Best Be Smarter Than Your Phone Podcasts (2025)

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Is Your AI-Generated Book Really Yours? (The Truth About Copyright & AI) 33:42

4d ago33:42

33:42

Are you using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any Generative AI to write books, create business plans, or invent new products? STOP and watch this before you risk your ideas, your business, or your reputation! In this eye-opening episode, top cybersecurity expert and attorney Abraham Kang, Esq., reveals the shocking legal risks and copyright traps that…

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Can YOU Spot the Scam? DMV Text Message Exposed! 10:31

16d ago10:31

10:31

Are you SURE that text from the DMV is real? Scammers are getting smarter—can you keep up? In this special episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King breaks down a real scam text targeting California drivers (and people everywhere!). Learn exactly how hackers use panic tactics, fake logos, and realistic websites to steal your i…

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Inside the Secret World of Encrypted Messaging—What You’re Not Being Told! 31:57

18d ago31:57

31:57

🚨 STOP Sending Texts Until You Watch This! 🚨 How safe are your private messages REALLY? In this explosive episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, cybersecurity legend Dan Tentler (CTO of FOBOS Group, ethical hacker, IMDB-credited Watch Dogs 2 consultant) joins host Jocelyn King to unmask the truth about Signal, Wire, and modern secure messagi…

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Inside the Mind of an AI Hacker: How Safe Is Your Data? 37:53

1M ago37:53

37:53

In this must-watch episode, host Jocelyn King sits down with renowned cybersecurity and AI expert Walter Haydock—the founder & CEO of StackAware, Harvard Business School graduate, and former Marine Corps intelligence officer. Walter has protected everything from Fortune 100 companies to national security assets, and today he’s sharing his insider k…

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IRS Phone Scams EXPOSED: How to Spot & Stop Them 27:26

1M ago27:26

27:26

Think you’d never fall for a phone scam? Think again. In this eye-opening episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King welcomes back cybersecurity expert Chris Hadnagy, founder of Social-Engineer.com, to expose the psychology behind the surge in fake IRS calls and tax relief scams. You’ll hear: A real scam call that’s tricking th…

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Boost Your Online Safety: Simple Steps for Securing Your Phone and Computer 32:01

2M ago32:01

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🔒 Ready to stop hackers in their tracks? In this episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King welcomes back cybersecurity expert Todd Mitchell—by popular demand! Todd breaks down the overwhelming world of digital security into clear, easy-to-follow steps you can take today to protect your phone and computer from cyber threats. Wh…

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Hidden Dangers for Kids Online: Why Online Safety Is Now a Parenting Skill 25:21

2M ago25:21

25:21

In this powerful episode of The Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with cybersecurity advisor and mental health advocate Kelvin Green for a timely conversation in honor of Children’s Mental Health Week. Kelvin, a Navy veteran and co-founder of CyberSec & I, opens up about his own journey growing up with undiagnosed special n…

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World Password Day Special: 7 Expert Password Tips You Need to Know NOW 15:04

2M ago15:04

15:04

Cybercriminals are working 24/7 to steal your money, identity, and access to your life. In this special episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King shares 7 expert-backed tips that could protect everything you care about. Jocelyn gathered real-world strategies from top cybersecurity experts who fight online crime daily. Whether …

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Cybersecurity Meets Personal Finance: Secrets to Debt-Free Living & Safer Online Banking 29:55

2M ago29:55

29:55

💸 What if one phone call cost you $4,000… and you didn’t even know it was a scam? In this eye-opening episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with the brilliant Dr. Frances Rahaim, aka The Money Doctor, to reveal how emotions, fear, and inaction can leave your finances wide open to scammers—and what you can do to s…

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IRS Scams Are Exploding: How to Stay Safe This Tax Season! 20:51

2M ago20:51

20:51

In this special episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King tackles one of the most alarming cybercrime trends today: IRS scams. With over 32,000 fraudulent tax returns and $272 million in fake refunds identified this year alone, Americans are facing an epidemic of phishing calls, fake agents, and identity theft. You’ll hear sho…

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Jim Balsillie: ‘Canada’s Problem Isn’t Trump. Canada’s Problem Is Canada’ 1:09:02

2M ago1:09:02

1:09:02

In the chaotic early months of his second term, Donald Trump has attacked the Canadian economy and mused about turning Canada into the “51st state.” Now, after decades of close allyship with the U.S., our relationship with America has suddenly become fraught. Which means that Canadians are now starting to ask what a more sovereign Canada might look…

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Bonus ‘The Paul Wells Show’: Election Week 4 - It's a Jungle Online 51:03

2M ago51:03

51:03

We have a really exciting episode coming out on Tuesday: an interview with former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie about the fight for Canada’s economic sovereignty. In the meantime, we wanted to share a conversation between Taylor and political journalist Paul Wells. Every week, Paul sits down with the people trying to solve the biggest problems in Canada…

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Check Fraud EXPOSED: How Criminals Wash Checks & Steal Your Money! 50:58

3M ago50:58

50:58

Check fraud is a growing problem, and scammers are getting more sophisticated with their tactics. In this eye-opening episode of the Smarter Online Safety podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with two renowned experts to uncover the shocking truth about check washing and fraud—and, most importantly, how you can protect yourself. 💡 Meet Our Expert G…

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Are You Being Watched? Is Your Phone Spying on You? Here’s How to Stop It! 42:15

3M ago42:15

42:15

In this eye-opening episode of Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with cybersecurity expert and ethical hacker Dan Tentler to expose the shocking reality of online surveillance, hacking, and data privacy risks. 🚨 What you’ll learn in this episode: ✅ How hackers and advertisers track your every move ✅ Why your phone, apps, an…

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The Changing Face of Election Interference 38:56

3M ago38:56

38:56

We’re a few weeks into a federal election that is currently too close to call. And while most Canadians are wondering who our next Prime Minister will be, my guests today are preoccupied with a different question: will this election be free and fair? In her recent report on foreign interference, Justice Marie-Josée Hogue wrote that “information man…

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How Do You Report the News in a Post-Truth World? 37:03

3M ago37:03

37:03

If you’re having a conversation about the state of journalism, it’s bound to get a little depressing. Since 2008, more than 250 local news outlets have closed down in Canada. The U.S. has lost a third of the newspapers they had in 2005. But this is about more than a failing business model. Only 31 percent of Americans say they trust the media. In C…

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Hacking, Cybercrime & AI: Elliot Lewis Reveals the Dark Web’s Secrets 42:46

3M ago42:46

42:46

In this episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with Elliot Lewis, CEO of MOVIA Robotics and cybersecurity veteran with experience at Microsoft, Dell, and Wall Street. With a background in hacking, government service, and corporate security, Elliot shares insider insights into the world of cybercrime, the dangers o…

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Inside the Hacker’s Mind: How Cybercriminals Exploit You 27:03

3M ago27:03

27:03

In this eye-opening episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with one of the world’s leading experts in social engineering and cybersecurity, Chris Hadnagy. Chris, the author of Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, reveals how cybercriminals manipulate human psychology to breach security systems—often witho…

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Your Money Can Disappear in Seconds: A Real-Life Cybercrime Story 45:04

3M ago45:04

45:04

Your money could disappear in seconds—and you might not even realize it until it’s too late. In this eye-opening episode of Smarter Online Safety, host Jocelyn King sits down with tech leader Shawn Turnbull to uncover how a single distracted moment led to a $75,000 payroll scam. Learn how cybercriminals exploit everyday habits, the warning signs yo…

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A Chinese Company Upended OpenAI. We May Be Looking at the Story All Wrong. 40:03

4M ago40:03

40:03

When the American company OpenAI released ChatGPT, it was the first time that a lot of people had ever interacted with Generative AI. ChatGPT has become so popular that, for many, it’s now synonymous with artificial intelligence. But that may be changing. Earlier this year a Chinese startup called DeepSeek launched its own AI chatbot, sending shock…

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Cybersecurity Made Simple - Expert Tips for Everyone 28:10

4M ago28:10

28:10

In this must-watch episode of the Smarter Online Safety Podcast, host Jocelyn King sits down with cybersecurity expert Todd Mitchell to discuss the critical steps every small business owner must take to protect customer information. 💡 Key Topics Covered: ✅ Why Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a must for everything ✅ How to spot phishing attacks…

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Your Money Can Disappear in Seconds: A Real-Life Cybercrime Story 44:51

4M ago44:51

44:51

Your money could disappear in seconds—and you might not even realize it until it’s too late. In this eye-opening episode of Smarter Online Safety, host Jocelyn King sits down with tech leader Sean Turnbull to uncover how a single distracted moment led to a $75,000 payroll scam. Learn how cybercriminals exploit everyday habits, the warning signs you…

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Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back. 30:19

4M ago30:19

30:19

Do I have your attention right now? I’m guessing probably not. Or, at least, not all of it. In all likelihood, you’re listening to this on your morning commute, or while you wash the dishes or check your e-mail. We are living in a world of perpetual distraction. There are more things to read, watch and listen to than ever before – but our brains, i…

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New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think 36:19

5M ago36:19

36:19

It’s become pretty easy to spot phishing scams: UPS orders you never made, banking alerts from companies you don’t bank with, phone calls from unfamiliar area codes. But over the past decade, these scams – and the technology behind them – have become more sophisticated, invasive and sinister, largely due to the rise of something called ‘mercenary s…

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81% of Data Breaches Happen This Way—Are You at Risk? 16:54

5M ago16:54

16:54

Did you know that 81% of data breaches happen due to weak or reused passwords? 😱 Hackers are constantly looking for easy ways to steal your personal data—but you don’t have to be their next victim! In this episode of Smarter Online Safety, host Jocelyn King—The Queen of Online Security—dives into the critical importance of strong passwords and digi…

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A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI 49:49

5M ago49:49

49:49

We’ve spent a lot of time on this show talking about AI: how it’s changing war, how your doctor might be using it, and whether or not chatbots are curing, or exacerbating, loneliness. But what we haven’t done on this show is try to explain how AI actually works. So this seemed like as good a time as any to ask our listeners if they had any burning …

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Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them 1:22

5M ago1:22

1:22

We spend a lot of time talking about AI on this show: how we should govern it, the ideologies of the people making it, and the ways it's reshaping our lives. But before we barrel into a year where I think AI will be everywhere, we thought this might be a good moment to step back and ask an important question: what exactly is AI? On our next episode…

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This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death 48:35

5M ago48:35

48:35

In February, 2024, Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son Sewell took his own life. As she tried to make sense of what happened, Megan discovered that Sewell had fallen in love with a chatbot on Character.AI – an app where you can talk to chatbots designed to sound like historical figures or fictional characters. Now Megan is suing Character.AI, alleging t…

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Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak 26:47

6M ago26:47

26:47

In July, there was a recall on two brands of plant-based milks, Silk and Great Value, after a listeria outbreak that led to at least 20 illnesses and three deaths. Public health officials determined the same strain of listeria had been making people sick for almost a year. When Globe reporters began looking into what happened, they found a surprisi…

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AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing? 35:34

6M ago35:34

35:34

The board game Go has more possible board configurations than there are atoms in the universe. Because of that seemingly infinite complexity, developing software that could master Go has long been a goal of the AI community. In 2016, researchers at Google’s DeepMind appeared to meet the challenge. Their Go-playing AI defeated one of the best Go pla…

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How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination 45:39

7M ago45:39

45:39

The past few months have seen a series of bold proclamations from the most powerful people in tech. In September, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta had developed “the most advanced glasses the world had ever seen.” That same day, Open AI CEO Sam Altman predicted we could have artificial super intelligence within a couple of years. Elon Musk has s…

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Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI 34:44

7M ago34:44

34:44

Margrethe Vestager has spent the past decade standing up to Silicon Valley. As the EU’s Competition Commissioner, she’s waged landmark legal battles against tech giants like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. Her two latest wins will cost Apple and Google billions of dollars. With her decade-long tenure as one of the world’s most powerful anti-trust watch…

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Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online 34:41

8M ago34:41

34:41

We’re off this week, so we’re bringing you an episode from our Globe and Mail sister show Lately. That creeping feeling that everything online is getting worse has a name: “enshittification,” a term for the slow degradation of our experience on digital platforms. The enshittification cycle is why you now have to wade through slop to find anything u…

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Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election 32:55

8M ago32:55

32:55

The tech lobby has quietly turned Silicon Valley into the most powerful political operation in America. Pro crypto donors are now responsible for almost half of all corporate donations this election. Elon Musk has gone from an occasional online troll to, as one of our guests calls him, “MAGA’s Minister of Propaganda.” And for the first time, the on…

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Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future 38:32

9M ago38:32

38:32

What kind of future are we building for ourselves? In some ways, that’s the central question of this show. It’s also a central question of speculative fiction. And one that few people have tried to answer as thoughtfully – and as poetically – as Emily St. John Mandel. Mandel is one of Canada’s great writers. She’s the author of six award winning no…

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Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway. 41:49

9M ago41:49

41:49

A couple of weeks ago, I was at this splashy AI conference in Montreal called All In. It was – how should I say this – a bit over the top. There were smoke machines, thumping dance music, food trucks. It was a far cry from the quiet research labs where AI was developed. While I remain skeptical of the promise of artificial intelligence, this confer…

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There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It. 43:35

10M ago43:35

43:35

In 2015, 195 countries gathered in Paris to discuss how to address the climate crisis. Although there was plenty they couldn’t agree on, there was one point of near-absolute consensus: if the planet becomes 2°C hotter than it was before industrialization, the effects will be catastrophic. Despite that consensus, we have continued barrelling toward …

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Gaza is a Window into the Future of War 41:04

10M ago41:04

41:04

For nearly a year now, the world has been transfixed – and horrified – by what’s happening in the Gaza Strip. Yet for all the media coverage, there seems to be far less known about how this war is actually being fought. And the how of this conflict, and its enormous human toll, might end up being its most enduring legacy. In April, the Israeli maga…

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Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech 42:17

11M ago42:17

42:17

Things do not look good for journalism right now. This year, Bell Media, VICE, and the CBC all announced significant layoffs. In the US, there were cuts at the Washington Post, the LA Times, Vox and NPR – to name just a few. A recent study from Northwestern University found that an average of two and a half American newspapers closed down every sin…

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How to Hack Democracy 36:56

11M ago36:56

36:56

Last year, the venture capitalist Marc Andreesen published a document he called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” In it, he argued that “everything good is downstream of growth,” government regulation is bad, and that the only way to achieve real progress is through technology. Of course, Silicon Valley has always been driven by libertarian sensibil…

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How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now) 38:54

12M ago38:54

38:54

If you listened to our last couple of episodes, you’ll have heard some pretty skeptical takes on AI. But if you look at the stock market right now, you won’t see any trace of that skepticism. Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the chip company NVIDIA, whose chips are used in the majority of AI systems, has seen their stock shoot up by 700%. …

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Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI 44:51

12M ago44:51

44:51

Douglas Rushkoff has spent the last thirty years studying how digital technologies have shaped our world. The renowned media theorist is the author of twenty books, the host of the Team Human podcast, and a professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at City University of New York. But when I sat down with him, he didn’t seem all that excited t…

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The Real World Cost of AI 47:17

1y ago47:17

47:17

It seems like the loudest voices in AI often fall into one of two groups. There are the boomers – the techno-optimists – who think that AI is going to bring us into an era of untold prosperity. And then there are the doomers, who think there’s a good chance AI is going to lead to the end of humanity as we know it. While these two camps are, in many…

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Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care? 34:10

1y ago34:10

34:10

Think about the last time you felt let down by the health care system. You probably don’t have to go back far. In wealthy countries around the world, medical systems that were once robust are now crumbling. Doctors and nurses, tasked with an ever expanding range of responsibilities, are busier than ever, which means they have less and less time for…

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The Battle for Your Brain 39:36

1y ago39:36

39:36

Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink successfully installed one of their brain implants in a 29 year old quadriplegic man named Noland Arbaugh. The device changed Arbaugh’s life. He no longer needs a mouth stylus to control his computer or play video games. Instead, he can use his mind. The brain-computer interface that Arbaugh uses is …

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Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness? 34:39

1y ago34:39

34:39

When Eugenia Kuyda saw Her for the first time – the 2013 film about a man who falls in love with his virtual assistant – it didn’t read as science fiction. That’s because she was developing a remarkably similar technology: an AI chatbot that could function as a close friend, or even a romantic partner. That idea would eventually become the basis fo…

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Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse. 44:42

1y ago44:42

44:42

In the last few years, artificial intelligence has gone from a novelty to perhaps the most influential technology we’ve ever seen. The people building AI are convinced that it will eradicate disease, turbocharge productivity, and solve climate change. It feels like we’re on the cusp of a profound societal transformation. And yet, I can’t shake the …

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Introducing Machines Like Us 2:37

1y ago2:37

2:37

We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter.Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with someone shaping this rapidly approaching future. The…

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Money Monday with Jackie Robinson | Why do banks deactivate debit cards while traveling? 7:13

2+ y ago7:13

7:13

Money Monday - December 5, 2022 | Why do banks deactivate debit cards while traveling? If you have ever traveled out of state or internationally, you know that having access to your money is critically important. The last thing you don’t want to happen is not being able to check into your hotel! Even though you booked your hotel reservation online,…

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Trip of Change Podcast the Jackie Robinson Show | S4 E23 | with Cameron Cowen in Seattle 1:02:59

3y ago1:02:59

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We welcome Cameron Cowan to Trip of Change Podcast | The Jackie Robinson Show ABOUT CAMERON COWAN: “Writer, thinker, and human being in Seattle. People look to Cameron for insights on politics, business, and our world.” My name is Cameron Cowan and I’m best known for my popular news site: The Cameron Journal and its matching podcast. I talk about b…

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