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In 2015, Nintendo released Super Mario Maker for the Wii U, a game that allowed players to make and share their own 2D Mario levels. In 2021, the company ended the ability to upload courses, the game having been eclipsed by its sequel on the Switch. But in January 2024, Nintendo announced an end to all online services for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games on



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People walk by a now hiring sign posted in front of a CVS store on April 7, 2023, in San Rafael, California.
  • Foreign-born workers are leading the increase in the US labor force, Fitch Ratings said.
  • But a labor demand cooldown may cause an oversupply in the market, it cautioned.
  • Jobs growth in the government sector is also fueling the labor market.

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  • The US economy may have already stuck the soft landing, according to Evercore founder Roger Altman.
  • The investing veteran pointed to resilient growth, which has crushed expectations over the last year.
  • It's the big reason the stock market remains strong, despite concerns over Fed rate cuts, Altman said.

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  • Leaders from JPMorgan, Microsoft, and Apple attended a White House state dinner on Wednesday.
  • The dinner was hosted by Biden for the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida.
  • Take a look at the business leaders and tech moguls who attended the lavish event.

On Wednesday top business and tech figures mingled with celebrities and lawmakers



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Unpkg, a content delivery network (CDN) that powers more than 4 billion requests per day, went down for several hours on Friday morning. The outage broke the thousands of websites that use the open-source CDN, leaving developers scrambling for a fix.

The outage appeared to have started around 4AM ET, with sites returning a 520



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With Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan Coen is happily embracing the "trashy" and "stupid." After decades directing alongside his brother Joel (The Tragedy of Macbeth), he's teamed with long-time Coen Bros collaborator Tricia Cooke, who edited a slew of their films alongside the siblings, including O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, and The Big Lebowski. And the result of Cooke and Coen's



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Humane started shipping its Ai Pin in April.
  • The latest attempt to dethrone the smartphone arrived this week.
  • Humane, a startup founded in 2018, released an AI pin that aims to offer an alternative.
  • Reviews suggest it's far from a smartphone-killer, however.

Silicon Valley is having a hard time figuring out what a post-smartphone future might look like.

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Back in 2019, the FCC banned US carriers, which were then starting to deploy their 5G networks, from using subsidies to buy equipment from companies deemed a national security threat. Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE were at the top of that list. Now, China is implementing a similar measure: According to the Wall Street Journal, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered