Neowin News Feed for: Race

Instagram announces survey to study race and ethnicity in order to remain fair and inclusive

Fiza Ali — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:42:01 +0000

Instagram's new initiative will ask a random assortment of people in the United States to take part in a survey, hosted by YouGov, where they can share information such as race and ethnicity. Read more...

Twitter updates its policies to prohibit racism

Usama Jawad — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 06:20:02 +0000

Twitter has once again updated its platform policies to prohibit hate speech that dehumanizes people based on race, ethnicity, and national origin. Repeat offenders may get their accounts suspended. Read more...

Colossus loses code-cracking race

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:50:15 +0000

An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first... Read more...

Robot cars race around California

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:26:36 +0000

A driverless car called Boss has scooped a $2m prize in a Californian race for robotic vehicles. Boss successfully drove around an urban environment, avoiding other cars, and covering 60 miles (85km) in less than... Read more...

Outback race to flush out fastest dunny

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:38:32 +0000

The world's eyes, and noses, are on the outback central western Queensland town of Winton today for the Australian Dunny Derby. Organiser Robin Stevens says she is amused that media outlets around the world are... Read more...

Race Driver One annnounced

Todd Tanner — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:16:01 +0000

Codemasters today announced Race Driver One™ , the third generation in its acclaimed 8-million+ selling motorsport series. The title is now in development at Codemasters Studios, creators of genre-leading motorsport video games, and will arrive... Read more...

WoW: Burning Crusade Alliance Race Announced

Thu, 11 May 2006 00:34:49 +0000

It's official - the Draenei will be joining forces with the Alliance in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade! Blizzard has updated the Burning Crusade mini-site, including a detailed history of the Draenei and a... Read more...

World of Warcraft rumor - New Alliance race confirmed?

Todd Tanner — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:12:55 +0000

According to Kotaku, the new Alliance race is none other than the Draenei. Now here is where it gets interesting though. You see this rumor and supposed confirmation of said rumor comes from Parting Visions... Read more...

Middle-Earth Online announces new race for Men

Fri, 28 May 2004 12:03:30 +0000

A new class has been announced for the race of Men in the pending massively multiplayer online role-playing game Middle-earth Online. The squire class will join the ranks of hunter, sage and soldier. Middle-earth Online... Read more...

AMD Continues Shift Away From Megahertz Race

Tue, 25 May 2004 20:02:19 +0000

The chipmaker says it will use a "performance-power rating" to name its processors, resulting in names that have higher numbers than the clock rating expressed in megahertz. In the latest step... Read more...

Gmail's Terabyte Glitch Heightens Storage Race

Wed, 19 May 2004 22:32:25 +0000

The e-mail storage race appeared to have reached a new height this week when test users of Google's free Gmail service noticed having not just 1 gigabyte of storage, but 1 terabyte. But the appearance... Read more...

ToCA Race Driver 2: the Ultimate Racing Simulator demo

Marcel Klum — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:49:48 +0000

Codemasters has released the promised playable demo for ToCA Race Driver 2: the Ultimate Racing Simulator, allowing you to take their upcoming hybrid racing simulation for a spin. This demo includes three Free Race tracks:... Read more...

DRM music goldrush is a race for losers - mp3.com founder

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:46:03 +0000

Apple is leading a race of lemmings into the zero-profit business of closed music downloads, says the founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson. "It seems kind of crazy to me, the economics don't make... Read more...

Digital race to save languages

Tom Warren — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:03:45 +0000

Researchers are fighting against time to save decades of data on the world's endangered languages from ending on the digital scrap heap. Computer scientist and linguist Professor Steven Bird of Melbourne University... Read more...

TOCA Race Driver Beefs Up

Marcel Klum — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:00:52 +0000

A major number one best seller for PlayStation 2, the Xbox edition features more cars on track in every race and adds qualifying rounds to the cut-throat career championships. A superior graphics... Read more...

Intel eases up in race to 10GHz

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:54:20 +0000

A casual observer at Intel's Developer Forum earlier this month might have thought the company that grew fat on the back of ever faster desktop PC chips was now more focused on mobile and server... Read more...

Microsoft Banks on Windows to Win Mobile O/S Race

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:20:39 +0000

U.S. software giant Microsoft on Monday took a swipe at rival mobile operating systems maker Symbian, saying familiarity with Windows will help it be the standard used in new high-performance wireless devices. ... Read more...

IBM enters 90-nm technology race

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:26:47 +0000

IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics Division here today jumped in the 90-nm (0.09-micron) technology race, announcing an advanced process that will enable the development of ASICs and other chips with up to 72 million "wireable" gates. ... Read more...

Pro Race Driver (PC/PS2/Xbox)

Marcel Klum — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:15:17 +0000

The racing-game genre has never been the most innovative one. Whether it's a simulation racer or an arcade one, the genre's progress is usually pretty mundane; requisite improvements always include a certain number of new... Read more...