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Meta has quietly launched a new app called Forum, a dedicated space for Facebook Groups that draws clear inspiration from Reddit. It's a significant move — Meta is essentially acknowledging that threaded, community-driven conversation deserves its own home, separate from the noise of the main feed. Whether users follow is another question entirely.
Shifting to hardware, Samsung's Galaxy Tab S eleven Ultra arrives with a genuinely impressive screen that reviewers are calling one of the best panels available for media and gaming. The problem is under the hood — the chipset simply doesn't match the ambition of the device, and at a similar price point, Apple's iPad Pro offers meaningfully more raw power. It's a familiar Samsung story: beautiful shell, compromised core.
And in crypto markets, XRP exchange-traded funds are drawing fresh inflows while bitcoin and ether funds continue to struggle for momentum. A surge in newly created XRP wallets suggests some traders are actively rotating out of the two largest assets and into the token. Whether that reflects genuine conviction or short-term speculation is the question analysts are watching closely.
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