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#245: Google in the Time of Coronavirus

March 23rd, 2020 · 47 minutes

We talk about Verily's Project Baseline and why it's unnerving that the US government is relying on private companies to conduct testing for COVID-19. We also mourn the cancellation of Google I/O and wonder how conferences will exist going forward.

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