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The Verge Tech

GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes. But everything just looks much better than previous entries, with impressive graphics, densely-packed rooms, and detailed environments. The footage was captured on PS5, according to the end of the video. A key focus of the game seems to be how protagonists Jason Duval and

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The Verge Tech

Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their contents. During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to generate a recipe bo

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ExternalMobile Development
Apple Developer News

Tax and price updates for apps, In-App Purchases, and subscriptions

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 43 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or foreign exchange rates. These adjustments are made using publicly available exchange rate information from reputable financial media (e.g., The Wall Street Journal) or financial companies (e.g., Bloomberg) to help make sure prices for apps and In-App 

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Why Your Terraform Drift Alerts Are Useless (And How to Fix Them)

Let me describe a workflow that exists in thousands of engineering organizations right now. Somebody sets up a cron job. It runs terraform plan against production every few hours. When the plan output isn't empty, it fires a Slack notification. The team calls this "drift detection."

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