Updated November 2024: This story has been updated with the new availability of Stardew's 1.6 update. The popular farming sim and ultimate cozy game Stardew Valley dropped a major update on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew's 1.6 update has an insane amount of new content that touches every area of the game, from new menus and DIYs, to a new farm layout, new crops, and the ability to have multiple pets and play with seven friends at once. It's enough updates to make the game feel fresh, but it isn't so new that you can't ease back into a beloved farm and toil away. As of November 4, 2024, the free update is available for players on all platforms.

The popular farming sim and ultimate cozy game, Stardew Valley, dropped a major update on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew's 1.6 update has an insane amount of new content that touches every area of the game, from new menus and DIYs, to a new farm layout, new crops, and the ability to have multiple pets and play with seven friends at once. It's enough updates to make the game feel fresh, but isn't so new that you can't ease back into a beloved farm and toil away. It's important to note here that the free update is currently only available for PC players. The update will come to mobile and consoles like the Nintendo Switch later on.

It was the latest twist in a saga that has disrupted typical car industry practices and drawn the attention of safety advocates and regulators, who fear the consequences of Tesla foisting the largely untested software on the public. Full Self-Driving is an expanded iteration of the software that Tesla calls Autopilot, which can navigate highways, summon and park cars, and conduct other maneuvers with an attentive driver behind the wheel. Full Self-Driving brings those capabilities to city streets, allowing the software to navigate Tesla cars through local roads and residential areas. Users must pay attention at all times, and the software -- despite its name -- is not considered autonomous by industry or regulatory definitions.

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A new crop of data preparation tools, powered by machine learning, are changing the way that businesses prepare their data for optimal use. Here's what you need to know. At analytics-capable companies, just about every business department is asking for more data to help them make better decisions. But many of these same companies are also struggling with one common problem: It simply takes too long to transform raw data into meaningful sets that analysts, data scientists, and business users can actually use to their advantage In fact, according to a report from Forrester, 59 percent of these decision-makers say that data prep is the key bottleneck they must over to achieve better business intelligence through analytics. One of the primary problems is that data preparation is a time-consuming, often-manual process that relies heavily on human labor.