Neowin News Feed for: Photon

Science makes an enlightening discovery that could rewrite what we know of physics

Sayan Sen — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:58:01 +0000

Scientists have uncovered a groundbreaking phenomenon involving light itself, a discovery that could fundamentally rewrite humanity's current understanding of physics. Read more...

Wave or Particle? One of the biggest ever mysteries has been cracked

Sayan Sen — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:30:01 +0000

Wave or particle? Science continues to unravel one of humanity's greatest mysteries in this universe in rather useful ways. Read more...

MIT sees astonishing light-speed 6G processing with its new "100 times faster" chip

Sayan Sen — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:28:01 +0000

MIT's pioneering optical AI chip uses photonics and the power of light-speed, promising way better 6G speeds. Read more...

Firefox Quantum now out of superposition, leaps to general availability

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:16:01 +0000

Mozilla has unveiled version 57 of its browser, dubbed Firefox Quantum, which comes with a new UI, vastly improved CSS engine, shorter load times, less RAM utilization and much more. Read more...

This week in science: 16 million entangled atoms, and baryonic matter

Gabriel Nunes — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:08:02 +0000

Scientists at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, have demonstrated the entanglement of 16 million atoms, a world's first; two independent teams have found evidence of missing baryonic matter. Read more...

Mozilla Firefox 57 rebranded as Firefox Quantum

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:54:09 +0000

Say goodbye to Project Quantum, and hello to Firefox Quantum. That's right, Mozilla's new Firefox is right around the corner and you can grab the beta build right now to give it a go. Read more...

Mozilla may be working on a new, flatter, Firefox logo for version 57

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:14:01 +0000

Mozilla has launched a new logo for its Nightly web browser. Firefox 57 is currently on the Nightly branch so the new logo will probably ship at the same time that release becomes publicly available. Read more...

Mozilla launches Firefox 54 with multi-process enabled for all

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 02:12:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 54, which comes with multi-process switched on for all users. The new feature moves Firefox from using a single process to multiple processes helping to prevent crashing. Read more...

Mozilla is working on a new 'performance settings' tab for Firefox

Paul Hill — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:58:01 +0000

Mozilla is working on a new performance preference for its settings menu which should come with or before the launch of the new Photon UI. The tab will let users alter the number of content processes. Read more...

Mozilla is working on a new UI for Firefox 57

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:16:01 +0000

Mozilla is expected to roll out a new user interface with Firefox 57. The Photon UI does away with the curvy tabs and introduces other new features including a centred URL bar and new tab page. Read more...