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04 Jul

Nintendo ends Wii U repairs

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Earlier this year, Nintendo said it would shut down all Wii U servers, putting an end to multiplayer, co-op and other services. Now, the company has announced that it's ending Wii U repairs as well, effectively giving last rites to the loveable but not very popular console.In May, Nintendo forewarned the end of Wii U repairs. "The period for retaining repair parts as stipulated in the repair service regulations has expired, so as soon as the current stock of parts is depleted, repair services will end," the company wrote in a service notice. The Wii U is now listed as…

04 Jul

Wildcard Generic Types

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You can use unbounded wildcards, bounded wildcards, or lower-bound wildcards to specify a range for a generic type. What are wildcard generic types and why are they needed? The code below gives an example todemonstrate the needs. The example defines a generic max method for finding the maximum in a stack of numbers (lines 15–25). The main method creates a stack of integer objects, adds three integers to the stack, and invokes the max method to find the maximum number in the stack. The program above has a compile error in line 11 because intStack is not an instance of…

04 Jul

Kia EV9 review: Everything I want in a three-row family EV

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The EV market is hotter than ever in the US, but there are only a handful of options for families who need three rows of seats and tons of storage space. There's the Rivian R1S, a beautiful and well-reviewed car, but one that's firmly in luxury territory with a starting price of $75,900. Tesla's Model X is similarly pricey, and its tiny rear row isn't suited for adults (the smaller Model Y's third row option is even worse). That's why Kia's EV9 is such a big deal. It offers even more internal space than the company's massive Telluride, and it…

04 Jul

Introduction to Pact Flow

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Introduction to Contract Testing Definition and importance of contract testing: Imagine that you and your friends are planning a party and each one has a task: one will bring the snacks, another the sweets, and another the drinks. To ensure that everything goes well, you make a list of what everyone should bring. "Contract testing" is like this list, but for computer programs that need to talk to each other. It checks that each part of the program is doing exactly what it promised, just like you check that each friend brought what they agreed to for the party. This…

04 Jul

The best air fryers you can buy, plus tips and tricks for newbies

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Air fryers are fast becoming a staple gadget in many people’s homes, likely because they are fast, convenient and don’t cost a small fortune. And with recent technological advancements, there are air fryers on the market that can cook, bake, saute, dehydrate, pressure cook and more. If you’ve been mulling over the thought of investing in an air fryer, now’s the time to jump on the bandwagon — let us help you choose the best air fryer for your needs.Whether you’re up for roasting a whole chicken, making a meal for the entire family or want to try your hand…

04 Jul

Innovative JavaScript Features in 2024: Enhancing Developer Experience and Codebase Quality

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The JavaScript language continues to evolve, and 2024 brings some exciting new features that will improve the developer experience and codebase quality. Let's explore some of these features and how they will benefit developers. 1)** Temporal**Temporal is a proposal to introduce a new global object that replaces the existing Date object in JavaScript. This new object offers a more modern and intuitive API for working with dates, times, and time zones. With Temporal, developers can easily handle complex date and time-related tasks, ensuring accurate and reliable results. This feature will reduce the need for external libraries and minimize potential errors…

04 Jul

You can now get AI Judy Garland or James Dean to read you the news

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I love an account on X (formerly Twitter) called @LizaMinnelliOutlives (shockingly not run by the icon herself) that lists things like famous deaths or agreements. Well, in a twist, the real Liza Minnelli no longer outlives new words from her deceased mother, Judy Garland. The actress and singer has given ElevenLabs, an AI startup with cloning services, permission to recreate her mother's voice for their new Reader App. Garland joins James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier as deceased stars whose AI voices are in the "Iconic voice collection," thanks to deals with their estates for undisclosed sums.The voices…

04 Jul

Texas court blocks the FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements

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The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) ban on noncompete agreements was supposed to take effect on September 4, but a Texan court has postponed its implementation by siding with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that seeks to block the rule. Back in April, the FTC banned noncompetes, which have been widely used in the tech industry for years, to drive innovation and protect workers' rights and wages. A lot of companies are unsurprisingly unhappy with the agency's rule — as NPR notes, Dallas tax services firm Ryan LLC sued the FTC hours after its announcement. The US Chamber of Commerce and…

04 Jul

Event-Driven Architecture: reconcile Notification and Event-Carried State Transfer patterns

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Event-driven architectures have tremendous benefits: decoupling application components brings improved resilience, the ability to isolate non-scalable workloads from unpredictable user traffic and better user experience (returning a response before we do the complexe processing). However, their design is not easy and can lead to numerous debates among developers and architects: should we have very minimalistic events, requiring consumers to fetch additional information? do we need fully-qualified events? .. In this post, I explain the different types of events and propose a way to simply reconcile the different approaches by relying on AWS EventBridge. A Github repo with fully functional examples…

04 Jul

Microsoft agrees to $14 million California pay discrimination settlement

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Microsoft is set to pay $14.4 million to resolve a case alleging retaliatory and discriminatory practices against California workers who took protected leave, such as family care, parental, disability and pregnancy leave. The Civil Rights Department of California (CRD) launched an investigation into Microsoft in 2020, looking into whether the tech giant violated laws such as California's Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The proposed agreement is subject to court approval.CRD claimed that workers who took protected leave "received lower bonuses and unfavorable performance reviews that, in turn, harmed their eligibility for merit increases, stock…