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The Sims 4 Latest DLC Allows You To Customize Babies
EA has announced a new DLC focusing on infants in its life simulation, The Sims 4. With the upcoming DLC, you’ll have new interactions with them, be able to fully customize your baby, and more.
Thanks to the Growing Together DLC, you can use a new feature called Science Baby. This will allow you to use “genetic material” and have a baby through the acts of science, but if that isn’t something you’d be interested in, you can always use Create-a-Sim. In Create-a-Sim, you can fully customize your babies by selecting their outfits, hairstyles, traits, and more. You’ll also be able to fully customize their nurseries with a wide range of furniture and decor.
The upcoming DLC will introduce new ways to play and care for your child using the Changing Station and Infant Playmat. In addition, interaction with the infants will now be more important because it’ll allow them to form stronger attachments. In doing so, the child will receive unique reward traits that increase their stats at developing healthy relationships as they grow older.
TikTok has ‘secret sauce’ that keeps users engaged and allows protesters to communicate
Microsoft To Test Bing Chat Tones, Allows Longer Chat Sessions
Microsoft also says chat limits (5 chat turns per session and a total of 50 per day) that were introduced on Friday to address Bing Chat’s confusing and, at times, aggressive replies have now been expanded to allow for a more “natural daily use of Bing.” Starting today, the number of chat turns has been increased to six per session, to 60 chats per day. Next, Redmond plans to increase the daily cap to 100 total chats and ensure that normal searches will no longer count against the total number of chats.
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YouTube Music’s redesigned radio experience allows you to create totally custom stations
Almost every music streaming service on the market offers a radio feature, allowing you to create an automatically generated playlist around a song or artist you love. For the most part, however, those features don’t offer a lot of flexibility. You pick a single song or artist and the platform does the rest – as is the case with Spotify and Apple Music.
Google has begun rolling out a redesigned radio feature on YouTube Music the company claims provides users with a lot more control over their listening experience. Among the new features the refreshed experience includes is the ability to pick up to 30 artists when creating your own radio station. You can also decide how frequently those artists repeat and apply filters that change the mood of the resulting playlist. For instance, a few of the selections include “chill,” “downbeat” and “pump-up.”
It’s also possible to adjust the parameters you set after creating a station by tapping the “Tune” option that appears at the bottom of the interface once you’re listening to your new playlist. Naturally, you can save the station to revisit it later. Once the new experience is available on your device, you will see a prompt in the main interface that says “Create a radio.” As with many of Google’s rollouts, it may take some time before you see the feature on your client.
On its own, it’s fair to say the feature won’t be enough to convince some to ditch Spotify and Apple Music for YouTube Music, but if you’re among the 50 million subscribers Google says has access to the service, it may prompt you to use it more frequently or convert the free trial you got with your phone into a paid subscription.
Steam now allows peer-to-peer game transfers over LAN
Steam now allows you to copy games to Steam Deck and other PCs over a local network
Valve is giving Steam Deck users with slow internet connections or bandwidth caps a new way to install games on their devices. The latest Steam and Steam Deck betas add local network game transfers, a feature that allows you to copy existing files from one PC to another over a local area network. Valve says the tool can reduce internet traffic and lessen the time it takes to install games and updates since you can use it to bypass the need to connect to a Steam content server over the internet.
Hello! We’ve just shipped a Beta update to Steam and Steam Deck that includes a new feature: Local Network Game Transfers.
This allows Steam users to install games directly from one PC to another over a local network, without having to download and install from the internet. pic.twitter.com/bv9xThZCoS
— Steam Deck (@OnDeck) February 17, 2023
“Local Network Game Transfers are great for Steam Deck owners, multi-user Steam households, dorms, LAN parties, etc,” the company points out. “No more worries about bandwidth or data caps when all the files you need are already nearby.” Once you’ve installed the new software on your devices, Steam will first check if it can transfer a game installation or set of update files over your local network before contacting a public Steam content server. If at any point one of the devices involved in the transfer is disconnected from your local network, Steam will fall back to downloading any necessary files from the internet.
By default, the feature is set to only work between devices logged into the same Steam account, but you can also transfer files between friends on the same local area network. It’s also possible to transfer to any user on the same network, which is something you would do during a LAN tournament. Valve has published a FAQ with more information about local network game transfers, including details on some of the limitations of the feature, over on the Steam website.
Twitter allows cannabis ads in states where it’s legal
Twitter is allowing cannabis ads to run on its platform in U.S. states where cannabis is legal and in Canada, according to the company’s blog and Axios. Twitter updated its ad policy Wednesday, making it the first social media app in the U.S. to allow cannabis advertising. Google last month updated its policies to allow […]
Twitter allows cannabis ads in states where it’s legal by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
From 404 to 420: Twitter Now Allows Weed Advertising
Twitter’s ad revenue may have gone up in smoke recently, but the company isn’t letting that get it down. Instead, it’s taking the high road and adjusting for headwinds.
Proposed Linux Patch Allows Disabling CPU Security Mitigations at Build-Time
A proposed Linux kernel patch would provide a new Kconfig build time option of “CONFIG_DEFAULT_CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF” to build an insecure kernel if wanting to avoid the growing list of CPU security mitigations within the kernel and their associated performance overhead.
While risking system security, booting the Linux kernel with the “mitigations=off” option has been popular for avoiding the performance costs of Spectre, Meltdown, and the many other CPU security vulnerabilities that have come to light in recent years. Using mitigations=off allows run-time disabling of the various in-kernel security mitigations for these CPU problems.
A patch proposed this week would provide CONFIG_DEFAULT_CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF as a Kconfig switch that could optionally be enabled to have the same affect as mitigations=off but to be applied at build-time to avoid having to worry about setting the “mitigations=off” flag.
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