Waze lets you drive away or with zombies this spooky season

Waze has another driving experience to get you in the mood this spooky season. You can now enter Waze's "Zombified" world and choose to team up with an expert escapist to avoid the zombies or with the undead themselves. The Survivalist will keep you away from the slow-moving menaces as you ride in the Escapemobile. You can show off your strength with the Survivalist Mood. Meanwhile, the Zombie voice navigation will give you a peek at the inner workings of the undead. You ride in the Zombieombile this time.

You can activate the experience by visiting this link or heading into the My Waze section in the app and tapping on the Drive with Zombies banner. Voice navigation is available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Waze wants to lighten your commute to work with Biz Jargon

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Waze is poking a bit of fun with your day job with its new Biz Jargon driving experience. While the name is a bit lacklustre, the theme strives to be anything but that. It's supposedly inspired by "offices everywhere (the virtual and the physical)," poking fun at what it deems relatable moments at work. The experience will be available in American and British English for the first time.

You can access the experience by heading to the voice & sound settings. Hear it say things like "Make a U-turn: Or what I call 'circling back'" or "Sorry, I was on mute, are we waiting for anyone else?" It also offers moods like Productive, Unproductive, All Business, and Business Casual. And you can change your car icon arrow into a paper airplane through the car icon option in the map display settings.

Netflix's 'The Sea Beast' comes to Waze

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Waze has partnered with Netflix to bring its new animated film, The Sea Beast, to the navigation app. You can activate the Sea Beast Mode experience in the app, meeting the dynamic duo Maisie (a.k.a. the precocious stowaway) and Blue (a.k.a. a little beast with a huge mischief streak). Maisie will help you translate Blue's sounds. You'll get introduced to other Beasts when choosing between the Moods: Blue, Red, and Yellow. And you can swap your car for a lifeboat to get into the true seafaring, adventurer spirit even on land.

The Sea Beast is screening at select theatres in Canada now and on Netflix on July 8. It tells the story of a legendary sea monster hunter and a young girl who stows away on his fabled ship.

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Waze becomes Tour de France's Official Traffic Manager

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Waze and Tour de France (and Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift) have announced a three-year sponsorship of the prestigious cycling race. The Tour is the latest event to join over 300 event producers as a Waze Global Partner. This will make the community-based navigation app the Tour's Official Traffic Manager. Waze calls it a "first-of-its-kind" collaboration with the company providing tools, data, and insights to drivers, athletes, and fans. Ahead of the start line, Waze's community of volunteer map editors will update the maps with 4,000km of road closures, start and finish points, temporary car parks, and live traffic speeds. These updates will help ensure that drivers can navigate event traffic. 

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