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Discord has been experimenting with embedding apps and games directly in chats for a while, via the Activities feature. Now the company is for developers to join the chat-based fun. The Embedded App SDK rolls out on March 18 and allows devs to build experiences that are embedded in an iframe within Discord. Discord “Plenty … Read more
Midjourney, the Generative AI platform that you can currently use on Discord just introduced the concept of reusable characters and I am blown away. It’s a simple idea: Instead of using prompts to create countless generative image variations, you create and reuse a central character to illustrate all your themes, live out your wildest fantasies, … Read more
Children of the Sun is a bullet-bending puzzle game set in a trippy world of cults and revenge, and it’s due to hit PC via Steam on April 9. In Children of the Sun, players line up a single sniper shot and then control the bullet as it ricochets among the cultists in their sights. … Read more
15,363 Roku accounts were compromised last year as bad actors gained access to a lot of sensitive data on the platform. Evidence suggests they obtained credit card information and attempted to make purchases. This news comes from a pair of filings Roku made on March 8 to the attorneys general’s offices for Maine and California. … Read more
The wait is almost over. Nightdive Studios for the console version of its System Shock remake. It’ll be available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, . The developer, alongside publisher Prime Matter, dropped a new trailer for the console release, showing off the stunning graphical update to the 1994 first-person shooter/RPG. Combat … Read more
In its bid to become one of the best AI tools around right now, Elon Musk is set to release the source code to X Corp’s Grok AI chatbot to the public this week. The decision, as TechCrunch reports, comes with Musk’s filing of a lawsuit in early March 2024 against ChatGPT developer OpenAI, claiming … Read more
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Woolly mammoths’ closest living relatives are Asian elephants, which could be genetically engineered to have mammoth-like traits.Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Alamy The US company Colossal Biosciences says it has put elephant skin cells into … Read more
There’s still time to make 2024 the year you upgrade your streaming capabilities. Doing so is currently more affordable with Elgato’s Stream Deck MK.2 down to $130 from $150. The 13 percent discount brings it to just $15 more than its record-low price — but we haven’t seen that deal since July Prime Day 2023. … Read more
Ambling through the packed CP+ 2024 Camera and Photo Imaging Show halls in Yokohama Japan, I was drawn to the Voigtlander stand decked with various lenses alongside compatible cameras. Then I saw it – a gorgeous lens attached to the retro Nikon Z fc. I had to look twice: was this a manual-focus SLR lens … Read more
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Long-term use of antiretroviral drugs can cause abnormal fat accumulation in people with HIV.Credit: Jose Calvo/SPL People with HIV could benefit from semaglutide, the blockbuster drug marketed as Wegovy for obesity and Ozempic for diabetes. If … Read more