Apple glucose monitor rumors, Marvel fatigue, and podcast misinformation

The Vergecast

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4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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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 vergecast@theverge.com, or call the Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of hyper-specific wearable sensors.
0:08.8	Yeah, that's a thing.
0:10.2	And we're the flagship for it.
0:11.7	I'm your friend, Alex Kranz, and I'm super excited about this week's episode, because
0:16.2	it's just a bunch of really neat conversations with co-workers and at least one senior
0:22.4	data analyst.
0:23.8	Victoria's song is going to be joining me to talk about the latest rumors around Apple's
0:27.7	Big Progress in Blood Glucose Monitoring.
0:30.6	This has been a very hot topic of conversation since Mark German wrote a big piece in Bloomberg
0:35.2	last week.
0:36.2	In fact, this week, Apple's VP of Health, Symbol Decide, did an interview with the Hindu
0:40.8	Business Line where the blood glucose monitoring work got name checked.
0:44.2	She didn't say much, but it definitely feels like we're like in a moment.
0:47.9	So Victoria and I are going to talk about that moment.
0:50.0	And then Ariel Shapiro is going to come on to talk with the data analysts at the Brookings
0:53.7	Institution all about podcast misinformation, which is super interesting.
0:58.0	And finally, I got to admit, I got selfish.
1:00.4	And I brought back Charles Pullo Moore because we absolutely had to talk about the latest
1:04.8	episode of the last of us and all of the Marvel fatigue that's cropped up around Ant-Man
1:09.8	and the Lost Quantumania.
1:11.4	So we're going to go all over the place this episode, but it's a lot of super interesting
1:15.4	conversations.
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