Mike.

Lauren.

Mike, what is the last thing that you Googled?

I think it was Snap Spectacles.

Oh, man.

We're really just living in the Metaverse, aren't we?

You just, you wrote a story about it, and I wanted to send the link to somebody, so I googled it.

Well, thank you.

But today we're not actually talking about Snap Spectacles.

We are talking about,

well, Google. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired.

And I'm Michael Collory. I'm a senior editor at Wired. And we're also

joined by Wired Senior Associate Editor Julian Chukato, who Julian, we just realized the other day,

we actually haven't had you on the podcast in all of 2021. How is that possible? You used to come on

regularly. It's really great to have you back. Well, thank you for having me. It's just not been so gadgety of late, but I think that's started to change. Okay, well, you're on now. We're very happy about it, and we're just happy it's not Galad again. Okay, so this week was Google I.O. Glew is going to be so mad at me. This week was Google I.O. It's Google's big annual developer conference. Google announced a whole bunch of new software features in the opening keynote, which happened on Tuesday, and we're going to talk about those announcements here today and unpack what it all means. So in the second half of the show, we're going to get into the smaller, weirder stuff. No, we're not going to be talking about qubits and quantum computers, mostly

because we don't understand it. It's going to get weird in the second half. But first,

let's focus on the big stuff, because I think the changes that will affect the most people

are the updates to Android. Google is clearly trying to improve the whole Android user experience,

and that includes some extra attention to privacy features.

Julian, what are some of the new Android features that stuck out to you?

Yeah, so the main things that you'll probably see the most are the huge, bubbly, bright colors

that are now all over the interface.

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