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Adam Sandler To Make 4 New Movies For Netflix
Netflix has taken another huge step into originally content, signing comic/actor Adam Sandler to a four-movie deal that could see the first release as early as next year.
““People love Adam’’s films on Netflix and often watch them again and again,” Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement released online. “His appeal spans across viewers of all ages — everybody has a favorite movie, everyone has a favorite line — not just in the U.S. but all over the world.”
Sandler joked on Twitter and Instagram that he was trying to sign up for Netflix, and signed the four-picture deal instead:
““When these fine people came to me with an offer to make four movies for them, I immediately said ‘yes’ for one reason and one reason only…,” Sandler said in a statement released by the company. “Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks. Let the streaming begin!!!!””
Variety reports that Sandler’s Happy Madison productions will develop the films with Netflix, and that the first could start streaming in 2015.
Earlier this week, Netflix announced its first original film, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend.” That movie is set for release on both Netflix and in select IMAX theaters on Aug. 28, 2015.
Pro-democracy protesters targeted with malware on iOS, Android
In an almost unheard-of claim, Lacoon Mobile Security has said that it has discovered a new spyware attack that targets both iOS and Android devices and which appears to be aimed specifically at Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters. Lacoon says it made the discovery while investigating the Android version, but did not clarify how the malware might be installed, or overcome the security built into iOS that has, thus far, kept it largely immune to serious malware or viruses.
Find My iPhone web page lets users check on Activation Lock status
Users who are unsure if their iOS device has the anti-theft feature Activation Lock turned on can now easily check through a new page based on Apple’s iCloud site. While the page is currently not linked to the main menu on iCloud.com — suggesting it may still be undergoing testing — it offers users a chance to input the devices serial number or IMEI identifier, and returns information on whether the device is protected.
Facebook apologises to drag queens
Facebook has apologised to transgender and drag queen users whose accounts were deleted for violating its policy on using “real names”.
Japan in $617bn 'fat finger' error
Japan’s stock markets were rattled after a trading error caused more than $600bn (£370bn) worth of orders to be made and then cancelled.
AT&T's Top 13 Broken Promises. DIRECTV Merger? 'Giga'-Me-a-Break!
(This information is from “The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net”.)
If you live in any one of these 22 states, this story is about your broadband, Internet, phone and cable service from AT&T, as well as wiring of the schools, libraries and hospitals.
The current AT&T was created by the joining of:
Southwestern Bell (SBC) — Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri
Pacific Telesis — California, Nevada
SNET — Connecticut
Ameritech — Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin
BellSouth — Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia
AT&T
AT&T’s actions also impacted the rest of America. And this isn’t about history; AT&T has proposed yet another merger, with the broadband ‘carrot’ of upgrading 100 cities with 1 Gbps, “GigaPowerSM” fiber optics — Giga-me-a-break. Based on history, most of these are just going to be ‘fiber-to-the-press-release’.
The facts reveal that AT&T (and its previous incarnations) have never, fulfilled basic merger conditions and has a policy of ‘say anything’ to get deregulatory concessions to remove regulations, obligations and oversight.
And, unfortunately, the FCC has never been able to create enforceable commitments, much less supply basic oversight, or even track the state-based broadband plans. In fact, many FCC administrations worked for the phone and cable companies and against the Public’s Interests.
Let us be clear — larger is worse, not better. In state after state, after every merger AT&T shut down or ignored any fiber optic broadband commitments (which customers paid for), such as in Connecticut (SNET) or California (Pacific Bell). Moreover, AT&T (then SBC) failed to compete out-of-region against what is now Verizon and Centurylink for wired services, (a condition of the SBC-Ameritech merger) and, based on AT&T’s own statements, failed to supply 100% of the 22 states AT&T controls with minimal broadband services, (a commitment in the BellSouth-AT&T merger).
By 2000, around 12 million households should have been upgraded to fiber optics, including schools and libraries, and the combined companies should have spent over $30 billion to do it. By 2014, we estimate that AT&T has collected about $150- $200 billion in excess phone charges and tax perks since the 1990′s to upgrade the state-based utility networks that should have supplied at least 45 Mbps (in both directions) to homes, offices, as well as schools and libraries.
And all of these maneuvers have bad consequences. For example, according to Ookla’s Net Index, America is 25th in the world in broadband download speeds and 40th in the world in upload speeds, and in large part because AT&T pulled the ultimate bait and switch — AT&T’s entire 22 state U-Verse deployment (which we dubbed “Re-verse”) is almost exclusively a copper-to-the-home service that relies on the old, in place, legacy, utility copper wires that AT&T complains needs to be ‘shut off’ in 25-50% of their territories so they can force customers onto their own wireless service instead of upgrading the utility networks.
Before ANY merger is agreed upon, we call on the FCC and the states to investigate how AT&T gamed the system by not fulfilling basic commitments in these previous mergers and the harms that were created throughout the US because of AT&T’s actions.
Our new book, “The Book of Broken Promises supplies links to all of the data, statements and filings so that you, the reader, can corroborate these statements.
1) AT&T-Bellsouth Was to Have 100% of 22 States Capable of at least Minimal Broadband Speeds by 2007.
AT&T claims that it completed the AT&T-BellSouth merger commitments to have 100% of its 22 states delivering a minimum speed of 200 kbps in one direction. This speed was set by the FCC in the 1990s to set the bar so low that two cans-and-string could almost fulfill this requirement; it was done to inflate the number of broadband connections in America.
The AT&T-BellSouth merger agreement:
And AT&T signed documents that they had completed their commitments by 2007. However, compare this to the current AT&T statements in 2013-2014. DIRECTV claims that 15 million customers in the AT&T states still do not have broadband today.
“15 Million Customer Locations Get More High Speed Broadband Competition. AT&T will use the merger synergies to expand its plans to build and enhance high-speed broadband service to 15 million customer locations, mostly in rural areas where AT&T does not provide high-speed broadband service today…”
In fact, AT&T’s own IP Transition Trial documents, filed with the FCC, claims that even after the trial in Carbon Hill, Alabama, at least 4% will still not have IP/broadband. And worse, in 2013, AT&T claimed that 25% didn’t have IP wireline networks (broadband) and that after the trials, mergers, and proposed upgrades, they’d finally be able to offer a wireless substitute for broadband.
“In the 25 percent of AT&T’s wireline customer locations where it’s currently not economically feasible to build a competitive IP wireline network, the company said it will utilize its expanding 4G LTE wireless network — as it becomes available — to offer voice and high-speed IP Internet services.”
Where are the FCC investigations? Isn’t AT&T admitting they didn’t have 100% completed by 2007?
2) SBC Was to Compete for Wireline Service Out-of-Region in 30 Cities by 2002 — Never Happened.
The SBC press release states:
“Whitacre Calls SBC-Ameritech Merger ‘Critical’ for Nationwide Competition.”
We quote testimony: Before the Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, by Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. Chairman & CEO, SBC Communications Inc. May 19, 1998.
“Under the “National-Local” strategy, the new SBC would enter 30 U.S. markets outside its traditional territory, competing with Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, MCI/WorldCom, AT&T and others for business and residential customers by offering a full range of services, including local and long distance. Combined with the top 20 markets the two companies currently serve in their regions, this strategy would give the combined company a presence in the nation’s top 50 markets that would be backed by a state-of-the-art nationwide voice and data network, and a growing international network.”
In 2002, we filed a complaint with Congress to investigate. We had called reporters around the country and NOT ONE reporter knew of any SBC services being offered in the city with any media campaigns or mailings, etc.
And why? Well, the FCC, under then-chairman Michael Powell (now the head of the cable association, NCTA) had shredded commitments in the fine print. Only three customers were required in any city to fulfill the out-of-region commitments.
Example: SBC’s press release stated:
“On April 9, 2002, the SBC notified the Commissioner that it had installed by April 8, 2001 local exchange switching capacity and was providing local exchange service to at least three unaffiliated customers in the following 10 markets: Baltimore, Bergen-Passaic, Middlesex, Nassau, Newark, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Tampa, Washington DC and West Palm Beach.”
I could sign up more people at a bar by offering a free round of Jell-O shots than this incredibly sleazy fine print commitment.
The Mergers Killed the Fiber Optic Deployments in America.
Then we have the closing of fiber optic broadband deployments that were underway in every state SBC (now AT&T) took over.
3) Pacific Telesis – was to spend $16 billion on 5.5. million homes in California by 2000. After the merger in 1997, SBC shut down everything being built and never spent about $15 billion.
4) SNET, Connecticut — was to spend $4.5 billion and to have 100% completed by 2007; SNET started rolling out cable services over fiber and after the merger everything was abandoned.
5,6,7,8, 9) Ameritech – claimed it would have 6 million households wired by 2000. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin — all had commitments to build out fiber optic networks, and some states included schools and libraries. All we able to get state ‘alternative regulations’ to fund these upgrades and they started to roll out vanilla cable service; The hatchet came after the merger, where the entire five-state region’s upgrades were sold off to WOW, a small cable provider.
Ohio Bell, part of Ameritech, had state laws changed based on claiming they would be wiring schools, libraries and hospitals and spending $1 billion on the construction.
Ohio Bell, Alternate Regulation Plan, September 20, 1994
“21. INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITMENTS The Company’s infrastructure commitment in this Plan shall consist of the commitment to deploy, within five years of the effective date of the Plan and within the Company’s existing service territory, broadband two-way fully interactive high quality distance learning capabilities to all state chartered high schools including vocational, technical schools, colleges and universities; deploy broadband facilities to all hospitals, libraries, county jails and state, county and federal court buildings…”
10) In Texas, one of SBC (Southwestern Bell) original states, (now AT&T) committed to spending $1.1 billion on educational institutions, etc., as part of projects funded by the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund — with speeds 45 Mbps, as of 1995.
“On customer request, the electing company shall provide broadband digital service that is capable of providing transmission speeds of up to 45 megabits per second or better for customer applications and other customized or packaged network services (private network services) to an entity described in this section for their private and sole use except as provided in Subsection (d) of this section:
(i) educational institutions, as that term is defined in Section 3.605 of this Act;
(ii) libraries, as that term is defined in Section 3.606 of this Act;
(iii) nonprofit telemedicine centers of academic health centers, public or not for profit hospitals, or state licensed health care practitioners;
(iv) public or not for profit hospitals.”
11) Closing the Networks to Competition — Promise them 100 Mbps Fiber Optics, 2002.
In order to close the networks to direct competition, which were opened under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, then-SBC told the FCC that it would roll out 100 Mbps fiber-to-the-home services if only the FCC got rid of those pesky competitors.
Then-FCC-chairman Michael Powell wrote, in October 2004:
“The networks we are considering in this item offer speeds of up to 100 Mbps and exist largely where no provider has undertaken the expense and risk of pulling fiber all the way to a home.
“SBC has committed to serve 300,000 households with a FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) network while BellSouth has deployed a deep fiber network to approximately 1 million homes. Other carriers are taking similar actions.”
Never happened.
12) Re-verse: The “Copper-to-the-Home” Service.
As soon as the ink was dry on the closing of the networks, AT&T announced they were doing ‘fiber-based services’, which was a euphemism for — a “copper-to-the-home” service, with fiber optics in a box within ½ mile of the location. And they would take the money from the original construction budgets to upgrade the state utility; it was not ‘extra’, added dollars.
Instead, AT&T simply decided to use the existing, legacy, old, copper wires and added some new technology. But, in this ‘say anything’ world, AT&T keeps repeating that U-verse is ‘fiber based’. One example:
“Welcome to the Evolution of Digital TV, Internet, and Voice: “AT&T U-verse® includes fiber optic technology and computer networking to bring you better digital TV, faster Internet, and a smarter phone. Bring it all together by customizing your own bundle now.”
13) AT&T’s Press Release: “AT&T Eyes 100 U.S. Cities and Municipalities for its Ultra-Fast Fiber Network.”
In this latest round to use broadband as a ‘carrot’ to push through the merger and get more deregulation, AT&T’s new plan includes “GigaPowerSM” fiber optic-based cities.
“DALLAS, April 21, 2014 – AT&T today announced a major initiative to expand its ultra-fast fiber network to up to 100 candidate cities and municipalities nationwide, including 21 new major metropolitan areas. The fiber network will deliver AT&T U-verse® with GigaPowerSM service, which can deliver broadband speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second and AT&T’s most advanced TV services, to consumers and businesses. AT&T will work with local leaders in these markets to discuss ways to bring the service to their communities.”
But, notice that the last line includes “will work with local leaders … to discuss…”
Giga-me-a-break. This is pure fantasy. AT&T failed to upgrade the states where customers have been paying for decades for fiber optics, and here is just another reminder that we made a serious mistake. When I checked this announcement, (See chart) AT&T had only 1 city, Austin, “already servicing with fiber today”.
Had the state commitments been enforced and upheld, America would have already been a fiber optic nation. And with a starting point of bi-directional 45 Mbps speeds, we should have been a Gigabit nation by now.
AT&T must be investigated for its previous failures to fulfill basic commitments in prior mergers, especially the AT&T-BellSouth merger. And the states should go back and examine whether customers have been paying extra for decades based on commitments never fulfilled.
But this brings up a much larger question — Why shouldn’t we dismantle the current AT&T? It’s too big to succeed, has overcharged customers by about $150-200 billion (which continues to be collected), pulled a massive bait and switch, failed to bring competition (which would have lowered prices), and, in short — harmed America.
Let the investigations begin.
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This Video Is Proof That No Emoji Can Beat Talking Face To Face IRL
It turns out an ability to read between the lines of text messages has lived within us all along.
However, it has nothing to do with our phones themselves. It requires putting our thumbs away, detaching our gazes from the screens, and engaging in a conversation physically and emotionally — not just mentally. This basic yet seemingly lost truth about human connection and communication was captured recently by a campaign from Starbucks, encouraging people to meet in person rather than rely on text messaging.
The series of videos, each lasting just 30 seconds, puts simplicity first. The visual displays a real-time text message thread while the audio shares what the same conversation would sound like if the people were sitting face to face. In the “Date” video above, two women review the outcome of a first date, surely over a cup of coffee.
“OK, so tell me everything” becomes, “So.” The hesitance behind “It was fine,” is muted. And the last half of the conversation never even appears on screen, even though those 13 seconds are what matter most.
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This New Netflix Hack Lets You Get Even More Out Of Your Streaming
If you thought “Gilmore Girls” was the only thing awesome thing coming to Netflix this month, prepare to be left speechless.
Lifehacker has just unveiled a new add-on for Chrome that lets you to take your streaming to the next level. Flix Plus lets users customize their Netflix experience, providing easier navigation to suggestions, the ability to hide episode spoiler images and text, the chance to see which shows will be expiring and new keyboard controls, among other things.
The add-on is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, with Google Chrome. You need to configure Netflix to use the HTML5 to take advantage of all the features though.
Flix Plus is free and automatically works with your Netflix account after you install and log in. For a full list of features, check out Lifehacker.
It definitely sounds pretty cool, so feel free to just take it all in.
Uber Publishes 'Tone-Deaf' Blog Post For Teacher Appreciation
Transportation service Uber is being criticized as “tone-deaf” for a blog post praising itself for offering underpaid teachers part-time jobs as drivers.
The post, titled “Teachers: Driving Our Futures,” says Uber intends to “celebrate the educators who are also our Uber partner drivers.” But some readers said Uber, which allows people to order transportation from a smartphone, seems to congratulate itself for giving underpaid teachers the opportunity to make supplemental income working as part-time drivers.
“Every day teachers are asked to do more with less, constantly faced with new challenges and limited resources. Uber opens the door for more possibilities and delivers a meaningful impact to the communities we serve,” says the post.
It continues: “By utilizing Uber, teachers are increasing their earnings while dedicating their lives to shaping students’ futures — cultivating a generation that is imaginative, determined and believes in extraordinary possibilities.”
In an op-ed for Digital Journal, writer and entrepreneur Aron Soloman slammed the car company’s post.
“It would be difficult to argue that a more tone-deaf piece has ever been written,” wrote Soloman.
A post on The Awl said the Uber blog “almost feels like a parody.”
“Had Uber tweaked the language the slightly, with a pinch of outrage … it would seem almost righteous, rather than crassly exploitative of the ills of the American education system. But the post seems to go to great pains to avoid acknowledging the actual issues facing teachers or the sources of those problems,” the article said.
Twitter users also decried the post:
In which @uber celebrates that our TEACHERS are so poorly paid they take 2nd jobs as unregulated taxi drivers http://t.co/mRMFJxIecy
— Brad Johnson (@climatebrad) October 1, 2014
Stunningly tone-deaf post by @Uber — #Teachers: Driving Our Future | https://t.co/K96WqlqOCw Our educators shouldn’t just scrape by. #SRVUSD
— Jerome C. Pandell (@JeromePandell) October 1, 2014
Has Uber become a parody of itself? http://t.co/9toAd7vGoJ We pay teachers shit, so let them work double shifts chauffeuring the moneyed
— leo franchi (@lfranchi) October 1, 2014
B/c we pay teachers so poorly, @Uber wants them to moonlight as drivers. Learn English Lit on your way to get lit. http://t.co/MuPb4jAeSd
— Tim Lepczyk (@thirdcoast) October 1, 2014
Anyone else offended by @uber for this shameless “celebration” of teachers who have to drive taxis to make ends meet? http://t.co/yZuncRgJ1F
— Diana Lind (@diana_m_lind) October 1, 2014
self-congratulatory @Uber doesn’t get that #teachers cld best “drive our future” if they didn’t have to drive taxis http://t.co/sl5ht9I1Pp
— Natalia M. Petrzela (@nataliapetrzela) October 1, 2014
Uber did not immediately respond to The Huffington Post’s request for a comment.
Uber’s post reflects the sad reality that many teachers take part-time jobs to make ends meet. In 2011, the Association of American Educators found that one in five educators had second jobs. The National Education Association, the largest teachers union, reported that the average national starting salary for teachers in 2012–2013 was $36,141.
New Study Says Couples Who Meet Online May Be More Likely To Break Up
The pros and cons of online dating have been debated by single (and married) folks long before Tinder’s “swiping” function was added to the mix. Now, new research suggests that some of the touted benefits of online dating may have been a bit overblown — it’s quite possible that the practice can lead to more breakups and fewer marriages.
“In no way do I want to challenge eHarmony,” Aditi Paul, author of the paper and a final year PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, told The Huffington Post. “I’m an online dater myself!”
Paul’s article, published this month in the “Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking” journal, compares both married and dating couples who met either offline or online. The data she used is from 2,923 respondents of a longitudinal survey conducted by Stanford University entitled “How Couples Meet and Stay Together.”
It may be easy to meet people online — but it’s just as easy to break up.
The bad news? After analyzing the data and controlling for other variables, Paul found that couples who met online tended to break up more than couples who met offline. Over the course of the survey, 32 percent of online unmarried couples had broken up, while only 23 percent of offline unmarried couples had parted ways.
“This could be because people think, ‘You know what, I met somebody online, so I understand that there are other people available once I break up with this person,’” Paul said.
Essentially, people who online date believe they have plenty of prospective partners at their fingertips, so breaking up seems like less of a big deal. But this effect was much less pronounced when comparing the married couples in both categories. Only 8 percent of online couples were separated or divorced over the course of the survey, compared to 2 percent of the couples who met offline.
Online dating also might make you less likely to end up married.
Paul found that couples who met online had a lower chance of getting married in the first place — only 32 percent of people who met their partners online were hitched, while 67 percent of people who met their partners offline got married.
There are a few reasons for this discrepancy, according to Paul. For one, all of those options online daters have may cause them to take their time before entering into a permanent, monogamous relationship. This concept echoes that famous jam study from 1995, which found that people were more likely to purchase a jar of gourmet jam if they were presented with six choices, rather than 24 or 30. Paul explained that shopping for jam — or anything, really — and online dating aren’t such separate concepts.
“Think about women going dress shopping. We always think that the better dress is in the next shop,” Paul said. “Now we’re shopping for relationships; we’re looking for the better deal.”
There’s also the idea that when you meet someone offline, you don’t share a social network, so it may take you more time to gather information about the person you’re with and trust your own judgement. That, combined with the stigma of online dating, could make someone more hesitant to develop a strong enough relationship to lead to marriage, Paul said.
If you’re looking for love online, try to remember that more choices aren’t always a good thing.
These are all concepts that Paul has become personally acquainted with, as she’s in the online dating pool herself. She especially sympathized with the lure of all of those aforementioned choices.
“Through my experience online, I was accepting a lot of invitations from different people, but I was not locking myself in with anyone,” she said. “I knew that more and more people were joining the website, so maybe I’d find someone more befitting for me tomorrow.”
Through her research (and her own experience online dating), Paul was able to offer up some advice for people looking for love online: Don’t get bogged down by all of those choices and become too distracted to commit to a person.
“What I’d encourage is once you find a partner, delete your profile and give it some time,” she said. “Nothing can replace the old-tested principles of time and intimacy and letting things develop.”
Apple drops German publication over iPhone 6 Plus bending video
Apple has dropped a German publication, Computer Bild, from receiving review units or covering company events, according to the publication’s editor-in-chief, Axel Telzerow. Like some other websites, CB recently decided to produce a video testing whether the iPhone 6 Plus can be bent more easily than other phones. The clip (below) has managed to gather over 510,000 views so far on YouTube; its popularity apparently caught the attention of Apple, which contacted CB to revoke press privileges.
50 Cost-Efficient Ways To Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly
Let’s face it: Reducing your home’s negative impact on the planet will likely require a huge amount of work.
But solar panels and temperature-regulating walls aren’t the only ways to help your household adopt more eco-friendly practices. There are a ton of easy — and fun — ways to conserve energy.
Luckily for us, UK-based magazine Good To Be Home has some clever ideas on other ways to do it.
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Facebook Apologizes To LGBT Community For Controversial Name Change Policy
Facebook is apologizing to members of the LGBT community, specifically drag queens and transgender individuals, over the way their name change policy has disproportionately targeted and affected their identities.
Facebook came under fire several weeks ago after forcing a large percentage of individuals operating personal profiles on Facebook under pseudonyms, stage names, or any name not matching their legal name to change their name on Facebook or risk having their profiles deactivated. A number of individuals spoke out on the issue, including RuPaul and Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence member Sister Roma, who orchestrated a face-to-face meeting with Facebook to discuss the implications of this policy.
Today, the company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, apologized to “the affected community of drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community” through a post on his personal profile.
Post by Chris Cox.
Cox notes in his apology, “Our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name. The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic name they use in real life. For Sister Roma, that’s Sister Roma. For Lil Miss Hot Mess, that’s Lil Miss Hot Mess. Part of what’s been so difficult about this conversation is that we support both of these individuals, and so many others affected by this, completely and utterly in how they use Facebook.”
This is a victory not only for drag queens and transgender individuals, but every person who chooses to self-identify for whatever reasons while navigating the Internet.
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Bug in iOS 8 triggering problems with Bluetooth connections in cars
The current versions of iOS 8 is creating problems for people who pair their iPhones with Bluetooth devices, particularly car audio systems, according to complaints. In the case of cars, devices with the firmware may refuse to pair, fail to play audio, or disconnect when a phonecall comes in. The problem can’t be solved with iOS 8.0.2, and is affecting many automotive brands, including BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, and others.
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