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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#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.

#522: Where Is the Love?

June 26th, 2025 · 58 minutes

Spotting wildfires from space and helping uncover the secrets behind that AlphaGenome. That's how Google would like to help.