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The New York City subway map received a facelift this week for the first time in 46 years, and it's being received better than the Jaguar rebrand, which isn't a high bar to cross. The beloved “spaghetti” map that debuted in 1979 was replaced because the MTA wanted to give straphangers a “21st-century customer experience,” which checks out, since it feels like a soulless AI creation.
The old map received its spaghetti moniker due to the lines following their wiggly topographical directions; the new map features more rigid lines and borders without much regard to geography (for useability purposes), although it includes updates that have occurred over the years, like transfer hubs and accessible stations.—DL

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Now, more than 20 years later, end-to-end encryption is baked into apps that are used by billions of people, most of whom may not realize their messages and calls are secured with this data-scrambling technology. Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime, Facebook Messenger, Signal, and WhatsApp, among others, are all end-to-end encrypted by default.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/as-skype-shuts-down-its-legacy-is-end-to-end-encryption-for-the-masses

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