Another photo sharing app bites the dust? Or is something with promise getting another chance? Either way you look at it, betaworks is adding more technology and team members to its arsenal, as photo sharing app Piictu has announced that the team will "join forces" with a betaworks company that has yet to launch.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/KFePlvOPsuw/
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QANTAS is underpaying flight staff and importing human rights violations, the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) says.
Shouting slogans that included "What's outrageous? Unsafe wages" and "Human rights on every flight", about 60 TWU members converged on Darwin International Airport on Wednesday.
The union is holding its annual council meeting in Darwin this week and the treatment of Qantas staff has been discussed.
TWU national secretary Tony Sheldon said Thai flight attendants were working on Qantas flights in Australia and only getting paid $246 per month.
"If you fly into our airspace in this country then you should have our rights," Mr Sheldon said.
He also said a partnership between Qantas and Emirates was concerning because of human rights issues in the Middle East.
"No one in this country should turn around and say that planes should be flying into our airspace and not having the same human rights that we enjoy in this country," Mr Sheldon said.
"We see Middle East carriers come in here and say that if you are a woman and pregnant, you get sacked," he told the rally.
The unionists at the airport walked through part of the facility while shaking placards and chanting.
Qantas was contacted for comment but could not immediately respond to the TWU claims.
A Qantas spokesman later said Mr Sheldon's comments about flight staff were "baseless and inaccurate".
"Jetstar cabin crew are paid at rates of pay based on where they live and work," the spokesman said.
He said Jetstar employees based in Australia were paid Australian rates, while those in Japan, Thailand or Singapore were paid on local terms and conditions.
The union has claimed Thai workers of Jetstar have been paid their home rates for several days after they arrive in Australia while they work on domestic flights.
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In addition to demoing its Digital Paper collaboration with Sony here at SID, E Ink is showing off some new tech that's consumer-oriented in a very different way. Its solution for ESLs -- electronic shelf labels, obviously -- enables real-time pricing readouts for retailers such as supermarkets. E Ink's Spectra electronic paper display (EPD) is purportedly the world's first to offer three pigments: black, white and, for the demo's purposes, red. That third color can be swapped out for blue or green, but the point is to make the price placards readable -- both for customers and the businesses themselves. While these panels aren't widely adopted stateside, similar tech already has a firm footing in Europe. It's certainly more efficient to update the same screens with new info rather than swapping in new paper signs every time the price of milk fluctuates -- and it looks a lot cooler, too. Spectra will become available sometime in Q3 of this year.
E Ink's new Aurora EPD is a little less exciting for the average consumer, but the company says this tech is another first. Able to withstand super-low temperatures (as cold as -25 C), these screens will be incorporated into wireless shelf tags displaying MSRPs in freezers and especially frigid climates. According to E Ink, Aurora's low-temp film allows pigment to move even in cold environments, something we couldn't exactly put to the test on the SID show floor. Still, the company seems confident in its product; it will be shipping its displays to partners starting in July.
Zach Honig contributed to this report.
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Clueful, the mobile privacy app Apple booted from its App Store for being too revealing -- or possibly because of its own behavior?-- is staging a comeback. This time around, Clueful's maker Bitdefender is targeting Android users instead, with plans to reveal what the apps on your phone are doing, and how your privacy may be compromised in the process.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lXF6SGj25CM/
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In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, actor Mathieu Amalric poses for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Amalric depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender. (AP Photo/David Azia)
In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, actor Mathieu Amalric poses for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Amalric depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender. (AP Photo/David Azia)
In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, actor Mathieu Amalric, right, and director Arnaud Desplechin pose for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Amalric depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender. (AP Photo/David Azia)
In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, actor Mathieu Amalric poses for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Amalric depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender. (AP Photo/David Azia)
CANNES, France (AP) ? Playing a Freudian analyst helped Mathieu Amalric overcome his fear and loathing of psychotherapy.
The French actor depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender.
Based on a true case study from the late 1940s, it's the story of two men ? doctor and patient ? who go on difficult journeys into their own minds.
Amalric says he went on a similar trip himself. Before making the movie, psychoanalysis "frightened me so much that I rejected it, because my parental culture that told me maybe psychoanalysis had to do with weakness."
"You are not supposed to show weakness. You are supposed to 'be a man' ... That's what my father would think of psychoanalysis."
What the 47-year-old actor found through the movie was something different ? "a world of adventure: of research, of physical danger and how the body and the mind expand."
Analysts could put that on their calling cards. No wonder Desplechin says the movie is "a manifesto for psychoanalysis," as well "a film about a man who needs to heal his own soul."
Amalric ? most famous internationally as the villain in James Bond adventure "Quantum of Solace" ? plays real-life French analyst Georges Devereux, who moved to the United States in the 1930s. He spent time living with Mojave Indians and helped develop the field of ethnopsychiatry, which studies the ways mental illness is understood in different cultural contexts.
Del Toro is his patient Jimmy Picard, who returned from World War II service in France with a head injury and debilitating psychological symptoms his doctors were unable to diagnose.
One of 20 films competing for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the movie is a trans-Atlantic hybrid ? an American story told by a French writer-director with a cast including Amalric, Puerto Rico-born Del Toro and British actress Gina McKee as Devereux's sophisticated love interest.
Desplechin says he sees it less as a specifically American tale than as a story of displaced people: both Jimmy, living on a Montana reservation, and Devereux, who initially struggled to find support for his ideas in the U.S.
Amalric, one of France's busiest actors, is such a Cannes darling he once appeared in three competition films in the same year. This year he's in two ? "Jimmy P." and Roman Polanski's "Venus in Fur."
He says he enjoyed his time as a fish out of water filming in the U.S. "Jimmy P." was shot in Monroe, Michigan, a place Amalric remembers with a shudder of Gallic horror: "There was nothing there. Nothing."
"It was very intense, and the situation of the shooting itself made it even stronger, the fact that we would live all together in a hotel where there was nothing to do," he said during an interview on a Cannes rooftop terrace that would be idyllic if not for a bitter wind off the Mediterranean. "It was very close to the situation they were living in the middle of nothing."
The actor and Del Toro share a strong onscreen bond in the talk-heavy film. For long stretches the movie is an intense two-hander, with the slight Amalric and the beefy Del Toro making a compelling double act. Del Toro plays Jimmy with stoic understatement, while Amalric's Devereux is a piano-playing bundle of energy.
Amalric said he was initially surprised by Del Toro's working method. The actor didn't like to socialize off the set, or to rehearse ? a technique Amalric now says turned out to be invaluable.
"During psychoanalysis, the words surprise you," he said. "You don't know why these words are coming out. But an actor is supposed to know his lines by heart, so you have this paradox.
"I didn't understand it," he said. "I understood it yesterday after seeing the film."
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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
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