The Vergecast

Apple glucose monitor rumors, Marvel fatigue, and podcast misinformation


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Today on the flagship podcast of hyper specific wearable sensors: 

01:19 - Victoria Song joins Alex Cranz to talk about the latest rumors around Apple’s big progress in blood glucose monitoring. 

  • Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch 
  • Continuous glucose monitor startups still have to prove their worth
  • Apple is looking at opportunities to do great things in health in India: Sumbul Desai

  • 17:14 - Ariel Shapiro talks with Valerie Wirtschafter, a data analyst at the Brookings Institution, about how often podcasts spread political misinformation, and what that means for the medium.

    • Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
    • Policy recommendations for addressing content moderation in podcasts

    • 43:57 - Alex and Charles Pulliam-Moore chat about the latest episode of The Last of Us and all the Marvel movie fatigue that has cropped up since Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania came out. [Warning: Spoiler alert]

      • HBO’s The Last of Us is pushing all the right buttons by telling new stories
      • HBO’s The Last of Us is wisely skipping to the cutscenes
      • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review: this is your brain on Kangs

      • Email us at [email protected], or call the Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11

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