Neowin News Feed for: Impact

Amateur astronomer discovers meteor impact on Jupiter

Brad Sams — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:36:38 +0000

A backyard astronomer has discovered that Jupiter was recently impacted by an asteroid or a comet leaving a large mark on the surface of the planet. On July 19th Anthony Wesley was photographing Jupiter's... Read more...

Celestial Impact 1.00

Marcel Klum — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:14:18 +0000

Celestial Impact is a free multiplayer-only game available for PC. Celestial Impact is a team based multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) set in space on an asteroid with spherical gravity. What makes this FPS really... Read more...

AMD's Rivas On Barcelona Bug's Channel Impact

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:14:00 +0000

In an exclusive interview with ChannelWeb, AMD Executive Vice President of the Computing Products Group Mario Rivas discusses how the planned ramp-up of the company's Operton and Phenom quad-cores failed and what AMD is doing... Read more...

Microsoft's Ballmer, Smith on impact of EU ruling

Steven Parker — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:52:03 +0000

Will Microsoft change its approach to Windows development? Will it think twice next time before adding new functionality that could compete with standalone programs? Those are a couple of the big questions following the denial... Read more...

Microsoft admits "high impact issues" in Vista -- SP1 coming

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:20:00 +0000

Microsoft has admitted -- in a roundabout way -- that Vista has "high impact issues". It has put out a call for technical testers to participate in testing of Service Pack 1, due out later... Read more...

How does CPU Speed Impact Graphics Performance?

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:23:46 +0000

For the most part, we ultimately make our purchasing decisions based on price. If we have $200 to spend on a processor, it doesn't matter how fast an Extreme Edition runs our apps and games... Read more...

King Of Fighters Maximum Impact Coming Stateside

Marcel Klum — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:48:11 +0000

SNK's King of Fighters Maximum Impact is coming to North America, if a new teaser page from SNK Neo Geo USA is any indication. Now online at www.kofmi.com, the page features the familiar logo from... Read more...

Measuring Folding@Home's performance impact

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:05:20 +0000

Heard of Folding@Home? Its a bit like seti, except it uses pc power to help make new medicines etc. This is a nice article from /. saying basicly that arguments against running it (pc performance... Read more...

Nintendo sees minor impact from Kmart

Marcel Klum — Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:27:05 +0000

Japanese game giant Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it expected the bankruptcy of U.S. retailer Kmart Corp (NYSE:KM - news) to have only a minor impact on its earnings for the current business year... Read more...