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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is now accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, aiming to counter the misuse of AI tools able to generate synthetic voices of real persons.

Martin Hodás · Jan 5, 2024 with 6 comments

Xbox, Doritos, and Rockstar Energy Drink are teaming up to offer customers thousands of prizes. Just buy a bag of Doritos or a Rockstar Energy Drink can to be in with a chance of winning.

Paul Hill · Oct 3, 2022 with 3 comments

Forza and its partners are holding a huge digital driving competition open to everyone. If you've got the skills to be the best in the world, you'll drive away with a new 2017 Ford Focus RS.

Vlad Dudau · Aug 5, 2016 with 0 comments

Microsoft's Imagine Cup has come to a close and this year, team Eyenaemia took home the trophy along with $50,000 in cash to support their product and help expand its presence in the market.

Brad Sams · Aug 1, 2014 · Hot! with 4 comments

Amazon originally started out as no more than a simple web-based store for general goods. Today, it seems that Amazon has expanded so much as to be the end all source for services and goods....

Alan Cone · Nov 17, 2010 with 6 comments

Do you find yourself stuck in Windows Vista and are looking for a way to upgrade to the beloved Windows 7? If that’s you, or you like free copies of Windows 7, Neowin has...

Brad Sams · May 12, 2010 · Hot! with 91 comments

It's that time again, we're giving away a mystery prize this week. One lucky winner who guesses what we're giving away, wins it. To be in with a chance of winning this prize you simply...

Tom Warren · Apr 30, 2010 · Hot! with 1313 comments

Just a quick reminder to all members, our give-away ends on the 18th May at 23:59 GMT. Don't forget to enter and complete our survey. Enter here...

Tom Warren · May 16, 2009 · Hot! with 2 comments

French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics after discovering the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance" (GMR), in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences...

· Oct 9, 2007 · Hot! with 3 comments

Yahoo! opened it's doors this Friday and Saturday for the first Yahoo! Hack Day, designed to let teams of developers build applications and projects using the Yahoo! APIs, with the most creative winning prizes. This...

· Oct 2, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Apple has announced a major prize which will go to the music fan who downloads the 100 millionth song from iTunes in Europe. The company says: "Music fans in 17 countries around Europe are clicking...

· Dec 2, 2005 with -1 comments

A privately built rocket plane and its mother ship lifted off into clear skies above the Mojave Desert on Monday in a bid to win a $10 million prize for the first commercially viable manned...

· Oct 4, 2004 with -1 comments

The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest...

· Apr 15, 2004 with -1 comments

The first of this month's two draws has taken place. Read more for the winners list. We are now accepting nominations for the second contest. The draw will take place on...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 17, 2002 · Hot! with 2 comments

A code developed for wireless networking has been successfully cracked by a mathematician from Indiana's University of Notre Dame and the combined computational power of 10,000 computers. Over a total of 549 days...

· Nov 7, 2002 with 1 comment

Large System Management vendors are shedding their domain and element-focused network management roots to aggressively pursue integrated products that manage workflow processes and end-user performance within distributed IT networks and Web services environments. ...

· Jun 29, 2002 with -1 comments

Two Nobel Prize-winning economists have reviewed Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and nine US states and have subsequently urged Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to reject the deal. The...

· Jan 28, 2002 with -1 comments