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WhatsApp is testing two new features that will make it easier to share longer videos as status updates and make faster peer-to-peer (P2P) payments via UPI. These new features were spotted by feature tracker WABetaInfo on recent beta versions of WhatsApp for Android. When these features roll out to all user on the table channel, users will be able to share 60-second videos to their status, and quickly scan any QR code to send money to merchants or other users.The feature tracker spotted the ability…

Jeffery DelViscio: Hello 60-Second Science fans, this is Jeff DelViscio, the executive producer of the podcast. First, I really just want to thank you all for being loyal listeners–for however long you've been listening.  And just in case that’s from the very start–you’ve been with us now for 16 years, 3 months, and 7 days, counting today.  (That’s near prehistoric in podcast years.) In that time, we’ve published well over 3,000 episodes on every imaginable science and health topic.  But on Sept. 5, 2006, we started…