Apple’s Face Computer + Crypto Chaos + How Teens Really Feel About Social Media

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Apple kicked off the week with the announcement of a mixed-reality headset: the Apple Vision Pro. Putting a computer on your face may seem weird AF, but if there’s one company that knows how to make nerdy stuff into the thing that everyone wants, it’s Apple. Will these fancy goggles be the next Apple revolution? Then, crypto had (another) terrible week after the S.E.C. filed lawsuits against the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance. Plus: Our teenage listeners on how they feel about social media.

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0:00.0	I'm Kevin Russe. I'm a tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:02.8	I'm Casey Newton from platformer.
0:04.4	And you're listening to hard fork.
0:06.2	Why don't we ever do it in you, like that? Isn't that fun?
0:08.4	That sounds good.
0:09.4	And you're listening to hard fork.
0:11.6	I need to say it. It's not really good.
0:19.6	Yeah, I felt like the Beastie boys.
0:20.8	Yeah.
0:27.0	I'm Kevin Russe, a tech columnist for the New York Times.
0:29.2	I'm Casey Newton from platformer.
0:30.8	And you're listening to hard fork.
0:32.8	This week, the big vision behind Apple's Vision Pro,
0:36.4	then New York Times reporter David D'Affy Bellany
0:38.8	helps us unpack the worst week in crypto maybe ever.
0:42.8	And finally, our teenage listeners tell us how they feel
0:46.2	about social media.
0:47.6	And what we should do about it.
0:59.4	So Casey, the big news in tech this week was that Apple,
1:06.6	after many, many years of frenzied speculation and rumors,
1:10.0	has now introduced its headset called the Apple Vision Pro.
1:14.8	And it's a mixed reality device.
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