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	Podcast:		Material
	Episode:		Material 227: Trope-ical Island
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:28:58
	Publish Date:		2019-10-31 14:00:00
	Description:		Andy is finally living the dream of stereo Google Home Mini nightstands, and Flo would appreciate it if you held back on the fire puns for a while. We'll talk about last week's Google employee town hall, WearOS's eventual resuscitation, and Google's neat Digital Wellbeing experiments. This episode of Material is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code MATERIAL to get 30% off. Linode: High-performance SSD Linux servers for all of your infrastructure needs. Get a $20 credit. Kensington: The Professionals Choice. Find the right docking solutions for your organization today. Links and Show Notes: ~ 21:15: Google CEO, in a leaked video, says the company is ‘genuinely struggling’ with employee trust Buzzfeed News also received leaks about last week’s meeting ~ 45:50: Trump immigration shakeup lowers DHS morale (The episode goes deep this week!) ~ 54:35: The Moto 360 smartwatch is back... well, sort of Qualcomm is FINALLY working on a REAL update to the ancient CPU powering almost all previous WearOS watches Google owner Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit How Google buying Fitbit could be a win-win, even for Fitbit device owners (Correction: Kevin C. Tofel wrote this article for Stacey Higginbotham's website!) ~ 1:12:11: New Google “Digital Wellbeing” experiments include a paper phone Support Material with a Relay FM Membership
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