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With the launch of Android 11 getting closer, Google today launched the third and final beta of its mobile operating system ahead of its general availability. Google had previously delayed the beta program by about a month because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Since Android 11 had already reached platform stability with Beta 2, most of the changes here are fixes and optimizations. As a Google spokesperson noted, this beta is focused on helping developers put the finishing touches on their apps as they prepare for Android 11, including the official API 30 SDK and build tools for Android Studio.

The one exception is some updates to the Exposure Notification System contact-tracing API, which users can now use without turning on device location settings. Exposure Notification is an exception here, as all other Android apps need to have location settings on (and user permission to access it) to perform the kind of Bluetooth scanning Google is using for this API.

Otherwise, there are no surprises here, given that this has already been a pretty lengthy preview cycle. Mostly, Google really wants developers to make sure their apps are ready for the new version, which includes quite a few changes.

If you are brave enough, you can get the latest beta over the air as part of the Android Beta program. Its available for Pixel 2, 3, 3a, 4 and (soon) 4a users.

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Google has partnered with one of the largest states in India to provide its digital classroom services to tens of millions of students and teachers, the search giant said today, as it makes a further education push in the worlds second largest internet market.

The company, which recently announced plans to invest $10 billion in India, said it had partnered with the government of the western state of Maharashtra that will see 23 million students and teachers access Googles education offering at no charge.

Thursdays announcement follows a recent survey by the Maharashtra government in which it had sought teachers interest in digital classroom alternatives. More than 150,000 teachers signed up for the program in less than 48 hours, Google said.

Maharashtra is the worst hit Indian state by COVID-19, with more than 460,000 confirmed cases. The state, like others in India, complied with New Delhis lockdown order in late March that prompted schools and other public places to close across the nation.

All of us had questions regarding the future of education. We have come a step closer to answering these questions due to the pandemic, said Uddhav Thackeray, chief minister of Maharashtra, in a statement.

Varsha Gaikwad, the education minister of Maharashtra, said the partnership with Google will help her department roll out tech solutions to students in about 190,000 schools.

Our goal is to make Maharashtra the most progressive state in education by making effective use of online resources, platforms, bandwidth and technology, using the power of the internet to reach out to the masses and bridge the gap in education, she said.

The pandemic, which has brought several sectors to their knees in the country, has accelerated the growth of startups that operate digital learning platforms in the country. Byjus, Facebook -backed Unacademy, Vedantu and Toppr among other startups have amassed tens of millions of new students since March this year.

Google is providing students and teachers with a range of services, including G Suite for Education, Google Forms for conducting quizzes and tests, access to Google Meet video conferencing services and Google Classroom, which enables educators to create, review and organize assignments, as well as communicate directly with students.

The company said it has also made Teach from Anywhere, a hub for educators, in Marathi, a very popular language in the state of Maharashtra.

Our teachers and schools have the huge responsibility in shaping the future of our new generation, and we continue to be honored to play a role in offering digital tools that can enable more teachers to help even more students stay firmly on their journey of learning, during these times and beyond, wrote Sanjay Gupta, country head and vice president of Google India, in a blog post.

The company has rushed to work with educators in India in recent months.Last month, Google announced that it had partnered with the Central Board of Secondary Education, a government body that oversees education in private and public schools in India, to provide its education offerings to more than 1 million teachers across 22,000 schools in India.

It also unveiled a grant of $1 million to Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF), a foundation in India that works with partners to provide underprivileged children with education opportunities from Google.org, Googles philanthropic arm.

Googles global rival, Facebook, also partnered with CBSE last month to launch a certified curriculum on digital safety and online well-being, and augmented reality for students and educators in the country.

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Anyone in the United States who held a Google Plus account between January 1, 2015 and April 2, 2019, and believes they were impacted by a security flaw that Google disclosed in 2018 can now register for a payout from a class action settlement. The lawsuit has settled for a total of $7.5 million. Each class action member is eligible for a payout of up to $12 after attorney fees and other costs are accounted for, although this could vary depending on the number of people who submit a claim. You have until October 8 to register.

Although Google said at the time that there was no evidence the exposed data was ever accessed, the company wasted no time in announcing that it would shut down its social network after publicly admitting the lapse. When it announced the shutdown, Google said that its social network had seen low usage and engagement, which is unsurprising given it never really managed to compete against social media heavyweights like Facebook and Twitter.

Although its reached a settlement, Google denies the allegations made in the lawsuit. It denies any wrongdoing, and believes that no users sustained any damages or injuries due to the software bugs.

If youre interested in making a claim, then you can do so over on the settlements website, where youll need to provide the email address associated with your Google Plus account. As well as holding an account between the dates listed, your data must have been exposed as part of the security lapse (Google has previously said that as many as 500,000 users were affected). A final fairness hearing is scheduled for November 19.

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Google is returning to having humans analyze and rate anonymized audio snippets from its users. However, its also taken the major step of automatically opting every single user out of the setting that allows Google to store their audio. Thats why you might be getting an email today: Google would like you to opt back in to the program, and its trying to provide clearer information detailing what its all about.

Those are very big moves that affect a huge number of people though Google says the precise number of users getting the email is confidential. It should land in the inbox of anybody who has interacted with a product that uses Googles voice AI, including apps like Google Maps and services like Google Assistant.

Heres a PDF of the email that is being sent to virtually everybody whos spoken into a microphone with a Google logo next to it, which reads in part:

To keep you in control of your audio recording setting, weve turned it off for you until you are able to review the updated information. Visit your Google Account to review and enable the audio recordings setting if you choose.

It will link to this URL (which Im listing out because you should never just click a URL to an account setting without double-checking it): https://myactivity.google.com/consent/assistant/vaa

It is difficult to remember now, but last summer, one of the biggest stories in tech was how every major company was using humans to review the quality of their AI transcriptions. When some of those audio recordings began to leak, it rocked Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook.

That meant techs 2019 summer of scandal was characterized by technical explanations of how machine learning works, apologies, outrage, walkbacks, and ultimately every company finally started making it easier for users to know what data was being stored and how to delete it. Ill put a bunch of the stories in a sidebar just to give you a sense of how intense it was.

All of those companies got significantly better at providing real disclosures about how audio data was used and made it easier to delete it or opt out of providing it entirely. Most of those big tech companies also went back to using human reviewers to improve their services with disclosures and / or asking users to consent again.

But Google didnt bring back human reviewers after it paused the practice globally last September. When it did, it promised: We wont include your audio in the human review process unless youve re-confirmed your [Voice & Audio Activity] VAA setting as on. Todays email, then, is that promise made real albeit it much later than everybody else.

When you click the link in the email, youll be taken to a very short website that has the YouTube video below explaining Googles policies. Youll also be able to click a link that provides more granular detail on how Google stores and uses audio.

If you opt in to allowing Google to store your audio, it gets used in two ways. There is a period where is it associated with your account. Google uses that data to improve voice matching, and you can go there to review or delete any of that data. As of June 2020, the default timeline for data getting automatically deleted is 18 months but only for accounts created after June 2020. If your account is older than that, youll need to manually change your deletion timeline.

After that, your audio will be chopped up and anonymized, at which point it may be sent along to human reviewers to check for transcription accuracy. And as its been a point of contention, Ill add that some of those reviewers will be at third-party vendors. Only anonymized data will be sent to humans, Google says.

One strange caveat to all this: although Google is turning off the setting to save audio recordings for everyone, its not changing the policies for audio that has already been uploaded. If you want that deleted, you can go and do it yourself. If you dont bother, however, Google tells me that humans wont be reviewing any audio that was uploaded during the pause.

Google is presenting all of this as a setting change rather than a policy shift. In fact, the company tells me that its privacy policy isnt changing; this is a separate opt-in consent thats allowed under its terms. Theres no official blog post or other communication, so the email and that website it links cover it for Google.

If you are looking to opt out or delete data from any of these big companies, here are a few links to get you started:

Update August 5th, 1:40PM ET: Clarified that the default 18-month timeline for auto-deletion is only automatically applied to accounts created after June 2020. Users with older accounts need to actively select their own deletion timelines.

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ADT CEO Jim DeVries and Google CEO Sundar Pichai (ADT; Pichai by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images; Nest via wallpaperflare)

Google and ADT are teaming up to go after the burgeoning smart-home market.

In a partnership announced Monday, Google said it will invest $450 million for a 6.6 percent stake in the security giant. In exchange, Google will receive access to about 6.5 million of ADTs customers to drive sales of Nest products. ADT, meanwhile, will get the backing of a Silicon Valley heavyweight as it competes against tech-driven security solutions.

Although the companies said theyre focusing on residential and small-business customers first, CEO Jim DeVries said the partnership comes with a long list of opportunities. Their investment demonstrates skin in the game, he said during an investor presentation Monday.

Wall Street looked at the deal favorably ADTs stock closed at $13.48 per share, up 56.6 percent from its closing price of $8.61 on July 31. Trading volume on Monday topped 187.1 million, compared to an average of 4.8 million.

1. The most basic part of the deal combines Nest hardware with ADTs installation and monitoring. ADT will offer Google devices to customers starting this year.

2. ADT and Google are also each planning to invest another $150 million to market and develop new products. The first $50 million is coming soon, said DeVries. The next two tranches are based on milestones that were confident well be achieving.

3. Why now? The global smart home market is massive, with some estimates projecting it will grow from $78.3 billion in 2020 to $135.3 billion by 2025. In March, SmartRent, which develops smart home software and hardware for multifamily landlords, raised $60 million.

4. Smart homes is an area that 145-year-old ADT has been chasing. Last year, for example, it acquired I-View Now, a video verification company, for an undisclosed sum.

5. ADT also has a joint product with Amazon dubbed Alexa Guard which links the cloud-based voice assistant to ADTs security system. Basically, Alexa is able to listen for things like breaking glass and smoke alarms. DeVries said that the relationship will continue, and that ADT would still integrate the two systems when customers request it.

6. Some background on Google Nest: Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion in cash in 2014. In addition to its flagship thermostat device, Nest also makes smart speakers, smoke detectors and security systems (including doorbells, cameras and locks).

7. For ADT, the Google deal has another key upside. ADT will use the $450 million to fuel growth and pay debt. After being bought (and later taken public) by Apollo Global Management, ADT has more than $10 billion in debt, according to its most recent annual report.

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The Files by Google app, which primarily gives Android users an easy way to manage files and free up space on their phone, is getting a new PIN-protected Safe Folder feature. After setting up a four-digit PIN, you can store any of your sensitive files in this encrypted folder. The folder is locked the moment you switch away to another app, and its contents are only accessible through Files by Google.

According to Google, the feature is mainly designed to help people who share Android devices, which it says is common for women in many parts of the world. Safe Folders keep important files like identity documents safe and secure from accidental deletion or sharing by kids, for example. And yes, it could also help anyone who wants to keep any sensitive photos private.

AndroidPolice warns that transferring a file into your secure folder means it disappears from other file browsers and gallery apps, so be sure you dont delete or uninstall the Files app or clear its app data to avoid losing your private files completely. The same goes for forgetting your PIN.

Last year, Microsoft added a similar secure folder to OneDrive called Personal Vault. Along with PIN protection, you can also secure files in your Personal Vault using biometric security like fingerprint or facial authentication, or a two-factor authentication (2FA) code. Microsofts implementation also lets you protect documents in the cloud, while Googles is on-device only, according to XDA-Developers.

Google says the Safe Folder feature is rolling out in the beta starting today, and AndroidPolice notes that its appearing in version 1.0.323 of the Files by Google app. Google says the app now boasts over 150 million monthly active users worldwide.

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Nearby Share is quick and easy, just make sure you set it up first.

For years -- years! -- iPhone owners have used AirDrop to quickly and easily share files, photos, videos and links with other nearby iPhones ($699 at Apple). By using AirDrop, you don't have to fuss with texting a photo, compressing it and ruining its overall quality, or clog up your conversation thread with random links and files.

Now, Android phones are finally getting Google's version of AirDrop, called Nearby Share.

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Google announced the new feature in early August, and I've been able to test it out on a Pixel 4 XL and a Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus. It works just like AirDrop, but you'll need to do a couple of things before you can start using it yourself. Here's what you need to know.

Google's Pixel phones are one of the first to get Nearby Share.

As is typically the case with new Android features, Google is slowly rolling out Nearby Share, so it may take some time before it will show up on your phone.

You can check to see if the feature has been added to your device by following the instructions listed below. Google is adding Nearby Share to its own Pixel and Samsung phones first, and the feature will eventually come to all phones running Android 6.0 and above.

Google has plans to turn on Nearby Share file transfers between Android and Chrome OS, but for now, it's limited to sharing between Android phones and tablets.

If Nearby Share shows up as an option, congrats! If not, you'll need to wait a bit longer.

Before you'll see Nearby Share as a sharing option, you'll need to enable it. There isn't an update you need to install or anything you can do on your end at all. It will simply appear when it's added to your device.

On your phone, open the Settings app and select Google > Device connections > Nearby share.

If Nearby Share isn't listed as an option, you don't have the feature yet, and you'll need to sporadically keep checking.

You care in complete control of your privacy.

The first time you open the Nearby Share page, you'll be asked to turn it on. Tap Turn On and then select one of three privacy options:

With Nearby Share turned on and set up, you can use it to send documents, photos, videos or links to people who are in the same room as you.

If you're sending a file, ask your friend to unlock their phone and leave the display turned on. If you're on the receiving end, you'll need to have your phone unlocked and the screen on.

If you've ever sent a photo in a text message, you're already a pro at using Nearby Share.

With both phones actively in use, here's what you'll do to send using Nearby Share:

1. When you find something you want to share, such as a link in Chrome, you'll need to open the Share menu.

2. Find Nearby Share in the list of apps; tap it.

3. A small window will show up at the bottom of your screen, letting you know it's looking for a contact to share with. Once it finds your friend's device, tap on their profile icon.

4. The receiving device will display a prompt, letting them know who is trying to send them something, and what it is. Have them tap Accept, and whatever you're sending will be transferred from your phone to theirs, like magic.

If you run into issues with the transfer failing to complete, Google recommends turning Bluetooth off then back on, moving the devices within a foot of each other, or toggling airplane mode on and off.

When testing the feature, I also briefly saw a prompt that mentioned making sure to have the contact's Google email in your address book as a troubleshooting step.

After you've gotten the hang of Nearby Share, take a few minutes to learn all of Android 10's navigation gestures. Or if you'd rather see what's coming with Android 11, we have some features we love. If you have a compatible phone, you can install Android 11 right now.

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This week, Virginia plans to release a COVID-19 exposure notification app based on the specifications published by Apple and Google in April. The app, called COVIDWISE, is the first fully deployed implementation of Apple and Googles system in the US and was beta tested by the state department of health.

The specification is designed to preserve patient privacy, particularly around their location and whether they have tested positive for COVID-19. No location data or personal information is ever collected, stored or transmitted to VDH as part of the app, a health department official told Virginia Public Media, which first reported the news. You can delete the app or turn off exposure notifications at any time.

If someone tests positive for the coronavirus, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) will give them a PIN number that they can choose to use to report that result within the app. Then, other users of the app should get a notification if their phones were near the sick person at some point in the past 14 days. However, those notifications will only go out to phones when the exposure met a threshold for a strength and duration of the Bluetooth signal that can be estimated as a user being within six feet of the other user for 15 minutes (based on the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions definition of close contact).

Apple and Googles system relies on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and does not track physical location through GPS. Instead, it collects and stores signals from nearby phones. Phones trade anonymous keys, which change every 15 minutes. The companies announced their partnership in April and released the systems API to health departments in May.

Apps that automate the contact tracing process can help flag people who were near someone with COVID-19, even if they may not remember interacting. They can also provide instant notification of a possible virus exposure. But theyre not a replacement for manual contact tracing because theyre only able to monitor the contacts between people who have smartphones and decide to use the app. The VDH said its not using the app as part of its own contact tracing process, but that it offers a way for users to track their own potential exposures.

The more people who download the app, the more effective it will be. If enough of the population downloaded this app and enabled it on their phone, we would have an automated way of figuring out who you have been around, Danny Avula, director of the Richmond and Henrico health districts in Virginia, told VPM.

Alabama launched a closed pilot for its own exposure notification app, called GuideSafe, this week. The pilot is open to anyone in the state with an .edu email address. Its part of the states return-to-campus plans, said University of Alabama at Birmingham president Ray Watts. The app is aiming for 10,000 downloads each on Apple and Android phones.

Twenty US states are interested in apps that use the Apple and Google system, Google said last week. Alabama, South Carolina, and North Dakota each had projects in development in May. The Association of Public Health Laboratories is also building a national server that will allow apps to work across state lines.

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By Shriya Roy

Everyone, especially millennials, are familiar with Pinterest. A social networking site, it allows users to share and discover new interests by posting (also known as pinning) images or videos to their own or others boards. They can also browse what other users have pinned. The platform is focused on the concept of allowing users to share their tastes and interests with others and discovering those of like-minded people. Launched in 2010, the app was touted as a rival to social media giant Facebook.

In the latest technological development, though, Google has taken on Pinterest with its new artificial intelligence-powered app Keen. Google is pitching Keen as the new way to share your passions with people. On Keen, users can curate special boards based on their interests. For example, if someone likes football, they can make a football-themed board (called a keen), which Google will auto populate with content relevant to that particular interest.

Keen is being pitched as a rival to Pinterest, but unlike the latter, it works through Googles AI and search engine technology. Unlike Pinterest, Keen does not just passively recommend content in response to search queries, it actively searches and suggests relevant content to users. Its a social platform, so users can also share their themed boards with others or even invite friends to be collaborators to help build the best board.

Keen, which draws on Googles machine learning expertise to curate topics, aims to be an alternative to mindlessly browsing online feeds, said co-founder CJ Adams. On Keen, you say what you want to spend more time on and then curate content from the web, and people you trust, to help make that happen. You make a keen, which can be about any topic, be it baking delicious bread at home, getting into birding or researching typography. Keen lets you curate the content you love, share your collection with others and find new content based on what you have saved, said Adams.

The platform provides an easy way to save bookmarks or links in a visually pleasing format, helping increase traffic and popularity. The content curated can be kept private, shared with a certain number of people or with the public. Users can also follow other peoples keens and get alerts when new content is added.

Ken can especially be beneficial to website publishers and content marketers in the long run, as it can help them devise various marketing strategies. The best part about it is that the more information Keen gathers about ones preferences, the more accurate the results get. Interestingly, the user interface of the app resembles a magazine. It presents a good collation of ideas and aids with developing an idea from snippets of information and searches.

While Pinterest still remains the top used app, many other such apps and platforms have come up in the past few years. Mamby, for one, is a social media platform that has everything that Pinterest offers, but also uses an advanced algorithm and rewards its users by paying them for the number of likes and views their posts get. Juxtapost, a close second to Pinterest, is based on the same idea of browsing, viewing and gathering ideas. FoodGawker is another Pinterest alternative specifically dedicated to foodies.

It is specifically dedicated to sharing and viewing pictures of food. Designspiration, on the other hand, is for designers, where they can get ideas and share their own as well. While Keen aims to counter the singular popularity of Pinterest, encompassing all check boxes and adding a touch of AI, it is still to be seen if it can successfully make a mark.

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Virginia has launched the first U.S. app using Apple-Google coronavirus notification technology.Olivier Douliery/Getty Images

Its a little hard to know what to make of how slowly the United States has moved in using mobile phones to trace the spread of COVID-19 and notify exposed individuals. Four months ago, Apple and Google announced a privacy-protecting system to use Bluetooth for contact-tracing apps. Yet only this week did the first stateVirginiarelease an exposure notification app using that Apple-Google framework.

So much of the United States response to the pandemic has been heartbreakingly, infuriatingly slow and inept that its possible to view this delay as further evidence of incompetence. But developing privacy-protecting systems that dont drain peoples phone batteries, dont rely on collecting or sharing their location data, and still provide accurate and useful information about whom theyve been in close contact with is no small feat. And so, perhaps in at least this one circumstance, Virginia and other states engaged in similar efforts should be recognized for taking the time to do this carefully and deliberately.

The Covidwise app that Virginia launched this week uses the exposure notification API developed by Apple and Google to track when smartphones running Android or iOS came into close contact with one another without revealing unnecessary information about users locations or activities. The partnership between Apple and Google was first announced in April, the software was launched in May, and then, in June, Android and iPhone users began to notice a COVID-19 exposure tool in their phone settings that had been pushed out in software updates.

That tool itself does not issue any notifications, thoughit merely enables other app developers to use the Apple-Google technology in their own notification apps. That was why the Virginia Department of Health paid tech firm SpringML $229,000 to develop an app for Virginia residents that would build on the Apple-Google API to actually notify users when they had been in close proximity to someone who later tested positive for COVID-19.

Thats a lot of different steps to do something similar to what it seems like other countries have already been doing for months. But as unwieldy as it may appear, there are real benefits to a carefully designed system like the one Apple and Google have laid the groundwork for with their API. For one, the Apple-Google system prioritizes users privacy by not collecting information about where people have been and by protecting carefully the data about whom theyve been near. For another, it relies on Bluetooth signals that can more accurately assess when people are within very close range of one another indoors than many location tracking technologies.

The privacy protections may also have important implications for the effectiveness of apps like Covidwise, which will only work if a large number of people download and use them. If I lived in Virginia, Id feel sufficiently confident in the Apple-Google API that Id be willing to download Covidwise, and that trust is no small accomplishment for the officials relying on these systems to help alert people. In South Korea, where officials were much more aggressive about trying to track exposure early on, those efforts were hindered by the lack of attention to privacy. For instance, Reuters reported in May that even though clubs and bars in South Korea were required to log the names and phone numbers of their customers, many people turned out to have provided incomplete or false information, prompting the country to try to develop more robust privacy protections for its testing and tracing systems.

Whether a significant number of people will actually download and use the Virginia app remains to be seen. Its also not clear how many other states will follow Virginias lead in using the Apple-Google API to develop apps since there are no current plans for a nationwide government-sponsored notification app. The Virginia app requires a six-digit PIN issued by the state Department of Health to confirm positive test results and therefore will be of very limited use to non-Virginia residents, though there has been some discussion of a shared national key server to enable different states apps to work together.

States have made attempts to track exposure without using the Apple-Google framework. Utah, for instance, released an app in May that relied on both Bluetooth and GPS data instead of the Apple-Google API (which, again, relies exclusively on Bluetooth data). In addition to being able to track users location data, the Utah app also enabled public health workers to access data about exposed users so that those officials could then contact people directly, something the Apple-Google set-up is designed to avoid by alerting exposed individuals through their phones instead of via government workers. Also in May, the Care19 app built for North Dakotawhich, like the Utah app, collected location data instead of relying on the Apple-Google APIwas found to violate its own privacy policy by sending user data to marketing company Foursquare. That problem was fixed and two more states, South Dakota and Wyoming, signed on to use the app. But by the end of June, only 4 percent of North Dakotans were using Care19.

One of the delays thats most frustrating in the United States is the need to wait for individual states to commission and roll out their own apps, even after the underlying API has been developed. In Europe, several countries, such as Germany and Ireland, have already launched nationwide apps that use the Apple-Google notification system. Different exposure notification apps commissioned by different states means the process will move more slowly in the United States. It also raises potential security concerns since each app will have to be vetted carefully, and the budget for the development and testing of each one will vary state by state. Thats not a process you ever want to rush, but given the circumstances, it might make sense for states to think about what, if anything, they could learn from the places that have already done this.

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