Neowin News Feed for: Swarm

Foursquare announces that its shutting its city guide app, focusing on Swarm

Steve Bennett — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:26:01 +0000

Location check-in app Swarm will be its main focus beyond 2024, with the original app sunsetting in December. Read more...

UK supercomputer set to help fight African locust outbreak

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:48:01 +0000

The UK is funding a supercomputer which helps to track devastating locust swarms. It also uses predicted weather data to work out where the locusts will move to next, giving farmers time to prepare. Read more...

MIT's Swarm wants to make your multi-core phones and PCs 18 times faster

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 13:38:01 +0000

MIT has developed a new type of processor architecture that solves many of the inefficiencies that come with multi-core CPUs directly through hardware. It makes multi-core chips 18 times faster. Read more...

Microsoft Garage launches Tossup; wants to get your friends together faster

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 09:38:01 +0000

The folks at Microsoft Garage have launched a new app called Tossup, which wants to make getting together with friends easier and faster. The app allows you to poll people on meeting times and places. Read more...

Check out Harvard's thousand-robot flash mob

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:25:44 +0000

Researchers from Harvard have created a robot swarm. Consisting of over 1000 'kilobots' the swarm can assemble itself and achieve tasks without the need for human intervention. Read more...