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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: Google Maps is getting a new look. It's biggest update

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Speaker 2: in more than ten years. Our textbot Paul Stenhouse is

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Speaker 2: here with the details. What is happening to one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite apps.

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Speaker 3: It's okay, it's only going to be when you're driving,

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Speaker 3: or when you're in this navigation mode.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean that's quite a critical time, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is, Well, that's why it's good. So that's why

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Speaker 3: they've made the updates. Because you know, if you don't

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Speaker 3: have the navigation turned on and someone is just looking

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Speaker 3: at the dot moving down the road and not telling

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Speaker 3: you to turn left or right you're supposed to be doing,

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Speaker 3: that's a disaster, isn't it. That's a relationship over just instantly.

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Speaker 3: So they have made some really big changes. They've used AO.

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Speaker 3: Of course, they have to create some really cool imagery

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Speaker 3: that takes their information from street view and their information

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Speaker 3: from satellites and turn it into what kind of looks

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Speaker 3: like a video. And if you've ever seen a Tesla

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Speaker 3: when it's driving, it kind of is the same thing.

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Speaker 3: It's got the car in the middle of the screen

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Speaker 3: and it will show you the road, and then it

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Speaker 3: will show you the buildings and the pedestrian crossings and

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Speaker 3: the traffic lights and the stop signs, all kind of

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Speaker 3: like around your car. So it's pretty neat. It zooms

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Speaker 3: in and zooms out as it kind of needs to.

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Speaker 3: So if you're on the highway, it will just zoom out,

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Speaker 3: and then when you're getting close to the exits, it

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Speaker 3: will zoom on in so you can find your exit.

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Speaker 3: I think it sounds pretty neat. It looks pretty neat.

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Speaker 3: Haven't had the chance to try it yet. It's launching

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Speaker 3: in the US first, so it's rolling out here today

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Speaker 3: and then we'll be coming rest of the world. iOS,

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Speaker 3: Android car Play, Android Auto, all of those places where

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Speaker 3: you use Google Maps.

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Speaker 2: Right, okay, So theoretically it should make when you're in

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Speaker 2: the navigation mode, so you say here's where I'm going

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Speaker 2: and you hit start, it should make that like finding

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Speaker 2: getting the right exit, making the right turn just a

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Speaker 2: little bit easier, right, that's the goal, that's the theory. Yeah, okay, yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, famously, we all love change, especially

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Speaker 2: on Saturday morning. I'm sure we're going to lean into

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Speaker 2: that but no, I can't. I'm interested to see how

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Speaker 2: that's going to go down. Hey, a surprise reversal from Meta,

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Speaker 2: the company which owns Facebook and Instagram. Instagram chats are

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Speaker 2: no longer going to be encrypted.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So from May eighth, an alert popped up in

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Speaker 3: the app. You might have seen it if you use Instagram,

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Speaker 3: Instagram Chats, Instagram Messenger. I don't know what it's called

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Speaker 3: direct messages, but it says that you'll need to download

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Speaker 3: your chats before May eight, otherwise I assume you're going

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Speaker 3: to lose them or they'll be deleted by Meta. Now

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Speaker 3: Meta had not really said why this was. They've since

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Speaker 3: put out a statement and said it's because very few

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Speaker 3: users were using it, so that's why they've decided to

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Speaker 3: get rid of it. But it's an interesting decision number

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Speaker 3: of reasons. One, WhatsApp, who they bought and also own

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Speaker 3: and run, that sort of has privacy and an encryption

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Speaker 3: at its core, right, So that's that's been really important

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Speaker 3: to WhatsApp. Messenger in twenty twenty three got encrypted messages

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Speaker 3: end to end by default, so didn't have to turn

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Speaker 3: that on. So Instagram god around the same time. It's

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Speaker 3: just so weird that you would then say, of the

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Speaker 3: three products we have that do messages, Instagram will no

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Speaker 3: longer be encrypted. I just found that a little strange. Now,

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Speaker 3: they are kind of you know, there's certainly the two

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Speaker 3: camps of right encryption good good for privacy. On the

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Speaker 3: flip side, it is you know, the common concern is

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Speaker 3: that it's bad for things like you know, abuse, and

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Speaker 3: it's bad for things like child pornography, and it's bad

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Speaker 3: for things like terrorism because the authorities and the platforms

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Speaker 3: can't see anything it's encrypted into.

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Speaker 2: That's the whole point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the whole point. But obviously that leads to issues.

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Speaker 3: So there are some laws going through or have been

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Speaker 3: passed in the UK and the EU that maybe this

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Speaker 3: is to do with. But again it's just strange that

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Speaker 3: it's happening on Instagram but not WhatsApp in a messenger.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, okay, I thank you very much, Paul.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's a wait and see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, thank you very much. Paul Stenhouse is our

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Speaker 2: text bood of course.

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