Neowin News Feed for: Prize

Real or fake voice? FTC gives you $25,000 if you help solve huge tech challenge of AI era

Martin Hodás — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 05:30:01 +0000

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is now accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, aiming to counter the misuse of AI tools able to generate synthetic voices of real persons. Read more...

Xbox, Doritos, and Rockstar Energy Drink set to dish out cool prizes

Paul Hill — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:16:01 +0000

Xbox, Doritos, and Rockstar Energy Drink are teaming up to offer customers thousands of prizes. Just buy a bag of Doritos or a Rockstar Energy Drink can to be in with a chance of winning. Read more...

Show off your skills in Forza Motorsport 6 and you can win a real Ford Focus RS

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 06:32:01 +0000

Forza and its partners are holding a huge digital driving competition open to everyone. If you've got the skills to be the best in the world, you'll drive away with a new 2017 Ford Focus RS. Read more...

Eyenaemia takes home Microsoft's Imagine Cup top prize

Brad Sams — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:19:54 +0000

Microsoft's Imagine Cup has come to a close and this year, team Eyenaemia took home the trophy along with $50,000 in cash to support their product and help expand its presence in the market. Read more...

Amazon opens movie studio, offers prizes

Alan Cone — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:59:43 +0000

Amazon originally started out as no more than a simple web-based store for general goods. Today, it seems that Amazon has expanded so much as to be the end all source for services and goods.... Read more...

Neowin Giveaway: Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade

Brad Sams — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:07:00 +0000

Do you find yourself stuck in Windows Vista and are looking for a way to upgrade to the beloved Windows 7? If that’s you, or you like free copies of Windows 7, Neowin has... Read more...

Neowin giveaway: You guess it, you win it

Tom Warren — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:15:59 +0000

It's that time again, we're giving away a mystery prize this week. One lucky winner who guesses what we're giving away, wins it. To be in with a chance of winning this prize you simply... Read more...

Reminder: 3 days left to enter our prize give-away

Tom Warren — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:08:44 +0000

Just a quick reminder to all members, our give-away ends on the 18th May at 23:59 GMT. Don't forget to enter and complete our survey. Enter here... Read more...

Disk technology takes Nobel Prize

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:34:35 +0000

French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics after discovering the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance" (GMR), in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences... Read more...

All Women Team Take Home Yahoo! Hack Day Prize

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:25:23 +0000

Yahoo! opened it's doors this Friday and Saturday for the first Yahoo! Hack Day, designed to let teams of developers build applications and projects using the Yahoo! APIs, with the most creative winning prizes. This... Read more...

Apple Offers Massive iTunes Europe Prize

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:05:49 +0000

Apple has announced a major prize which will go to the music fan who downloads the 100 millionth song from iTunes in Europe. The company says: "Music fans in 17 countries around Europe are clicking... Read more...

SpaceShipOne Close to X Prize

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:12:17 +0000

A privately built rocket plane and its mother ship lifted off into clear skies above the Mojave Desert on Monday in a bid to win a $10 million prize for the first commercially viable manned... Read more...

WWW Inventor Receives Technology Prize

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:30:27 +0000

The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest... Read more...

Prize Give-Away Update

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:54:56 +0000

The first of this month's two draws has taken place. Read more for the winners list. We are now accepting nominations for the second contest. The draw will take place on... Read more...

$10,000 prize for code cracker

Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:03:00 +0000

A code developed for wireless networking has been successfully cracked by a mathematician from Indiana's University of Notre Dame and the combined computational power of 10,000 computers. Over a total of 549 days... Read more...

HP OpenView guns for Web services management prize

Sat, 29 Jun 2002 04:37:07 +0000

Large System Management vendors are shedding their domain and element-focused network management roots to aggressively pursue integrated products that manage workflow processes and end-user performance within distributed IT networks and Web services environments. ... Read more...

Nobel prize winners ask judge to reject Microsoft settlement

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:23:25 +0000

Two Nobel Prize-winning economists have reviewed Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and nine US states and have subsequently urged Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to reject the deal. The... Read more...