Neowin News Feed for: Mass

We may finally know how heavy "ghost particles" truly are thanks to this new study

Sayan Sen — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:30:01 +0000

"Ghost particles" in this universe are thought to be massless, but thanks to breakthrough research, scientists may finally be able to weigh in. Read more...

Patch coming for Mass Effect PC

Sam Symons — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:08:18 +0000

BioWare has announced on their forums that a patch is on the way for the PC version of Mass Effect. Currently there is no information available, but Chris Priestly, Community Coordinator for BioWare, has said... Read more...

Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Validation Every Ten Days

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:47:55 +0000

BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days in order for the... Read more...

Experts: Don't blame Microsoft for mass site defacements

Steven Parker — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:38:13 +0000

Progress was made Monday in mitigating thousands of SQL-based Web sites injected with malicious javascript code. However, one security expert says we can expect more such attacks in the near future. A traditional SQL injection... Read more...

EA Calls Fox Out on "Insulting" Mass Effect Inaccuracies

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:01:37 +0000

Electronic Arts, likely sick of having their recently-acquired role-playing franchise Mass Effect dragged through the mud on national television, has requested that Fox News Channel correct their error-plagued segment on the game. In the letter,... Read more...

Mass production of XO laptops kicks off

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:29:27 +0000

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization launched in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to design, manufacture and distribute affordable laptop computers to children around the world, announced that mass production of the... Read more...

Mass Production of Optimus Maximus Has Not Started

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:03:19 +0000

If you've been following news of the full-sized 113-keys Optimus Maximus keyboard with colour OLED screens (10.1mmÂ² large with a 48x48 pixel resolution) located inside each key, you are probably aware of the bad news... Read more...

SanDisk: Price cut to persist & ramp up 56nm mass production

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:25:56 +0000

About 98-99% of SanDisk NAND flash are of multi-level cell structure. As there still is a considerable amount of low-price MLC NAND flash being sold in the market, prices are being affected. Once the inventory... Read more...

Samsung Mass Producing 1Gb DDR2 DRAM at 60nm

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:47:53 +0000

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 1Gigabit DDR2 DRAM using 60 nanometer process technology. In its press release, Samsung estimates efficiency gains of the 60nm process are 40%... Read more...

Toshiba Matsushita Starts Mass Production of 5-inch TFT LCD

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:34:51 +0000

It turns out that the demand for electronic dictionaries is fairly big, and growing. Enough anyways, for Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. to announce the mass production of its 5.01-inch monochrome, highly reflective, thin... Read more...

OLPC aims for mass production in Q3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:56:01 +0000

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to begin mass production of its low-cost notebooks aimed at children in developing nations in August or September. In late 2005, when the nonprofit organization released a prototype of... Read more...

Mass Effect coming to PC in 2007?

Todd Tanner — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:04:25 +0000

Kotaku has the scoop that a UK gaming magazine, PC Gamer UK to be exact, has word that Bioware's next big game Mass Effect which up until now has been an Xbox 360 exclusive -... Read more...

Mass Market for WiMax Still Years Away

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:07:47 +0000

The mass market for WiMax technology faces a number of challenges, but will probably reach its potential within five years. "Now that the certification of WiMax equipment has started and coverage areas have begun to... Read more...

Viiv-based desktop PCs to enter mass production in early Feb

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:31:42 +0000

Taiwan-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC specialists AOpen and Shuttle and own-brand PC companies Acer, Gigabyte Technology, and Micro-Star International (MSI) are gearing up to introduce new desktop PCs based on the Intel Viiv platform in January... Read more...

Mass Layoffs Loom For HP

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:59:53 +0000

HP is expected to initiate a corporate restructuring within the next two weeks that could see as many as 15,000 layoffs. Analyst firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co said that HP could slash between five... Read more...

EB Games plans mass midnight Halo 2 events Monday

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:35:09 +0000

New York and Los Angeles store to stage flagship sales, with over 1,000 others planning their own midnight events. November 9 can't come soon enough for some gamers, and EB Games is... Read more...

Mass production of 5-megapixel CMOS digital cameras in 2H

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:25:57 +0000

Prices for 5-megapixel CMOS digital cameras are expected to drop from around US$200 currently to US$150 in the second half of the year as local companies move into mass production, according to sources. The sources... Read more...

ATI to mass produce R420 graphics chip in 1Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:38:30 +0000

ATI Technologies is expected to enter volume production of its R420 graphics chip core as early as the end of the first quarter, according to local industry sources. The R420 will be fabricated at Taiwan... Read more...

Navy SEALs: Weapons of Mass Destruction demo

Marcel Klum — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:04:51 +0000

A playable demo of Navy SEALs: Weapons of Mass Destruction is now available, offering the opportunity to try out the Lithtech-powered first-person shooter that was released a few months ago by Jar Head Games and... Read more...

Microsoft ordered to pay Mass legal fees

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:37:10 +0000

Microsoft is to cough up $1 million in legal fees to Massachusetts - the lone state pursuing an appeal against the 2002 antitrust ruling. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ordered Microsoft to shell out... Read more...

Nforce 3 not in mass production yet

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:22:25 +0000

EVEN THOUGH Asus has already announced Nforce 3 motherboards that you can buy in many parts of the world, there's evidence suggesting the chipsets not so ready as Nvidia would like, at least not for... Read more...

ATI's R350 in mass production

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:40:25 +0000

IN THE HIGH PERFORMANCE graphics industry, performance must be combined with quality. It is this neverending race which will lead to initial availability of Nvidia's new Geforce FX cards this month. However, we have learned... Read more...

The Ross Report: Dogs and Cats Living Together! Mass Hysteria!

Ross Dundas — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:18:07 +0000

Greetings from the Notorious R.A.D. no not a fallen overweight rapper but your host on a journey through the days Bits, Bytes and the just plain crazy. No i wasn't drunk when i posted this... Read more...