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Facebook, now called Meta, acquired WhatsApp for a historic $19 billion in 2014. Today, over half of the world’s internet users also use WhatsApp, but the free messaging service has never generated much revenue. Now though, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that he views WhatsApp as Meta’s “next chapter” when it comes to monetization.

CNBC spoke with WhatsApp Head of Product Alice Newton-Rex, who said that WhatsApp’s emerging business messaging services will drive revenue growth, as companies pay a fee to interact with customers on the platform. But it remains to be seen whether business messaging through WhatsApp will take off, as the current market is dominated by regular SMS messaging. And that future is especially unclear in the U.S., where WhatsApp has struggled to gain traction.

This video is a full business documentary on Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Paul Allen. It features a lot of archive footage of the early days at microsoft, a lot of old interviews with bill gates, as well as displaying old microsoft products.

One of my favorite things about making this video was actually going through old microsoft footage and finding the first windows operating system (windows 1.0), the first MS-Dos footage, Windows 95 footage and commercials, etc.

But ya, this was a pretty full-on business documentary...but because Microsoft is a trillion dollar company with a lot of history, I obviously couldn't get into a lot of topics that i wanted to talk about.

For example, I wanted to talk about the relationship between Microsoft and Apple a lot more. I wanted to mention Steve Ballmer an Ric Weilands importance to the company. I wanted to talk about what happened to Kent Evans (he unfortunately passed away as a teenager). I wanted to talk about microsofts other investments and their future going ahead with Satya Nadella. I also wanted to dive into bill gates history and biography, but there was just no time for any of that. Most of these could be separate documentaries in themselves.

This video is about the lakeside computer club. And how a group of teenagers in seattle took over the computer industry, the operating system industry, and the internet browser industry. They also took a giant chunk out of other business fields as well like the gaming industry with xbox and mojang/minecraft, the movie industry with dreamworks, the travel industry with expedia, the social networking industry with linkedin, video calling with skype...etc.

নতুন প্রযুক্তির ফাইবার অপটিক্যালের মাধ্যমে জাপান প্রতি সেকেন্ডে ১.০২ পেটাবিট বা ১,২৭,৫০০ গিগাবাইট (GB) ডেটা ১,৮০২ কিলোমিটার দূরত্ব পর্যন্ত প্রেরণ করতে সক্ষম হয়েছে। এটি পূর্ববর্তী সব ইন্টারনেট স্পিড রেকর্ড ভেঙে দিয়েছে। এই গতির ইন্টারনেট স্পিড দিয়ে মাত্র চার মিনিটেরও কম সময়ে সম্পূর্ণ ইন্টারনেট আর্কাইভ ডাউনলোড করা সম্ভব, যা একটি অভাবনীয় সাফল্য।

এই অসাধ্য সাধন করেছে জাপানের National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)। তারা নতুন ধরনের একটি অপটিক্যাল ফাইবার ব্যবহার করেছে, যার ব্যাস মাত্র ০.১২৫ মিলিমিটার, অথচ এটি প্রচলিত ফাইবারের চেয়ে ১৯ গুণ বেশি ডেটা প্রেরণে সক্ষম।

তাদের উদ্ভাবিত এই ইন্টারনেট স্পিড যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের গড় ইন্টারনেট গতির চেয়ে প্রায় ৪০ লক্ষ গুণ বেশি। এমনকি এই গতিতে নেটফ্লিক্সের পুরো ক্যাটালগ ১ সেকেন্ডেরও কম সময়ে ডাউনলোড করা সম্ভব।

বিশ্বব্যাপী ইন্টারনেট ডেটার চাহিদা দিন দিন বাড়ছে। সেই প্রেক্ষাপটে এই প্রযুক্তি ভবিষ্যতে একটি অতুলনীয় ভূমিকা রাখবে বলে মনে করা হচ্ছে। বিশেষ করে দীর্ঘ দূরত্বে উচ্চক্ষমতার এবং স্কেলযোগ্য অপটিক্যাল কমিউনিকেশন সিস্টেম তৈরিতে।

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The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps.Why deep sea maps are SO BAD (and how to fix it)...
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Our maps of the ocean are surprisingly bad! On Google Maps it looks like we know so much… but we know less about the ocean floor than we do the surface of Mars. And that’s a big problem, because we are using the ocean all the time: We’re laying internet cables across it, we fight wars in it, we search it during a crisis - like the imploded OceanGate Titan submersible or the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. 71% of the surface of the Earth is water! And yet we have a surprisingly limited view of what’s below it.

But that’s also understandable. Because cartographically speaking, water sucks. For Mars or Earth’s surface, we can take pictures. But light doesn’t get to the ocean floor, so we need other ways to see it. The good news is, we’re developing that tech right now, and an international group called Seabed 2030 is working to piece together a better map.

There is a terrifying, incredible, alien world on our own planet, and we’re FINALLY using technology to see it more clearly.

In this episode of Huge If True, I dive deep - with help from my friend and fellow video journalist ‪@johnnyharris‬
to show you how we’re mapping the ocean, the surprising things we’ve discovered in the depths, and why this new technology could be… huge if true :)

Chapters:
00:00 How bad are our ocean maps?
01:40 How deep is the ocean?
03:05 What is the deepest part of the ocean?
04:04 The craziest method to map the ocean
06:20 How does sonar work?
07:31 What did the first ocean maps look like?
09:30 How do we map the ocean now?
10:30 What is Seabed 2030?
11:40 How do we use underwater robots?
12:27 Concerns with mapping the deep ocean
13:11 Why deep ocean mapping is huge if true