Neowin News Feed for: Sierra

A quick and personal look back at the launch of Half-Life 25 years ago today

John Callaham — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:54:01 +0000

25 years ago today, a small developer named Valve Software released its debut game, Half-Life. The first-person shooter turned out to be a milestone point in the PC gaming industry. Read more...

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer comes first in TOP500 rankings

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:46:01 +0000

Japan has ranked first place of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. It came ahead of two U.S.-based systems and two Chinese-built systems. Japan's Fugaku system also ranked ninth for energy efficiency. Read more...

TOP500 November 2018 list released, U.S.' Summit number one

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:02:02 +0000

The United States has maintained it perch in first place on the TOP500 list. China came in third and fourth place while we wait for its in development exascale supercomputer to make an appearance. Read more...

Apple releases the first public beta for macOS 10.12 Sierra

Rich Woods — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:04:01 +0000

Apple today released the first public beta of macOS 10.12 Sierra, two days after the second developer beta. The main new feature to look out for is Siri. Users can download the new build right now. Read more...

macOS Sierra code suggests OLED touch bar and TouchID might be coming to Macs

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:52:01 +0000

A credible rumor came out last month suggesting that future MacBooks might feature TouchID and an OLED touch bar - and now code from the macOS Sierra beta seemingly corroborates those rumors. Read more...

macOS Sierra signals end of support for Macs from 2007-2009

Justin Luna — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:10:01 +0000

As part of Apple's announcement of OS X's name change to macOS and the unveiling of its new version, SIerra, the new operating system has officially dropped support for older Macs in the past decade. Read more...

Apple renames OS X to macOS, introduces macOS Sierra

Justin Luna — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:06:31 +0000

Today at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the firm has announced a new name for its desktop operating system, called macOS. A new version is announced, called Sierra, bringing in new features. Read more...

Classic adventure game makers launch Kickstarter projects

John Callaham — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:55:58 +0000

Al Lowe and Jane Jensen, both of whom made popular PC adventure games for the now defunct Sierra On-line, have now launched Kickstarter projects to help fund new games Read more...

Sierra hard-hit as VU Games axes 350 jobs

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:51:35 +0000

No cuts at Blizzard, but Sierra winks out of existence as Vivendi restructures Vivendi Games has announced that they will lay off 350 staff as part of the firm's restructuring efforts.... Read more...