O Netflix iniciou o seu suporte para vídeo HDR, fornecendo um visual mais vibrante nas TVs com essa tecnologia.

O HDR (high dynamic range) permite níveis de brilho muito mais altos e um intervalo maior entre luz e escuridão. Como resultado, cenas mais escuras e pontos mais luminosos possuem mais detalhes de cores em comparação com o padrão standard dynamic range.

Por enquanto, a única oferta em HDR do Netflix é a primeira temporada da sua série original Marco Polo, mas a empresa disse ao site FlatPanelsHD que o seu seriado Demolidor também estará disponível em HDR no futuro.

No entanto, ainda não está claro quais outras séries e programas originais do Netflix terão o suporte para HDR, já que o Netflix ainda não afirmou que o formato chegará a todos os seus programas, como fez anteriormente com seu conteúdo em 4K Ultra HD.

De qualquer forma, esse ainda é um segmento novo, já que as TVs HDR começaram a chegar mais forte no mercado em 2016.

O Netflix também possui as suas próprias exigências para a reprodução de conteúdo HDR: é preciso ser assinante do plano 4K, que custa 30 reais por mês no Brasil (e 12 dólares mensais nos EUA). Como já faz com o conteúdo 4K, o Netflix recomenda conexões com velocidades de pelo menos 25 Mbps. Isso é cinco vezes mais rápido do que o que a empresa recomenda para reprodução em 1080p (HD).

Quanto a formatos HDR em particular, a Netflix está oferecendo suporte tanto para o aberto HDR-10 quanto para o proprietário Dolby Vision.

Matthew Keys, a former social media editor, was sentenced today to two years in prison for aiding members of Anonymous so they could hack the Tribune Company.

Keys was convicted last October and faced a possible maximum sentence of 25 years. His conviction drew rounds of condemnation on the web from people who believed that the crime associated with him—the minor defacement of an LA Times headline online—should have been charged as a misdemeanor not a felony.

Keys worked for the Reuters news agency when he was indicted in 2013 for allegedly providing a username and password to members of Anonymous three years earlier to gain access to a server belonging to his former employer, the Tribune Company. In 2010, Keys had parted ways with Fox-40, a TV station owned by the Tribune Company, and allegedly encouraged the hackers to use his credentials to “go fuck some shit up.” Someone subsequently used them to hack into the web site of the Los Angeles Times, also owned by the Tribune Company, and change the headline of a story. During a recorded FBI interview in October 2012, Keys admitted his involvement in the hack. But he has since insisted that he is innocent. In a brief note published online today he wrote, “I am innocent, and I did not ask for this fight. Nonetheless, I hope that our combined efforts help bring about positive change to rules and regulations that govern our online conduct.”

Although the government expended a lot of effort to prosecute Keys, authorities never charged the person who conducted the hack, even though they had a solid lead on a suspect.

UK authorities identified the alleged hacker, who went by the name “Sharpie,” as a 35-year-old living in Scotland and shared this information with the FBI back in 2013, according to FBI documents that were published on the Cryptome web site last July. Although the FBI indicated in one of the documents that UK authorities planned to pursue their own charges against the man, this never happened either. When asked about the lack of follow-up, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s office in Los Angeles told WIRED, “It’s kinda complicated.”

Keys’ attorney, Tor Ekeland, told WIRED last year that he plans to appeal the conviction on the grounds that the government wrongfully and deceptively used irrelevant losses to assess damage to the victim.

Although Keys was charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for causing unauthorized damage to a protected computer, prosecutors calculated losses for unrelated activities that caused no damage to a computer. Ekeland maintains that they did this to inflate the victim’s losses and elevate Keys’ computer crime from a mere misdemeanor to a felony and to increase his sentence. The CFAA requires a minimum of $5,000 in losses to qualify as a felony; and the amount of damages can have a profound effect on a defendant’s sentence.

Those unrelated activities were also not definitively tied to Keys. Authorities accused Keys of sending harassing anonymous emails to his former colleagues after he left his Fox-40 job, as well as sending spam to viewers of the station. Although investigators were never able to prove that Keys sent those emails, prosecutors included this in their assessment of damages—which they said amounted to more than $900,000 based on the hourly wage of employees who spent time responding to the breach of the LA Times site and the employees who had to deal with the emails, password resets, and complaints from station viewers who received spam.

“Typically people think damages has to do with loss of money, but damages have nothing to do with money under the CFAA,” Ekeland told WIRED previously. “Damage under the CFAA is [supposed to be about] simple impairment of the computer system. But there was no impairment [in this regard]—it was just a bunch of emails.”

During the sentencing hearing today the judge curbed the prosecution’s efforts to inflate damages by saying they should be restricted to what prosecutors presented in court, not what they listed in their pre-sentencing report. In the pre-sentencing report, they had indicated damages amounted to about $249,000, but at trial they had only presented findings for about $13,000 in damages.

Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.

As vendas de PCs afundaram no primeiro trimestre deste ano, caindo 11,5% em comparação com o mesmo período de 2015, segundo a consultoria IDC.

Essa queda sombria foi um começo ruim para um ano que a IDC acreditou que marcaria o ponto mais baixo do mercado de PCs nos últimos anos. Mas há apenas um mês a consultoria revisou sua previsão, dizendo que as vendas de computadores em 2016 cairiam apenas 5,4% em relação ao ano passado.

A consultoria rival Gartner, que também liberou seus números nesta semana, registrou uma queda de 9,6% no mercado de PCs nos três primeiros meses deste ano.

A diferença dos números acontece por conta da maneira como as empresas contabilizam as vendas. Ao contrário da IDC, a Gartner contabiliza tablets com teclados descartáveis, a exemplo do Surface Pro, da Microsoft, como computadores pessoais, e costuma registrar números maiores de vendas.

O trimestre ruim pode não ter sido uma surpresa – a IDC, por exemplo, tinha apontado o pior cenário como uma queda de 11,2%, mas não deixa de ser acachapante. A queda na comparação ano a ano foi a maior desde o primeiro trimestre de 2013, aponta a IDC.

As fabricantes de PCs despacharam cerca de 60,6 milhões de máquinas no primeiro trimestre, segundo a IDC – a Gartner registrou um número um pouco maior: 64,8 milhões de unidades. 

O pior é que o fim dessa queda não parece estar próximo. “Esperamos que este ano consiga atingir o fundo do poço”, afirma o analista da IDC, Jay Choy, que prevê uma queda de 1,1% em 2017. “Apenas em 2018 vemos uma estabilização do mercado.”

“Não esperamos que o mercado de PCs para o consumidor final cresça ou se estabilize, mas continue encolhendo até 2020”, afirma o analista.