Neowin News Feed for: Drug

Google's quantum computing efforts to give you better health and unlimited electricity

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:48:02 +0000

For World Quantum Day, Google has outlined some of the big potential benefits quantum computers could deliver from the 2030s. Here are Google's picks. Read more...

Drug that kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria was unknowingly growing in a garden

Sayan Sen — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:34:02 +0000

A new antibiotic that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been discovered, and it was found in a garden. Read more...

Major dark web drug suppliers voluntarily ban sales of deadly drug

Paul Hill — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:46:01 +0000

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency has said that several online drug markets located on the dark web have taken down fentanyl product listings given the danger it poses to human life. Read more...

£503.4 million lost to fraud and scams in first half of 2018

Ruel Revales — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:58:01 +0000

Smuggling or drug trafficking criminals have stolen over £500 million from bank accounts in the U.K. through fraud and scams in the first half of 2018. Those criminals used data from breach incidents. Read more...

Microsoft adds food and drug information to Bing Snapshot

John Callaham — Sat, 17 May 2014 03:06:50 +0000

Microsoft has announced that users of Bing can now see information about specific food and drugs in the website's Bing Snapshot box, including facts about a drug's chemical information. Read more...

Broadcom Co-Founder Faces Conspiracy and Drug Charges

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:57:23 +0000

Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was indicted Thursday on fraud, conspiracy and drug charges -- including allegations he spiked the drinks of technology executives and customer representatives with ecstasy and maintained a warehouse... Read more...

Xbox for your gun? Mexico tries swaps in drug fight

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:19:44 +0000

Newly elected Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has moved quickly to restore order to Mexico City by going after well-known crime dens and clearing the city's narrow streets of informal vendors. Police who have raided the capital's... Read more...

Violent Games Lead to Drug Addiction?

Marcel Klum — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:47:49 +0000

Study makes controversial claim. Here's something that's sure to bolster support for people like Jack Thompson and Dave Grossman. Dr. Sonya Brady from the University of California, San Francisco and Professor Karen Matthews from... Read more...

Microsoft loses No. 2 ranking in market value to drug maker

Tom Warren — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:26:54 +0000

Microsoft has lost its status as the world's second-largest corporation to drug maker Pfizer due to slowing sales growth that caused it to miss out on this year's stock-market rally. Pfizer's market... Read more...

Drug Design Optimization Lab 0.6 Beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:08:23 +0000

SENGENT OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS KEY RESEARCH EFFORT AGAINST BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS The Sengent Drug Design Optimization Lab is working to identify an orally available small molecule... Read more...