Google Wants to Remix News Radio Just for You

Most of us know how delightful it is to hear a computer-generated song playlist that feels entirely personal. Now, Google wants to create a similar type of bespoke audio experience--not with music, but with news. The company is adding some new features to its existing news aggregation service called Your News Update, which gathers news clips from different outlets and plays them in one continuous audio feed. Think of it like a Feedly or Flipboard-type service for spoken stories from your preferred news publications. Google has updated the service to create a more fluid listening experience, so that sitting through an entire session doesn't feel like you're just working your way through a hodgepodge of disparate stories.