Neowin News Feed for: Computers

Das Keyboard brings 'Quiet' model to market with MX Red switches

Paul Ferson — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:40:25 +0100

The latest model of the mechanical Das Keyboard has come to market, in the form of the 'Quiet' model. Offering Red switches, it should be the quietest model in the company's overall line-up. Read more...

World's oldest functioning digital computer, returns to display after being restored

Paul Ferson — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Almost twenty years after it had disappeared, the oldest functioning digital computer in the world has been restored and put on display. The hefty British bruiser was found in a municipal store room. Read more...

Western Digital brings their highest-performing drives up to 4TB

Paul Ferson — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:15:00 +0000

If you need a ridiculous amount of storage space, Western Digital can say that they more than have you covered. The company has brought its top-tier hard drives to a monstrous 4TB capacity. Read more...

Windows 8 received more than a billion hours of testing before release

Paul Ferson — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:19:44 +0100

Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky dropped some knowledge today with the factoid that Windows 8 has had a ridiculous amount of testing, with over a billion hours of pre-release tests from users. Read more...

iPad buyer in Wal-Mart receives a box of notepads

Paul Ferson — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:12:11 +0100

An iPad buyer was left disappointed in Texas after receiving an iPad box stuffed with notepads rather than Apple's tablet, leaving one very disappointed teenager on their birthday. Read more...

Editorial: Moving from QWERTY to QWERTZ on short notice

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:48:52 +0100

Paul Ferson talks about his experiences with switching from QWERTY, the only keyboard layout he'd ever used, to QWERTZ, in order to properly review the Matias Tactile Pro 3.0 keyboard. Read more...

Commodore 64 reaches the ripe old age of thirty

Paul Ferson — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:29:31 +0100

As the legendary Commodore 64 home computer celebrates its thirtieth birthday this week, we take a brief look at what made the system such a phenomenon, one that's still fondly remembered today. Read more...

Weekend Poll: How many PCs are in your household?

Tim Schiesser — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:06:02 +0100

Another weekend, another weekend poll here at Neowin. This week we'd like to know just how many PCs you have in your household - you never know, you could have the most out of any Neowin member Read more...

Petition for Alan Turing on £10 note gains steam

Paul Ferson — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:15:50 +0000

Alan Turing, one of the forefathers of modern computing, has become a target for petitioning. Should the petition prove effective, Turing could replace Darwin on some bank notes. Read more...

'Intelligent' Computers Put to the Test

RangerLG — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:50:40 +0100

Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove... Read more...

Wal-Mart ends test run for Linux-based computers in stores

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:22:09 +0000

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Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday. "This really wasn't... Read more...

Millions of computers roped into criminal 'robot networks'

recon13 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:48:31 +0000

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More than 1 million computers in the last five months have become part of robot networks, or "botnets," in which hackers take over computers without their owners' knowledge and use them in criminal campaigns, the... Read more...

'Botmaster' admits infecting 250,000 computers

EL1TE — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:23:03 +0000

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A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank accounts. John Schiefer, 26, agreed to plead guilty to... Read more...

Space station computers partially restored

Slimy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:06:27 +0100

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Computers that control navigation and key life-support systems on the International Space Station were partially restored on Thursday after failing the day before. Flight controllers were able to re-establish some communication with the computers overnight,... Read more...

FBI: Over one million computers working for botnets

Slimy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:20:09 +0100

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With help from industry partners, the US Department of Justice and the FBI have released a statement that they have identified over one million computers who have become part of a botnet. The FBI and... Read more...

Sapphire Readies DirectX 10 Graphics Cards for Old Computers

Slimy — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:57:35 +0100

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Sapphire Technology, one of the world's largest producers of graphics cards, is planning to release three graphics cards featuring ATI Rialto bridge, which allows GPUs originally architected for PCI Express to work on platforms supporting... Read more...

Norton Antivirus targets Windows files on Chinese computers

Slimy — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:21:48 +0100

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Chinese PCs running Symantec antivirus software have been incapacitated by a faulty virus signature update delivered automatically to users on Friday about 1:00 a.m. Beijing time. Symantec's antivirus scanning engine mistook two critical system files... Read more...

AMD Tailors Latest Chipset for Mobile Computers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:37:37 +0100

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Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a lineup of AMD M690 core-logic sets which derive from the company's recently announced AMD 690-series chipsets. The world's second largest manufacturer of x86 central processing units (CPUs) promises that... Read more...

"Storm Worm" Virus Hits Computers Worldwide

Slimy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:33:15 +0000

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Finnish data security company F-Secure has reported that a virus called Small.DAM, referred to as "Storm Worm" was sent to hundreds of thousands of email addresses globally and is continuing to spread very quickly. Representatives... Read more...

Apple and IBM Make Most Reliable Computers

MonkeyClaw — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:20:16 +0100

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Apple and IBM/Lenovo lead a list of the most reliable computer brands, according to fresh US research. Adjusted by market share, Rescue.com's latest findings are based on the number of calls the troubleshooting company... Read more...