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Friday April 14th, 2017 morning edition

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If you haven’t managed to get your hands on Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition, you may be out of luck: the company has discontinued the plug-and-play console in North America, as first reported by IGN.

Throughout April, [Nintendo of America] territories will receive the last shipments of Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition systems for this year.

We understand that it has been difficult for many consumers to find a system, and for that we apologize.

The NES Classic first launched in November, and bundled together 30 classic NES games into a tiny replica of the original Nintendo hardware that could easily connect to modern TVs.

However, chronic supply issues meant that it was often difficult to purchase the NES Classic; retailers would announce new shipments only to be sold out almost immediately.

As of December, Nintendo said that it had sold nearly 200,000 of miniature consoles in the US.

A look at the Nintendo NES Classic. »

How We Built r/Place

Authored by redditblog.com

Multiple engineering teams (frontend, backend, mobile) worked on the project and most of it was built using existing technology at Reddit.

Because the board contained 1 million tiles this meant that we had to read a row with 1 million columns.

The websocket service has also been a cornerstone of our past April Fools projects such as The Button and Robin. »

British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia

Authored by theguardian.com

The issue of GCHQ’s role in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into possible cooperation between the Trump campaign and Moscow is highly sensitive.

In March Trump tweeted that Barack Obama had illegally “wiretapped” him in Trump Tower.

The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, claimed the “British spying agency” GCHQ had carried out the bugging. »