Neowin News Feed for: Hand

Researchers accelerate sparse inference on XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite for realtime apps

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:20:01 +0000

XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite now support efficient inference of sparse networks. Researchers demonstrated substantial speedups in inference times on realtime gesture detection and background blur apps. Read more...

Chinese lad cuts off his hand to 'cure' his internet addiction

Usama Jawad — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:46:01 +0000

Internet addiction is becoming a problem in Asian countries, especially China where a 19 year old has cut off his own hand in an effort to 'cure' himself of this problem. Read more...

Google gives a helping hand to Android developers

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:35:39 +0000

Google plans to pay Android application developers starting in the first quarter of 2009 for each application sold, with 70% of the proceedings to the developer, and to keep 30% for itself, to cover carrier... Read more...

Raise your hand if you're tired of negative Vista articles

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:26:53 +0000

Neowin member ispamforfood (interesting nickname!) has posted an interesting question on our Back Page News forum asking "Raise your hand if you're tired of negative Vista articles". It is true that there are many news... Read more...

HD players hand over DVD keys

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:53:30 +0000

A consortium backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs has confirmed hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition discs. Both the title keys and a number of decrypted films have been... Read more...

"BlackBerry Thumb" sparks new form of hand massage

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:55:08 +0000

Many BlackBerry users feel the "BlackBerry Thumb" affect after spending hours on a hand-held e-mail device. This thumb effect results in sore thumbs, but there is a possible solution. The Hyatt hotel chain found so... Read more...

Portable market in hand for Nintendo

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:48:51 +0000

Nintendo has revealed that nearly 4 million units of Nintendo DS have been sold in the US! The latest numbers bring the total crop of DSs in customers' hands to more than 10 million. In... Read more...

A First Hand Look at Avvenu

Tue, 31 May 2005 14:50:08 +0000

What is Avvenu, you may ask? Avvenu is a new remote file sharing program. It was made to have an extremely simple setup for the average user to access their files from where ever they... Read more...

Yahoo to Trillian: Talk to the hand

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:45:04 +0000

The popular IM from Yahoo is once again blocking other programs like Trillian, Kopete, etc... According to Yahoo "the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo Messenger service."... Read more...

Detailed information found on 2nd hand hard disks

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:43:23 +0000

Clearly it isn't difficult to get old information off second hand harddisks; with the price of hard drives so low it would seem far more sensible to ship 2nd hand PC's with new hard drives... Read more...

Microsoft tries its hand with vector illustrator

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:21:46 +0000

This is interesting, I wonder if the idea of developing a vector-based illustrator came after the growing trend of Vector Art and the fact that the DCE will be a part of the highly anticipated... Read more...

IBM seeks to force SCO's hand in lawsuit

Sat, 22 May 2004 02:59:47 +0000

IBM has filed new documents in its legal dispute with Unix vendor The SCO Group, accusing SCO of having no evidence to back up its copyright infringement claims, and asking the judge to throw... Read more...

Sasser author also had a hand in Half Life 2 Code theft?

Mon, 17 May 2004 19:40:23 +0000

Thanks LOC; Seems the German police really did pluck a major player from the scene... "Last week the German police arrested the creator of the Sasser worm. It received less coverage, but nearly... Read more...

Smart Watch: A Product That Has Gotten Out of Hand

Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:42:05 +0000

Until Microsoft's Smart Watch, I'd never seen a product start digging its own grave at its unveiling. It happened at the Consumer Electronics Show a year ago. As a presenter modeled a chunky prototype (bravely... Read more...

Intel caught with hand in 4U Opteron cookie jar

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:06:48 +0000

SOURCES SAID that Intel has bought a number of Opteron based servers from Appro, and that AMD knows about it. The 4U four way servers from Appro, a system builder, are part of AMD's validated... Read more...

Virgin Unveils Personal Music Hand Held Kiosks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:49:29 +0000

On Wednesday, December 3 (4-8pm), Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson will unwrap the most high tech music retail environment, at the Virgin Megastore, San Francisco. The droolcool digital gadget at the uptown international party scene... Read more...

Hacker tips CERT's hand on Linux/PDF flaw

Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:44:09 +0000

Confidential vulnerability information managed by the CERT Coordination Center has again been leaked to the public, following a flurry of such leaks in March. The latest information concerns a flaw in PDF (Portable... Read more...

Pentium price cuts at hand

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:56:03 +0000

Intel will pull out its scissors next month to make the first of two price cuts scheduled for this quarter, sources say. The chipmaker has planned the price adjustment for desktop... Read more...

Stuck in DLL Hell? Help may be at hand

Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:13:29 +0000

From time to time probably all PC users have been affected by a problem related to (drum roll please) "DLL Hell". The affending file may have been deleted or overwritten when you installed that latest... Read more...