<keyword id="1759622" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nickhil-Jakatdar">Nickhil Jakatdar</keyword> is a successful entrepreneur who probably none of us know about while he’s partly responsible for the ease in which we watch the online OTT (over-the-top) content on our smartphones. Jakatdar, based in <keyword id="6357722" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="silicon-valley">Silicon Valley</keyword> is the founder of <keyword id="68823" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vuclip">Vuclip</keyword>, which launched its premium OTT video service, Viu in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, the Middle East and Thailand, recently.<br /><br />

    

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<br /> Nickhil was born and raised in Pune, Maharashtra and went to the U.S. for his PhD at Berkeley. A complete tech- enthusiast Nickhil has over 40 patents from his work at <keyword id="4800961" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="timbre-technologies">Timbre Technologies</keyword> and was responsible for developing an industry standard in the field of Scatterometry. <br /><br /> “Technology is at the core of everything that we do, which helps us to provide the best of content experience to our consumer,” says Nickhil who described how their path-breaking technological solutions are used by leading online content players.<br />

    

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<br /> “In markets like India, our technology is behind "No Buffering" while consumers view mobile video. Dynamic Adaptive Transcoding enables the simultaneous transcoding or optimization of the content to each specific device and dynamically adapts the video stream to the constantly varying bandwidth of carrier and Wi-Fi networks,” explains Jakatdar whose focus in India is now shifting to original content.<br /><br /> Vuclip has been investing heavily in South-east asian markets but in the past year, their focus has been on India. Some of the original series like What the Duck- based on cricket, Gehraiyaan and Spolight co-produced by Bollywood ace director <keyword id="15260" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="vikram-bhatt">Vikram Bhatt</keyword> are targeted at the Indian Millenials. Nickhil has also seen traction from other local languages which led to original series in Telugu like pillA which is a drama focused on the female audience. <br />

    

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<br /> “The local content is responsible for garnering 35% traffic on our platform in India and our focus will remain in creating content for the online audience. We are seeing high levels of engagement with Indian audience because they crave original content at high production value,” Nickhil thinks that the OTT market will belong to the player that not just delivers good content but also understands the indigenous market’s needs. <br />

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<ul><li>Block explicit content with Sensitive <keyword id="15077351" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="content-warning" source="Orion">Content Warning</keyword>.</li><li>Secure your Safari browsing with Private Browsing.</li><li>Automatically clear verification codes with Clean up verification codes.</li></ul>Apple recently unveiled the newest software update for iPhones, introducing a wide array of exciting features and improvements. Today we aim to uncover a selection of the finest <keyword id="17690212" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ios-17-tips" source="Orion">iOS 17 tips</keyword> and tricks that will enhance your iPhone experience to new heights.<br /><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Sensitive Content Warning" comment="subhead" text="Sensitive Content Warning"><span data-til="noop">Sensitive Content Warning</span></cmsannotation><br />Apple has made a laudable effort to improve the child-friendly nature of its devices through the introduction of the Sensitive Content Warning feature. This feature makes it easier to block explicit content with a simple click, recognizing the vast amount of inappropriate material that exists on the internet.<br /><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Private Browsing in Safari" comment="subhead" text="Private Browsing in Safari"><span data-til="noop">Private Browsing in Safari</span></cmsannotation><br /><keyword id="6903543" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ios-17" source="Orion">iOS 17</keyword> allows you to safeguard Safari's Private Browsing mode against unauthorized access. In order to do so, follow the given steps.<br /><ul><li>Navigate to the Settings app and access the Safari settings.</li><li>Scroll through the settings options until you find the "Require Face ID to Unlock Private Browsing" toggle, then switch it on.</li><li>Now, launch Safari on your iPhone and switch to Private mode.</li><li>Tap the Unlock option and verify your identity to enable the use of Private Browsing mode in Safari.</li></ul><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Clean up verification codes automatically" comment="subhead" text="Clean up verification codes automatically"><span data-til="noop">Clean up verification codes automatically</span></cmsannotation><br />Another useful trick offered by iOS 17 is the ability to automatically clear verification codes used for signing up on new apps or websites. With this feature, you can conveniently remove the codes from the Messages and Mail apps once they have been entered using AutoFill.<br /><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Share AirTag" comment="subhead" text="Share AirTag"><span data-til="noop">Share AirTag</span></cmsannotation><br />AirTag has become an essential accessory for Apple users, greatly enhancing their overall experience. And now, its capabilities have taken a significant leap forward. You can now share your AirTag with another user by adding their Apple ID to the device's profile.<br /><ul><li>To begin, open the Find My app on your iPhone.</li><li>Next, access the Items menu and select the active AirTag you want to share.</li><li>Scroll down until you find the "Share This AirTag" option, then tap on "Add Person."</li><li>When prompted, tap "Continue."</li><li>Enter the Apple ID of the person you wish to share the AirTag with, or select their contact information if it's already saved.</li><li>To add multiple users, simply tap the (+) icon.</li><li>Once you're ready, press "Send" to complete the process.</li></ul><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Turn photos into stickers" comment="subhead" text="Turn photos into stickers"><span data-til="noop">Turn photos into stickers</span></cmsannotation><br />One of the most imaginative features introduced in iOS 17 is the ability to transform your photos into stickers. Here’s how you can do it-<br /><ul><li>To get started, open a conversation in the Messages app on your iPhone.</li><li>Tap the Plus (+) button located on the left side of the text box, then select "Stickers."</li><li>Next, tap the Plus (+) option under the "Stickers" tab.</li><li>Choose the desired photo that you want to convert into a Live Sticker, and then tap "Add Sticker" to add it to your Stickers tab.</li><li>If you prefer a non-animated version of the sticker, tap the "Live" option located at the top left.</li><li>Once you have finished creating your Live Stickers, you can access them from the Stickers menu by tapping the Plus (+) button in Messages. Use them to send to your contacts.</li><li>To add effects to your Live Stickers, long-press on the sticker you want to modify and select "Add Effect" from the mini pop-up.</li><li>Choose the desired effect and tap "Done" to save it.</li></ul><cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Create a Personal Voice" comment="subhead" text="Create a Personal Voice"><span data-til="noop">Create a Personal Voice</span></cmsannotation><br />This technology harnesses the power of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to meticulously analyze the user's speech patterns, pitch, and tone. The result is a distinctive timbre that remarkably replicates their natural voice. Here’s how you can do it-<br /><ul><li>To begin, go to your iPhone's Settings, then navigate to Accessibility.</li><li>Scroll down until you find "Personal Voice" and select it.</li><li>Tap on "Create Personal Voice."</li><li>When prompted, tap "Continue" twice.</li><li>Now, give your voice a name and tap "Continue."</li><li>Tap the Record icon and begin narrating the phrases as they appear.</li><li>Wait for the recording to finish or tap the Stop icon to manually end it.</li><li>Tap "Listen" to hear your recorded audio.</li><li>If the background noise is too loud, you'll receive a notification. You can either find a quiet location and tap "Check Again" or tap "Continue" to proceed with recording.</li><li>After completing the sound check, you'll need to engage in a 15-minute voice-over session, narrating the lines as they appear.</li><li>Tap "Preview" to listen to how each line sounds.</li><li>When ready, tap "Record" to begin recording.</li><li>As you progress, you'll see a prompt indicating "Moving to the next phrase."</li><li>If you wish to re-record a specific phrase, tap "Replay."</li><li>If you want to record the remaining phrases at a later time, tap "Done." Don't worry, you'll be able to continue recording from where you left off.</li><li>Once you've finished recording, tap "Continue."</li><li>You'll be prompted to allow notification access. Tap "Allow" and then tap "Done."</li></ul>

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By Gunjan Sharma <p>New Delhi, Apr 16 () A university in Rome is conducting a pilot run for a patented artificial-intelligence based tool developed by three biotechnology students and a professor from Mumbai, which they claim can test COVID-19 through voice-based diagnosis using a smartphone.</p><p> The tool is being tested by University of Tor Vergata in Rome and has already been tested on 300 individuals, and has yielded 98 per cent accurate results.</p><p>According to the team from DY Patil Institute of Bio Technology and Bio Informatics, Mumbai, the tool is based on a voice-based diagnosis through an app.</p><p> The team includes bioinformatics students--Rashmi Chakraborty, Priyanka Chauhan and Priya Garg.</p><p>"While several foreign universities are trying to launch a Voice-Based AI tool for COVID-19 detection, this Indian tool is fully functional and currently in use in Italy to successfully identify COVID-19 patients. The students have a full-fledged working software with a rich database of patients and healthy samples. This tool is being currently used by the University of Rome to detect COVID patients with 98 per cent accuracy," professor Santosh Bothe, who supervised the project, told .</p><p> "As someone speaks to the microphone on the app, the tool breaks down the voice in multiple parameters such as frequency and noise distortion. These values are then compared to a normal person's values and the patented technique then determines if the patient is positive or not," he added.</p><p> A team at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is also working on a diagnostic tool based on analysis of cough and respiratory sounds.</p><p>According to Giovanni Saggio, Professor at the Rome university's Engineering department, the audio-based disease diagnosis tool can find coronavirus from timbre of the voice. </p><p> "Each human voice has 6300 parameters, and only a few units, less than a dozen, specifically characterize individuals. The human ear, apart from colds, is not able to distinguish them, but artificial intelligence does. Each one of our internal organs is sort of a resonator, so if we have a problem with our lungs or our heart, this is reflected in our voice," Saggio told .</p><p> "The same person has one voice when they are healthy, and another if they have a pathology. Since the coronavirus compromises lungs and airwaves, the voice is definitely affected. The current novel coronavirus cases could be picked this way," he added.</p><p> Student researcher, Priya Garg believes this tool can be of great impact in doing the first level of screening to identify positives and only those who tested positive can go for the lab tests. </p><p>"This can reduce the current bottleneck on the medical infrastructure, help the government to identify hot spot regions in advance through location tracking integration and is possibly the best way to reach out to the remotest part of India by testing through a smartphone.</p><p>"When the country's medical infrastructure and the whole medical community is under immense pressure, this might be a great solution to reach patients remotely, without the risk of exposure, both to the patient and the lab personnel. While we don't propose the tool to replace current testing methods, the simplicity of this test can be used to screen and identify the COVID-19 positive cases at a very early stage of inception and hence contain the spread further," she added.</p><p>COVID-19 has killed at least 1,31,319 people around the world, with Europe accounting for more than two-thirds of the deaths. Europe has reported 88,716 deaths, while the United States has the single highest toll at 26,950. The US is followed by Italy with 21,645 deaths, Spain with 18,579 and France with 17,167. </p> In India, the death toll due to coronavirus rose to 414 and the number of cases to 12,380 on Thursday.  GJS  GJS DVDV

Rome varsity conducting pilot run of tool to test COVID-19 through voice-based diagnosis

By Gunjan Sharma(Eds: Updating with additional inputs) <p>New Delhi, Apr 16 () A university in Rome is conducting a pilot run for a patented artificial intelligence-based tool developed by three biotechnology students and a professor from Mumbai, which they claim can test COVID-19 through voice-based diagnosis using a smartphone.</p><p> The tool is being tested by the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and has already been tested on 300 individuals, and has yielded 98 per cent accurate results.</p><p> According to the students and the professor from DY Patil Institute of Bio Technology and Bio Informatics, Mumbai, the tool is based on a voice-based diagnosis through an app.</p><p> The team includes bioinformatics students -- Rashmi Chakraborty, Priyanka Chauhan and Priya Garg.</p><p> "While several foreign universities are trying to launch a voice-based AI tool for COVID-19 detection, this Indian tool is fully functional and currently in use in Italy to successfully identify COVID-19 patients. The students have a full-fledged working software with a rich database of patients and healthy samples. This tool is being currently used by the University of Rome to detect COVID-19 patients with 98 per cent accuracy," professor Santosh Bothe, who supervised the project, told .</p><p> "As someone speaks to the microphone on the app, the tool breaks down the voice in multiple parameters such as frequency and noise distortion. These values are then compared to a normal person's values and the patented technique then determines if the patient is positive or not," he added.</p><p> A team at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is also working on a diagnostic tool based on analysis of cough and respiratory sounds.</p><p> According to Giovanni Saggio, professor at the Rome university's Engineering department, the audio-based disease diagnosis tool can find coronavirus from the timbre of the voice.</p><p> "Each human voice has 6,300 parameters, and only a few units, less than a dozen, specifically characterize individuals. The human ear, apart from colds, is not able to distinguish them, but artificial intelligence does. Each one of our internal organs is sort of a resonator, so if we have a problem with our lungs or our heart, this is reflected in our voice," Saggio told .</p><p> "The same person has one voice when they are healthy, and another if they have a pathology. Since coronavirus compromises lungs and airwaves, the voice is definitely affected. The current novel coronavirus cases could be picked this way," he added.</p><p> Student researcher Priya Garg believes this tool can be of great impact in doing the first level of screening to identify positives and only those who tested positive can go for the lab tests.</p><p> "This can reduce the current bottleneck on the medical infrastructure, help the government to identify hot spot regions in advance through location tracking integration and is possibly the best way to reach out to the remotest part of India by testing through a smartphone," she said.</p><p> "When the country's medical infrastructure and the whole medical community is under immense pressure, this might be a great solution to reach patients remotely, without the risk of exposure, both to the patient and the lab personnel. While we don't propose the tool to replace current testing methods, the simplicity of this test can be used to screen and identify the COVID-19 positive cases at a very early stage of inception and hence contain the spread further," Garg added.</p><p> Her co-developer Rashmi Chakraborty said, "This voice-based diagnosis will fetch zero cost testing to the patient and no wait time. Diagnosis of COVID-19 positive patients can be done in minutes and medical advice on the next steps can be sought through a video or audio call to the listed doctors."</p><p> COVID-19 has killed at least 1,31,319 people around the world, with Europe accounting for more than two-thirds of the deaths. Europe has reported 88,716 deaths, while the United States has the single highest toll at 26,950. The US is followed by Italy with 21,645 deaths, Spain with 18,579 and France with 17,167.</p> In India, the death toll due to coronavirus rose to 414 and the number of cases reached 12,380 on Thursday.  GJS  GJS SNESNESNE

Mumbai students develop AI-based voice tool to detect COVID-19, Rome university conducting pilot run

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5606c814dd089593038b470b-1659-830/bowie-2.png" alt="bowie 2" data-mce-source="Youtube"><p class="source"><span>Youtube</span></p><p class="caption">"Space Oddity."</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>North America woke up to the tragic news that David Bowie has&#xa0;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/david-bowie-dies-2016-1">died</a>&#xa0;at the age of 69.</p><p>It was just days after his birthday and the Friday release of &#xa0;"Blackstar," a jazzy new album that <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21332-blackstar/">sounds just as weird and futuristic</a> as anything else the man released in his nearly 50 years of putting out surreal music. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12092542/Bowies-last-album-was-parting-gift-for-fans-in-carefully-planned-finale.html">He knew that he was dying</a>, and made the album as a goodbye to his fans.&#xa0;</p><p>All the way to the end, Bowie was taking the square right angles of pop convention and twisting them into gorgeous, unknown geometries.</p><p>Born in 1947, Bowie was bending genders and aestheticizing technology before Steve Jobs <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-lsd-meditation-zen-quest-2015-1">took his first hit of acid</a>.</p><p>His explorations into gender, relationships, and technology seem like love letters sent to 2016 from deep in our past - or maybe the future.&#xa0;</p><h2>What is gender, anyway?</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5606c814dd089593038b470c-1920-960/screen%20shot%202015-09-25%20at%206.16.18%20pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2015 09 25 at 6.16.18 PM" data-mce-source="Youtube"><p class="source"><span>Youtube</span></p><p class="caption">Bowie as Aladdin Sane. Yes, that's a kimono.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/06/caitlyn-jenner-bruce-cover-annie-leibovitz">Caitlyn Jenner</a>,&#xa0;<a href="https://twitter.com/Lavernecox?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Laverne Cox</a>. "Transparent" <a href="http://www.emmys.com/shows/transparent">getting nominated</a> for 11 Emmy awards and <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/amazon-is-slashing-the-price-of-prime-2015-9">winning five of them</a>.</p><p>Since 2014, which&#xa0;Time magazine declared&#xa0;<a href="http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/">the transgender tipping point</a>, trans- has been a part of our cultural conversation.</p><p>But the first pop icon to cause "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Trouble-Feminism-Subversion-Routledge/dp/0415389550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452525939&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=gender+trouble">gender trouble</a>," to borrow from philosopher Judith Butler, was David Bowie.</p><p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>David Bowie as Tilda Swinton. Tilda Swinton as David Bowie. <a href="https://t.co/EhQUXio5y8">pic.twitter.com/EhQUXio5y8</a></p>- Eric Alper  (@ThatEricAlper) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/686500069185568768">January 11, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p>A human (and sometimes alien) of endless personas, Bowie's alter-egos tended to be&#xa0;neither (or perhaps both) masculine and feminine, like Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and&#xa0;Thin White Duke. Bowie played with our conceptions of gender&#xa0;- whether by dressing up in <a href="http://www.newsgarden.org/images/bowie/cape.jpg">kimono</a> or <a href="https://sophmoet.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/600full-david-bowie.jpg?w=620">leotard</a> -&#xa0;and <a href="http://36.media.tumblr.com/a0467eb3e6375f56aa262c85e4271165/tumblr_mnvofxLFyS1qfjd2po4_500.png">inspired his fans to do the same</a>.</p><p>"Bowie's mutating personas do not simply emerge from a constant need for transformation," <a href="https://theconversation.com/bowie-and-gender-transgression-what-a-drag-44569">writes&#xa0;critic Lisa Perrott for The Conversation.</a>&#xa0;"They are created as part of a complex process of performativity, in which Bowie mimics and re-animates the gestural traits of performers such as Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra."&#xa0;</p><p>A full 40 years ago, Bowie was generating&#xa0;questions about gender that the world&#xa0;is only now starting to answer.&#xa0;</p><h2>Squad goals.&#xa0;</h2><p>While artists have been collaborating since before&#xa0;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/04/vincent-van-gogh-ear">Vincent Van Gogh got his ear cut off by fellow impressionist Paul Gaugain</a>, we've recently seen&#xa0;the formation of #squadgoals&#xa0;<span>-</span>&#xa0;specifically Taylor Swift's carefully curated crew of <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/g4829/taylor-swift-squad-goals/?slide=4">Lorde, the Haim sisters</a>, <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lena-dunham-no-woman-should-have-to-stand-next-to-supermodels-2015167">Lena Dunham</a>, and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swifts-inseperable-power-posse-models-actresses-2015-7">roughly 200 super models</a>.</p><p>But Swift, <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/how-taylor-swift-made-me-a-better-writer-2015-8">genius that she is</a>, still hasn't come close to Bowie, squad-wise.</p><p>As in:&#xa0;</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">  When Bowie was (maybe) trying to get off drugs, he holed up in Berlin with punk rock genius Iggy Pop.&#xa0;</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">  Bowie created one of&#xa0;the greatest rock duets of all time with&#xa0;"Under Pressure," his collaboration with Freddie Mercury and Queen.&#xa0;</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">  Bowie worked closely with the inventor of American indie rock, Lou Reed, for years. He co-produced&#xa0;"Transformer," perhaps Reed's greatest commercial success.&#xa0;</p><p>In short, Bowie was one of the&#xa0;original crew curators.</p><p><div><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Gpn8MANhdLU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#xa0;</p><h2>You are your phone.</h2><p>We're only getting more tethered to our phones, as&#xa0;reports indicate that we spend around&#xa0;<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-11-19/we-now-spend-more-time-staring-at-phones-than-tvs">3 hours a day on smartphones</a>. Online dating has lost its stigma, <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/20/5-facts-about-online-dating/">Pew Research indicates</a>, with fewer people <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/20/5-facts-about-online-dating/">thinking that it's a sign of desperation</a>. And after talking with <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/what-its-like-to-be-a-cyborg-2015-9">a real life cyborg</a>, <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/neil-harbisson-is-our-cyborg-future-2015-9">we're increasingly convinced that we're all going to get electronic implants sometime soon</a>.&#xa0;</p><p>What prophet foretold and decoded these things?&#xa0;</p><p>Mr. Bowie, naturally.&#xa0;</p><p>He even had an "<a href="http://www.techinsider.io/the-truth-about-the-ipad-pro-2015-9">iPad Pro</a>" in the video for "Ashes to Ashes": &#xa0;</p><p><div><iframe src="//giphy.com/embed/l41lNWlYH9FFxYMLe" width="800" height="536" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></p><p>As one critic <a href="https://rockhall.com/inductees/david-bowie/bio/#sthash.qZngXjuv.dpuf">observed</a>, Bowie has always treated human feeling as technology and technology as feeling.&#xa0;</p><p>In the 2003 essay <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3877579?&amp;seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents">"Space Oddities: Aliens, Futurism and Meaning in Popular Music,"</a>&#xa0;University of Toronto music historian&#xa0;Ken McLeod uses the breakthrough "Space Oddity" as a case study in how Bowie reflected the relationship we have with technology:&#xa0;</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Bowie uses a series of atonal and rhythmically&#xa0;irregular tape effects and electronic&#xa0;squelches in combination with an ethereal&#xa0;string section to represent the defamiliarising experience of space.&#xa0;</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">The combination of avant-garde electronic sounds and instruments juxtaposed with familiar rock timbres [like the strum of acoustic guitar and a military style drum beat] provides a musical analogue for a lyrical content of the song that warns of the dangers of technological nihilism and alienation in an increasingly dehumanized world.&#xa0;</p><p>Though released in 1969, "Space Oddity" nails the feeling of being alive in 2016, as though it were written for today.</p><p>In many ways, it was.</p><p><div><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iYYRH4apXDo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/stay-awake-without-caffeine-2015-8">4 ways to stay awake without caffeine </a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="RmNTg3dzonu2P1u3a24l5B_zTMg7k3zE" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'RmNTg3dzonu2P1u3a24l5B_zTMg7k3zE',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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