Neowin News Feed for: Olympics

Not torrents, but illegal live-streaming sites are the biggest enemy of the 2024 Olympics

Martin Hodás — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:46:01 +0000

Piracy evolves, too. The Olympics demonstrated that torrents are a threat of the past, as websites with illegal live streams are now main cause of headaches for intellectual property rights holders. Read more...

Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition will be provided to nearly 17,000 Paris 2024 Olympic athletes

Pradeep Viswanathan — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:00:02 +0000

Samsung unveiled the Olympic Edition of the Galaxy Z Flip6, designed exclusively for athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The phone retains the same technical specs as the standard device. Read more...

An AI voice version of Al Michaels will narrate daily clips from NBC's 2024 Paris Olympics

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:40:02 +0000

NBC will have an AI voice version of famed sportscaster Al Michaels narrate daily clips of its coverage of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics on its Peacock streaming service starting July 27 Read more...

Microsoft Security is warning of Russian misinformation campaigns during the 2024 Olympics

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:12:01 +0000

The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) has issued a warning that Russian-based hacker groups are using AI as part of a campaign to spread misinformation about the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics. Read more...

Intel live-streamed glorious 8K60 HDR footage of the Tokyo Olympics

Sayan Sen — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:02:01 +0000

Intel demoed an end-to-end 8K 60fps HDR live stream of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 running entirely on its own hardware. The video was encoded on a server with 112 Xeon cores and 384GB of memory. Read more...

Russian hackers are attacking Tokyo 2020 Olympics, says Microsoft

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:40:01 +0000

Starting September 16, the Russian state-sponsored hacker group known as Strontium successfully targeted many national and international sporting and anti-doping organizations worldwide. Read more...

Samsung launches the official PyeongChang 2018 app

Paul Hill — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 04:30:01 +0000

Samsung has announced the availability of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics app. Whether or not you're going to Korea for the games, the app has useful information including medal tables. Read more...

Samsung announces Winter Olympics Galaxy Note8

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:16:01 +0000

Samsung has announced that it will provide Olympians and Paralympians, as well as other staff involved with the games, with a new Winter Olympics edition of the Samsung Galaxy Note8. Read more...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the Olympics with fruity mini games

Justin Luna — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:30:01 +0000

As part of its celebration for this year's Olympics which will be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Google has launched a new Doodle containing a set of mini sports games featuring fruits. Read more...

Watch 100 hours of the Rio 2016 Olympics in 360 degrees, courtesy of the BBC

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:10:01 +0000

The BBC is offering its users up to 100 hours of 360-degree video from the Rio 2016 Olympics. You can get the content with the BBC Sport 360 app, which will be available soon on Android and iOS. Read more...

Microsoft and the Special Olympics form partnership

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:26:01 +0000

Microsoft is set to sponsor both the 2015 and 2017 Special Olympics World Games by bringing mobile devices and cloud support to the global non-profit organization. Read more...

Google puts gay rights front-and-center with Olympic homepage doodle

Andy Weir — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:01:46 +0000

A rainbow-coloured doodle adorns Google's homepage today with an excerpt from the Olympic Charter that forbids "discrimination of any kind", ahead of the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Read more...

Acer and Microsoft help out at the London 2012 Olympics

John Callaham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:19:24 +0000

Acer is the official PC hardware provider for the London 2012 Olympic Games, providing laptop, desktops and servers running on Windows for the athletes and staff. Read more...

Reporter suspended from Twitter for anti-NBC tweets

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:33:22 +0000

A reporter for The Independent had his Twitter account suspended, under the pretense that he violated Twitter's terms of service by tweeting the email address of an NBC executive. Read more...

Cybercriminals targeting Olympic Games fans

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:22:52 +0000

With the London 2012 Olympic Games well under way, phishing websites have been discovered selling tickets to both the opening ceremony and the events themselves. Read more...

Bing rolls out Olympic updates

Tyler Holman — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:18:36 +0000

Bing just rolled out a ton of new updates celebrating the London Olympics, including everything from new Maps imagery to Instant Answers that help you stay up to date on the games. Read more...

Free WiFi in London extends to taxis as well from today

Steven Parker — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:31:17 +0000

One taxi company in London will today start offering free WiFI access to its full fleet of 300 taxis in London, but to get your fix on the move just be sure to hop in a Greentomatocars taxi. Read more...

Facebook launches London Olympics portal

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:07:17 +0000

Facebook launched a new portal for the 2012 Olympic Games held in London. The new portal, which features links to Olympic-related Facebook pages, was announced at an event in London earlier today. Read more...

London Underground mobile network delayed indefinitely

Mike Brown — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:29:59 +0000

Plans to install a mobile phone network on the London Underground have been delayed indefinitely, according to a statement from Boris Johnson. The Conservative mayor of London, in a statement to The Guardian, said that... Read more...

Huawei offers to bring mobile coverage to London Underground

Mike Brown — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:32:47 +0000

In a generous move, Huawei today announced intentions to bring mobile phone coverage to London's sprawling underground system. Expected to be worth $80 million, The Sunday Times is reporting that the move would be a... Read more...

NBC creates interactive info graphic out of Olympics tweets

Brad Sams — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:38:20 +0000

Love it or hate it, Twitter is a social media that has taken off and has grown exponentially since its inception; so it only makes sense for NBC to incorporate Twitter into its coverage of... Read more...

YouTube to stream Olympics to 77 territories

Stephen Roberts — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:48:07 +0000

The Olympic content will reach 77 territories where digital rights have not been sold, or have been acquired on a non-exclusive basis, the International Olympic Committee said Monday. The IOC did not release financial details... Read more...

IOC Agrees To Internet Blocking At Olympics

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:18:38 +0000

The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday what journalists arriving at the lavishly outfitted media center at Beijing had suspected: contrary to previous assurances by Olympic and government officials, the Internet will be censored during the upcoming... Read more...

No Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:38:06 +0000

The IT systems supporting the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, will not be using Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system. Instead, the computing hardware will run on Windows XP, according to Xie... Read more...

MS wish British Athletes best of luck in the Olympics

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:01:42 +0000

Birmingham, England, home town to many Neowinians, is also a site of support for the British Olypmic hopes. For the next few days, Microsoft will be offering passers by to write messages of congratulations, commiseration... Read more...

GUI Olympics Week 5 Results - Best Overall

Brad Wardell — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:20:22 +0000

The GUI Olympics is an international user interface design contest that has been going for the past 5 weeks. Partipants have been competing for up to $15,000 in cash and prizes through a series... Read more...

Best visual styles of the GUI Olympics

Brad Wardell — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:29:59 +0000

The GUI Olympics is almost over. The upcoming week is the last week where the big 3 events get finished up. The last judged event, best visual style (using WindowBlinds) is... Read more...

GUI Olympics Finals: The contenders

Brad Wardell — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:42:58 +0000

Here's an article the goes over *some* of the finalists for "Best overall" visual style and "Best overall" icon package. It's going to be really close and this is a must-read for those... Read more...

GUI Olympics Week 4 results

Brad Wardell — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:26:05 +0000

The 4th week of the GUI Olympics has come and gone with the last 2 regular events having been played out. The results: b0se's Vector cell... Read more...

GUI Olympics deadlines extended!

Brad Wardell — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:11:04 +0000

Based on popular demand, the judging for the GUI Olympics has been pushed back to May 4th to give skinners more time to put together their skins and themes. In particular, Winamp and... Read more...

The GUI Olympics has begun!

Brad Wardell — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:33:15 +0000

The GUI Olympics 2004 begins today. The GUI Olympics is a Inter-website contest in which people compete for over $10,000 in cash and prizes. Anyone can enter as an individual or as part of a... Read more...

Olympics alert to hacking threat

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:09:04 +0000

Officials in Athens are developing plans to counter attacks on IT infrastructure. Security officials for the Athens Olympics are working on plans to counter a possible hacker attack on key infrastructure during the Games in... Read more...

GUI Olympics voting has begun

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:14:13 +0000

Thank you Babis for this news The first event of the GUI Olympics is "Most cheerful skin". Visit Gui Olympics Site to go through the skins and find the top 5... Read more...

The power behind the Olympics

Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:39:40 +0000

Relaying results, events and information from the Winter Games to spectators and the media around the world is an Olympian task. On top of that there is security clearance and access to... Read more...

GUI Olympics 2002 Begins

Steven Parker — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 22:07:10 +0000

The major skin sites and several tech news sites have gotten together with Stardock to create the first GUI Olympics. It is the ultimate user interface design contest in which users from around the... Read more...

GUI Olympics 2002 info

Steven Parker — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:42:20 +0000

The first GUIOlympics will cover WindowBlinds, the popular GUI skinning program from Stardock who is providing the prizes and prize money. The contest will begin on February 1, 2002. That is the day when you... Read more...