Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, June 7th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

All the headlines from W. W. D.C. 2021 and Beaysos in space. France also brings the first hammer down on this

round of anti-competitive action this time against Google and Jane Mention Wong has the details on the upcoming

Twitter Super follower's thingy.

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

Well, are you ready for Dub, D.C. in like 10 minutes or less?

It was a virtual event again. It opened with Tim Cook speaking to an arena full of mimoji.

Actually, it really opened with a fake Tim Cook

and a DeLorian in an Apple producer video,

which never mind.

Sort of surprising to me, they kicked things off by going directly to iOS. Craig

Federigi jumped right into the announcement that FaceTime is getting spatial audio.

Machine learning is being applied to FaceTime to cut out background noise.

There's a grid video and portrait mode now for FaceTime,

which sort of looks like the blurred virtual background that you get automatically from Zoom and Google Meet and other

places. You can also schedule FaceTime calls using FaceTime links and it works

with Android and Windows users and on the web as well.

So remember back when Steve Jobs originally

launched FaceTime and said it would be available to everyone.

It's however many years later,

and we're basically kind of getting there. Then share play is a

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