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Flo is back! Andy is elated! The two hosts catch up on life over the last nine weeks and discuss the results of Alphabet's latest quarterly earnings. Samsung also puts on a mediocre show for some foldables. Links and Show Notes: Alphabet reports better-than-expected quarterly results driven by growth in cloud Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat leaving role to become president and chief investment officer Samsung’s Galaxy Flip 5 and Fold 5 Unpacked event: biggest announcements Support Material with a Relay FM Membership

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. His extended thoughts on Indiana Jones. To his credit, he did throw in some news about Google’s new AR Space Invaders game, just so that this Google podcast doesn’t lose its liquor license. But he still heroically pivots to his own opinions about technology’s responsibilities to move the needle. This episode of Material is sponsored by: Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership Google and Space Invaders launch an immersive AR game Indiana Jones Wiki | Fandom

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. Guest Starring: Jason Howell Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train its AI tools | CNN Business The environmentally conscious Fairphone 4 is finally coming to the US - The Verge LineageOS – LineageOS Android Distribution

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. And, just like the offside rule in professional hockey, this is a Canadian thing that Andy doesn’t really understand. Meanwhile, Google urges its AI models to both learn more and forget more. Isn’t this the sort of contradiction that made HAL-9000 go psychotic? Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law : NPR Our approach to news regulation ‘We must think beyond the memes’: Google’s Richard Gingras on the future of news in our societies - WAN-IFRA Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge – Google Research Blog Opinion | The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It. - The New York Times Sarah's Scribbles

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! It’s a jim-dandy phone except for what happens when you unfold it. And reading coverage of last week’s Vidcon helps Andy be less judgmental about The Avengers. Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership Google killed Iris smart glasses, opts for Android OEM model for XR Google execs hope new search feature will help amid Reddit blackouts RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days | Ars Technica A Tale of Two VidCons — The Information

Reviews of the new Pixel Tablet are in, and it looks like maybe the world is about to fall slap-happy in love! (From a certain perspective, and placed in the correct context). Chromebooks are about to receive the X-gene, and Gannett Newspapers celebrates the first day of Summer with a beach clambake-slash-massive antitrust suit against Google. Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership - Sleep as Android Google Pixel Tablet review: the dock makes all the difference - The Verge Gannett Sues Google, Accusing It of Dominating the Ad Market - The New York Times

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...with the help of The Feature Roundup Dice. Oh, and also the EU is honking down Google’s snorkel about why it thinks it’s evil, and they want Google to knock that kind of stuff off. Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership GitHub - dtinth/comic-mono-font: A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood Hands-free photos, SpO2 and more for the Pixel family Google introduces new AI virtual try-on feature Google Lens can identify rashes and other skin conditions  Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google

All of this week’s stories come from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference! But Andy swears it’s all relevant to Google. Apple’s Vision Pro headset offers discussion about VR versus AI. Apple announced that they’re addressing iPhone users’ complaints about green bubbles in group messages and they’re doing it in the most Apple way possible. And Apple’s figured out a new way to hurt Android users: by going after their friends and family!!! Zounds! Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership Apple Vision Pro - Apple iOS 17 will stop your Android friends from ruining your group texts with their green bubbles Check-in is the best new iOS 17 feature for me, my family and my friends | iMore

Andy has access to the new AI-enhanced Google Search and is delighted to discover that he can now waste time on Reddit far more effectively. He also has access to a new web browser that’s so innovative and helpful that he’s compelled to give Chrome a lecture about Ambition that he may or may not have heard from his father when he was 14, 17, 22, 31, 37, and 46. And: thoughts on folding big things into smaller things. This episode of Material is sponsored by: ExpressVPN: High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service. Get an extra three months free. Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership How to use Google’s AI Search Generative Experience Arc from The Browser Company Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web - TidBITS Google Chrome extensions can now create a side panel UI How Google designed and built the Pixel Fold’s hinge Thai Nguyen on Twitter: "Step aside Pixel Fold..." Made by Google Podcast

Andy comes right out and admits that his brain is like wet sand. All to make a larger point which may or may not land, because, as established, his brain is like wet sand. Then it’s time to talk about how Google is using AI as the spent uranium tip on new ads that will penetrate your cognitive shields. Also, there are cars and a sketchy analogy about whether or not Google and Samsung are happy in their relationship. Links and Show Notes: Support Material with a Relay FM Membership Ulysses Notion – Your wiki, docs & projects. Together. Google Marketing Live 2023: Everything you need to know - Google Ads Help YouTube is bringing unskippable 30-second ads to TV - The Verge Google Is Spared a Search-Engine Switch by a Major Partner - WSJ Waypoint - The official Waymo blog: Waymo and Uber partner to bring Waymo’s autonomous driving technology to the Uber platform