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Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’ entourage includes 9 musicians and Yves Saint Laurent

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Daft Punk’s fourth studio cd will be out on May 21st, and thanks to a teaser video revealed at Coachella, we now know that the French electronic group duo be joined by a minimum of nine other artists. According to the teaser, Random Gain access to Memories collaborators include The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, Pet Collective’s Panda Bear, Paul Williams, Giorgio Moroder, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Todd Edwards, Pharrell Williams, and Nile Rodgers. The clip is available in just under 2 mins and gives a prolonged sneak peek of “Get Lucky,” with Pharrell singing lead vocals and Rodgers on guitar– each putting on Daft Punk’s advanced glitter.

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Amazon’s AutoRip now includes vinyl

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Author: Ian Simpson

For about as long as we can remember, each new CD we’ve purchased has made a trip to our computer for a good, old fashioned ripping, first thing out of the plastic. So the concept of offering up free MP3s with the purchase of a compact disc always felt a bit superfluous (particularly in these days when fewer and fewer are buying music in a physical form). The increasingly popular concept of offering up downloads with the purchase of a vinyl LP, on the other hand, makes an awful lot of sense — after all, it’s a lot harder for most of us to transfer that music onto our PCs. Amazon’s embracing the concept by extending its AutoRip promotion to records, giving consumers a 256 Kbps cloud-based copy of the music they buy on vinyl. The promotion extends to thousands of titles — anything sporting the AutoRip logo is fair game, including a number of top sellers like Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers. It’s a nice way of supporting the growing boutique vinyl industry and help keep a bit of focus on the album as self-contained work, rather than the move toward singles we’ve been experiencing as a result of the digital music explosion of the past several years.

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Windows Blue leaks online, includes smaller Live Tiles, new side-by-side Snap Views, and IE 11

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Author: Mark Jeffries

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An early build of Windows Blue, the next version of Windows, has leaked online on the same day that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer celebrates his 57th birthday. Build 9364, a partner version that was originally compiled on March 15th, has been made available on file sharing sites and includes some of the new changes that Microsoft is building into its significant Windows 8 update. Leaked screenshots posted at Winforum show that the company is bringing smaller tile arrangements and even a larger desktop one to its Start Screen, along with greater control over the color personalization options, and a whole lot more.

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Orange’s Europe-bound trio of branded phones includes its first 4G handset

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Author: Melissa Shroeder

At this rate, there will not be anything left to announce when MWC actually opens its doors. Today’s early launcher is Orange Europe, which is introducing a trio of Jelly Bean-running smartphones that are destined for the continent. Initially up, the Lumio is the business’s first 4G smartphone, loading a 4.5-inch display and an 8-megapixel camera. If you like your devices to be on the skinny side, then the 4.7-inch San Remo has an 8.2 mm thick body and similarly geared up imaging sensor. Finally, the budget-focused Nivo offers a 4-inch display and a 5-megapixel camera. Orange has actually currently informed us that it won’t be coming to the UK, however need to arrive in Romania, Slovakia and Spain around the first half of the year– unless somebody’s legal representatives choose that the Lumio name’s a bit too close for comfort.

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Apple includes Breakout Books to the iBookstore to spotlight the self-published

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Author: JohnnyBells

As glad as we are that digital bookstores let authors skip the usual gatekeepers, that doesn’t help much if they can’t get noticed. Apple is giving those self-publishing writers more of a chance to shine with the launch of a permanent Breakout Books section in the US iBookstore. The section highlights hot-selling and well-reviewed independent books, many of them from distributors like Smashwords. Don’t see the placement as a purely altruistic gesture, though: many of the books sell for significantly less than their peers from major publishers, which might help Apple snag a few more impulse purchases than it would otherwise. We doubt there will be many complaints when the category could pad both sides’ wallets.

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Olympus E-P3 Compact System Camera – Black (Includes M.ZUIKO Digital 14 -42mm II R Lens)

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Author: Markus Smith

” LINK TO SEE EVEN MORE DETAILS AT AMAZON UK: www.amazon.co.uk Technical Details Globe’s quickest \* QUICK AF for cameras with interchangeable lenses. (\* as of June 2011) Ingenious touch-sensitive OLED screen for more instinctive shooting and playback 12.3 efficient Megapixel High Rate Live MOS sensor Enhance your creativity with Art Filters, Multi Exposure & Multi-aspect Full HD Motion picture with stereo noise including depth of industry and Art Filters”.
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Apple’s 2013 Supplier Responsibility Report Includes 72% Bump In Audits For 2012, 97% Increase In Training

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Author: Markus Smith

Apple has released its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, and it features a number of updates from last year, including Apple’s decision to join the Fair Labor Association (a notable first), and conduct audits of its suppliers in tandem with that outside watchdog organization. The results seem to be a tightening of Apple’s code of conduct for suppliers all around, in terms of monitoring, penalties and programs to improve conditions.

Apple conducted 72 percent more audits in 2012 than it did in 2011, for example, totaling 393 audits across facilities employing 1.5 million workers. All types of audits increased for the year, including firs-time, repeat, process safety assessments and specialized environmental audits, but the last one took the biggest jumps vs. previous years. In 2012, Apple conducted 55 focused environmental audits, which is a 293 percent increase over the number it ran in 2011. The Mac maker works with outside associations in this area, too, just as it does with the FLA regarding labor, including the Natural Defense Council, the EPA and the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.

The supplier audits also actually resulted in more severe punitive action than usual. Apple has faced criticism in the past for doling out corrective measures that seem rather toothless – most often putting suppliers “on probation,” meaning they’ll be watched more closely for future violations. But one supplier fell afoul of Apple’s measures to protect against underage labor, with 74 cases counted at a single facility. Apple terminated the relationship with that offending party entirely, proving that there are real consequences for companies that ignore its code of conduct and local labor laws.

Apple also came down harder on companies for compliance with working hour regulations, and changed its policies and practices in monitoring them to be more effective. In 2012, Apple started doing real-time work hour tracking on a weekly basis for over 1 million of the employees at its supplier companies, and publishing data on its progress every month. That led to a 92 percent compliance rate with its 60 hour maximum work week, as laid out in the Apple Supplier Code of Conduct, and Apple says overall work weeks averaged less than 50 hours.

Another area of improvement for Apple was in participation in its training and education programs. There were 1.32 million workers trained on local laws, worker rights, health and safety and Apple’s own Code of Conduct during 2012, a 97 percent increase over 2011′s 670,000. Apple also provided more free educational opportunities to workers than ever before, with 201,000 cumulative participants in those programs, up 235 percent from 60,000 in 2011.

Apple’s transparency definitely improved over the course of 2012 when it comes to its efforts around supplier responsibility and maintaining healthy and safe work environments, and that’s something Apple CEO Tim Cook clearly undertook as a conscious effort. That’s not to say that Apple didn’t have its fair share of labor issues during the year (issues around the demanding requirements for building the iPhone 5 come to mind), but especially in the way that Apple has allowed disinterested third parties to come in and aid with its monitoring efforts, 2012 was definitely the most significant year yet in terms of improvements made to its stance on supplier responsibility.

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Canon Debuts “Experience Centre” Physical Showroom In Canada, Includes 500px Collaboration

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Author: Heather Brown

Canon today formally introduced a brand-new campaign consisting of a pilot place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that follows the experience of physical retail projects like Apple Stores and Microsoft ’ s recent brick-and-mortar locations, giving consumers opportunities for hands-on experiences in a space not shared with various other brands. Canon ’ s new “ Image Square ” isn ’ t a shop per se, however it is a display room and finding out center that sounds like it gets a loan a lot from the Apple model. Canon initially piloted the Image Square concept in India last year, and it appears to have succeeded enough to warrant further expansion.

The store that isn ’ t a shop will be found in downtown Calgary, and provides hands-on experiences with Canon products including sculptural exhibitions for testing point-and-shoots, DSLRs, lenses and add-ons all on interesting visual subjects. The concept is to offer a try-before-you-buy experience, however one that actually involves bending those photographic muscles on something besides various other cameras or monotonous electronic devices displays, as you may discover in your typical camera shop or Finest Buy. Personnel on hand could offer recommendations and provide trials, and there ’ s a completely useful picture studio on website with access to pro image software. All acquisitions are still made with Canon ’ s retail partners, nevertheless; this is practically program, not offer.

One of the more intriguing elements associateded with the Image Square is an image gallery curated by 500px, the Toronto-based photo sharing website that ’ s prominent among expert and lover photographers. In the Calgary area, it ’ ll display works from Alberta-based photographers utilizing Canon kit to show exactly what ’ s possible using their gear.

The partnership is considerable for 500px, since it provides it a location of importance with an established user in the photography globe, right together with big gamers like Adobe and others. Canon likewise seems to be keen on rolling even more of these out in time, meanings this can become a great way to get the photo sharing network in front of more energetic and exercising photographers all around the world. And for Canon, it indicates a feasible answer to the question of the best ways to keep customers buying cameras in a globe where the smartphone is taking over much of that market.