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Venu is the new sports streaming service likely to drain your bank account,  The Republican National Committee lost its legal challenge to Gmail, and a Manhattan Project nuclear weapons site is being turned into a giant solar farm. It's Friday, August 2nd and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenAI joined several entertainment industry groups in backing the NO FAKES Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A lawsuit alleges StubHub deceives customers into paying extra for tickets, the Tesla involved in a fatal Washington crash was using self-driving mode, and Belgian researchers found a huge privacy hole in six dating apps. It's Thursday, August 1st and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company was accused of using facial recognition tech without consent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Senate just passed two landmark bills aimed at protecting minors online, Google dismisses Elon Musk's claim that autocomplete engaged in election interference, and OpenAI rolls out advanced Voice Mode and no, it won't sound like Scarlett Johannson. It's Wednesday, July 31st and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The social media platform's AI chatbot says nine states have expired ballot deadlines. That's false. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg says ‘f*ck that’ to closed platforms, Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers, and ISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadband. It's Tuesday, July 30th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They want government money, but argue $30 broadband is impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk shared a doctored Harris campaign video without labeling it as fake, the DOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on controversial issues, and Apple Intelligence may not arrive until October. It's Monday, July 29th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From budget to flagship, we have picks for every price range. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The fleet of Flock drones will be used to assess emergency situations while human first responders are still en route. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late, X's Grok chatbot is misleading voters about the presidential election, and that Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming bundle is now available. It's Friday, July 26th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The accounts primarily targeted American men, according to the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Senate passed a bill empowering victims of intimate deep fakes, CrowdStrike blamed a bug for the worldwide outage on faulty testing software, and Police in Arizona will start using drones as first responders. It's Thursday, July 25th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Cruise team will focus on the next-gen Chevy Bolt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Llama 3.1 is Meta's latest salvo in the battle for AI dominance, Netflix hired a former Epic Games exec as its new President of Games, and Russia-linked hackers cut the heat to Ukrainian buildings in the winter. It's Wednesday, July 24th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The intermediate-link black hole is believed to be a seed for supermassive black holes that formed just after the Big Bang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The CrowdStrike outage is still affecting Delta Airlines, Google isn’t killing third-party cookies in Chrome after all, and Condé Nast accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism. It's Tuesday, July 23rd and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Now they just have tons of data to review before the crew can come home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Outage caused by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update affected 8.5 million devices, Rivian opened its first Charging Outpost, it’s a crunchy not-gas station near Yosemite, and the workers at Bethesda Game Studios have fully unionized. It's Monday, July 22nd and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The study is part of a new pilot program with The Center for Open Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A faulty cybersecurity update took out banks, airlines and other major companies worldwide, Proton Mail now has a privacy-focused AI writing assistant, and NASA scraps its VIPER project that aimed to look for ice on the moon. It's Friday, July 19th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Apophis asteroid will reach within 20,000 miles on Earth in April 2029. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta gave access to Instagram data for a teen mental health study, The European Space Agency will follow a skyscraper-sized asteroid as it flies past Earth, and Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train its AI models. It's Thursday, July 18th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The COPIED ACT is a bipartisan effort to combat and monitor the rise of AI content and deepfakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices