Apple and Google Try Again At Contact—Most Interesting Thing in Tech

Digital contact tracing has been a mess in the United States! And that explains a small part of why our response to the coronavirus, and particularly the second wave, has been such a calamity. Now Apple and Google are taking things (a bit) more into their own hands. This is a good thing, though, as you’ll see when I try to activate it on my iPhone, all is not entirely clear yet.