Neowin News Feed for: Trivia

196MB of RAM is apparently enough to run Windows 11

Taras Buria — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:56:01 +0000

Windows 11 officially requires a minimum of 4GB of RAM to provide a more-or-less satisfactory user experience. However, as it turned out, you can run Windows 11 on a PC with less than 200MB of RAM. Read more...

Tom Hanks trivia game, Hanx101 Trivia, is coming to Apple Arcade

Hemant Saxena — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:24:02 +0000

Hanx101 Trivia is a new game that's set to roll out to Apple Arcade subscribers on September 2. It has been developed by BlueLine Studios and features questions across several categories. Read more...

Booting Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium CPU takes three hours

Taras Buria — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:32:01 +0000

NTDev, a Windows enthusiast, decided to test what would happen if you try to run Windows XP on a CPU 233 times slower than the minimum spec. Behold, Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium processor. Read more...

Cortana has a new game to play with you, movie buffs step on up

Brad Sams — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:36:05 +0000

Cortana has been updated with a new game and for those of you who like movies, she has a bag full of trivia waiting to test your knowledge; the feature is now live too. Read more...

Google releases addictive 'Smarty Pins' Maps geography trivia game

James Walker — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:16:58 +0000

Google has launched a new simple but very appealing game based around topical geography trivia and powered by its popular Maps software in which you simply name the city where the event took place. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Microsoft codenames

Tyler Holman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:15:36 +0000

Ever been curious about Microsoft product codenames and the stories behind them? For this week's Trivia Tuesday, we've assembled a sampling of some of the most interesting, from Opus to Longhorn. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: All About Operating Systems

Tyler Holman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:36:51 +0000

This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a look at operating systems; what they are, how they work, and their history, from their unlikely origins at General Motors to the source code of Windows. Read more...

How much ink do the world's inkjet printers use each year?

Steven Parker — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:29:14 +0000

Next year, over 314 million inkjet cartridges will be sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 942 million cartridges that will be sold across the world in 2012; or thirty cartridges per second Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: 5 Apple products you've probably forgotten

Tyler Holman — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:17:03 +0000

Over the years, the folks at Cupertino have produced some awesome products. But what about the not so awesome products? This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a look at five forgotten Apple products. Read more...

Trivia: Printing all the way to Mars and back

Steven Parker — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:08:31 +0000

Did you know that if you stacked all the pages printed in the world in 2010 in one giant stack, they would reach to the moon? That's 356,400 kilometers - more fun facts inside. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Some facts about BitTorrent

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:11:28 +0000

BitTorrent is a protocol used by millions of people to download ("torrent") files over a peer-to-peer network, some which are legit and many that are not. Here are some random facts about torrenting Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Apple invention misconceptions

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:18:40 +0000

While Apple may be an industry leader in several markets with products like the iPad and iPhone, there are some things that people think the company has invented but they actually haven't Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Storing a person's life as a 1080p movie

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:34:41 +0000

Ever wondered just how large a movie would be if you recorded an entire persons life from start to finish? Well I did the calculations and the result is a staggering but interesting piece of trivia Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Which came first? Apple or Microsoft?

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:28:35 +0000

In a war between two of the greatest tech companies ever founded, who was actually the first to reach major milestones? This Trivia Tuesday we look at which came first: Apple or Microsoft? Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Origins of the scroll lock

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:55:34 +0000

Ever wonder what the most useless key on the keyboard, the scroll lock key, was once used for? Read on and learn some trivia as we discover what purpose the key originally had. Read more...

New M-rated trivia game on the way

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:32:00 +0000

New developer, Top Heavy Studios, to deliver topless trivia to PC, consoles. Representatives from Top Heavy Studios visited the GameSpot offices recently to debut The Guy Game, a trivia game that takes... Read more...