Space Defender – part 4 – Adding a HUD

Space Defender – part 4 – Adding a HUD

In the previous part we created the enemies and shot them down. In this part we'll add a HUD (Heads Up Display) to show the player's lives, level, and score. Adding a HUD We're going to add a HUD to the game. This will show the player's lives, level, and score. We'll use a simple HTML structure for this, and some CSS to make it look nice.In bigger games the HUD is usually part of the game canvas, but for this tutorial we'll keep it separate to keep things simple. In part 1 we already added all the HTML and…
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Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win

Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win

On August 27, 1960, at the Olympics in Rome, one of the most controversial gold medals was awarded. At the 100-meter freestyle men’s swimming event, Australian swimmer John Devitt and American Lance Larson both recorded the same finish time of 55.2 seconds. Only Devitt walked away with the gold medal.The way swimming was timed was by using three timers per lane, all with stopwatches, from which an average was taken. In the rare occurrence there was a tie, a head judge, in this case Hans Runströmer from Sweden, was on hand to adjudicate. Despite Larson being technically one-tenth of a…
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Meet Jessica Pegula, the Team USA tennis player whose parents are the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills

Meet Jessica Pegula, the Team USA tennis player whose parents are the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills

Jessica Pegula, 30, is the No. 6 women's tennis player in the world.She's the daughter of Terry and Kim Pegula, the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres.Jessica Pegula is competing for Team USA in the Olympics in the women's singles and doubles events. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Team…
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What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher

What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher

Recent releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham JonesStephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its slasher-movie-obsessed main character) and has an ongoing column in Fangoria dedicated to its impact, so it’s not really a surprise to see he’s churned out another entry for the canon. But this time around, we’re getting a different perspective: the slasher’s point of view.I Was a Teenage Slasher is the fictional memoir…
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Getting the Actual Client IP When Using Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS Lambda

Getting the Actual Client IP When Using Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS Lambda

When I was new to AWS, I faced an interesting challenge while working on a task to digitally sign a document, which required the client's IP as part of the e-signature. Initially, I was thrilled when the implementation seemed to work perfectly the first time. However, my excitement was short-lived. During testing, I noticed that the same IP address was being returned, even when I accessed the application from different machines. It was then that I realized the IP address I was receiving was not the actual client IP but the IP of the load balancer. This discovery led me…
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OpenAI’s big idea to increase the safety of its tech is to have AI models police each other

OpenAI’s big idea to increase the safety of its tech is to have AI models police each other

OpenAI has a new technique for getting AI models to be more transparent about their thought processes: Getting them to talk to each other.The company showcased the research behind the technique this week and will unveil more details in a forthcoming paper, according to Wired.The gist is that putting two AI models in discussion with one another forces the more powerful one to be more open about its thinking. And that can help humans better understand how these models reason through problems.OpenAI tested the technique by asking AI models to solve basic math problems. The more powerful one explained how…
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I made frozen lasagna with 4 appliances. I’m shocked one method got the meal on the table in less than 30 minutes.

I made frozen lasagna with 4 appliances. I’m shocked one method got the meal on the table in less than 30 minutes.

I made frozen lasagna in my air fryer, microwave, oven, and toaster oven.I anticipated the microwave option could go sideways, but it was a complete flop.Air-fried lasagna is great in a pinch, but the flavors are best when it's baked in an oven. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. I'm just as…
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Another ‘missing link’ black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy

Another ‘missing link’ black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy

A group of international researchers at the in Germany recently discovered one of the rarest types of black holes in the universe. The researchers were observing a cluster of stars in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A (Sgr A) at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They then discovered signs of an intermediate-mass black hole, a type of black hole that’s sometimes referred to as the “missing link” of black holes, according to .Black holes range in size from supermassive to primordial and the intermediate sits above primordial in size. They are believed to have…
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