Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, June 9th. Nice.

2023, I'm Brian McCullough today. Lots of juicy nuggets from a recent all hands over at meta.

Binance.US looks like it's on the road to shutting down.

The first trials of AI tutors for kids are happening.

The self-driving revolution I've been waiting for seems to be happening at least in California and the weekend long-read suggestions are happening as always

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech

There was apparently a recent all hands over at Meta and a bunch of stuff was discussed, but first up, what did Zuck think of the Apple headset reveal. He renamed his company Meta, of course, so you would figure he was glued to his screen seeing what Apple was doing for its version of the Metaverse, quoting the Verge, quoting Zuck himself. From what I've seen initially, I'd say the good news is that there's no kind of magical

solutions that they, he means Apple, have to any of the constraints on laws of physics that

our teams haven't already explored and thought of.

They went with a higher resolution display and between that and all the technology they put in

there to power it, it costs seven times more and now

requires so much energy that now you need a battery and a wire attached to it to use it.

They made that design trade-off and it might make sense for the cases that they're going for but look I

think that their announcement really showcases the differences in the values and the

vision that our companies bring to this in a way that I think is really important. We innovate to make sure that our products

are as accessible and affordable to everyone as possible and that is a core part of what

we do and we have sold tens of millions of quests. More importantly, our vision for the metaverse

and presence is fundamentally social.

It's about people interacting in new ways

and feeling closer in new ways.

Our device is also about being active and doing things.

By contrast, every demo that they showed

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