large enough to be football fields.
Though 97 percent of the Antarctic Peninsula is
still covered with ice, entire valleys are now free
of it, ice is thinner elsewhere and glaciers have
retreated, Convey said.
Dressed in a big red parka and sky blue hat,
plant biologist Angelica Casanova has to take her
gloves off to collect samples, leaving her hands
bluish purple from the cold. Casanova says she
can't help but notice the changes since she
began coming to the island in 1995. Increasingly,
plants are taking root in the earth and stone
deposited by retreating glaciers, she says.
"It's interesting because the vegetation in some
way responds positively. It grows more," she
said, a few steps from a sleeping Weddell seal.
Image: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko
"What is regrettable is that all the scientific
information that we're seeing says there's been
a lot of glacier retreat and that worries us."
Just last month, scientists noticed in satellite
images that a giant crack in an ice shelf on the
peninsula called Larsen C had grown by about
12 miles (20 kilometers) in 2014. Ominously,
the split broke through a type of ice band that
usually stops such cracks. If it keeps going, it
could cause the breaking off of a giant iceberg
somewhere between the size of Rhode Island
and Delaware, about 1,700 to 2,500 square
miles (4,600 to 6,400 square kilometers), said
British Antarctic Survey scientist Paul Holland.
And there's a small chance it could cause the
entire Scotland-sized Larsen C ice shelf to
collapse like its sister shelf, Larsen B, did ina
dramatic way in 2002.
A few years back, scientists figured Antarctica
as a whole was in balance, neither gaining
nor losing ice. Experts worried more about
Greenland; it was easier to get to and more
noticeable, but once they got a better look at
the bottom of the world, the focus of their fears
shifted. Now scientists in two different studies
use the words "irreversible" and "unstoppable"
to talk about the melting in West Antarctica. Ice
is gaining in East Antarctica, where the air and
water are cooler, but not nearly as much as it is
melting to the west.
"Before Antarctica was much of a wild card,"
said University of Washington ice scientist lan
Joughin. "Now | would say it's less of a wild card
and more scary than we thought before."
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Over at NASA, ice scientist Eric Rignot said the
melting "is going way faster than anyone had
thought. It's kind of a red flag."
What's happening is simple physics. Warm
water eats away at the ice from underneath.
Then more ice is exposed to the water, and it too
melts. Finally, the ice above the water collapses
into the water and melts.
Climate change has shifted the wind pattern
around the continent, pushing warmer water
farther north against and below the western
ice sheet and the peninsula. The warm, more
northerly water replaces the cooler water that
had been there. It's only a couple degrees
Fahrenheit warmer than the water that used to
be there, but that makes a huge difference in
melting, scientists said.
The world's fate hangs on the question of how
fast the ice melts.
At its current rate, the rise of the world's oceans
from Antarctica's ice melt would be barely
noticeable, about one-third of a millimeter a
year. The oceans are that vast.
But if all the West Antarctic ice sheet that's
connected to water melts unstoppably, as
several experts predict, there will not be time to
prepare. Scientists estimate it will take anywhere
from 200 to 1,000 years to melt enough ice to
raise seas by 10 feet, maybe only 100 years ina
worst case scenario. If that plays out, developed
coastal cities such as New York and Guangzhou
could face up to $1 trillion a year in flood
damage within a few decades and countless
other population centers will be vulnerable.
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"Changing the climate of the Earth or thinning
glaciers is fine as long as you don't do it too
fast. And right now we are doing it as fast as
we can. It's not good," said Rignot, of NASA.
"We have to stop it; or we have to slow it
down as best as we can."
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Ten-year-old Alexis Carey has a rare
but intractable form of epilepsy, Dravet
Syndrome. The genetic disease causes severe
and multiple seizures, which often leave
parents guessing if the terror of watching
their child seize up will pass or turn fatal.
Her Boise, Idaho, family learned that oil
extracted from marijuana had helped other
children and wanted to see if it would help
Alexis too.
“Parent to parent, when you’re in a small
community and 10 people that you know
are all having success, that’s no longer
anecdotal,” Clare Carey, her mother, said.
“That’s hope.”
But Idaho’s stringent marijuana laws do not
allow for medicinal use. The family began
lobbying lawmakers to decriminalize the oil
almost two years ago. Now, they’ve got some
legislative backers and an upcoming hearing,
as Idaho joins a larger movement to loosen
laws to allow the use of marijuana extract oil.
Twelve states have legalized the oil while
still banning medical marijuana. Virginia
legalized the oil Feb. 26. In Utah, lawmakers
have given initial approval to let those with
chronic and debilitating diseases consume
edible marijuana products, while still
banning smoking.
Marijuana extract oil first received attention
when a Colorado family fought and won
for access for their daughter who also had
Dravet Syndrome. It is similar to hemp oil,
which is legal in Idaho and can be bought in
grocery stores.
With no known cure for Dravet Syndrome,
children are often prescribed a cocktail of
medications to counter the seizures. However,
the heavy drugs often come with side-effects
that can permanently damage a child’s
developing liver, kidneys and other organs.
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Proponents of cannabidiol oil, a non-
psychotropic extract of marijuana, argue that
it reduces the amount and length of seizures
in children.
Over time, Carey hopes that the oil would
also reduce the number of medications her
daughter relies on.
“Like any parent, you never give up hope that
you can get complete seizure control,” she
said. “Children die from Dravet by any one of
the seizures. Alexis could have a seizure that
may not stop, we never really know.”
Alexis began having seizures when she was
two months old. But even in 2003, her mom
says a lack of awareness of the disease led to
many doctors not automatically suspecting it
could be a rare, genetic disorder.
It wasn’t until Alexis lost all speech and
potty control when she was 2 that doctors
determined she had Dravet Syndrome,
Carey said.
Since then, Alexis’ parents have put her on a
variety of diets and medications to help reduce
the seizures but the disease is tricky to manage.
Dravet Syndrome often causes a variety of
different kinds of seizures but medications
typically target one particular type.
Alexis’ seizures usually occur at night, which
means one of her parents regularly sleep
with her and monitor her sleep patterns.
During the day, Alexis requires constant
supervision. While most 10-year-olds freely
run and jump around, Alexis walks- albeit
sometimes unstably and with help going up
and down stairs.
Carey says working with Idaho’s Republican-
controlled Legislature has been easier than
anticipated.
Lawmakers who resisted the idea at first
blush have warmed up to the idea, she said.
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This year, the bill is endorsed by Republicans
Sen. Curt McKenzie and Rep. Tom Leortscher.
Both are chairs of the legislature’s State
Affairs Committees, panels that often get
tossed controversial legislation and have a
high bar for clearance.
The measure unanimously passed the Senate
committee during its introduction hearing,
which means it now goes on to a full hearing
in front of the committee.
Yet the bill must survive a Statehouse that
approved a resolution in 2013 vowing never
to legalize marijuana for any purpose.
SONGS
UPTOWN FUNK (FEAT. BRUNO MARS)
Mark Ronson
THINKING OUT LOUD
Eb SHEERAN
LOVE ME LIKE YOUDO
(FROM “FIFTY SHADES OF GREY”)
EiLlé GOULDING
FOURFIVESECONDS
RIHANNA AND Kanye West AND Paut McCarTey
EARNEDIT
(FROM “FIFTY SHADES OF GREY”)
THE WeekwD
STYLE
TayLor SWIFT
TIME OF OUR LIVES
PITBULL
TAKE ME TO CHURCH
Hozier
GDFR (FEAT. SAGE THE GEMINI & LOOKAS)
Fio Riba
I! WANT YOU TOKNOW
(FEAT. SELENA GOMEZ)
ZEDD
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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
(ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
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1989
Tayior SWIFT
X (DELUXE EDITION)
Eb SHEERAN
SMOKE + MIRRORS
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SPRING BR
Luxe BRYAN
SOUND & COLOR
ALABAMA SHAKES
MONTEVALLO
Sam Hunt
AMERICAN BEAUTY /AMERICAN PSYCHO
Fatt Our Bor
PIECE BY PIECE (DELUXE VERSION)
KéLty CLARKSON
IN THE LONELY HOUR (DELUXE VERSION)
SAM SMITH
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MUSICVIDEOS
UPTOWN FUNK (FEAT. BRUNO MARS)
Mark Ronson
SHAKE /T OFF
Taytor SWIFT
BLANK SPACE
TayLor SWIFT
STYLE
TayLor SWIFT
ALL ABOUT THAT BASS
MEGHAN TRAINOR
ONE LAST TIME
ARIANA GRANDE
FIRST KISS
Kip Rock
LIVING FOR LOVE
MADONNA
LIPS ARE MOVIN
MEGHAN TRAINOR
HAPPY (FROM DESPICABLE ME 2)
PHARRELL WILLIAMS
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THE DISTANCE
THE WaLkinG Deap, SEASON 5
IT’S ALL MY FAULT
How To Get Away Wit Murper, SEASON 7
THE WANDERER
Vixines, SEASON 3
THE NIGHT LILA DIED
How To Get Away With Murver, SEASON 7
HERO
Berrer CALL SAUL, SEASON 7
STARING AT THE END
Grey's Anaromy, SEASON 17
CONNECTION LOST
Moopern Famity, SEASON 6
INTENT
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THEM
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THE INTIMACY ACCELERATION
THE Bic Bane Tueory, SEASON 8
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Pauta HAWKINS
FIFTY SHADES DARKER
EL James
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
EL James
FIFTY SHADES FREED
EL James
A THOUSAND ACRES
JANE SMILEY
AMERICAN SNIPER
Curis Kye AND OTHERS
FIFTY SHADES TRILOGY BUNDLE
EL James
THE NIGHTINGALE
Kristin HANNAH
STILL ALICE
LisA GENOVA
GONE GIRL
GILLIAN FLYNN
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Q&A ON
SAMSUNG’S NEW
MOBILE PAY:
HERE’S WHAT’S
WE KNOW
Last fall, Apple launched Apple Pay, bringing
mobile-payment technology to the iPhone.
Samsung now wants to get that on Android
phones - at least the ones it makes.
The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge phones announced
Sunday will come with mobile-pay capabilities.
Samsung’s payment service won't come until
this summer, and will launch only in the U.S. and
South Korea at first. Here’s what’s known about
Samsung Pay and how it compares with Apple
Pay and Google’s own efforts for Android.
Q. How does Samsung Pay work?
As with Apple Pay, customers will simply tap their
phone on a retail store’s payment machine. Apple
and Samsung phones use a wireless technology
known as near-field communication, or NFC. The
payment machine also needs NFC, something
many merchants won't have until this fall.
Samsung is supplementing NFC with a technology
from LoopPay, a startup it’s buying. LoopPay
replicates the magnetic-strip signals on plastic
cards, so it works with more merchants. While
NFC transactions can be authorized through the
phones’ fingerprint sensors, LoopPay transactions
might still require a physical signature.
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Q. If there’s LoopPay, why bother with NFC and
the equipment that entails?
A. As a retrofit for older, magnetic technology,
LoopPay has its limitations. Some parking meters
and transit-fare machines require you to insert a
card into a slot. You can’t just stick a phone with
LoopPay into that slot. At some stores, the place
for swiping the card is behind the counter - out of
the customer’s reach.
LoopPay is meant as a transition. Bill Gajda, a
senior vice president at Visa, says LoopPay will
help get customers more comfortable with
mobile payments, as more merchants will accept
them. As merchants see customers make such
payments, they would be more likely to upgrade
equipment to NFC.
Q. How secure is Samsung Pay?
Samsung Pay, like Apple Pay, promises to be
more secure than plastic. With both services,
the merchant gets a substitute 16-digit card
number stored on the device. A verification code
is created for each transaction, based in part on
unique keys on the phone. Even if hackers get
that substitute number, they need the actual
phone for the verification code.
That said, LoopPay’s stand-alone technology
uses the regular card number, and magnetic
signals are easy to detect and replicate.
Samsung is working with both Visa and
MasterCard to make substitute numbers
available with LoopPay on the phones to
boost security. James Anderson, a senior vice
president for mobile at MasterCard, says the
bank issuing the card needs to participate. If
they don’t, some card holders might not be
able to make mobile payments, even with
the right phone. Samsung says participating
banks will include American Express, Bank of
America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, and U.S. Bank.
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Q. Will merchants be able to block Samsung Pay
as CVS, 7-Eleven and a few others have done with
Apple Pay?
A. Yes, but not easily. With NFC transactions,
it was a matter of turning off the NFC chip.
Samsung Pay has the magnetic backup, so it
will be tough to turn that off without rejecting
plastic cards, too. Merchants could potentially
work with their payment processors to deny
ranges of card numbers assigned as substitute
account numbers, Gajda says. That’s unlikely,
but not impossible.
Q. What about Google’s own payment service?
Google recently teamed up with Verizon Wireless,
AT&T and T-Mobile to have its Google Wallet
payment service built into Android phones sold
by those carriers. Google also is buying some
technology from Softcard, a payment venture
owned by the three wireless carriers. Both Google
Wallet and Softcard use NFC.
Unlike Samsung Pay, Google Wallet will work on
Android phones sold by other manufacturers.
Samsung phones sold by those three carriers
will have both services. Customers must pick
one to use - so that they won’t end up paying for
everything twice.
So far, Google Wallet uses regular card numbers,
without the added security from substitute
numbers used by Apple Pay or planned with
Samsung Pay.
Q. Will Samsung Pay work with other phones?
A. Future phones will likely get it, too. Older
models likely won’t work, though. Although they
have NFC, they don’t have LoopPay.
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