Month: September 2024
The Steam update you’ve been waiting for is finally here
After a beta period earlier this year, Steam‘s new family sharing system and parental controls hub is now available for everyone. Steam Families is replacing both Family Sharing and Family View, creating a nucleus for all your game-sharing needs. A Steam Family can comprise up to six members (including yourself),…
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Apple Shared Its First Public AI-Generated Image. It’s Craig Federighi’s Dog
Shared exclusively with WIRED, this Image Playground creation is the first that Apple has released outside of marketing materials. Source
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Steam’s improved family sharing is out now for everyone
Valve’s new Steam Families feature is now available for everyone following a beta launch earlier this year. With Steam Families, parents are able to share games with their families, manage parental controls for their kids, and approve requests from their kids to buy Steam games. The big improvement with Steam…
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5 surprisingly innovative ideas hidden in Apple Intelligence
Apple released a deluge of information hyping up Apple Intelligence this week, promising an AI transformation of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Even after all of the announcements, there are plenty of questions left unanswered by Apple. But, while I’m mostly skeptical about how much of Apple Intelligence is just…
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Friend requests are returning to Xbox
Xbox is changing its process for forming connections on the gaming platform. Its new method works like, well, just about every other social platform, where you’ll send a friend request that is either accepted or denied. That sounds like the obvious way for this feature to function, but Xbox adopted…
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Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes
It’s meant to build on NotebookLM’s existing features that help you interact with all your notes, transcripts, and other research documents. The app already uses Google’s Gemini AI model to help summarize your research, and this is sort of like an audio version of that. Google isn’t making things up…
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