F8 and Facebook's future in privacy

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Facebooks F8 conference happened this week so The Verge's Nilay Patel, Casey Newton, Ashley Carman, and Paul Miller break down the biggest announcements and updates from the event including Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. Stories discussed this week:The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the ‘future is private’Facebook keeps asking whether its keynote makes people like FacebookFacebook Messenger is coming to the desktopThe next version of Facebook Messenger will be radically smallerWhy Facebook is making a big bet on MessengerFacebook bans Alex Jones and Laura Loomer for violating its policies against dangerous individualsFacebook could create new privacy positions as part of FTC settlementFacebook adds ‘secret crushes’ so you can see which friends are thirsting after youFacebook’s Portal is getting WhatsApp support and launching internationallyOculus Quest review: a great system with a frustrating compromiseNubia stuck a cooling fan in its latest gaming smartphoneApple explains why it’s cracking down on third-party screen time and parental control apps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this week's Vergecast, Casey Newton, Ashley Carmen, join me and Paul talk about Facebook's
0:04.8	F8 developer conference, everything that's happening with Facebook, Messenger, Instagram,
0:08.1	WhatsApp, talk a little bit about Oculus and Facebook Portal.
0:11.1	We get into Apple earnings and what Apple is doing with parental control apps.
0:13.8	That's it on the Vergecast.
0:15.9	Sabotage hired Goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:19.6	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:25.3	second life and then was buried for good.
0:29.5	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
1:29.5	There's no pleasing anyone.
2:55.3	They did a lot.
2:56.3	You want to walk me through it?
2:59.3	Sure.
3:00.3	The big story that Facebook is trying to tell this year is that their next set of products
3:08.3	is going to be built around messaging.
3:12.1	Their big idea for messaging is that it should all be encrypted and you should be able
3:18.7	to message anyone on any of their apps.
3:22.6	You can message from Messenger to WhatsApp and that sort of thing.
3:27.7	They made a lot of fairly incremental developments around messaging.
3:34.4	For example, they're going to bring Facebook Messenger to the desktop, both Mac and Windows.
3:41.0	That sort of thing.
3:43.2	They're making Messenger radically smaller.
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