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Books are not completely new to Stardew Valley. Prior to the 1.6 update, you could find lost books that gave some background details about Pelican Town but didn’t give you any in-game benefit. Now, there is a new collection of books that grant your character some nice buffs or abilities. You can find a few of these new books hidden in the world, like the new Powdermelon seeds, but there are some exclusive ones you need to buy from a new bookseller NPC. Despite not making any business sense, they are only open for…

It’ll likely take years before the U.S. government’s massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple is resolved—but the iPhone maker’s troubles with European regulators offer a glimpse of what changes American customers may see down the line.The U.S. lawsuit seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps in areas such as streaming, messaging, and digital payments. The Department of Justice also wants to prevent the tech giant from building language into its contracts with developers, accessory…

When you’re composing a document or email in Google Docs or Gmail, you may have noticed that the application often tries to finish sentences for you. As I was writing this, Google suggested “when I started writing this” instead of my preferred “when I started to type.” That’s because of Google’s Smart Compose feature, which tries to anticipate your thought processes and add what it thinks you’re going to type next.Once a suggestion appears (in slightly lighter type), you have two choices: if you like it, you can hit the…

Daily article downloads for tweeted vs. control articles after the tweeting date. Data obtained from John Wiley & Sons for five journals for the experimental (blue, n = 10 per journal) and control (red, n = 40 per journal) articles, aligned to the number of days after tweeting occurred for each experimental article. Credit: PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292201 A team of researchers with varied backgrounds has…

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, often comes up with new ideas that make headlines. He recently shared a proposal that might help those planning to buy a hybrid car: a substantial reduction in taxes on hybrid vehicles. Speaking at News18’s Rising Bharat Summit 2024, Mr. Gadkari proposed reducing the current 48 percent GST on hybrid vehicles to 12 percent. This reduction could significantly affect the prices of popular hybrid cars like the Toyota Innova Hycross in the market. The Toyota…

Since last year’s release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder on the Nintendo Switch, one question has plagued me: just what does that goo taste like? In the game, it’s a jelly-like substance in a tempting shade of lime green, and at various points, you can swim through it like thick, goopy water. When you first encounter it, one of the many talking flowers asks, “How’s the goo taste?” But it turns out getting a definitive answer is much harder than I anticipated.Initially, I thought I had it figured out. The goo looks remarkably…

Capcom I never had reason to give much thought to fast travel in games before starting Dragon’s Dogma 2. In most open-world games that include the feature, the only requirement for accessing it is reaching points of interest. Once players do so, they are generally free to zip from point to point around the map with little to no inconvenience. That isn’t how Dragon’s Dogma 2 operates — fast travel is based around a limited currency called Ferrystones — and it has completely changed my mindset on the mechanic as a…

Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles). That's about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, and the accomplishment, achieved in November 2023, represented the first time that optical communications have been sent across such a distance. Traditionally, we use radio waves to talk to distant spacecraft – but higher…

Tesla’s (TSLA) stock dropped this morning due to a report that automakers are reducing their electric vehicle output at Gigafactory Shanghai because of lower demand. Bloomberg says that Tesla removed one and a half day of work at Gigafactory Shanghai: The US carmaker earlier this month instructed employees at its Shanghai facility to lower production of both the Model Y and Model 3 — the two vehicles Tesla makes in China — by working five days a week instead of the usual 6 1/2 days, the people said,…

Posted in: Boom, Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News | Tagged: brzrkr, greg pak, grim, james tynion iv, jason aaron, keanu reeves, power rangers, something is killing the childrenJason Aaron and Francesco Manna bring back Keanu Reeves' Brzrkr for A Faceful Of Bullets, as part of Boom Studios' June 2024 solicitations.Article Summary Jason Aaron and Francesco Manna introduce 'Brzrkr A Faceful Of Bullets' in Boom's June 2024 lineup. New series 'Profane' and 'Lawful' kick off as Boom Studios' fresh…