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Review: The strange appeal of the Unihertz Titan 2 Elite (opens the original)
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When my Unihertz Titan 2 Elite arrived, I assumed it would become a second phone. I carried it alongside my Pixel for about a week, learned the keyboard, tried a few launchers and spent an unreasonable amount of time comparing camera shots. Then I swapped SIM cards, stopped bringing the Pixel and started using the Titan as my daily driver. More than two weeks later, it’s still my main phone, and the Pixel only comes out when I know I’m going somewhere where I’ll care about the photos.I backed th
When AI writing can look human, what does polish still prove? (opens the original)
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I’ve spent more hours than I can count staring at a blank page with a blinking cursor, convinced that I have an interesting idea in my head that I can’t seem to put into words. The fragments have yet to connect. An opening begins to take shape before closing into another false start as the self-doubt begins to creep in: maybe the piece’s central idea isn’t as original as I thought. This process is frustrating and all too familiar for writers, but it has also forced us to become comfortable with
What Xbox’s layoffs tells us about being wrong at scale (opens the original)
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The memo explaining Xbox’s latest cuts may be more revealing than the cuts themselves.New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the business is “not healthy.” She describes a company that kept adding teams, investment and time as growth disappointed, with platform groups growing 40% even as player base and playtime declined.It’s become more and more obvious now that Xbox bit off more than it could chew, and Microsoft just had enough money to keep chewing for years.<a class="button primary" href="https://jos
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