Neowin News Feed for: Break

Robot breaks seven-year-old's finger during chess match

Usama Jawad — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:44:01 +0000

A robot recently broke the finger of a seven-year-old during a chess tournament in Russia. The machine practically pounced on the child's finger and grabbed it with force, proceeding to break it. Read more...

You can brick recent iOS devices just by setting them to a specific date

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:42:01 +0000

A new flaw in iOS can easily break almost any Apple device including the iPhone 6s Plus and the most recent iPads. And triggering it is as simple as manually setting your device to a specific date. Read more...

Rumour: Apple to break O2 exclusivity on iPhone 3G [UK]

Tom Warren — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:33:27 +0000

British publication, Mobile Today, are reporting that Apple is poised to break O2's exclusive agreement for the iPhone 3G in 6 weeks time. Apple will reportedly open the iPhone 3G to Orange and T-Mobile in... Read more...

Microsoft: break up HTML 5

Steven Parker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:55:32 +0000

The ever-increasing intricacy of the World Wide Web is evidenced by the character and scope of the HTML 5 draft specification. Microsoft wants to hasten HTML 5's arrival, but its proposed solution may not sit... Read more...

Video Game Sales Break Records

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:03:22 +0000

NPD Group reports a record-breaking year in video game sales. Video game sales topped $17 billion last year, according to the NPD Group, making 2007 by far the biggest year in gaming history. These numbers... Read more...

PS3s help Folding@Home Break PetaFLOP Barrier

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:13:50 +0000

PetaFLOP is such a great word. It perfectly straddles (as few other technical terms can) the borderline between scientifically impressive and downright silly simultaneously. Strictly defined as a quadrillion Floating Point Objects per Second, a... Read more...

'Zephyr' May Break Record for Longest Unmanned Flight

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:50:51 +0000

An unmanned solar-powered aircraft known as the "Zephyr" that soared for 54 hours more than 50,000 feet above New Mexico may hold the record for unmanned flight, defense research company QinetiQ announced Monday, breaking the... Read more...

Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:29:46 +0000

At the Internet2 consortium's spring meeting in Arlington, Virginia, it was publically announced that a group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo had broken Internet speed records – twice in two days. On... Read more...

Microsoft takes a 'Patch Tuesday' break

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:52:01 +0000

The second Tuesday of the month, typically Microsoft's scheduled patch release day, will not have any security bulletins. Microsoft will, however, go ahead with a release of its monthly update of Windows Malicious Software Removal... Read more...

THQ Earnings To Break $1 Billion In Fiscal Year 2007

Todd Tanner — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:49:14 +0000

California-based publisher THQ has had a good year, which it attributes to stronger-than-expected sales of games including WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007, Cars, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. The company behind the surprise... Read more...

Vista's Make or Break moment

Brad Wardell — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:21:33 +0000

Microsoft-Watch's Mary Jo Foley has the goods on what experts are concluding about Windows Vista. The good news -- Windows Vista has the goods to be a real marvel. The bad news, unless... Read more...

UK online retailers break street date on San Andreas

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:20:41 +0000

Efforts to prevent the launch date of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas from being broken in the UK have been a resounding success on the High Street - but customers of somee online retailers have... Read more...

Merrill Analyst Tells HP: Better To Break Up

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:02:25 +0000

Hewlett-Packard would be better off splitting up its business operations, says Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich. The most valuable and established pieces of HP's portfolio, such as its printing division, should be saved from the... Read more...

Windows XP SP2 could break existing apps

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:42:13 +0000

Some software developers may find their applications no longer work on machines using Microsoft Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which will be released later this year. Microsoft has made something of... Read more...

Godzilla taking a break -- for now

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:39:33 +0000

Five decades after Godzilla first rose from the ocean, this monstrous movie star is about to take a break from show business. Hit by slumping box office sales for the iconic series,... Read more...

Corsair break the DDR400 barrier

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:54:58 +0000

While such manufacturers as Kingston are finally able to offer limited quantities of DDR400, as reported earlier today here, American memory experts Corsair, who have had DDR400 product for a few months already are already... Read more...

Apple gives break to multi-Mac homes

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:44:17 +0000

Thanks go to xStainDx who posted this on our BPN forum. Aiming to reward those households with more than one Mac, Apple Computer will introduce a family plan for licensing OS X. ... Read more...

Break Universal's protected music CD; with a DVD drive!

Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:28:30 +0000

Our good buddy Patrick Norton (of TechTV's "The Screen Savers" fame) has discovered that it's possible to rip mp3's of Universal's music CD's, protected by the Cactus Data Shield system, using a DVD drive! (Just... Read more...

File-swapping case may break new ground

Steven Parker — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:43:51 +0000

Thanks Warp2search for this. A prominent civil liberties group is jumping to the aid of MusicCity, a popular file-swapping company confronting a lawsuit from the Hollywood and record industry that could blaze new, influential legal... Read more...