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AP Photo/File The story of fighter directors is one of the last unknown stories of WW2. The epic of radar development is a familiar one. But less well known is the history of the information systems that made it work and the men who ran them. Innovative radar displays, combat information centers, helped, but, ultimately, it was the Combat Air Patrol quarterbacks, the superstar fighter directors (FDOs), who defended the fast carriers. In the beginning there were no criteria for selecting those w...

Feature by Ed Thorn Senior Staff Writer Published 21 Feb, 2021 The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for watching yet another episode of Married at First Sight Australia, perhaps some of the most dramatic TV Ive ever seen. Before we turn on the telly, lets read some of the best writing about games this week. For Polygon, Patricia...

The number of such facilities plunged from 22,000 in 1989 to just 4,000 in 2019, and a number of well-known locations in Tokyo have shut for good since late last year.

Revisiting BBCs The Adventure game. Updated on 14 February 2021 Its a little-known fact but the sight of a wobbling aspidistra plant can bring on quite powerful flashbacks for anyone who grew up in the first flushes of the early 80s home computer era, and its all thanks to a kids TV show called The Adventure Game. A selection of episodes of this almost-forgotten oddity were recently added to the Britbox streaming service, while theres also a DVD boxset cont...

Gardaí query essential Tenerife dental appointments Updated / Friday, 12 Feb 2021 18:11 Security Correspondent, Prime Time At Dublin Airport today, around 900 people left the country, while close to 1,000 passengers came through arrivals. The majority of people were travelling for essential purposes. But, though passenger numbers overall are down 95% on this time last year, some people were travelling in breach of Covid-19 guidelines. One Dublin man was told that he was liable for a €500 ...

Ping 1.5 + takes the simplest of premises – guiding a small white cube to an orange sphere – and turns it into one of the most challenging Wii U games yet!  It may not be for the easily frustrated, but Ping 1.5 + offers plenty more besides its stiff challenge. This physics based puzzler has you aiming your cube strategically, trying to get ideal angles for the perfect bounces.  It entails using the surroundings to your advantage and avoiding the many obstacles that hinder your aim, all wh...

If 2021 is shaping up to be anything like 2020, we’re looking at a lot more time with only ourselves for company. Luckily, Latine authors are up for the challenge of helping to fill that time. From a novel-in-verse about maybe falling in love with Selena’s ghost to a memoir about growing up queer and biracial in rural Indiana, 2021 promises us a dizzying variety of novels, memoirs, and poetry to carry us through the remaining lock-in. Here are 10 books coming out (mostly) in the first half...

Author(s): Paul Brown Creating a game requires a wide set of skills to combine graphics, animations, sound, double-clicks, and meticulous coding. The free and open source Godot game engine provides you with all the tools you need to get started. Writing a game from scratch is hard, and thats why nobody does it anymore. Game creators instead use "engines" that combine a framework and a comprehensive set of tools that let you skip the drudgery and get to the creative parts right away....

What can you buy for a quarter anymore? I used to plop a quarter into the Space Invaders machine at my local drugstore, but that was when I wore a mullet and letterman jacket. A few years later, I’d use a quarter to play pool or wash clothes. But you don’t find billiards tables much anymore, and laundries cost more than one coin. Today, I’m not sure if there’s anything much you can get for 25 cents. Maybe cover the ante of a poker game, though at that cheap rate you’d probably be play...

The Australian Open gets underway next Monday, spilling into ratings survey. This has led to specials this week from Travel Guides and Married at First Sight: Grand Reunion -but the 2021  MAFS series formally kicks off on February 22nd. “She is very candid, talks in a very straight, matter-of-fact way” Nine Program Director, Hamish Turner. “We’ve got a new MAFS expert in Alessandra Rampolla. She’s a certified clinical sexologist who brings a lot to the table. She is very candid, ...