The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Wednesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.

Google has big visions for the future of computing. It’s working on building what it calls an ambient computer: a virtual helper that can accomplish anything anywhere any way you want. But that vision won’t come easy. Ahead of Google’s I/O developer conference The Verge sat down with some of Google’s most important executives to talk about the company’s vision its new hardware and software and how the company is changing to build the future it imagines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How Google is trying to make ambient computing work

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