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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episode 257: The "Stuff" Chair
Andy and Flo throw it all on a chair this week to see what sticks and what falls to the ground. Flo has started reading The Making of the Tech Worker Movement by Ben Tarnoff, and she hopes you'll join her for this weekend's book club. Andy wonders if Chrome OS will ever feel like a Mac or PC. Then, we break down WIRED's supersized interview with Sundar Pichai and discuss why YouTube is under fire for deleting comments critical of the Chinese government. We also rationalize whether it's worth buying the last stock of the Pixel 3a mere months away from the next phone release.
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Flo's Book Club: The Making of the Tech Worker Movement
WIRED: Sundar Pichai Says Google Doesn't Plan to Go Entirely Remote
BBC: Google deletes millions of negative TikTok reviews
The Verge: YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China's Communist Party
The Verge: YouTube took down Michael Moore's film attacking renewable energy