Neowin News Feed for: Emergency

PSA: Microsoft has kept its secret Emergency Restart option in Windows 11 too

Sayan Sen — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:08:02 +0000

While there are many ways to shutdown and restart Windows, and while most users are aware of these, Microsoft also includes a hidden option dubbed the "Emergency Restart" and it is in Windows 11 too. Read more...

How to set your Medical ID in iOS

Adam Bottjen — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:16:01 +0000

Medical ID allows first responders to quickly receive your medical information should they come to your aid. They can also get access to your emergency contact list should they need to be contacted. Read more...

Emergency alerts to roll out in the UK starting from October

Steve Bennett — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 09:50:01 +0000

The UK government is set to roll out a warning system in October this year similar to that in the US, which will alert users of flooding, extreme weather, public health emergencies, and more. Read more...

Microsoft fixes bug that prevented users from calling 911 with an update

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:52:01 +0000

Microsoft has updated Teams for Android which fixes a bug that blocked users from dialing 911. Google has also addressed the issue and will be pushing an OTA update to fix the issue with the platform. Read more...

Your iPhone and Apple Watch could soon be able to detect a car crash and dial 911

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:14:01 +0000

Apple is planning to bring a crash detection feature to the iPhone and the Apple Watch which will automatically dial emergency services in case of a hard crash using the help of inbuilt sensors. Read more...

Google brings SOS Alerts to Search and Maps to keep you safe in emergencies

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:50:01 +0000

Google announced today the launch of a new alert system designed to keep its users safe in the real world. SOS Alerts system brings critical, official information to users near an emergency site. Read more...

OnePlus solves 911 reboot issue, update coming soon

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:02:02 +0000

It was only a short time ago that it was revealed that the OnePlus 5 had an issue when dialing 911 that would cause it to reboot. Now, the firm has apparently solved the issue with an update. Read more...

OnePlus 5 is crashing and rebooting for some users when they dial 911 [Update]

Vishal Laul — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:12:01 +0000

A perplexing bug in the OnePlus 5 is causing it to crash and reboot every time the user dials 911. The bug does not seem to be affecting all users, but the cause behind it remains unclear. Read more...

Google launches Emergency Location Service for Android to help users in emergencies

Jett Goldsmith — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:42:01 +0000

Google has launched its Emergency Location Service feature for Android devices in the UK and Estonia. The feature sends location data to emergency services, and will be expanded internationally. Read more...

The future of emergencies? Canadian police receive tip about human remains on Facebook

Jett Goldsmith — Sat, 24 May 2014 01:01:38 +0000

A leaked email, sent by Saskatchewan's RCMP media relations division, has noted that the department received a private message on Facebook alerting them of "human remains" found by an area river. Read more...

Twitter Alerts launch brings 'life-saving' emergency tweets to U.K. & Ireland

Andy Weir — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:23:16 +0000

Twitter Alerts has launched in the U.K. and Ireland, with 57 organisations, including police forces and government agencies, signing up to share critical information quickly when it is needed most. Read more...

Girls lost in drain rescued due to Facebook status update

Sam Alderwick — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:31:52 +0000

When two girls, aged 10 and 12, were lost in a storm drain in South Australia last night, most people would have expected them to have called the emergency services immediately, seeing as they had... Read more...

Google maps Australia's bushfires to help emergency services

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:04:17 +0000

The death toll from wildfires in Victoria State, Southern Australia has reached at least 108, the worst in the country's history. Entire towns in Victoria state were destroyed as fires were fanned by extreme temperatures... Read more...

Microsoft preps emergency IE patch for Wednesday release

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:30:27 +0000

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will issue an emergency patch tomorrow to quash a critical Internet Explorer bug that attackers have been exploiting for more than a week. The advance warning came less than... Read more...

Microsoft: Emergency Patch? It ain't so bad after all!

Steven Parker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:03 +0000

After issuing notification earlier today, of an imminent emergency critical patch needed for most versions of the NT core versions of Windows, Microsoft issued a patch for affected systems to Windows Update that resolved the... Read more...

Microsoft to release EMERGENCY patch for Windows today

Steven Parker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:37:41 +0000

Cheers Bink for the heads up that Microsoft has notified him that they will release an emergency security patch later today. Thursday October 23rd, 17:00 GMT (That is 19:00 for GMT+1). All Microsoft has said... Read more...

Microsoft issues emergency Windows patch

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:39:19 +0000

Microsoft has released an update that fixes seven separate Windows vulnerabilities, all of which were rated "critical" by the software giant. As expected, the release patches the way Windows processes .ani Animated Cursor files –... Read more...

Attacks Escalate As Microsoft Announces Emergency .ANI Patch

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:34:16 +0000

Microsoft is releasing an off-cycle patch Tuesday for the .ANI vulnerability that saw an escalating number of threats appearing over the weekend. F-Secure noted that the first worm using the exploit was discovered roaming the... Read more...

State of Emergency 2 delayed to 2005

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:54:37 +0000

Publisher BAM Entertainment has updated its release schedule, revealing that State of Emergency 2, currently in development at Scottish studio VIS Entertainment, has been pushed back in to 2005. The game is the sequel to... Read more...

SOHO Satellite Goes Into Emergency Mode

Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:57:51 +0000

By Luis Sanchez Duarte - NASA Around 02:30 UT on February 5, 2002, SOHO went into Emergency Sun Reacquisition (ESR) mode shortly after an interruption of the power supply to one of... Read more...

Emergency Counter-Strike patch

Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:34:14 +0000

It seems Counter-Strike users who use ATI graphic cards are getting "overflow" error messages. They inform people on the main site that they are going to release a small patch tomorrow, but its unclear if... Read more...

NVMax 3.00.49 emergency release

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:35:02 +0000

I have created an emergency release 3.00.49 to deal with the 21.81 problem (registry change). NVmax 3.00.48 already had support for Det4/XP but due to a stupid programming error by myself it didn't enable. 3.00.49... Read more...