Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for March 9, 2018.

Today, Weimo joins the self-driving truck party.

Twitter wants you to go verify yourself.

Snap wants to break even.

Facebook wants to stream Major League Baseball.

I'll give you some weekend long reads,

and finally why that Obama going to Netflix story

is actually a really big tech story.

Here's what happened today in the world of tech.

This has certainly been the week for self-driving truck announcements.

Weimo said this morning that starting next week it will be

operating self-driving cargo trucks in the Atlanta area, delivering freight to

Google's data centers, said Weimo, quote,

this pilot in partnership with Google's logistics team

will let us further develop our technology

and integrate it into the operations of shippers

and carriers with their networks of factories, distribution centers,

ports, and terminals. A human overseer will be in the cabin of course, but it doesn't sound like

Waimo is testing that hub model that we described Uber testing out earlier this week.

Arst Technica notes that Weimo's ambition has long been to achieve what is known as level

four automation that would entail vehicles that can

handle city streets. Last November they even let some of their minivans go

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