Neowin News Feed for: Dies

Intel, AMD, ARM, TSMC, and Samsung all support 'Chiplets' for future processor design

Alap Naik Desai — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:58:01 +0000

Leading foundries of silicon wafers and manufacturers of CPUs, chipsets, and SoCs, have come together to form UCIe, an alliance to standardize die-to-die interconnects for chipset designs. Read more...

Anti-porn online law dies quickly in Supreme Court

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:02:01 +0000

After ten years of the anti-porn law that was under the Child Online Protection Act, stopping minors from viewing harmful content over the internet, silently died off in the Supreme Court after Congress overwhelmingly approved... Read more...

Microsoft's 'Mama' Dies at Age 72

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:32:00 +0000

Microsoft has lost one of its early employees one month after the original 11 members reunited to celebrate Bill Gates' retirement from his day-to-day role with the company he co-founded. Miriam Lubow (1935-2008 ) is... Read more...

China Web User Dies After Three Day Online Binge

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:49:07 +0000

A man in southern China collapsed and died after a three-day marathon online session at a cybercafe, state media reported on Monday. The web-user, estimated to be 30 years old, suddenly collapsed in front of... Read more...

Computing pioneer John Backus dies

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:42:56 +0000

John Warner Backus, born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1924, has just passed away. At 82, Backus died Saturday in Ashland, Oregon, according to IBM Corporation, where he spent his career. In 1954 he got his... Read more...

South Korean Dies After 50 Hour Gaming Marathon

Howard Thomson — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:24:50 +0000

A gamer from South Korean has suffered a cardiac arrest after a 50 hour session of popular sci-fi game Starcraft. The 28 year old man, identified only by surname Lee, started playing on August 3rd.... Read more...

Integrated circuit inventor dies at 81

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:37:11 +0000

Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday at age 81 after a brief battle with Cancer. His invention, the integrated circuit, was first demonstrated on Sept. 12, 1958. The invention made... Read more...

Mac Daddy Dies

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:17:00 +0000

The man who conceived the first Apple Macintosh has died at the age of 61. Jef Raskin joined Apple in 1978 to start its publications department, but the following year came up with the idea... Read more...

PearPC - PowerPC Emulator Author Dies

Tom Warren — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:42:57 +0000

On a blog for the popular Mac emulation software (PearPC) co-author Sebastian Biallas has written of Stefan Weyergraf's death late yesterday evening. A tragic end to a young developer who proved that Mac emulation software... Read more...

Man dies in Disneyland ride crash

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:24:35 +0000

Thanks nev for this ... A man has been killed and another 10 people have been injured after a roller coaster car derailed at Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, local officials say.... Read more...

Man dies after playing computer games non-stop

Marcel Klum — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:42:54 +0000

Thanks Josh for this one. A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said yesterday. The jobless man, identified by police only by his... Read more...

Laser inventor dies

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:43:11 +0000

A leading Russian scientist who helped invent the laser has died, aged 85. The death of Alexander Prokhorov is being described as the end of an era by colleagues and politicians, including President... Read more...