Neowin News Feed for: History

TechSpot: History of the GPU #4 - The Coming of General Purpose GPUs

Julio Franco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:47:00 +0100

Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point... Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU #3 - The Nvidia vs. ATI era begins

Julio Franco — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:27:07 +0100

Prior to the Voodoo 5's arrival, ATI had announced the Radeon DDR as “the most powerful graphics processor ever designed for desktop PCs.” Previews of the card had already gone public... Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU, 3Dfx Voodoo - the game-changer

Julio Franco — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:04:52 +0100

Launched on November 1996, 3Dfx's Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only card that required a VGA cable pass-through from a separate 2D card to the Voodoo, which then connected to the display... Read more...

TechSpot: The History of the Modern Graphics Processor

Julio Franco — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:03:56 +0000

The evolution of the modern graphics processor begins with the introduction of the first 3D add-in cards in 1995, followed by the widespread adoption of the 32-bit operating systems and the... Read more...

1984 video of Steve Wozniak surfaces, talks about early Apple, pranks and Jobs

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:10:35 +0000

Videos have emerged of Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, speaking at an Apple enthusiast meeting in 1984. Wozniak talks on a range of subjects, and the videos are well worth a watch. Read more...

Book review: Atari: Business is Fun

Paul Ferson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:53:34 +0000

Neowin glimpses into the Atari of the 1970s, a company markedly different to that which we know today. We try to discover just how fun business was as part of one of the main companies of the decade. Read more...

The First, First Person Shooter: An INFOGRAPHIC

Steven Parker — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:47:13 +0000

The First Person Shooter is arguably the most successful genre in the PC gaming scene, and we have an infographic that shows where it started and what defined the genre. Read more...

TechSpot: The Rise and Fall of AMD

Julio Franco — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:31:09 +0000

AMD has long been subject of polarizing debate among technology enthusiasts. The chapters of its history provide ample ammunition for countless discussions and no small measure of rancour. 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...

Videogame virgin: What was your first game?

Christopher White — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:08:49 +0100

Neogamr staff members share their age by discussing memories of the first video games they remember playing. We want to hear hat your first experience with a game was! Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Microsoft codenames

Tyler Holman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:15:36 +0100

Ever been curious about Microsoft product codenames and the stories behind them? For this week's Trivia Tuesday, we've assembled a sampling of some of the most interesting, from Opus to Longhorn. Read more...

Russia's SVR reportedly investing in spam-bots

Paul Ferson — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:31:47 +0100

Information from Russian newspaper Kommersant indicates that Russia's foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, has invested considerable sums of money into developing propaganda spambots for the state. Read more...

Facebook's oldest user could be 101 year old Californian

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:29:51 +0100

It would appear that Facebook's oldest user could be a 101-year-old Californian woman who, coincidentally, lives in the same area as the site is headquartered. She's been on Facebook since mid-2009. Read more...

Google endorses Endangered Languages project

Paul Ferson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:11:16 +0100

Google has provided its encouragement for the 'Endangered Languages' project, intended to protect languages which are in danger of dying out. Read more...

Windows Phone update history page lists Tango upgrades

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:57:28 +0100

A newly updated Windows Phone update history page from Microsoft lists the features that are a part of the "Tango" upgrade, but there's no word on when existing devices will get this update. Read more...

Silver mine manages to maintain late 1980s PC

Paul Ferson — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:33:46 +0100

Neowin discovers a classic computer from the late 1980s, operating still as a daily piece of hardware at a silver mine somewhere in the world. 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...

Internet Explorer: Version 1-10, a dive through history

Brad Sams — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:08:19 +0000

IE was launched way back in 1995 and is about to push out the tenth version of the platform. In this post, we take a look back at all 10 versions and what is ahead for the trusty old web browser. Read more...

TechSpot: The Year in Tech - 2011 Most Relevant Stories

Julio Franco — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:21:04 +0000

Twenty-eleven is almost over and as we conclude our end-of-year articles it's time to look back at some of the most relevant stories of 2011. We'll do a brief recount of tech happenings in... Read more...

Xerox PARC: the minds behind laser printing, GUI, ethernet, and more

Julio Franco — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:18:40 +0000

Launched in 1970, Xerox's PARC has played an instrumental role in the engineering of laser printing and many of the technologies that compose the PC you're reading this on: ethernet, the mouse, GUI... Read more...