your phone number is personal and sometimes you want to connect without handing it over. that's why we're introducing usernames for WhatsApp.
starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch the feature. It takes just a few seconds, make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp and then go to Settings > Account > Username.
A week ago WSJ reported Polymarket paid mostly college-age creators to film fake bets and fake wins, then built near-identical clones of its own site for them to "trade" on. One spoofed domain, poiymarket[.]com, swaps a capital I for the L so it reads like the real address.
WSJ reviewed 1,105 promoted videos. Roughly 70% staged a bet, $1.9 million in total, none real. 118 clips showed creators "winning" close to $900,000 on bets that would have lost more than $166,000.
A marketing firm, Virality, amplified the clips through a network told to look organic, reaching more than 140 million views. The target was US users, who reach the platform by VPN because Polymarket has been barred from serving Americans since 2022.
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🇨🇳 China has successfully made a satellite call using a standard smartphone, with no hardware modifications required.
The call was completed through the Thousand Sails constellation, which already has around 200 satellites in orbit and aims to reach 1,296 by 2027.
The race to challenge Starlink is accelerating.
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Iranian media has unveiled dramatic new footage of a massive underground missile city filled with ballistic missiles and suicide drones.
A deep hidden arsenal designed for large scale deterrence and rapid response capability.