Apple News: Apple Stores will soon run on 100% renewable energy
Hearing an Apple executive talk about their work in a relaxed setting is pretty unusual stuff, but that’s what happened earlier this week when Lisa Jackson, Apple’s VP of Environmental Initiatives, spoke as part of Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference. The 16-minute conversation, with Fortune Senior Editor (and former Apple author) Adam Lashinsky, touches on various topics related to Apple’s desire to go green.
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Technology News: Vimeo rolls out Copyright Match to find and remove illegal videos
Vimeo went many, many years without an automated copyright tool akin to YouTube’s Content ID, but today the free-for-all is over. The video site has launched Copyright Match, a system that it says has been designed to “respect the boundaries of copyright law and the rights of other creators.” In a blog post, Vimeo notes that its website exists to showcase original work and has never been a home for pirated content like TV show rips, movie screeners, and professional sports broadcasts. Copyright Match is intended to help enforce those guidelines as Vimeo keeps growing and offering new features like Vimeo On Demand — which allows viewers to pay creators for their films directly. So it’s easy to see why the company is taking new steps to keep stolen or reproduced content off the site. The system automatically captures an audio “fingerprint” from a portion of your video and looks for a potential copyright match. If it finds one, you’ll get an email alerting you of the problem.
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Programming News: Apple Embraces WebGL
In July 2011, Apple released Safari 5.1 bringing WebGL to OS X users. WebGL advocates the world over rejoiced – except there was a catch. WebGL was disabled by default, hidden behind a flag buried deep within Safari’s preferences panel. The general expectation was that a switch to ‘on by default’ could not be far behind. Almost 3 years on, it seems this view was seriously misjudged. But now, it seems things might be about to change due to some exciting developments. Apple has just published the session schedule for WWDC 2014.
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Photography News: Russian photographer’s ‘Follow Me’ project leads him to Hong Kong
It all started by accident in 2011, when Russian photographer Murad Osmann’s girlfriend, tired of constantly waiting for him as he stopped to take pictures while on vacation in Barcelona, impatiently pulled his hand to get him to move forward. From behind her, he snapped a photo of it and forever immortalised the moment. Today, Osmann’s project Follow Me features photos of his girlfriend Natalia Zakharova leading him by hand through about 100 cities the world over, and it has drawn over a million followers on his account on online photo-sharing service Instagram.
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