GIPHY Gaming Roundup: ‘Tomb Raider,’ ‘Mugsters,’ ‘Steamworld Dig 2, ‘GTA V!’

What’s the latest in Gaming this week? The return of “Tomb Raider,” a digger with a steam-powered pickaxe, and a game meant for GIFs! After 15 years of absence, Lara Croft returns to the big screen! “Tomb Raider’ is a new movie starring Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”). Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam. Meet with the leaders of Picnic, Miro, Carbon Equity and more during this exclusive event dedicated to Scaleup Founders!...

2 min · 221 words · Jennifer Edwards

Gis.to is like Cliff’s Notes for long-form Internet reading

You know the feeling, you’re browsing Twitter and you find something that’s really interesting, but you don’t have time to read it just yet. So you add it to your Read It Later or Instapaper, only to later realize that you’ve backed up so many items that you need a Read It Later for your Read It Later. But what if someone reliable had already read the same piece, drawn out all of the high points and then placed them in an easy-to-digest format for you?...

3 min · 509 words · Steven Murphy MD

GitHub claims its AI assistant is helping devs write 30% of their code (Updated)

Update 01/11/2021: GitHub clarified that the 30% figure of AI-generated is applicable to some languages, and not all the code on the platform. GitHub announced its AI-assisted code writing feature calledCopilot back in June. On the eve of itsGitHub Universe conference starting today, the company said that the AI is now helping to write30% of code on the platform. In an interview withAxios,Oege de Moor, VP of GitHub Next — the team that works on the copilot function — said that 50% of devs who’ve tried it have kept using it....

2 min · 328 words · Joel Allen

GitHub for Mac is now available

The popular collaborative revision control app GitHub is nowavailable for the Mac. Largely regarded as one of the best ways for developers working on a project to keep track of changes to a repository. The web based version of Git now hosts over 2.3 million repositories, so the addition of a native Mac app is welcome. GitHub’s Mac version looks very slick and uses a largely custom UI without many ‘traditional’ OS X elements....

2 min · 295 words · Andrew Torres

GitHub introduces an AI pal to help you code better

GitHub is already one of the most popular platforms to build and host coding projects. Last year, it launcheda built-in Integrated Development Environment(IDE)to let you code directly into the browser. Now, it’s introducing an AI-powered automcompletion tool called GitHub Copilot. The aim of this feature is to learn how you write code, and to suggest lines and functions automatically, learning how to. What’s more, the Copilot tool helps you find alternative ways to solve a problem and use, new APIs easily....

2 min · 361 words · Jessica Morton
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