Neowin News Feed for: Shutdown

Here's how to disable Macbook's auto-start feature when opening its lid

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:04:01 +0000

Apple has published a solution for those who get annoyed when their MacBook boots up automatically when opening the lid or connecting the charger. Read more...

TikTok is on the brink of U.S. shutdown as Sunday deadline approaches

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:12:01 +0000

TikTok could be a thing of the past, at least in the United States, as the Sunday deadline approaches for its possible shutdown. Read more...

Ubisoft's Call of Duty rival XDefiant is shutting down six months into launch

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:18:01 +0000

XDefiant, the live-service free-to-play FPS from Ubisoft, is shutting down its servers soon. Some purchases are being refunded as well. Read more...

Online video chatting platform Omegle shuts down after 14 years

Anushe Fawaz — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 08:48:01 +0000

In a long and heartfelt post, Omegle's founder Lief K. Brooks has announced that the live video chatting platform is now shutting down. He shared his sentiments and reasons for the decision. Read more...

LinkedIn is shutting down its Chinese spinoff InCareer and laying off 716 employees

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 09 May 2023 08:00:01 +0000

LinkedIn is shutting down its China-focused local jobs app called InCareer, which will result in the departure of 716 employees from the company. The operations will wind down by August this year. Read more...

EA to remove Mirror's Edge, Bad Company series, and Battlefield 1943 from sale [UPDATE]

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:02:33 +0000

EA is shutting down the servers of four classic DICE games and removing them from sale this year. The titles impacted are Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company 1 and 2, as well as Mirror's Edge. Read more...

Epic Games' Rumbleverse is shutting down just six months after launch

Usama Jawad — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:22:01 +0000

Rumbleverse's servers are going offline, just six months after launch. The free-to-play melee-focused battle royale built by Iron Galaxy and Epic Games is also offering refunds to existing players. Read more...

Amazon is shutting down its online learning platform in India

Hemant Saxena — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:22:02 +0000

In what appears to be a part of the company's ongoing cost-cutting measures, Amazon has decided to shut down its Amazon Academy, an online learning platform for high-school engineering aspirants. Read more...

Microsoft is improving Shut Down and WinRE in Windows 11 with modern look and icons

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 16 May 2022 14:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has tweaked the Shutdown dialog box as well as the WinRE Recovery interface with the new WinUI design elements and added new icons which update these elements and ensure consistency. Read more...

YouTube is forcing popular Discord music bot Rythm offline, millions impacted

Usama Jawad — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 05:08:01 +0000

Google is forcing Discord music bot Rythm to close its doors to users. The service is massively popular on Discord with installations on over 20 million servers and a user base of 560 million. Read more...

Dr. Mario World is shutting down in November, just two years after launch

Usama Jawad — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:00:01 +0000

Nintendo has announced that it is shutting down Dr. Mario World in November, just a little over two years after the game's launch. The title was reportedly doing poorly in terms of revenue. Read more...

PayPal plans to shut down its domestic payment service in India

Mehrotra A — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:00:01 +0000

PayPal will be shutting down its domestic payment service that allowed Indians to pay domestic merchants in local currency. However, the company will continue to offer cross-border payments in India. Read more...

Konami denies shutting down its gaming division

Usama Jawad — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:22:01 +0000

Recently, rumors emerged that Konami is shutting down its gaming division. However, the firm has now refuted the claim, stating that it is simply doing some internal restructuring of its departments. Read more...

Report: Chinese government would rather see TikTok U.S. shut down than being forcefully sold

Hamza Khan — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 03:50:02 +0000

The Chinese government would rather see TikTok U.S. shut down than being forcefully sold. The officials believe that a forced sale would make the government and ByteDance appear weak. Read more...

Twitch Sings service to close down by the year's end

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 15:44:01 +0000

It has come to light that live-streaming platform Twitch is going to shut down its online karaoke game service, Sings. The Amazon-owned subsidiary is going to start removing content from December 1. Read more...

Sony will discontinue PlayStation Vue on January 30, 2020

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:14:01 +0000

Sony is shutting down its PlayStation Vue TV streaming service on January 30, 2020 due to what it describes as "expensive content and network deals" in the competitive Pay TV industry. Read more...

Wise Auto Shutdown 1.75.94

Razvan Serea — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:32:01 +0000

Wise Auto Shutdown is a small utility that you can use to schedule automatic shutdown, restart, sleep or logoff on your PC. Read more...

Uncharted 2, 3, The Last of Us PS3 multiplayer servers to go offline September 3

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:24:02 +0000

Naughty Dog will shut down PS3 multiplayer servers for Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and The Last of Us on September 3. Until then, the service remains active, and all multiplayer DLC is free to get. Read more...

Telltale games are disappearing off stores as studio finalizes shutdown

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:12:02 +0000

Telltale Games' liquidation process has already begun, and multiple games by the studio such as Back to the Future have been removed from Steam as the company prepares to shut down for good. Read more...

Yahoo! Messenger will shut down in July, after a two decade run

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:46:01 +0000

Yahoo!'s nearly two decade old service will finally be shutting down next month. The company has also provided a way for users to download their chat history until the date of closure. Read more...

Vidme to shutter its site due to costs and tough competition

Boyd Chan — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:12:02 +0000

Citing the dominance of Facebook and YouTube in the user-created content space along with unsustainable costs, Vidme will wind up its site and focus on a new product to be announced next year. Read more...

China stops Bitcoin execs from leaving the country

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:00:01 +0000

The authorities have ordered Bitcoin exchange executives to stay in the country in order to help the authorities with their investigations as they move to close down Bitcoin exchanges in China. Read more...

Take-Two Interactive slaps popular GTA modding tool OpenIV with cease and desist order

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:26:02 +0000

Publisher Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games, has issued a cease and desist letter against long-running modding tool OpenIV. Distribution of the tool has been halted. Read more...

iPhone 6s unexpected shutdowns; Apple cites manufacturing issue as cause of battery problem

Michael Firth — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:08:01 +0000

Apple has posted an article to its Chinese support page explaining the cause of recent unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6s devices. The shutdowns stem from of a "controlled ambient air" exposure issue. Read more...

Apple launches free iPhone 6s battery replacement program "for unexpected shutdown issues"

Andy Weir — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:06:01 +0000

Apple has announced a worldwide program to provide free battery replacements for "a very small number of iPhone 6s devices" that have been affected by "unexpected shutdown issues". Read more...

AlomWare Reset 2.50

Razvan Serea — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:44:01 +0000

AlomWare Reset: Why wait for your PC to reboot? Quickly reset in 10 seconds instead! Read more...

Rdio music streaming service sets the date for its shutdown

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:48:02 +0000

The radio-style online music streaming service Rdio fell on hard times in recent months, forcing the company to sell off much of its business - and now it's set a date for the closure of its services. Read more...

Samsung to kill off its video streaming service just one year after launch

Andy Weir — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:34:01 +0000

Samsung expanded its Milk Music streaming service to include curated video clips from providers like BuzzFeed and Funny or Die - but Milk Video is to be shut down, one day after its first birthday. Read more...

Comcast is shutting down its Xfinity app for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in two weeks

Andy Weir — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:48:01 +0000

Comcast says it will shut down its Xfinity app on the Xbox 360, and remove the app from those consoles, on September 1, "to make way for new updates and improvements to our online experience". Read more...

Google+ Photos is shutting down on August 1

Andy Weir — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:16:01 +0000

After announcing changes to its Google+ platform earlier this year, the search giant has now revealed that its Google+ Photos app will shut down next month, beginning with the Android version. Read more...

Grooveshark free music streaming service shuts down, apologizes for "very serious mistakes"

Andy Weir — Fri, 01 May 2015 11:42:01 +0000

Grooveshark has ceased operations to avoid paying up to $736m in damages to music labels for copyright violations, posting an apology on its site for 'failing to secure licenses from rights holders'. Read more...

The Pirate Bay rises from its digital ashes -again

Usama Jawad — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:09:31 +0000

The Pirate Bay is back online with a few changes; the site's logo is changed as well as the staff. The site is not fully functional yet but will probably be restored to its original form soon. Read more...

The Pirate Bay possibly looking to make a comeback

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:12:01 +0000

The Pirate Bay was shut down almost two weeks ago with no solid indication of making a return. However, now the website is back online with a waving pirate flag giving some hope to its fans. Read more...

Massive raid shuts down more than 400 dark net websites, worldwide arrests

Usama Jawad — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:02:02 +0000

Dark net sites hide a user's identity by routing their traffic through a series of computers. They have been associated with illegal activity so many of them are being shut down in a global raid. Read more...

TwitPic is shutting down, creator points finger at Twitter

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:56:15 +0000

For the past six years, Twitter users have relied on TwitPic to host photos and videos. But after September 25th, they will have to look elsewhere, as the service will shut down indefinitely. Read more...

MSN Messenger will finally shut down on October 31

Andy Weir — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:16:18 +0000

Microsoft is finally shutting down its Windows Live Messenger service - still popularly known as 'MSN Messenger' - on October 31, after it closed in all markets last year with the exception of China. Read more...

Popcorn Time, the Netflix for pirates, has already closed its doors

Steven Johns — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 04:54:21 +0000

The creators behind Popcorn Time have decided to shut the project down, mentioning that they do not want to deal with endless debates on piracy and legal threats. Read more...

Some websites could go offline if US government shuts down Tuesday

John Callaham — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:31:40 +0000

A number of websites run by the U.S. government, including the Library of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission sites, could go offline Tuesday if Congress can't approve a budget. Read more...

Piracy issues shuts down NZBMatrix

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:10:00 +0000

One of the most popular Usenet indexing services on the internet, NZBMatrix, has voluntarily shut down over troubles with constantly complying with DMCA takedown notices thanks to rampant piracy. Read more...

Microsoft goes after Zeus botnet operations

John Callaham — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:14:48 +0000

Microsoft has announced that its Digital Crimes Unit has participated in a raid of a criminal botnet earlier this month that installed variants of the Zeus malware. Read more...