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Jason Cipriani/ZDNETIf you have multiple gamers in your family, you'll want to pay attention to how Valve has overhauled Steam's family sharing system.Starting today, the new Steam Families system gives you not only more parental controls, but makes some big changes to how games can be shared. Essentially, Families combines Steam's two current systems – Family View, which lets parents control what games and features are accessed, and Family Sharing, which lets family members and their guests play one another's…

Steam is introducing a new way for your clan to play games together. The platform has announced Steam Families, a collection of game-sharing (and monitoring) features for parents and children currently available in beta. It takes the place of Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, rolling in some of their existing features alongside updates.Each member of a Steam Family will have a section called "family library" in their games list where they can access shareable games. Ownership remains with the purchaser, but each…

Today, Steam launched Steam Families, an overhaul of its family sharing system. The new system gets rid of limits on how many people can play games from one library, makes buying games for your kids easier, and adds new parental controls and sharing options. Before, you needed to use two different systems — Family Sharing and Family View — if you wanted to share your library but limit which games your kids could play. Also under the old approach, only one person at a time could play a game from another’s library. Now — to…

If you are a Mac creative and you’re looking for a new display but Apple’s own Studio Display doesn't entice you, the perfect solution may have just arrived. This week, BenQ, known for making great displays, announced the PD3225U. BenQ’s new product is a 32-inch 4K IPS monitor with a 2,000:1 contrast ratio and intelligent color matching to align perfectly with your MacBook. The MacBook’s Liquid Retina display is gorgeous, and the PD3225U has a specifically designed M-book mode to fit seamlessly into your workspace.…

I used to worry about the arrival of iPhone sideloading in Europe before I knew what Apple’s implementation would be like. Malware remains a threat for apps that aren’t tested by Apple for the App Store, sure. But it’s not going to be easy for hackers to target users. They can’t just mount campaigns to fool iPhone users who aren’t that tech-savvy to install malicious apps that look like genuine applications. Apple has strict policies in place that determine who can provide third-party App Stores on the iPhone.…

Meta’s text-based social media platform, Threads, has released a convenient update to its iOS app. The latest version, v321.0, introduces a new swipe control feature that simplifies navigation through the “For You” feed. It provides a more intuitive and efficient way to interact with content. This new feature allows users to easily like or hide posts with a simple left or right swipe. A right swipe likes the post, while a left swipe hides it from the feed. This makes Threads a more streamlined experience, similar to…

Last Updated: February 22, 2024, 17:27 ISTRoyal Enfield Super Meteor 650 Marks One-Year Celebration With Over 2000 Riders Across India. (Photo: Royal Enfield)With its user-friendly controls and comfortable rider ergonomics, the Super Meteor 650 ensures stability on highways and pure riding pleasure on winding roads.Royal Enfield celebrated a year of cruising with its top-of-the-line highway cruiser, the Super Meteor 650, in India.Since its launch in February 2023, this powerhouse has captured the hearts of riders…

Apple Vision Pro has a hefty price tag, yet some users have opted to put that expensive, futuristic tech to use by emulating a game from two decades ago. As originally spotted by The Verge, developer Rilet Testut has pushed out an update to the GBA4iOS app, which emulates Nintendo Game Boy games on iPhone, calling it GBA4vOS. This allows those with Apple Vision Pro to run Game Boy games in the headset. As of right now, there are two distinct ways to use it. The first is simply a huge GameBoy with palm-sized buttons that…

The Xbox February update is on the way, bringing new ways to play on your phone, more organizational tools, and other quality-of-life features.You can now play Xbox games via remote play with touchscreen controls. These are the same controls as offered with Xbox Cloud Gaming. Most games support basic touch-control layouts. Over a hundred games support custom controls, including Psychonauts 2, Sea of Thieves, and Minecraft Dungeons.In other control news, a new thumbstick calibration tool has been added to…

When a Beijing-based military institute in September published a patent for a new high-performance chip, it offered a glimpse of China's bid to remake the half-trillion dollar global chip market and withstand U.S. sanctions.The People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences had used an open-source standard known as RISC-V to reduce malfunctions in chips for cloud computing and smart cars, the patent filing shows. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture, a computer language used to design anything from…