Ein künftiges GearVR könnte mit einer Auflösung von 4K pro Auge erscheinen. Zumindest soll Samsung einen Prototyp mit 1.200 dpi gezeigt und über ein Modell mit 1.500 ppi gesprochen haben. (Gear VR, Samsung) Month: March 2017
How to get a Vulcan salute from Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds
Or, how I agreed to review a space film and got a low-five from Jake Gyllenhaal.
This actually happened. (video link)
AUSTIN, Texas—I said I could work an interview with the writers into my piece. Then, the e-mail came: "Nathan, Your TV interviews will begin at 2:45pm. Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal are paired together."Huh? When Life was announced as the closing film for South by Southwest, I knew I'd be taking the review reigns from Senior Space Terror Editor, Lee Hutchinson. I didn't know I'd be agreeing to do this. A-list celebrity interviews don't happen often (if at all, sorry Matt Damon) around Ars, and they definitely don't happen in person. They don't happen on camera, either.
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Hollywood: Filmstudios wollen Filme kurz nach Kinostart streamen
Schon 17 Tage nach dem Filmstart sollen Filme künftig bei Amazon Video und anderen angeboten werden. Die Preise sollen zwischen 30 und 50 Dollar liegen. (Heimkino, Urheberrecht)
Schon 17 Tage nach dem Filmstart sollen Filme künftig bei Amazon Video und anderen angeboten werden. Die Preise sollen zwischen 30 und 50 Dollar liegen. (Heimkino, Urheberrecht) Chrome: Google plant drastische Maßnahmen gegen Symantec
Nach mehreren Vorfällen, bei denen Symantec offenbar die Kontrolle über seine Zertifikatsinfrastruktur verloren hatte, plant Google nun drastische Maßnahmen. Das könnte für Symantec existenzbedrohend werden. (It may sound like Alien and follow Arrival, but Life is a popcorn movie
Some fun, but this film won’t fill sci-fi’s newly emerging “Best Picture nominee” niche.
We talk with Life cast members Ariyon Bakare and Rebecca Ferguson. (video link)
Life, a new sci-fi thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, requires no launch countdown. An International Space Station crew of six is in the midst of retrieving a Mars soil sample as the centerpiece of an eight-month mission. And naturally, the camera starts rolling right when the probe that's supposed to bring that sample on board has taken some rock damage. The situation now requires a high-tension spacewalk in order to operate a mechanical arm and snag the capsule. But don't worry—our heroes have snarky, American mission specialist Rory Adams (Reynolds) around.
"I used to play catch when I was in tee-ball," he tells his colleagues while they all sweat out the do-or-die moment. The impact is fierce and rocks our point of view for a second... but this crew has it under control. "Cue Instagram, point and shoot mother*cker," Adams says. (Did we mention the Deadpool tandem of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote this script?)
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Review: The $229 Moto G5 Plus stands as the king of budget Android (for now)
Downgraded camera and questionable update policy tarnish another solid upgrade.
We’ve documented the decline of Motorola under Lenovo extensively. We still liked the phones, which had probably been developed mostly under Google’s ownership anyway, but in 2015 we started to see slower updates and shorter support lifecycles. Last year was when the wheels really started to come off. Not only did the company mostly ruin its flagship phone by swapping the inexpensive and competent Moto X for the expensive and weird Moto Z, but Lenovo issued several contradictory statements about software updates that made it unclear whether the Z or the fourth-generation Moto G would be receiving regular updates at all.
It’s not all bad. The Moto G4, especially the G4 Plus configuration, was still a solid midrange phone that offered good-enough performance, a nice big 1080p screen, and a fingerprint reader for $250. Unlike the Moto Z, it at least understood and respected the intent behind the original 2013 Moto G: an affordable phone with clean, unskinned Android and no-to-low-frills hardware that got the job done. Its lack of updates over the last nine months has been disappointing, but that’s the norm in the Android world rather than the exception.
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Android O im Test: Oreo, Ovomaltine, Orange
Die erste Entwicklervorschau von Android O ist da – und damit auch einige neue Funktionen, die Googles neues Betriebssystem mit sich bringt. Golem.de hat sich die Details angeschaut und O mit Nougat verglichen. Für Endnutzer ist die neue Version noch nicht allzu spannend. Ein Test von Tobias Költzsch (Android O, Google)
Die erste Entwicklervorschau von Android O ist da - und damit auch einige neue Funktionen, die Googles neues Betriebssystem mit sich bringt. Golem.de hat sich die Details angeschaut und O mit Nougat verglichen. Für Endnutzer ist die neue Version noch nicht allzu spannend. Ein Test von Tobias Költzsch (Android O, Google) Hannover: Pavillons für die Sommer-Cebit sind schon ausgebucht
Drei Prozent mehr Besucher gab es auf der Cebit 2017, mit der Neuausrichtung der Messe sollen es 2018 noch mehr werden. Auf der Abschluss-Pressekonferenz in Hannover gab es auch klare Aussagen, wer das Sommerfestival finanzieren soll. Und Fußball spielt auch eine Rolle. (Cebit, Cebit 2017)
Drei Prozent mehr Besucher gab es auf der Cebit 2017, mit der Neuausrichtung der Messe sollen es 2018 noch mehr werden. Auf der Abschluss-Pressekonferenz in Hannover gab es auch klare Aussagen, wer das Sommerfestival finanzieren soll. Und Fußball spielt auch eine Rolle. (Cebit, Cebit 2017) 20th Century Fox & Dreamworks Blackmailed Over The Boss Baby Leak
A man extorted cash from 20th Century Fox & Dreamworks after he obtained a leaked copy of their upcoming movie The Boss Baby. The studios were told to pay a bitcoin ransom to avoid the animated comedy leaking onto the Internet before its March 31 premiere. After an amount was paid by 20th Century Fox, a man was arrested and is now in custody.
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When copies of movies leak onto the Internet, there is usually very little studios and distributors can do about it. Once a copy gets out there, it’s invariably too late, with thousands of people downloading in the opening hours.
Recently, however, a potential leak took on a different complexion. Sometime in February, a then unknown individual managed to get his hands on a pre-release copy of the upcoming Dreamworks movie The Boss Baby.
According to a local media report, the movie was due to be distributed in Serbia by local company MEGAKOM during April. But first, it needed to be localized with a Serbian language soundtrack.
Somewhat bizarrely given the security that usually surrounds high-profile releases, the movie ended up on a translator’s PC. The movie was copied, apparently without her knowledge, to the laptop of a man who lives with her.
Instead of immediately leaking it online, the man – subsequently identified as 26-year-old Momcilo Đinović – reportedly decided to make some cash. He contacted DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox with blackmail demands – pay a large bitcoin ransom or have your global release day ruined.
With help from local police, distributor MEGAKOM launched an investigation to find out how a third-party had obtained the movie. That involved tracing back the IP addresses of the person carrying out the extortion.
Meanwhile, local media reports indicate that 20th Century Fox paid Belgrade-resident Đinović – the son of a retired policeman – first four and then five bitcoin. Apparently, that was not enough to satisfy the 26-year-old, but in any event, things didn’t end well.
After being arrested by local police, Đinović appeared at the High Prosecutor’s Office charged with extorting both 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks. The judge ordered him to be held in pre-trial detention for 30 days. Sources close to the investigation inform local news outlet Novosti that he faces up to 10 years in prison.
Serbia has certainly been busy on the piracy front in recent days. According to an announcement from the Ministry of the Interior, two suspects have just been arrested following an investigation by the country’s organized crime unit into popular local TV streaming site, Serije.rs.
Police reportedly carried out searches of flats and other premises used by the site’s administrators while seizing equipment. The pair stand accused of committing criminal copyright infringement offenses.
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