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Fleet Charging and Grid Readiness Redefine EV Growth
Fleet Charging and Grid Readiness Redefine EV Growth The electric vehicle market is no longer running on pure momentum. After a decade defined by rapid adoption curves, aggressive target-setting, and an almost constant stream of battery breakthroughs, the global EV industry is settling into somethin...
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VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition
VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition VINCI Construction’s agreement to acquire Fletcher Construction is more than another overseas deal on a balance sheet. It’s a clear signal that New Zealand’s infrastructure market has shifted into a new phase, one where scale...
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InvestEU Helps Scale High Power EV Charging From the Baltic to the Adriatic
InvestEU Helps Scale High Power EV Charging From the Baltic to the Adriatic Central and Eastern Europe is about to get a sizeable boost in electric-vehicle charging capacity, and not in the slow, piecemeal way drivers have grown used to. A €35 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to...
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Cincoze Industrial Touchscreens for Wet, Harsh and High-Visibility Environments
Cincoze Industrial Touchscreens for Wet, Harsh and High-Visibility Environments Industrial facilities rarely get excited about screens. Yet in modern manufacturing, the humble display has become a frontline tool for productivity, safety, and process control. From automated packaging lines to robotic...
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adesso SE and Hitachi Expand Application Reliability for Asset-Heavy Industries
adesso SE and Hitachi Expand Application Reliability for Asset-Heavy Industries In energy, utilities, and other asset-heavy industries, digital transformation doesn’t fail with a bang. It fails quietly. A control room dashboard loads slowly. A forecasting model drifts out of tolerance. A patch gets...
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ABZ Innovation Secures $8.2m to Scale Heavy-Duty Drones
ABZ Innovation Secures $8.2m to Scale Heavy-Duty Drones ABZ Innovation, a Hungary-based manufacturer of heavy-duty agricultural and industrial drones, has announced it has closed an $8.2 million funding round led by Vsquared Ventures, with participation from Day One Capital and Assembly Ventures. Th...
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Otto Group Builds an AI Control Layer to Orchestrate Robots at Scale
Otto Group Builds an AI Control Layer to Orchestrate Robots at Scale The modern warehouse has become one of the most important proving grounds for industrial automation. Global retail and logistics networks are under constant pressure to move faster, absorb volatility, and keep service levels high e...
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Atomic-Level Control for Metal 3D Printing for Tomorrow’s Infrastructure
Atomic-Level Control for Metal 3D Printing for Tomorrow’s Infrastructure Additive manufacturing has spent the last decade edging from novelty to necessity. In aerospace engineering and advanced industrial design, metal 3D printing has unlocked geometries that conventional casting and machining...
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LEGO and the Future of Creative STEM Education
LEGO and the Future of Creative STEM Education In early years education, the conversation is increasingly dominated by apps, adaptive learning platforms, and the promise of artificial intelligence guiding children through personalised pathways. On the surface, it all sounds wonderfully efficient. Ye...
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Sovereign AI Meets Street-Level Operations with H2O.ai and Certis
Sovereign AI Meets Street-Level Operations with H2O.ai and Certis The global race to “AI-enable” infrastructure has reached a point where glossy demos and isolated pilots are no longer enough. Transport networks, public spaces, critical facilities and urban security operations sit at the sharp end o...
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Rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure
Rebuilding Ukraine’s Infrastructure Why Decentralized Cogeneration is the Strategic Asset for U.S. Investment The Infrastructure Imperative The reconstruction of Ukraine is not a future project; it is a current strategic necessity. As U.S. policymakers, including figures associated with Donald Trump...
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NASA’s SWOT Satellite Is Redefining our Understanding of Rivers
NASA’s SWOT Satellite Is Redefining our Understanding of Rivers Water doesn’t just run downhill. Over time, it redraws maps, undercuts bridges, shifts floodplains, silts up reservoirs, and quietly changes the ground rules for how infrastructure should be planned, built, and maintained. For decades,...
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Why Highway Work Zones Are Deadly and What Drivers Must Do
Why Highway Work Zones Are Deadly and What Drivers Must Do Most people think of road construction as an inconvenience. Orange cones. Slow traffic. A few minutes added to the commute. Together, these factors can stress you out. What almost nobody thinks about is this. In 2024, many lives in the Unite...
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Accepting Crypto: What Marketplace Sellers Need to Know
Accepting Crypto: What Marketplace Sellers Need to Know Online marketplaces are constantly evolving, so to keep up with the change, sellers must always be looking for ways to stay flexible, reduce friction, and reach more buyers. Over the last few years, an increasing number of people have started a...
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RB Global Showcases Late Model Equipment Ahead of Orlando February Auction
RB Global Showcases Late Model Equipment Ahead of Orlando February Auction The global construction and transport industries don’t often pause for breath. Projects move, supply chains flex, and fleets age in real time. Yet every so often, a single event provides an unusually clear snapshot of what co...
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ORNL Slicer 2 Advances the Future of Large-Scale 3D Printing
ORNL Slicer 2 Advances the Future of Large-Scale 3D Printing In construction and industrial manufacturing, speed is only ever half the story. The real battleground is repeatability: making the same part, to the same quality, again and again, without burning time, money, or material in the process. T...
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Quantum Honeycomb Materials Move Closer To The Spin Liquid Frontier
Quantum Honeycomb Materials Move Closer To The Spin Liquid Frontier The race to turn quantum theory into working technology isn’t being won by algorithms alone. It’s being shaped, just as decisively, by the physical materials capable of hosting quantum behaviour in the real world. In that sense, the...
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Evolving the Quarry and Mining Workforce From the Rockface to Cyberspace
Evolving the Quarry and Mining Workforce From the Rockface to Cyberspace In a remote control centre far from any pit, a young technician monitors drilling data on multiple screens as autonomous trucks haul ore below. On the other side of the world, a group of new recruits pulls on virtual reality he...
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The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains
The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains Global supply chains are moving again, but not always smoothly. After years of disruption, companies are diversifying markets, reshoring or nearshoring parts of production, and building new trade routes that reduce overdependence...
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Inclusive and Wildlife Friendly Rural Road Upgrades in Maharashtra
Inclusive and Wildlife Friendly Rural Road Upgrades in Maharashtra Maharashtra’s ambitious push to upgrade rural roads and state highways is being shaped by a quiet but important shift in how transport infrastructure is planned. Instead of treating environmental and social safeguards as paperwork to...
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Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links
Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links Uzbekistan’s renewable energy ambitions are no longer confined to targets on paper or pilot projects tucked away from the realities of national grid operations. With a new US$30 million financing package agreed between the As...
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WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany
WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany Germany’s energy transition has never been short on ambition, but it’s the infrastructure underneath it all that decides whether progress will be smooth or painful. That’s why a new €220 million financing agreement between the Europ...
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Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing
Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing Egypt’s energy transition has moved beyond ambition and into execution, with the Obelisk solar photovoltaic project in Qena Governorate emerging as one of the most consequential clean power developments on the African continent. Backe...
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Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing
Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing Kazakhstan has spent the past decade positioning itself as a practical bridge between East and West, but bridges only matter if they don’t choke at the entrance. Freight volumes don’t wait politely at city limits, and when trains are force...
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Leasys and EIB Back EU Zero-Emission Fleets with €600m Finance
Leasys and EIB Back EU Zero-Emission Fleets with €600m Finance Europe’s clean-mobility transition is often discussed in the language of targets, mandates and long-term ambition. But in practice, decarbonising road transport comes down to something far more practical: who can finance the vehicles, de...
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DriveWell Fleet Brings Full Telematics to Commercial Motor Insurance
DriveWell Fleet Brings Full Telematics to Commercial Motor Insurance Commercial fleets keep the modern economy moving, yet the insurance industry that underwrites them has often had to price risk with only partial visibility. Underwriters have traditionally relied on claims history, vehicle type, ro...
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CESAR’s 700,000th System Signals a New Era for Machinery Security
CESAR’s 700,000th System Signals a New Era for Machinery Security Machinery theft isn’t a headline-grabbing crime in the way that cash robberies or high-profile cyberattacks might be, but across construction, agriculture, and plant hire it’s a relentless, costly drain. When a machine disappears, the...
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Intertraffic Awards Highlight Innovations That Deliver Real-World Impact
Intertraffic Awards Highlight Innovations That Deliver Real-World Impact The shortlist for the Intertraffic Awards 2026 has landed, and it reads like a snapshot of where mobility is heading next. Fifteen finalists have been named across three categories, highlighting innovations that aim to cut emis...
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Rethinking Foreign Policy – The Case for Tech Diplomacy
Rethinking Foreign Policy – The Case for Tech Diplomacy The drivers of economic growth, innovation, and societal change are no longer solely wealthy nation-states and global institutional actors, but increasingly the technology companies. The so-called “Magnificent Seven”—Nvidia, Microsoft, Ap...
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Yanmar Innovation to Power a Sustainable Agriculture Future
Yanmar Innovation to Power a Sustainable Agriculture Future The world’s food system is being asked to do something close to impossible: produce more, waste less, cut emissions, conserve land and water, and somehow stay profitable for people whose margins are already wafer-thin. All while the workfor...
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Liebherr Power Deals Deliver Momentum To Fleet Upgrades In 2026
Liebherr Power Deals Deliver Momentum To Fleet Upgrades In 2026 The construction equipment market doesn’t usually do sentimentality. Fleet owners make decisions with spreadsheets, utilisation charts, and workshop schedules, not wish lists. Still, there’s something fitting about starting a new year w...
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Choosing the Right Car Finance
Choosing the Right Car Finance Car ownership in the UK has steadily increased over time, but with prices climbing and technology evolving, more people are turning to finance options over paying upfront. The right deal can make driving your dream ride affordable, but the wrong one can leave you stuck...
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Offshore Asia Pacific Summit Explores FPS Trends in Asia Pacific
Offshore Asia Pacific Summit Explores FPS Trends in Asia Pacific At a time when much of the global offshore oil and gas sector is treading water, the Asia Pacific region is moving decisively in the opposite direction. Investment pipelines remain active, national energy strategies are being recalibra...
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Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery
Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery Construction has always been a business of coordination. Machines, people, materials, and time must align precisely for projects to succeed. Yet even the most carefully planned programmes have long been vulnerable to delays that emerged once work bega...
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Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations
Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations In mineral processing, efficiency is rarely decided by a single machine. It is shaped by the interaction between crushers, conveyors, feeders and, critically, the vibrating screen. While the screen itself often draws attention as the me...
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Designing Safer Access at Height for Modern Construction
Designing Safer Access at Height for Modern Construction Working at height remains one of the most persistent risk factors across global construction, infrastructure maintenance, logistics, and industrial operations. Despite decades of regulatory reform and advances in machine design, falls and entr...
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AEye OPTIS is Redefining Long Range Infrastructure Awareness
AEye OPTIS is Redefining Long Range Infrastructure Awareness Across the global construction, transport and infrastructure sectors, perception technology is quietly becoming mission critical. What began as a race to enable autonomous vehicles is now reshaping how roads, railways, mines and secure sit...
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Physical AI and Humanoid Robots Moving From Theory to the Jobsite
Physical AI and Humanoid Robots Moving From Theory to the Jobsite The conversation around artificial intelligence has spent much of the past decade focused on software. Algorithms that can see, predict, recommend and optimise have transformed offices, trading floors and design studios. Yet, for indu...
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Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments
Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments Across the global construction and materials sector, electrification is no longer confined to urban job sites, indoor demolition, or tightly controlled municipal projects. It is edging into places long considered off limits for bat...
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The Materials Project and the Rise of AI Driven Materials Science
The Materials Project and the Rise of AI Driven Materials Science In construction, transport, energy and advanced manufacturing, materials innovation increasingly sets the pace of progress. From longer lasting batteries and low carbon cement alternatives to advanced semiconductors and high performan...
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Blackline Safety Advances the Role of PPE in Data-Driven Worksite Safety
Blackline Safety Advances the Role of PPE in Data-Driven Worksite Safety Across construction, infrastructure, transport and heavy industry, worker safety has quietly become a digital systems challenge rather than a compliance checklist. As worksites grow larger, more distributed and more automated,...
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Rethinking Pickup Truck Storage for the Infrastructure Economy
Rethinking Pickup Truck Storage for the Infrastructure Economy The global construction and infrastructure ecosystem is quietly changing its relationship with the humble pickup truck. Once seen primarily as a means of transport, the truck is now increasingly treated as a mobile asset, a rolling exten...
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Turning Excavated Soil into Green Infrastructure Assets
Turning Excavated Soil into Green Infrastructure Assets Across Europe’s cities, soil has quietly become one of the most overlooked resources in the construction and infrastructure ecosystem. Vast quantities are excavated every year to make way for housing, transport corridors, utilities and regenera...
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UESI and ASCE’s Expanding Influence on Underground Infrastructure
UESI and ASCE’s Expanding Influence on Underground Infrastructure Across the world’s expanding cities, much of the most critical infrastructure remains hidden from view. Water, wastewater, energy and telecommunications networks are buried beneath streets, rivers and dense urban districts, quietly su...
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From Protection to Prediction with Intelligent Infrastructure Coatings
From Protection to Prediction with Intelligent Infrastructure Coatings Across the global construction and infrastructure landscape, the ability to understand how assets behave in real time has become a strategic concern rather than a technical curiosity. Bridges, tunnels, industrial facilities, vehi...
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Saudi Arabia’s Solar Supply Chain Takes a Strategic Leap Forward
Saudi Arabia’s Solar Supply Chain Takes a Strategic Leap Forward The formal incorporation of Nextpower Arabia, a joint venture between U.S.-based Nextpower and Riyadh-headquartered Abunayyan Holding, marks a significant moment for the Middle East and North Africa’s renewable energy ecosystem. More t...
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Clinker Free Cement Steps into the Structural Mainstream
Clinker Free Cement Steps into the Structural Mainstream For decades, the construction sector has wrestled with a fundamental contradiction. Concrete remains the backbone of global infrastructure, yet its primary binder, clinker, is responsible for a significant share of industrial carbon emissions...
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Cemex Sets a Benchmark for Climate Transparency in Construction
Cemex Sets a Benchmark for Climate Transparency in Construction The global construction sector sits at the centre of the climate conversation, not by choice but by consequence. Cement alone is responsible for a significant share of industrial carbon emissions worldwide, making producers a focal poin...
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Automating Nautical Charts and Maritime Safety Digital Workflows
Automating Nautical Charts and Maritime Safety Digital Workflows The quiet digitisation of maritime chart production rarely makes headlines, yet it underpins everything from naval readiness and port construction to offshore energy and global trade. When a national hydrographic authority changes how...
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Insta360 Redefines the AI Webcam for Professional Work at CES
Insta360 Redefines the AI Webcam for Professional Work at CES For much of the past decade, webcams have lagged behind the realities of modern work. While construction, infrastructure, and industrial technology sectors have embraced digital twins, remote inspections, and hybrid collaboration, the hum...
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Top 7 Mining Software Solutions for Geological Modeling and Mine Planning (2026)
Top 7 Mining Software Solutions for Geological Modeling and Mine Planning (2026) Selecting mine planning and geological modeling software affects operational efficiency for years. The market offers solutions ranging from enterprise platforms with decades of development to integrated alternatives tar...
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The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining
The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining Mining and quarrying have long been synonymous with environmental disruption, from gaping open pits and scarred landscapes to polluted waterways and deforestation. In the past, the focus was overwhelmingly on extraction at all costs, with little thought for w...
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EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia
EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia Across Central Asia, a quiet but decisive shift is under way. Wind farms are rising across open steppe, ports and rail corridors are being upgraded, and the logistics chains that once served only extractive industries are being rep...
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EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity
EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity The European Union has committed a substantial €175.6 million package to reconstruct 39 kilometres of the Bar-Golubovci railway line, a critical segment of Rail Route 4 within the extended Trans-European Transport Network core corrid...
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UK Ports and Marine Facilities Enter a New Phase of Safety and Accountability
UK Ports and Marine Facilities Enter a New Phase of Safety and Accountability Ports sit at the heart of the global economy. Every container unloaded, every tanker berthed and every ferry movement connects national transport networks to international supply chains. When port operations are disrupted...
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Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy
Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy Across the global road sector, one challenge refuses to go away. Governments spend billions building and upgrading highways, yet most of that infrastructure is still managed with delayed, fragmented and often outdated information. Enginee...
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The Things Stack and the $2bn Rise of Low Power IoT at CES 2026
The Things Stack and the $2bn Rise of Low Power IoT at CES 2026 Across the technology world, few milestones carry the quiet weight of real economic proof. At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, The Things Industries crossed one of those rare thresholds. The company revealed that organisations running low power I...
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Afari and Geely Drive a New Era of AI Native Autonomous Mobility
Afari and Geely Drive a New Era of AI Native Autonomous Mobility Afari and Geely chose the Consumer Electronics Show 2026 to unveil what they describe as a major step change in intelligent driving. The joint announcement of G-ASD, short for Geely Afari Smart Driving, placed the two companies firmly...
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QwikOS Launches Universal Operating System for Humanoid Robotics
QwikOS Launches Universal Operating System for Humanoid Robotics QwikOS has arrived at a pivotal moment for humanoid robotics, unveiling what it calls the world’s first universal operating system and app store for humanoid robots. The platform aims to bridge a long standing divide in the industry, n...
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MeiG Smart Unveils 100 TOPS Modules AI Powerhouses at CES
MeiG Smart Unveils 100 TOPS Modules AI Powerhouses at CES The four-day CES 2026 event in Las Vegas wrapped up recently, cementing its reputation as the premier showcase for technological advancement at the dawn of the year. Defined by the mantra “AI Everywhere,” the exhibition highlighte...
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