Meta’s WhatsApp is going after big businesses to capitalize on the app’s popularity

It’s been nearly a decade since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shocked the tech world by announcing that his company would spend $19 billion on WhatsApp, the popular messaging app with a small business presence. Since then, WhatsApp has remained somewhat of an anachronism. Usage continued to grow, with over 2 billion people using the app…

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India’s Moon Landing Makes History at a Relatively Low Cost

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, catalogs the fates of the Soviet Union’s first 11 space missions before the spacecraft successfully landed on the moon as stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed and crashed. Even today—there have been nine moon landings since 2013—achievements are mixed. It just…

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