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WhatsApp payments are finally coming back to Brazil after government suspension

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge. The bank said it planned to evaluate whether the service was compliant with regulations, despite the fact that Facebook said it had been in contact with the authority before the launch. A gente sabe que vocês estavam esperando por isso.

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WhatsApp payments suspended in Brazil by Central Bank

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge. Bloomberg reports that WhatsApp was surprised by the Brazillian Central Bank’s decision, since the company had been in regular contact with the authority. In a statement, the central bank said that it had taken the decision to ensure competition in the payment system market.

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VanMoof’s e-bike ad banned in France for creating a ‘climate of anxiety’

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge. The commercial was rejected by France’s advertising regulatory authority, ARPP, because it “discredit[s] the automobile sector [.] VanMoof, the Dutch electric bicycle brand, is officially too hot for (French) television. while creating a climate of anxiety.”.

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Is Google finally managing its messaging mess?

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Thomas Ricker: I just spent a week riding Carqon’s first production bicycle here in Amsterdam. As Nicole Wetsman writes, you’re going to need to learn yet more: The challenge is, Quinn’s research shows that most people don’t have a good sense of the difference between drug approval and emergency authorization.

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Why does Amazon hate its most enthusiastic smart home fans? 

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge. Not only did he reverse engineer the Blink app to mimic its behavior, but the O’Reilly author and self-proclaimed IoT hobbyist is also the director of performance engineering at Shopify. Blink’s cheap wireless cameras have seen better days.