Hosted by Andy Ihnatko and Florence Ion.
Material is a weekly discussion about the Google and Android universe. Your intrepid hosts try to answer the question, “What holds up the digital world?” The answer, so far, is that it’s Google all the way down.
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#532: Major Drops
September 4th, 2025 · 63 minutes
Andy is solo this week, discussing the latest ruling in the Google Search antitrust case. Plus, a major Material 3 Expressive drop arrived on Pixels.
#531: B-A-N-A-N-A-S
August 28th, 2025 · 70 minutes
We have the new Google Pixel 10 in the building and Gemini has gone bananas.
#530: Celebrity Endorsements
August 21st, 2025 · 78 minutes
Did you really think we'd talk about anything else but the Made By Google event?
#529: I’m Feeling Lucky
August 14th, 2025 · 70 minutes
What happens when "I'm feeling lucky" applies to Google Photos? And why is Perplexity offering to buy Google Chrome?
#528: I Dream of Genie
August 8th, 2025 · 62 minutes
It's cool that Google is working on a way to let you spawn 3D map environments, but who is all this AI for?
#527: Making Adjustments
July 31st, 2025 · 60 minutes
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, the Google Home outage, and why YouTube is clamping down on underage users.
#526: Bananas
July 24th, 2025 · 59 minutes
Google's Q2 2025 earnings report is bananas. No one is clicking on links fetched by AI.
#525: The Future First
July 17th, 2025 · 61 minutes
Google's pivot away from ChromeOS has been greatly exaggerated.
#524: Antioxidant Index
July 11th, 2025 · 62 minutes
Samsung unpacked its expensive new foldables. Perplexity and OpenAI are coming for Google's AI-powered search.
#523: Les Misérables
July 4th, 2025 · 65 minutes
It's been a miserable week for Google. So, before we get into it, much ado about Nothing.