Author: Dima Komarov On October 29, 2002, the legendary “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” was released. Rockstar Games decided to celebrate its 10th anniversary by bringing the game to mobile platforms. The game will be available for "a large number of iOS and Android devices" this fall, reports The Verge . The app will feature “native high-definition graphics” and a number of improvements for both mobile platforms.

Russian application stores for iOS and Mac OS switched to rubles. Local versions of stores in India, Indonesia, Israel, the UAE, Turkey and South Africa also switched to using local currency. Today, one of the last steps in localizing international versions of Apple stores took place: translation into local currency. In addition, changed VAT regulations in some countries have forced Apple to increase prices.

A British court ordered Apple to apologize to Samsung for not copying the iPad design. Apple apologized in a peculiarly aggressive manner. Even from an unsuccessful lawsuit, Apple was able to benefit. Faced with the need to apologize to Samsung , the company pulled out words that were convenient for it from the text of the court ruling, turning everything upside down.

Information about Putin's bad back, refuted by his press service, served as a reason for misinformation about his stroke. Twitter lit up. Municipal deputy Natalya Chernysheva's tweet about Putin's stroke received a lot of publicity. Almost immediately Chernysheva clarified that she was not sure that this rumor was true. Probably the reason was today's refutation of rumors about Putin's poor health by his press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

Author: Dima Komarov During the quarterly financial report, Apple's CTO made a statement regarding the current state of affairs with maps on iOS6. “Over the past few months we have made a number of improvements to Maps and will work non-stop until their quality reaches our high standards,” said Peter Oppenheimer. This comes about a month after Tim Cook made a similar statement in an open letter apologizing for the quality of Apple Maps .

The company has released a major update, expanding the format of multimedia “cards”. In total, more than 2,000 new services are connected, including Soundcloud, the Amazon store and the Path social network. If a tweet contains a link to a track on Soundcloud, when you expand it, you can see the album cover, listen to the track itself, and even like it on Soundcloud without leaving Twitter. The company announced the connection of more than 2,000 new formats in its blog .