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Separated By Their Families Yet United By Unconditional Love: A Couple Reunited After 42 Years Apart

“A real love is understanding and forgiving, it does not diminish with time, instead it grows, it deepens and it evolves, it endures through changes. It is a bond that strengthens with every shared experience. True love is selfless, it is patient and it does not waver even when circumstances change. Love in its truest form is everlasting,” and Jeanne and Stephen’s story can only prove it.Family pressure pulled this couple apart, but neither they, nor time could keep them apart foreverShare iconImage credits: Jeanne…

Families Find Ways to Protect Their LGBTQ Kids from Serious Harm—Physical and Mental—after a Flood of Discriminatory Laws

Tamara had not been sleeping well. Some days she woke up at four o’clock in the morning in tears and overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness. She had moved her family three times over the past six years. Her house in New Hampshire was shot at—possibly by someone aiming at thce rainbow signs in her front yard. In 2022 she fled to Massachusetts, which seemed to be safer for her child, Grey, who is transgender. But whenever she hears the words “safe state,” a thought pops into her head: “Austria felt like a safe place in…

Valve launches Steam Families with improved game sharing and better parental controls

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 Families puts game sharing and parental controls in one place

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…

Steam Families update will let up to six people share PC games

Valve has just introduced a beta for its new Steam Families plan, which replaces both Steam Family and Steam Family View. Steam Families takes some elements of Family and Family View and merges them into one system. With Families, people will be able to link up to six accounts, with those marked as adults able to set limits on the playtime and which games children have access to. As well as parental control, all accounts will have access to everyone else’s game library. As long as the game you want to play isn’t…

Steam Families Is A New And Improved Version Of Steam Family Sharing

Valve has announced Steam Families, a new Steam feature that wraps up the pre-existing Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, as well as some brand-new family features. The new feature allows Steam users to create a family of up to 6 household members in order to share games and implement content controls.Users can create a family and invite up to 5 other members, who can be assigned as either an adult or a child. All users in the family will have their games shared in a family library, which works…

Steam debuts Steam Families with new parental controls

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…

NIO confirms new ‘Alps’ brand is called ‘Onvo,’ will target families

Days after leaked spy images revealed a new EV nomenclature, NIO has publicly confirmed its upcoming sub-brand will be called “Onvo.” Previously codenamed “Alps,” Onvo EVs will be designed and targeted toward customers with families. We’ve also caught wind of the new brand’s official launch date. While EV specialist NIO ($NIO) continues to expand its portfolio of luxury passenger vehicles, battery swap stations, and global reach of its own brand, it has simultaneously been working to develop and…

Online gaming is bringing RAF families closer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Modern methods of internet-based communication such as online gaming and video calls are helping RAF servicepeople stay connected to their families when serving away from home—but challenges still remain, according to new research by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). The report, titled "Navigating Modern

How families glued to separate devices can connect again

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It's Saturday afternoon and the kids are all connected to separate devices. So are the parents. Sounds familiar? Many families want to set ground rules to help them reduce their screen time—and have time to connect with each other, without devices. But it can be difficult to know where to start and how to make a plan