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Discord’s in-app Store enters open beta with a selection of indies and classics

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 6:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Discord, the gaming chat app, today opened its fledgling game store and library to beta, meaning anyone can purchase games, launch games they already own, or play games granted to them by the premium subscription option. The store itself is modest, especially compared with the likes of Steam, Origin, or Uplay. It’s got some indie darlings like Hollow Knight, Subnautica, Celeste, or Frostpunk. If you’re in the mood for some older favorites, it’s also got the likes of Metro: Last Light, Psychonauts, and System Shock 2. A few indie games will also be “First on Discord,” meaning they’ll be exclusive to the Discord…

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GitHub launches Suggested Changes to make it easier to collaborate within pull requests

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 5:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


GitHub today announced Suggested Changes: a new feature that promises to make it easier to implement and action changes in pull requests. Here’s how it works. Suppose you’re collaborating on a repository with an active pull request. A reviewer can look at that pull request, and if they see room for improvement, suggest a change to the code by leaving a comment. The author can then accept the suggestion with a single click. 🎉 GitHub is adding Suggested Changes – A way for the reviewer to propose changes that can be applied with a single click.https://t.co/A3IEpdEoki pic.twitter.com/2VBn8XmJVL — Philipp Spiess…

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Adobe Characterizer turns you into an animated drawing with the power of AI

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 5:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


When I was a kid, I briefly held the aspiration of making my own cartoons. I dabbled in the animation portion of Flash and made a few cheesy .flvs, but soon realized I wasn’t up to the task of dealing with keyframes and drawing pretty vectors. Maybe if I’d started in 2018, things would’ve gone differently. Increasingly powerful technology and the advent of AI make it easier to get your feet wet in animation than ever. Case in point: Adobe is releasing an impressive tool called Characterizer, that can combine your face with reference artwork to create your own motion-capture…

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Can we make digital money transfer great again?

Oct16
by on October 16, 2018 at 5:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


As a freelancer working with people around the world, I tend to use these tools not because I particularly like any one of them, but because I don’t have a choice. I grudgingly accept the long wait times and obscenely huge processing fees for the same reason I keep riding that crappy train to work: because there simply isn’t a better option. While digital money transfer companies highlight benefits like fast transfer-to-bank times, good exchange rates, and low fees, there’s not one of them that has it all. Every time I think a new solution is the right one for…

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Amazon gets patriotic while Google embraces censorship

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by on October 16, 2018 at 5:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, world


Wired’s big 25th anniversary event (congrats!) culminated Monday in a summit featuring a veritable who’s-who of big tech bosses. And, like everything else in the US this year, it turned out to be heavily-focused on politics. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was there to peddle patriotism. He graciously volunteered his company for future lucrative military contracts, apparently to save the US from less dutiful businesses. According to him, “If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble.” It seems likely Bezos was referring to Google as…

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