Neowin News Feed for: Sea

Diving into the ocean with golf ball-inspired vehicles is what scientists are working on

Sayan Sen — Sat, 24 May 2025 20:24:01 +0000

Scientists at Michigan University are working on cool golf ball-inspired vehicles that could dive into oceans. Read more...

Climate change causes South Africa to mysteriously rise instead of sink. NASA helps find why

Sayan Sen — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:14:01 +0000

A study has finally revealed why South Africa keeps rising against the ocean instead of sinking and how climate change is also causing this. Read more...

PC Game Pass is coming to five countries in Southeast Asia

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:10:01 +0000

Microsoft is expanding the availability of PC Game Pass. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are the latest regions slated to receive the popular service later this year. Read more...

Sony Xperia Z2 spends six weeks in the sea, lives to tell the tale

Andy Weir — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:48:23 +0000

A man dropped his Sony Xperia Z2 into the sea, only for the device to be retrieved by his scuba-diving friend six weeks later - a little worse for wear, but still in full working order. Read more...

Leaked emails show amount of money Microsoft gets from government info requests

John Callaham — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:44:25 +0000

Emails stolen and leaked from Microsoft by the Syrian Electronic Army show that Microsoft can receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges from the government for information requests. Read more...

Microsoft: Law enforcement inquiry documents stolen in recent phishing attacks

John Callaham — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:04:42 +0000

Microsoft has now revealed that "documents associated with law enforcement inquiries were stolen" as part of the recent phishing attacks on some of its employees' emails Read more...

CNN social media accounts compromised by SEA [Update]

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:32:41 +0000

More social media accounts have been compromised today by the Syrian Electronic Army - this time belonging to a major American news network CNN. Read more...

Syrian Electronic Army threatens more cyber attacks on Microsoft

John Callaham — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:59:38 +0000

The Syrian Electronic Army hacker group claims that it "didn't finish our attack" on Microsoft, while the company has admitted the SEA hacked into a "small number" of its email accounts. Read more...

Microsoft Twitter accounts hacked by SEA

Jett Goldsmith — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:05:10 +0000

Two Microsoft Twitter accounts have been hacked today by the Syrian Electronic Army, marking the most recent in a long line of attacks against social media accounts by the organization. Read more...