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546: Extending Reality
2025/12/12 | 1h 21 mins.
Google lays out its plans for smart glasses in the new year, while Disney chooses a side in the AI wars.
545: Folds Three Times
2025/12/04 | 1h 13 mins.
We were expecting a quiet week. Instead, we got a major Android 16 update and a Samsung phone that folds three ways.
544: Something That’s Attainable
2025/11/27 | 29 mins.
We're here, we're relaxed, and we're talking about Aluminum. What is Google planning for the desktop?
543: Wartime Mentality
2025/11/21 | 1h 18 mins.
It's a big week of news without Flo, but Andy holds down the fort. Gemini 3 launches alongside an unexpected AirDrop trick between Android and iPhone.
542: Suddenly BFFs
2025/11/14 | 1h 2 mins.
Google and Epic are still working out the details. The company announces Private AI Compute, which Apple will use to create its own foundation model built on Gemini. And why Google retreated on its planned restrictions for sideloading.

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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. Hosted by Andy Ihnatko and Florence Ion.

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