Neowin News Feed for: Voting

Twitter's new hidden downvote could turbocharge echo chambers

Paul Hill — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:34:01 +0000

Twitter will more widely deploy a test that lets people vote on content they want to see less of. Such a system may also be negative as it could turbocharge political echo chambers. Read more...

Most devices, including iPhones, could soon be forced to use USB-C charging

Usama Jawad — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:46:01 +0000

Today, the European Parliament will be voting on a new legislation by the European Commission to standardize USB-C charging across most devices. If it becomes law, OEMs will have two years to comply. Read more...

YouTube expands voting information to help inform users

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:22:01 +0000

YouTube will show users in the U.S. more information on how to vote and how to register to vote so that the maximum number of people can vote in November. Content is available in English and Spanish. Read more...

Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:16:01 +0000

Twitter has announced that it's rolling out several prompts throughout its platform to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential elections. More prompts will appear in the coming weeks. Read more...

Facebook to help scholars assess social media's impact on elections

Paul Hill — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:16:01 +0000

Facebook has teamed up with several pro-democracy foundations in order to fund researchers, with access to Facebook datasets, in order to see how social media affects the outcomes of elections. Read more...

Virginia plans to replace voting machines by November

Usen Joshua O. — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:28:02 +0000

The Virginia State Election Board has approved plans by the Department of Elections to decertify and replace all current touchscreen machines due to hacking concerns and lack of paper audit trails. Read more...

Australian Parliament considers implementing electronic voting for MPs

Boyd Chan — Mon, 02 May 2016 10:08:01 +0000

After a similar recommendation failed to progress almost 20 years ago, a Lower House committee of Australian Parliament has dusted off a proposal to allow MPs to cast votes using smart cards. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Internet has spoken: British polar research vessel name is Boaty McBoatface

Christopher White — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 04:34:01 +0000

Internet voting on a name for the Natural Environment Research Council's new £200m research ship is complete and the winning name is Boaty McBoatface. It's questionable whether the name will stick. Read more...

Bitcoin consultants form Flux political party in Australia

Boyd Chan — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 03:02:01 +0000

In a bid to shake up Aussie politics, Nathan Spataro and Max Kaye create a new party whose voting would be directly influenced by its participants and potentially supported by blockchain technology. Read more...

Badly configured database reveals data of 191 million US voters, authorities shut it down

Paul Hill — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:01 +0000

Security researcher, Chris Vickery, managed to find a publicly available server which held the details of all US voters. Luckily, public access to the database has now been cut off. Read more...

Microsoft wants you to decide which casual games it should make next

Usama Jawad — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 07:40:01 +0000

Microsoft wants user feedback on which casual games it should develop next. People are required to vote for three of their favorite games from a selection of five, which includes Chess and Hearts. Read more...

Bug in ancient e-voting machines impact Belgium election

Christopher White — Tue, 27 May 2014 05:00:00 +0000

A bug with e-voting machines in Belgium has raised havoc with the country's election process, causing a temporary halt until the developers can find and fix the flag in the DOS-based machines. Read more...

Microsoft uses Halo 4 to promote US election voting

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:02:13 +0000

Microsoft's Facebook pages are asking US citizens to go out and vote in today's US presidential election via Halo 4's Master Chief and its colorful Windows Phone devices. Read more...

Washington state to allow voter registration on Facebook

Anthony Tosie — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:42:34 +0000

The state of Washington will soon allow residents to register to vote via a Facebook application. The application was developed in a joint effort between the state, Facebook and Microsoft. Read more...

X Factor voting heading to Facebook

Byron Hinson — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:10:14 +0000

If Simon Cowell gets his way, X Factor fans will soon be able to use Facebook as a means to vote on the popular reality TV music show. Facebook has become a means for viewers and... Read more...

Neowin Community Game Awards 2007 Voting

Christopher Vendemio — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:49:40 +0000

The Neowin Community Game Awards are unlike other "Best of Year" awards. Every step of the process is voted on by Neowin.net community members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you, the people... Read more...

Swiss Protect Voting Data With 'Unbreakable' Encryption

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:09:38 +0000

A new "unbreakable" encryption method will be keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton of Geneva during the country's upcoming national elections, according to Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva. The city-state... Read more...

Shift Linux Art Contest: Voting is Open!

Simon Andrews — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:25:43 +0000

It's been two weeks since the Shift Linux team announced the "Shift Linux Art Contest", and we're proud to announce that it's been a success! The Customization Center, our system that stores the entries whether... Read more...

PowerUser.TV e59: Voting machines, Wii bundle and more!

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:56:44 +0000

This week Kristin and the boys tackle (and heckle) current affairs when reports come in from all over the U.S. of problems with voting machines. Also, got a bad reputation on the web? A new... Read more...

Voting Begins for Wallpapers in GUI Champs '06

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:32:16 +0000

Hundreds of wallpapers have been submitted to the 2006 GUI Championships. Many hours have been spent by artists crafting their masterpieces in an attempt to get their hands on a chunk of our $12,000... Read more...

GameSpy's Game of the Year voting online

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:21:26 +0000

The Gamers' Choice Awards is GameSpy's chance for fans to pick their game of the year for 2002 in selected categories. You may notice that a few categories are conspicuously absent, such as Adventure, Simulation... Read more...

GUI Olympics voting has begun

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:14:13 +0000

Thank you Babis for this news The first event of the GUI Olympics is "Most cheerful skin". Visit Gui Olympics Site to go through the skins and find the top 5... Read more...