Today's tech wrap: Breaking WhatsApp's encryption, Facebook's cryptocurrency unveiled and India's cheapest gaming phone

Cognizant has announced its first acquisition under the leadership of its new CEO, Brain Humphries. The company has acquired Cork, an Ireland-based Zenith Technologies for an undisclosed amount.

Zenith Tech specialises in digital technology to manage, control and optimise drug and medial device production.

It's the year of gaming phones for India Nubia, a Chinese smartphone maker that is yet to make a name for itself in the country, just launched the cheapest gaming phone in India yet.

It's the second gaming phone to launch in 2019 and its price starts at ₹35,999 for the 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage variant.

After the recent run of bad news for TikTok, the Bytedance-owned video messaging platform has launched another safety feature called ‘Device Management’ to give users more control over their accounts.

In another win for India's faster growing telecom giant, Reliance Jio, its competitors -- Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- wil have to pay a fine for denying interconnection to Jio when the company initially entered the market in 2016.

India’s upcoming lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, might be India’s second trip to the moon but it will be charting into previously unknown territory on this voyage. It is going to be the first time that any country, not just India, will be landing on the moon’s South Pole.

This India’s biggest project till date costing the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) nearly ₹10 billion and will mark many ‘firsts’ for the country’s apex space agency.