Technological winks | The Press

Since October 24, users have had access to the new macOS Ventura operating system, which offers several new features, two of which are particularly interesting.

Karim Benessaieh
The Press

macOS Ventura

Stage Manager displays on the left of the screen the icons of open programs, in which we even see their content. However, the function is not activated by default: you have to go to the System Settings, which have been redesigned with a sidebar rather than icons. Macs now have access in Messages to a feature introduced with iOS 6, the ability to edit or cancel a message, up to 15 and 2 minutes respectively after sending. Be careful, the recipient will see that there has been a change and the operation will fail if their Apple device is not up to date.

Mobile Games

The smart phone is without a doubt the most popular video game platform, confirmed this week a study by the Time2Play site. While 79.6% of internet users identify themselves as gamers according to Statista data, 52.3% of them play on their phone, compared to 36.1% and 35.5% on a computer or a console. Time2Play went further and established the two most popular games: Diablo Immortalwith 275,732 downloads on iPhone, and Pocket Monsters Rush, with 354,447 downloads on Android. In game time, 17% of mobile gamers say they spend between 1 and 7 hours a week, and 8% put more than 14 hours.

kingston

With the arrival of tiny NVMe-type internal SSD hard drives, prices have dropped but remain high, especially for well-known brands. It costs around $300 for these high-end 2TB hard drives. read and 1700 MB/s write. In our tests with Crystal DiskMark 8, we got 2185 MB/s and 1839 MB/s. Installed for a month, used with demanding video games, the Kingston NV1 never failed. Successful test, therefore, for this low-cost SSD, whose new version, NV2, promises even more speed.