Google will turn the news into a custom podcast for you - free

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Google has introduced podcast-style news audio briefings. 
• You can choose which news sources you want to use.
• Briefings are around 15 minutes long. 

If you want to stay on top of the daily news but don't have time to read, Google has a new way to keep you updated. 

Starting Thursday, you can listen to an AI-generated audio news roundup of news that's important to you through the Google News app. The audio isn't just text-to-speech, but a podcast-style discussion between two hosts. I don't have the feature yet, but it sounds a lot like the feature that lets you turn your Google searches into a podcast.

The interface has traditional media player controls like play and pause, and you can skip forward and backward or ...