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Plus: Why do countries change their names? Was this newsletter forwarded to you? [Sign up here]( [Quartz]( June 06, 2022 [View in browser]( Sponsored By Good morning, Quartz readers! Here’s what you need to know There were three mass shootings in the US this weekend. Philadelphia, Chattanooga, and Saginaw all [saw violence](, leaving nine dead, as the country still reels from shootings in Tulsa, Uvalde, and Buffalo. Senators said there is momentum for [new gun legislation](, though talks are ongoing. Russia attacked Kyiv. The airstrikes followed days after the US announced $700 million in aid to Ukraine, as president Vladimir Putin [warned the West against]( sending more arms. Meanwhile, the UK [will also send Ukraine]( longer-range missiles. UK prime minister Boris Johnson will face a vote of no confidence. It will [take place later today](, after at least 15% of conservative MPs agreed to a vote. The Americas Summit will kick off in Los Angeles. US president Joe Biden, who has [excluded]( Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the meeting, is coming under close scrutiny as leaders gather to [discuss policy issues]( including migration and inflation. Meanwhile, the US will let two companies [ship Venezuelan oil]( to Europe. Elon Musk won’t cut Tesla jobs after all. After calling for a 10% reduction in the car company’s staff, Musk said employee numbers [will increase](, but the number of salaried employees “should be fairly flat.” A US baby formula factory will resume production. Abbott, whose February shutdown contributed to [severe formula shortages](, will restart operations after meeting government sanitary requirements. An explosion in Bangladesh killed at least 49 people. The blast happened at [a storage depot]( near the city of Chittagong, and more deaths are expected. Sponsor content by EY Reframe your future with EY. EY can help you realize your ambitions by offering a radically different approach to connecting strategy, transactions, transformation and technology, where design and delivery inform each other at every step. [Discover more]( What to watch for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference [starts today](, and the [rumor mill]( is at full tilt. The WWDC is focused on developers and commonly includes updates to Apple’s operating systems. This year, the New York Times reports that Apple will “unveil software tools that would allow apps to add new camera and voice functionality, laying the groundwork for a hands-free interface.” That change could prelude a bigger release next year: augmented reality goggles that look like they [belong on the ski slopes](. That device, which may or may not be mentioned during WWDC, is a critical piece of Big Tech’s rush toward [the so-called metaverse](. Apple dominated the last big platform shift to smartphones. Giant rivals like Meta [had to play by Apple’s mobile rules](. This time Meta is building its own hardware and it’s Apple that’s [playing catch up](. Why do countries change their names? The UN said last week it will call Turkey [by its preferred name](: Türkiye. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched his country’s rebranding campaign last December during a wave of high inflation and economic hardship. The country’s government has long referred to itself as Türkiye. But name changes are often more than rebranding. Renaming a place has as much to do with how the name is used internally as how it’s [viewed externally](, whether because of [politics, history, or tourism](. Here are a few other notable name changes: 🇳🇱 Holland became the Netherlands in 2020; the country wanted people to know that [it’s bigger than two provinces](. 🇸🇿 Swaziland became Eswatini in 2018; the name change [was driven in part]( by a desire to break with colonialism. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic became Czechia in 2016; if the French Republic can be France, why can’t Czechia catch on? The legacy of Sheryl Sandberg Quartz Sheryl Sandberg’s exit from Meta is a big shakeup for the social media behemoth. Sandberg will [immediately focus on her foundation]( and family, but her long-term goals are harder to map, and speculation around her next steps will inevitably be shaped by gendered expectations and judgments. ✦ But, as Quartz members know from the latest [Weekend Brief](, her next chapter(s)—whether in politics, business, or philanthropy—will also be a data point on how the world now perceives tech companies and the people who run them. 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