Wed. 06/24 – Oculus Go and Olympus (and Force Touch?) Go Bye Bye

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Brazil puts the breaks on payments via WhatsApp. Advertisers apply pressure on Facebook via a boycott. Oculus is putting an end to the Oculus Go. Olympus is existing the camera business after 80 years. And what might be the first case of a person wrongfully arrested thanks to facial recognition. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride TinyCapital.com Links: Brazilian Authorities Suspend WhatsApp Payments (Bloomberg) Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (NYTimes) Facebook To Stop Selling Oculus Go, Vows No More 3DOF Headsets (UploadVR) Olympus to Exit Camera Business After 84 Years (WSJ) watchOS 7 drops Force Touch support, likely ahead of Apple Watch Series 6 hardware changes (9to5Mac) Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (NYTimes) Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime (Motherboard) Subscribe to the ad-free version of the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, June 24th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.4	Today, weirdly, it's a day of goodbyes for the Oculus Go, for Olympus cameras for Force Touch maybe.
0:15.8	Brazil puts the brakes on payments via WhatsApp, advertisers apply pressure on Facebook
0:20.6	via boycott, and what might be the first case of a person
0:24.4	wrongfully arrested thanks to facial recognition. Here's what you miss today in the
0:28.3	world of tech.
0:30.3	The Central Bank of Brazil has told MasterCard and Visa to stop payments via
0:38.3	WhatsApp in that country so that it can evaluate the risks and regulations around digital payments.
0:45.0	Somebody said early on and the whole Libra rollout that if creating payments as a
0:50.0	bigger business was Facebook's ultimate goal, then it probably wasn't a smart move to draw
0:55.0	such attention and scrutiny to payments as a business overall.
0:59.3	Maybe this is sort of that, quoting Bloomberg.
1:02.7	Brazil's Central Bank has suspended Facebook's
1:05.0	WhatsApp Messenger payment feature in the country,
1:07.9	the app's second biggest market
1:09.3	with more than 120 million users.
1:11.5	The decision aims to, to quote preserve an adequate competitive
1:14.6	environment that ensures the functioning of a payment system that's
1:17.5	interchangeable, fast, secure, transparent, open, and cheap, the monetary authority
1:21.8	said in a statement on its website.
1:24.4	Bank authorities requested that MasterCard and Visa stop payment and money transfer activities
1:28.8	through the app.
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