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The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet a critical part of the brain remains a mystery. I am referring to the cerebellum, so named for the Latin for “little brain,” which is situated like a bun at the back of the … Read more

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

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Jason Cipriani/ZDNET If 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 … Read more

Steam debuts Steam Families with new parental controls

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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 … Read more

US is constantly assessing expansion of chip export controls that can boost China’s military

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MANILA, Philippines — The United States is constantly assessing the need to expand export controls to stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and manufacturing equipment that could be used to boost its military, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday. The U.S. export controls were first launched in 2022 to counter the use of … Read more

Meta’s Quest headsets add spatial video and pinch controls to compete with Vision Pro

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The Meta Quest 3 will soon give wearers the ability to easily view spatial videos as well as use new pinching gestures for control, features that are similar to what you’ll find in Apple’s much more expensive Vision Pro headset that launches this week. Both changes are starting to roll out gradually as part of … Read more

Etching AI Controls Into Silicon Could Keep Doomsday at Bay

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Even the cleverest, most cunning artificial intelligence algorithm will presumably have to obey the laws of silicon. Its capabilities will be constrained by the hardware that it’s running on. Some researchers are exploring ways to exploit that connection to limit the potential of AI systems to cause harm. The idea is to encode rules governing … Read more

Meta is rolling out tighter teen messaging limitations and parental controls

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Meta announced today that it is rolling out new DM restrictions on both Facebook and Instagram for teens that prevent anyone from messaging teens. Until now, Instagram restricts adults over the age of 18 from messaging teens who don’t follow them. The new limits will apply to all users under 16 — and in some … Read more

Anxiety Rises in China Over Speculated Return of COVID Controls

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A year after China abruptly scrapped its notoriously stringent zero-COVID controls and amid a recent surge in respiratory illness cases, some Chinese citizens are starting to worry about a potential reintroduction of the controversial regime of mass testing and restrictions that defined the pandemic years in the country and ultimately led to an unprecedented eruption … Read more

U.S. export controls need to ‘change constantly

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BEIJING — More controls on tech exports to China will be coming as needed, despite business concerns, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC in an exclusive interview. “We have to change constantly,” Raimondo told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan over the weekend on the sidelines of the Reagan National Defense Forum. “I know that’s hard for … Read more

China raises concerns with US over export controls, sanctions, tariffs

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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s commerce minister expressed concern over U.S. curbs on semiconductor exports to China, as well as sanctions on Chinese firms and tariffs on Chinese imports, when he met U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Thursday, his ministry said Friday. Wang Wentao told Raimondo in San Francisco: “it is very important … Read more