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Google is launching a new service for the Google Assistant called "Your news update" Take the idea of an algorithmically determined news source, the kind you get from Facebook or Google news, and convert it into an audio stream. To play it, simply ask a Google speaker or smart assistant on your phone to "listen to the news" Google uses the information it has learned about you over the years along with your location to create a personalized series of short news updates from the partners you have an audio license for. He hopes to foster an ecosystem that he calls "the audio web" according to Liz Gannes, Google audio news product manager. These are not podcasts, but news, similar to the hourly news updates that can be heard on the radio. Your News Update replaces the current way to get news updates from the Assistant, which consists of a direct list of news sources. With that system, you must choose which sources you want and in what order they are reproduced.