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This silent background process is ruining your PC gaming performance

This is especially the case in games that use modern engines, such as Unreal Engine 5, to stream assets like map geometry and ...
Houston Chronicle

Background Processes on the iPad

Although you only see one app at a time while using an iPad, behind the screen your iPad can be bustling with activity -- playing music, checking stock reports, or waiting for the latest news alerts ...
CNET

iPhone to get background processes: No wait, it's interesting

MacRumours has "heard" that Apple might let iPhone users keep apps running in the background when not actively in use. Your 'Yes, and?' comments are not entirely unexpected, so let us explain why this ...
Macworld

Some background on background processes

Back in March, when we first learned the details behind the upcoming iPhone SDK, I wrote about Apple’s decision to not allow background applications on the iPhone. As described in Apple’s Human ...