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  2. Contests of course requires people's information. Sorry, you are not making any sense.
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  4. This is great. For those who honestly share between families, this is a process that is so much easier than the old way.
  5. Whatever AI brings out it will be infinitely better than all the rest. No matter what Apple does its better, all hail the tech religion.
  6. Came here to say the same. I can understand the point the author is going for, but the grammar usage looks very weird... At least put a comma after "together", that gives it a little more clear meaning.
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  8. Was wondering that myself, maybe Razvan is trying different things? Looks weird, right? A little bit... too much. Like Microsoft foolishly does calling its browser "Edge: the AI Browser" or something like that 😅. Plain Firefox is OK.
  9. Study shows why Apple, Google, Microsoft got together for modern web performance is too slow by Sayan Sen Earlier this month, Microsoft Edge users, including Neowin readers, found themselves annoyed when the browser would fail to load websites with out of memory (OOM) errors. Fortunately, though, Microsoft was quick to react to the issue and proactively fixed the bug within a day, explaining how a deprecated Defender feature was responsible for it. And while that was merely a bug, it is not a stretch to say that the modern web is more intense than ever and you can no longer get away with internet surfing on an entry-level PC or mobile phone. The recent release of the Speedometer 3.0 browser benchmark reflects this with major industry players Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and more, coming together to create a benchmark based on current web workloads. Rising security standards, like Microsoft making 2048-bit keys mandatory on Windows, will also contribute to this. Hence, the recent internet speed bump by the FCC is certainly welcome (test your speed in this article). While a browser benchmark like Speedometer 3.0 can tell you how fast a web browser is, at the end of the day, a lot of the performance is dependent on the hardware itself. Twitter (now X) user Dan Luu measured this to see how well different classes of hardware can handle the modern-day internet. Although Neowin was not on the list of tested sites, there were several popular ones like Quora, Twitter, Reddit, Medium, and more. The tested CPUs were Apple's M3 Max and M1 Pro Macbooks, as well as an M3 with the throttling set to 10x via Chrome Dev tools, indicated by "M3/10" in the chart below. Aside from those, Tecno Spark 8C with an octa-core UniSOC T606 chipset and an Intel P32 with a quad-core MediaTek MT6580 chipset, were also included from the mid-range and low-end SoC categories. If you are wondering, here is what the measured metrics are meant to test according to Dan Luu: .. every row represents a website and every non-label column is a metric. After the website name column, we have the compressed size transferred over the wire (wire) and the raw, uncompressed, size (raw). Then we have, for each device, Largest Contentful Paint* (LCP*) and CPU usage on the main thread (CPU). Google's docs explain LCP as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when a user perceives that the largest content of a page is visible. The metric value for LCP represents the time duration between the user initiating the page load and the page rendering its primary content What's surprising is that even an 8-core SoC has struggled with the Tecno Spark 8C failing to load Quora. And the 4-core MediaTek managed to fail nearly as many times as it had passed, highlighting the level of bloatware the modern web has, and the difficulty of surfing the internet on an inexpensive device. Source: Dan Luu (X / Twitter)
  10. Was wondering that myself, maybe Razvan is trying different things?
  11. What's up with the weird name? Just call it Firefox, everyone knows about Firefox.
  12. and here I was hoping for warship files
  13. xMorpheousx416

    AI PCs to make up almost half of PC shipments in 2025

    Only thing that would intrigue me when it comes to this "AI ready"... is if it has something to do with new tech that isn't currently built into CPU/GPU. The PhysX chip comes to mind... now she's just a memory... but it bloomed. Same goes with TPM chips... now onboard CPUs, etc, etc. You get the gist. If it's slightly tweaking or OC'ing a given chip just to label it "AI Ready" isn't going to go over well and there's a tidal wave of PC users that would in return, flood the stage with everything you need to do with the PC you have now to compensate. Nor would it do any company any good, in my eyes, to have the software already installed to justify a 10% or higher, cost increase. Call us when you can add a quantum chip to your system to launch it forward.
  14. I like how they snuck in changing requirements over time to make sure its used for what its designed for. I think at this point everyone knows it was used to share friends accounts. 😀 The 1 year cooldown on changing families is gonna sting for some too.
  15. Make it 300 with native SteamVR support and many would buy one, if only to get away from Facebook. Index is old and expensive.
  16. We knew that before it launched, there were photo leaks of it running stock Android.
  17. "worship files" I think you meant Workshop?
  18. dustojnikhummer

    AI PCs to make up almost half of PC shipments in 2025

    "AI PC" means nothing. It is just a buzzword. Lenovo includes a piece of silicon that "can do AI", and suddenly it is an "AI PC"
  19. Valve announces Steam Families as a new way to share Steam games with loved ones by John Callaham Valve has just announced a major revamp of its family-sharing features on the Steam PC game service. The new version, which is available in the Steam beta client, is simply called Steam Families. It replaces the older Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View features. In a blog post, Valve says that a person can set up a Steam Families section, and then invite up to five other family members to join. After that, any member of that group can play any game that is owned by the six members of that group. If you play a game that's "owned" by another family member in that group you will get your own save games, achievements and access to any worship files you want to get for that game. Also, you can play a game from another person's library of titles while they are playing another game. If a family member owns more than one copy of a game, multiple family members in the group can play that game at the same time. In addition to the new game-sharing features, Steam Families also includes some parental controls for families with younger children. Parents can set up a number of different limits for their kids if they plan Steam games. They include: Allow access to appropriate games Restrict access to the Steam Store, Community or Friends Chat Set playtime limits (hourly/daily) View playtime reports Approve or deny requests from child accounts for additional playtime or feature access (temporary or permanent) Recover a child's account if they lost their password In addition, there's a new system where a child in the Steam Families group can request one of the adults in the group to approve the purchase of a game. If you want to try out the new system, go into your Steam client's Settings, then select Interface, then select the Select Steam Family Beta from the drop-down menu in the Client Beta Participation section. There's no word on when Steam Families will be available for all Steam users.
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