Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, November 13th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Firefighters are battling a new kind of fire, those caused by electric vehicles, and they're

discovering that these fires are harder to put out.

Our reporter, John Kielman, will join us later in the show to explain why.

But first, some headlines.

Meta is returning to China, 14 years after Facebook was shut out of the country.

The social media giant has struck a preliminary deal with the world's largest video game company,

Tencent, to sell its virtual reality headsets in China as early as next year.

Our reporter Raphael Wong says the deal could open up a major new market for Meta's

VR gear.

The global shipment of VR headsets has been declining in recent quarters due to the

weakened economy and aging product offerings. So the market is wondering whether VR headsets

are able to win over a broader base of consumers.

So earlier this year, Meta sludge prices for some headsets.

And we also know that Meta has explored lowering costs of some components.

The product they're going to sell in China using cheaper components

is part of Meta's efforts to boost the business.

This market poses some unique challenges, one reason being

that Beijing has been tightening regulations around video games. Here's Raphael

again. This is still a provisional deal and details are subject to change.

One of the uncertainty is China hasn't issued any rules for VII yet.

So it is still unclear whether Tansan would need formal

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