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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#425: Hump Day
August 17th, 2023 · 70 minutes
Robo taxis are a menace to society, or at least it seems that way in San Francisco. Flo shares her final thoughts on Samsung and Google's foldables. And Google introduces a batch of new AI tools to help summarize web pages on the fly.
#424: Attention K-Mart Shoppers
August 11th, 2023 · 70 minutes
Prepare to get more of Johnny Cash singing Europop hits, as Google is working with Universal on deep fake AI-based music. You can listen to it while making Android apps in your browser. The future!
#423: Fold vs. Fold
August 3rd, 2023 · 70 minutes
Flo has the Pixel Fold and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 in hand, while Andy leads us in a game of "Is This Thing Google's Doing Evil, Or Not?"
#422: New Winds Ahead
July 28th, 2023 · 64 minutes
Flo is back! The two hosts catch up on life over the last nine weeks and discuss the results of Alphabet's latest quarterly earnings, plus Samsung's foldables.
#421: The Me Show
July 20th, 2023 · 78 minutes
Flo is back next week! So Andy is exploiting this final solo episode to make it all about Him. His frustrations about saving web archives from Chrome. He still heroically pivots to his own opinions about technology’s responsibilities to move the needle.
#420: The Snowball of Trust
July 14th, 2023 · 80 minutes
Andy’s joined by a special guest this week: Jason Howell, host of All About AndroidA new rash of civil lawsuits that content creators have filed against Google and other makers of AI language models. And then we talk phones.
#419: Oh...Canada.
July 6th, 2023 · 71 minutes
Canada is the latest country to decide that somebody should be on the hook for the news industry’s financial issues, and it might as well be Google. Meanwhile, Google urges its AI models to both learn more and forget more.
#418: Google Is A Soft Cheese Company
June 29th, 2023 · 74 minutes
Andy mourns the loss of Google’s Iris smart glasses, because he knows so way much more than Google or Apple about VR and XR. Reviews of the Pixel Fold are in! And reading coverage of last week’s Vidcon helps Andy be less judgmental about The Avengers.
#417: It Prefers To Stay Inside The House
June 22nd, 2023 · 69 minutes
Reviews of the new Pixel Tablet are in, and it looks like maybe the world is about to fall slap-happy in love! Chromebooks are about to receive the X-gene, and Gannett Newspapers celebrates the first day of Summer.
#416: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner In Bed
June 15th, 2023 · 68 minutes
Why on Earth did Google release so many new features and updates on Flag Day? Well, Google bothered to create ‘em so Material is going to talk about ‘em. Oh, and also the EU is honking down Google’s snorkel about why it thinks it’s evil.