This week on the Verge Cast, we talk all about the new Apple event, Nicole Wetzman joins us to talk about

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Hello and welcome to Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Blood Measurement. It's like a vampire.

It's like I made a blade joke, Deeter. Yeah. It wasn't good, but I'm trying to keep the effort is

what matters. I'm your I'm tall. I'm your friend. Deeter bonus here. I'm your day walker. That's good,

see? Hime Gartenberg is here. I am not a vampire, but I've been accused of being one.

Well, and very pale. It's been a very, very inside summer.

And for our opening segment, Nicole, what's been this here? Hennicle. Hello.

So I want to start where I always start. It's been 27 weeks since our nation's president

offered a testing and tracing plan that started with a website. It was built by 65,000 Google

engineers at last count, I believe, 27 weeks. That's more than half a year. Still doesn't exist.

That's bad. There's no getting through it without that. I know that Nicole wrote a great piece

about how testing needs to work. There was a lot of noise this week about vaccination timelines.

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