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January 09, 2025498: This Is Not an AI Podcast
Pixel 4a users, Google will kill your phone so a new one may live.
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Links and Show Notes:
Google Pixel 4a gets an unexpected update: Lower battery life
Pixel 4a battery performance program
Google experiments with audio summaries of your daily news highlights
Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google
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48 min
January 04, 2025497: It's a New Year
What's in store for Google and Android users in 2025? Plus, our in memorium for what Google killed in 2024.
Links and Show Notes:
Everything Google Killed in 2024
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51 min
December 27, 2024496: Is a Leader in AI
For our last episode of the year, Google asks us how we feel about everything it's doing.
Links and Show Notes:
Google's Keyword Blog
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50 min
December 19, 2024495: Lazy Holiday Cards
Can AI help make up for the fact that you forgot to set up the family Christmas card? Maybe someday.
Links and Show Notes:
I'm Using Image Playground and Pixel Studio to Make the Laziest Holiday Cards
Whisk: Visualize and remix ideas using images and AI
State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3
Wing Blog: Drone delivery set to launch at Brookfield Properties’ Dallas-Fort Worth malls in partnership with DoorDash
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1 hr 12 min
December 14, 2024494: XR AR E-I-E-I-O
Next year is all about gadgets strapped to your face made by Google and Samsung. Gemini 2.0 makes its debut.
Links and Show Notes:
Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses
Hands On With Google's Gemini-Powered Smart Glasses, Android XR, and Project Moohan Headset
Multimodal Live AI with Gemini 2.0
Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant
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1 hr 9 min
December 06, 2024493: Gird Yourselves
Samsung will make glasses before Meta and Spotify's personalized recap podcast, powered by Google's AI, makes us cringe.
Links and Show Notes:
What Judge Brinkema Zeroed In On During Closing Arguments In US v. Google
Report: Samsung XR glasses have Ray-Ban Meta specs with more features, seemingly no display
The Cringe-Factor Is High With Spotify's Wrapped AI Podcast
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1 hr 9 min
November 27, 2024492: Closing Arguments
Flo is back. Andy explains why Google is "once, twice, three times a monopolist."
Links and Show Notes:
What Judge Brinkema Zeroed In On During Closing Arguments In US v. Google
5 ways I'm handling the holidays with Gemini
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1 hr 13 min
November 22, 2024491: A Staggering Proposal
The name of the game is divestment as Google and the Department of Justice figure out what to split up.
Links and Show Notes:
Justice Department calls for sanctions against Google in landmark antitrust case
Updating our site reputation abuse policy
How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment
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56 min
November 15, 2024490: Longue Vie
Google deals with a mini révolution in France.
Links and Show Notes:
Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe
Providing more data about news results in the EU
An update on political advertising in the European Union
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40 min
November 08, 2024489: Absolutely FAB-ulous
Googlers spook their bosses with questions at the company's annual Halloween party.
Links and Show Notes:
Google Keep FAB redesign makes new notes a two-step process
Report: Google preps ‘Jarvis’ AI agent that works in Chrome
Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
7 pieces of AI news we announced in October
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43 min

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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…