Neowin News Feed for: Automated

Unofficial script does the most useful official Windows 11/10 repairs you want automatically

Sayan Sen — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:18:01 +0000

An unofficial script that fixes common Windows 11/10 problems with the most useful native repair tools that Windows offers has been released. Read more...

Adding a label to a Twitter bot will automatically exempt it from audits

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:32:01 +0000

Twitter will now allow developers who use the Twitter API to label their bots as "Automated". The label could help inspire trust, but the opt-in method seems open to misuse by bad bots. Read more...

8.5 percent of Twitter accounts are bots [Update]

Andy Weir — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:18:23 +0000

Twitter has confirmed in official documentation that 23 million - around 8.5 percent - of its 271 million monthly active users are actually automated 'bot' accounts, and not authored by real people. Read more...

@everyword completes tweeting the entire dictionary

James Walker — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 13:44:11 +0000

The automated Twitter account @everyword has finally completed the task it began in 2007 tweeting out every single word in the dictionary one-by-one. Read more...

McDonald's orders 7,000 touchscreen kiosks to replace cashiers

Michael Collado — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:19:31 +0000

McDonald's recently added 64,000 people to its payroll in the United States, but job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now.... Read more...

Google develops self-driving cars

Christopher White — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:52:32 +0000

After a long night of drinking, you walk to your car, turn on the ignition, and drive home. Only you aren’t doing the driving, your car is. That’s Google’s vision of the future and if their... Read more...

Windows Automated Installation Kit

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:45:43 +0000

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vista™ family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations,... Read more...

Toshiba Ships New Portable HDDs with Automated Backup

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:49:04 +0000

Mobile storage provider Toshiba Storage Device Division launched Jan. 4 a new line of 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drives in 100GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities with automated backup capability. Toshiba's new HDDs feature... Read more...

MS Researchers Tackle Automated Malware Classification

Fri, 12 May 2006 21:15:00 +0000

Researchers from Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team are working on an automated way to sort through the thousands of malware families and variants attacking Windows computers. The company unveiled its plans at the EICAR (European Institute... Read more...

Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) Beta Released

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:33:49 +0000

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) is designed to help Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system builders, and corporate IT professionals deploy Windows onto new hardware. The WAIK is a new set of deployment tools supporting... Read more...

Microsoft to Deliver Automated, All-in-One PC Health Service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 13 May 2005 07:45:38 +0000

The dynamic nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and optimal performance of PCs a challenge for consumers. Keeping a PC "healthy" today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average... Read more...

MSN Acquires MessageCast Automated Alerting Services

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 12 May 2005 07:17:37 +0000

The MSN network of Internet services today announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of MessageCast Inc., a leading provider of automated alerting and messaging technology that currently supports the MSN Alerts service.... Read more...

BayTSP Launches Automated Piracy Monitoring Tool

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:37:28 +0000

BayTSP, a Californian company specialising in on-line information monitoring and compliance services for a variety of industries has announced a new tool to monitor piracy on-line. The software, called FirstSource, allows ISP's... Read more...

Google Confirms Automated Page Removal Bug

Mon, 17 May 2004 08:52:58 +0000

Thanks bink and A-Parsa for this. A great thread emerged yesterday at WebmasterWorld.com about how someone managed to apparently remove the home pages of Microsoft and Adobe from Google. But was it true? ... Read more...

Microsoft Delivers Automated Deployment Services Beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:03:17 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today announced the beta release of Automated Deployment Services (ADS) for Windows® Server 2003, a powerful new server provisioning and administration tool that delivers key technology for the company's new Dynamic Systems Initiative... Read more...

Visual Studio .NET Automated Demos

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:53:04 +0000

Get a more complete understanding of Visual Studio .NET, the visionary yet practical, development tool for creating the next generation of applications. Much like Microsoft Visual Basic® first did ten years ago, Visual Studio .NET... Read more...