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WhatsApp payments may let you earn cashbacks

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  WhatsApp recently rolled out the ability to send payments quickly through the chat bar. Before, users had to open a separate menu to get to the payments options. This feature was limited to people who had installed the latest Android Beta of the app from the Google Play Store in India. WhatsApp Pay was the chat company's first foray into the lucrative UPI (Unified Payment Interface)  market in India. Despite its launch early last year, people haven't used the Facebook owned platforms UPI offering much. A report by Economic Times in February of 2021 said that WhatsApp had only processed 1.6 million out of over 6.7 billion transactions at the beginning of the year. Insiders from the company had told the publication that it was part of the strategy and the company was in it for the long haul. It wanted to make sure the simplicity of the WhatsApp interface was not compromised and it wanted the experience for users to be smooth. WhatsApp will begin processing cashbacks for transac
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Leak: Apple’s new MacBook Pros may get taller, sharper displays

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  A new report by MacRumors provides strong evidence Apple plans to increase the resolution on its rumored ‘M1X’ 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, which are expected to be announced within the next month or two. MacRumors contributor Steve Moser took a close look at the latest macOS Monterey beta and found two mysterious new resolutions that don’t match any existing Mac: 3456 x 2234 and 3024 x 1964. There are a couple of interesting things about these resolutions. For one, they’re obviously higher resolution than the current MacBook Pro models, which are 3072 x 1920 (16-inch) and 2560 x 1600 (13-inch). It’s curious that Apple would opt to increase the resolution and pixel density (about 250 ppi) by a fairly significant margin, considering the existing MacBook‘s are already at ‘Retina’ quality (roughly 227 ppi). Then again, considering how many 4k laptops are on the market (that’s 3840 x 2160, for a 16:9 display), perhaps Apple didn’t want to get left behind, even if there’s likely to be a m
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