Sport
How a fight like Makhachev vs Garry is actually scored
Garry made the champion look human for the first time in years and still lost four of five rounds on two scorecards. That is not a robbery — it is what the criteria say, and almost nobody reads them in order.
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The complete VJOURNAL issue, ordered by editorial signal and publication date.
AI
GPT-6 Astra: what it can do, what access really means, and when it is worth using
GPT-6 Astra is a high-capability OpenAI model for reasoning, coding, computer use, research and document creation, but practical value depends on integration, permissions, task design and total workflow cost.
AI
Claude Fable 5.1: what changed, how cache pricing works, and a safer migration plan
Released September 1, Claude Fable 5.1 targets difficult reasoning, coding, research and document work. The headline cache reduction applies to eligible reads only, while migration details can break old conversation flows.
AI
Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber: access, temporary pricing, and a sensible pilot
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and the restricted Flash Cyber on September 2. Flash is positioned as a coding, agentic and reasoning workhorse, but token use on difficult tasks still belongs in the budget.
AI
Lyria 3.5 in Gemini: AI music features and a practical production guide
Google announced Lyria 3.5 on September 4 with claimed improvements to vocals and arrangements. The useful question is how to brief, compare and approve outputs without assuming pricing, rights or exclusivity.
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AI
Mistral Agentic Search: where it improves document retrieval and where ordinary RAG still wins
Mistral Agentic Search is an orchestration layer over retrieval rather than a new general frontier model. Its value appears when a question requires multiple document-navigation steps; simpler retrieval can still be the better choice.
People
Islam Makhachev after UFC 330: the champion who controls the terms
Makhachev's first welterweight title defense was not effortless, which made it more revealing: when the striking became competitive, he returned to the part of the fight he could govern.
People
Ian Machado Garry after UFC 330: the challenger who made the champion adjust
Garry did not leave Philadelphia with the belt, but he showed the division a repeatable problem: length, patience and clean middle-round striking can force Makhachev away from cruise control.
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Design
Website Design for a Construction Company: Portfolio, Prices and Trust
Three different people with different fears read a construction company's site, and generic text about "full cycle" convinces none of them. Portfolios as project cards, an honest conversation about price, and the acceptance order.
Business
What it costs to launch a product on a marketplace: seven lines of spend and who pays each one
There is no single number. Launching a product on a marketplace splits into seven cost lines paid to different people. Here is each one, with an honest note on which VITON13 covers and which stay with the seller.
Business
What to prepare before a first marketplace shipment: a seller's checklist
You have decided to sell but have not shipped yet. Six blocks close before the first delivery: documents, barcodes and article numbers, the category and its attributes, the listing, packaging and price. Here is each one, and which edits stay cheap.
Business
Why a marketplace listing gets no sales: three checks, cheapest first
A listing with no sales fails at one of three points: it is never shown, it is shown and never opened, or it is opened and never bought. Each has different causes and different fixes, checked cheapest first.
Business
Infographics on a marketplace listing: the first frame sells the click, the rest answer objections
A listing's image stack is a script, not a gallery. The first frame wins the click in the grid; the rest remove doubts in the order they arrive. Text size, the line between picture and description, and rules that differ by platform.
Business
Handling reviews on a marketplace: read them as product data, not as a verdict on you
A review measures the gap between what your listing promised and what came out of the box. How to sort the feed by type of breakage, write replies aimed at the next buyer, and why a flawless rating works against you.
Business
Unit economics of a marketplace product: the order of subtraction from price to remainder
A step-by-step walk through the unit economics of a marketplace product, from the realised selling price down to the contribution per unit, with the two lines sellers forget most often: returns and storage on slow stock.
Business
Choosing the right marketplace category for a product before you launch
The category decides four things at once: your commission rate, the attribute set, the filters a buyer can use, and the products you are compared against. How to read the tree from the buyer's side, and why moving later costs more.
Business
Marketplace title and attributes: what goes in the line and what goes in a field
A listing title is read by a search system and by a person who looks at the grid for one second, and the two want different things. Here is what goes in the line, what goes in the fields, and what belongs nowhere.
Business
Marketplace advertising: where to start and what to budget before you spend
Order of operations matters more than the sum: a paid impression multiplies whatever the listing already does. What to fix before the first dollar, how to size a test, how to read the report, and what a supplier can honestly promise.
Business
Stock levels and seasonality on a marketplace: what a stockout really costs
A stockout on a marketplace switches off more than sales: it switches off the position the listing spent months earning. Here is how lead time, storage cost and the season window combine into a restock plan that does not strand cash in a warehouse.
Business
Returns and damaged goods on a marketplace: what they tell you about the listing
Every return arrives with a reason, and the reason points somewhere specific: the listing copy, the product itself, or the box it travelled in. How to tell them apart, what to change first, and why a lower return rate is usually a copy and photography job.
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