Fri. 06/20 – A Shenzhen-like Production City In The US?
Tech Brew Ride Home
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Meta has some new smartglasses. How long can the TikTok groundhog day go on? Masa Son wants to create a Shenzhen-like production city here in the US. Are your smart cameras a national security threat to the home front in a war? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Meta announces Oakley smart glasses (The Verge)
- Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO (CNBC)
- Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis (AP)
- Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says (Axios)
- Masa Son Pitches $1 Trillion US AI Hub to TSMC, Trump Team (Bloomberg)
- Israeli Officials Warn Iran Is Hijacking Security Cameras to Spy (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content (ArsTechnica)
- Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex (QuantaMagazine)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Friday, June 20th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:08.8 | Meta has some new smart glasses. How long can the TikTok Groundhog Day go on? |
| 0:14.0 | Masasan wants to create a Shenzhen-like production city here in the U.S. |
| 0:18.7 | Are your smart cameras a national security threat to the home front in a war? |
| 0:22.8 | And of course, the weekend long read suggestions. |
| 0:25.1 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.1 | Meta has some new smart glasses. |
| 0:35.6 | They're the $399-plus Oakley Meta-Houston, again pronounced |
| 0:40.7 | Houston, and they have the same features as the meta-ray-band glasses were familiar with, |
| 0:46.2 | but with 3K video recording IPX-4 water resistance and double the battery life, quoting the Verge. |
| 0:53.5 | Like the existing meta-rayband glasses, |
| 0:55.9 | the Oakley model features a front-facing camera |
| 0:58.1 | along with open-ear speakers and microphones |
| 1:00.4 | that are built into the frame. |
| 1:02.2 | After they are paired with a phone, |
| 1:03.6 | the glasses can be used to listen to music or podcasts, |
| 1:06.0 | conduct phone calls, or chat with meta-AI. |
| 1:08.7 | By utilizing the onboard camera and microphones, MetaI can also answer |
| 1:12.4 | questions about what someone is seeing and even translate languages. Given the Oakley design, |
| 1:17.8 | Meta is positioning these new glasses as being geared toward athletes. They have an IPX-4 water |
| 1:23.4 | resistance rating and offer double the battery life of the meta raybans, providing eight hours of |
| 1:28.0 | use, along with a charging case that can power them for up to 48 hours. The built-in camera now |
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