Barbie will soon hit the big screen, and our excitement over every aspect of this film—director Greta Gerwig’s “abstract poem”-informed approach, Ryan Gosling’s Kenergy, Margot Robbie and her subversive doll squad—can barely be contained. Today’s scrap of fun to tide us over comes in the form of a whole lotta photos…
Feel like the Steam desktop client was long overdue for a major upgrade? So did Valve. Today the company released an update for the platform that includes many of the features it has been testing in the app’s beta channel. The latest client features updated fonts and menus, a revised notification system and a redesigned in-game overlay. Better still, Valve says the platform has been rebuilt with an all-new framework designed to help features ship simultaneously across all versions of Steam.
That means some of the new features baked into the desktop client are also already available on Steam Deck. Specifically, Valve called out the client’s overhauled in-game overlay — in addition to a new interface and more versatile toolbar, players also now have access to a new notes tool that syncs across PCs. Thanks to the new framework, this feature is now available on desktop and Steam Deck simultaneously. The overlay also has a new “pin” feature that will allow users to keep that notes tool (or any other window from the in-game interface) visible during gameplay.
Valve is also trying to clean up the client’s notifications. Clicking on the icon should now only show the most recent and relevant notifications, and will prompt users to click through to see a full historical view. Users should see small updates across the rest of the client as well, including updated dialog text, new fonts and tweaked colors.
The new features are nice, but Valve seems most proud of the improvements its made under the hood. In addition to the new framework, the company says that its enabled hardware acceleration for Mac and Linux users, offering a smoother experience across all platforms.
Last, and perhaps least, the update may be the end of the legacy Steam Big Picture mode. Buried among the client’s long list of bug fixes is a note that the command line option to enable “oldbigpicture” has been removed. We’re all using the Steam Deck interface now.
The new Steam Client update is available to download now. Check out the full patch notes for details.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/steam-overhauls-notifications-ui-elements-and-the-in-game-overlay-000839366.html?src=rss
The new HBO series might be trying to say something — but who knows what the hell that is.
If the granules of news falling out of the rumor mill end up true, the iPhone 15 could be a huge shakeup for Apple’s phone line. The next iteration of the Cupertino company’s flagship phone will reportedly grant a 48-MP lens—currently only a feature of Pro iPhones—to the everyman.
Don’t forget to thank your mailman, come rain, snow, heat, or hail. After years of putting up with sweltering temperatures inside their vehicles, UPS has reached a deal with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents nearly 340,000 drivers, to add air conditioning to UPS trucks both new and…
Before the release of the Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Shadowbringers, game director Naoki Yoshida joked that George R.R. Martin needed to finish his A Song of Ice and Fire books before he’d consider a Game of Thrones collaboration with the MMORPG. Four years later and with Winds of Winter nowhere in sight, it would…
It’s another day, so here’s another entry in the endless “Twitter is slowly becoming an empty husk” conversation. A judge just evicted the company from its Boulder, Colorado office after three months of unpaid rent, totaling over $75,000, as originally reported by TechCrunch. This all started after the landlord took the company to court, according to the Denver Business Journal. The judge sided with the landlord and has given Twitter until the end of July to vacate.
This is a unique scenario, as Twitter didn’t pay traditional rent for the office. Instead, it was provided a letter of credit worth $968,000 back in 2020, using this credit to pay the landlord. However, the line of credit ran out a few months back and Twitter failed to make any additional payments. Reports indicate that the office is still active, with around 150 in-person employees, down from 300 at its peak. The company’s San Francisco landlord is also suing the company for unpaid rent. In related news, Elon Musk has been adamant about ending remote work, but that’s likely to be difficult without, you know, office space.
TechCrunch unearthed another Colorado lawsuit aimed at Twitter, as a local cleaning company claims the social media site didn’t pay its bills, totaling nearly $100,000 for services rendered. Former employees are also suing the site to reimburse more than a million dollars in unpaid legal fees and the city of San Francisco is investigating potential building code violations regarding its main headquarters. Other lawsuits directed at Twitter reference the imprisonment of a Saudi dissident and mishandling of FTC-based rules and regulations, among others.
Twitter disbanded its press arm and its trust and safety council, so there’s nobody to reach out to for comment.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitter-is-getting-evicted-from-its-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent-185026284.html?src=rss
Don’t forget to thank your mailman, come rain, snow, heat, or hail. After years of putting up with sweltering temperatures inside their vehicles, UPS has reached a deal with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents nearly 340,000 drivers, to add air conditioning to UPS trucks both new and…
The former Alaska governor told Newsmax that cults are “all about conformity and compliance and intolerance of anyone who doesn’t agree with what their mission is.”
Anker is a brand best known for its cables and portable chargers that ensure your mobile devices don’t die at an inopportune time. But the company has been gradually super-sizing its portable power solutions, and with its new Solix line of large batteries, announced Wednesday, Anker will be able to keep an entire home…
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