Neowin News Feed for: Culture

Microsoft invests in European languages and culture to build smarter, more inclusive AI

Fiza Ali — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:20:01 +0000

Microsoft is launching new AI initiatives in Europe to preserve linguistic and cultural heritage, ensuring the continent's diverse voices are better represented in the cloud-powered digital age. Read more...

Tesla instructor reportedly said staff leave with a 'negative taste in their mouth'

Hamid Ganji — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:02:01 +0000

Tesla employees apparently don't leave the company with fond memories, and the company's executives now want to fix this. Read more...

Google Arts & Culture learning gateway now available

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:58:01 +0000

Google has launched a learning gateway for its Arts & Culture content to help educators use the material to teach children that are currently learning online due to lockdown restrictions. Read more...

Yoti identification app is helping bring back culture to the UK

Paul Hill — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 19:58:02 +0000

The digital ID company, Yoti, has announced that it will play an integral part in bringing culture back to the UK. The cast and crew of Sleepless will use the app to verify their COVID-19-free status. Read more...

Google's Art Transfer lets you add famous art styles to pictures

Paul Hill — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:14:01 +0000

The Google Arts & Culture app will now let users apply famous art styles to the photos they take. Google worked with cultural institutions, such as the UK's National Gallery, to add different effects. Read more...

Users should embrace a better internet, not fight it

Jett Goldsmith — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:18:01 +0000

The internet has a pervasive culture of completely uninhibited expression, at the expense of common decency. But with Twitter and reddit moving to ban harassment, we're shown that change is overdue. Read more...

Gmail finally takes the crown as the most popular email service globally

Paul Ferson — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:41:20 +0000

Third-party results finally suggest that Google's mail service is leading the world, despite the search giant having claimed this to be the case during the summer. Somehow, Yahoo is still hanging on. Read more...

Japan begins to crack down on piracy with two million yen fines

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:34:05 +0000

Japan's government has agreed to new legislation against criminals caught downloading illegally, bringing in a maximum fine of two million yen or a potential two year stay in a prison cell. Read more...

Editorial: Moving from QWERTY to QWERTZ on short notice

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:48:52 +0000

Paul Ferson talks about his experiences with switching from QWERTY, the only keyboard layout he'd ever used, to QWERTZ, in order to properly review the Matias Tactile Pro 3.0 keyboard. Read more...

South Korean man prepares to launch home-made satellite

Paul Ferson — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:35:42 +0000

A South Korean man prepares to launch a home-made satellite, which he says is the first of its kind to ever be funded by a single individual. When it launches, you'll even be able to contact it. Read more...

Google endorses Endangered Languages project

Paul Ferson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:11:16 +0000

Google has provided its encouragement for the 'Endangered Languages' project, intended to protect languages which are in danger of dying out. Read more...

Happy birthday, GIF! Image format turns 25

Tyler Holman — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:01:57 +0000

The GIF, the beloved format of the web's greatest memes and sprite artists everywhere, just turned 25, and shows no signs of slowing down, so we decided to put together a list of our favorite GIFs. Read more...

Is Google DRM crippling culture as great as it seems?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:09:17 +0000

Anyone the least bit concerned about DRM (digital rights management) technology would likely have been put off by Google co-founder Larry Page's ho-hum approach to revealing the company's new proprietary media locks. And with good... Read more...

MSN Blogs Sift Through Popular Culture

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:48:36 +0000

Microsoft has quietly launched MSN Filter, expanding its presence in the growing sea of blogs that have washed onto the Internet. MSN Filter, which launched last week, features blogs that cover... Read more...

HP Declares War On Sharing Culture

Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:40:13 +0000

HP and RIAA sitting in a tree... :D HP this week took the unusual move of using a consumer electronics conference as the venue for an unprecedented attack on consumers and their... Read more...