From: The Verge - Friday Apr 20, 2018 02:00 pm
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Dieter got the exclusive on Google's big plan to fix Android's messaging mess with Chat. It'll be a new standard for replacing SMS and an upgrade to Android Messages! The only issue is that it's a carrier-based service, which means it's not end-to-end encrypted. Really? In this climate? Somewhere, thicc Zuck is laughing. 

-Dami

TODAY ON THE VERGE

+ Happy Nintendo Labo release day! Andrew Webster interviewed Labo's creators to find that it wasn't made with education in mind

+ Happy God of War release day! Read our review.

+ Happy 4/20! Here's an explainer on the history of the term "marijuana," though I prefer to call it "the Devil's Lettuce"

+ New Gadget Mythbusters: Ashley recommends the Razer phone to save your eyes from screens

+ PopSugar allegedly stole "millions" of Instagram influencer photos, which is messsed up

Netflix doc Mercury 13 tells the story of women who should have gone to space but couldn’t

+ FOSTA is still a very bad law

+ Going to Panama City? Alienware's got you covered with a decadent gaming hotel room

+ Grasshopper is an app for learning JavaScript through mini-games

+ Bonus: THE VERGE IS HIRING! 

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