Neowin News Feed for: Grants

Trump White House's proposed huge NASA budget cut could "decimate American space leadership"

Sayan Sen — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:46:01 +0000

A massive cut to the budget spending for NASA science research has been proposed by The White House that "could decimate American leadership in space". Read more...

OpenAI announces $1M grant to boost and quantify AI-powered cybersecurity

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:08:02 +0000

OpenAI has announced a new grant to fund projects focusing on AI-based cybersecurity solutions and tools. It will be offered in increments of $10,000 from a $1M fund as API credits and direct funds. Read more...

The White House wants to fund tech projects that help evade censorship and boost privacy

Paul Hill — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:42:01 +0000

The White House is looking to dish out prize money to tech projects that can help activists living in authoritarian countries bypass censorship or help to boost their online privacy. Read more...

Mozilla announces first round of funded research projects for 2018

Paul Hill — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:02:01 +0000

Mozilla has selected eight winners for its 2018H1 Research Grants. Many of the projects have a focus on improving the state of the internet which goes well with Mozilla's Healthy Internet campaign. Read more...

Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, announces further funding for proxies and VPNs following ban

Paul Hill — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 18:32:01 +0000

Pavel Durov has announced that he will donate millions of dollars this year in order to bolster VPN and proxy services in order to allow users to circumvent government bans of the app. Read more...

Google is investing £1m to train UK computing teachers

Paul Hill — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:00:01 +0000

Google has announced a £1m grant through its philanthropic arm, Google.org. The investment will help the UK train up the desperately needed computer science teachers to address new conditions. Read more...

Microsoft grants Linux patent amnesty to LG Electronics

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:02:37 +0000

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a cross-licensing deal with Korean consumer electronics maker LG Electronics Inc. It is the fifth such deal in recent months that involves Redmond's controversial granting of Linux patent 'protection' --... Read more...

Court grants permanent stay;Vonage may sign up new customers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:59:23 +0000

A U.S. appeals court today granted Vonage Holdings Corp. a permanent stay against a lower court ruling barring it from providing service to new customers. On April 6, Judge Claude Hilton of the U.S. District... Read more...

Judge Grants Microsoft's Request to Stay Google Case

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:50:00 +0000

In a victory for Microsoft Corp., a U.S. District Court judge in California upheld a tentative ruling issued two weeks ago to stay the Kai-Fu Lee case filed by Google Inc., giving a go-ahead for... Read more...

Judge Grants Microsoft Request in Google Case

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:09:41 +0000

A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing any duties at the search giant similar to those he performed at Microsoft. Washington state Superior Court Judge... Read more...

Sun Grants Patent Access to Open Source Community

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:06:48 +0000

Sun, following in IBM's footsteps, have announced the company will grant open source projects access to over 1,600 patents, the largest single release of I.P. ever. Sun CEO Scott McNealy said "Today represents a huge... Read more...

Microsoft Announces More Than $25 Million in "UP" grants

Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:38:17 +0000

It often amazes me how many people portay Bill Gates as one of the most evil men in the world; the fact that he has given literally hundreds of millions of dollars away to charity... Read more...