Thu. 10/28 – Facebook’s New Name Is Meta

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device. And how to handle the notch on the MacBook Pro if its driving you crazy. Sponsors: Wealthfront.com/techmeme Dataiku.com Links: Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat) Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch) Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget) Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat) Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch) Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget) Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (NYTimes) Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help (Axios) The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is ideal for DIY projects (Wired) Apple Reveals 'Scale to Fit' Setting to Prevent a Mac App's Menu Bar Items From Being Hidden Under Notch (MacRumors) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, October 28th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Facebook's new name is, well you're going to have to listen to the first segment to find out if it even
0:14.5	has a new name.
0:16.0	That's what we in the business call a teaser.
0:18.4	But also because at the time of this recording I don't know yet.
0:21.4	Also all the headlines from Facebook's Connect event today
0:24.8	is Co-Pilot Taking Over GitHub,
0:27.6	the new Raspberry Pie device,
0:29.4	and how to handle the notch on the Macbook Pro
0:32.1	if it's driving you crazy. Here's what you
0:34.1	missed today in the world of tech. Meta. Facebook's new corporate name is
0:42.1	Meta. M-E-T-A.
0:45.0	Yes, because it's all about the Metaverse now.
0:47.2	So this Mark Zuckerberg production is now called Meta. Mark Zuckerberg himself said quote,
0:55.0	from now on we're going to be metaverse first, not Facebook first.
0:58.0	The word meta comes from the Greek word beyond.
1:01.0	To me, it suggests that there's always something more.
1:04.0	Building our social media apps will always be an important focus for us but right
1:08.0	now our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can't possibly
1:11.9	represent everything that we're doing today, much less in the future.
1:15.0	Over time, I hope we are seen as a Metiverse company and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we are building towards end quote.
1:24.0	As for the actual event at which this news was made,
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