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I’m writing to you today from Podcast Movement in Colorado — where I hope to meet many of you over the next few days.

This morning kicked off with a discussion on the state of the podcasting industry hosted by Amplifi Media’s Steven Goldstein

AT&T is expanding the availability of its $55 per month Internet Air plan (or $60 per month without autopay), which uses 5G to beam Wi-Fi into your home. The plan comes with no overage fees, equipment costs, or annual contracts, but AT&T will charge up to $10 per month extra for up to five Wi-Fi extenders.

The plan offers download speeds of 40 to 140Mbps, but AT

• Presidential candidate Chris Christie said he doesn't tailor his message to any specific groups.
• Christie made the statement after Politico asked about his efforts to appeal to Latino voters.
• "You should go and campaign everywhere, to

Netflix’s DVD subscription platform will allow subscribers to keep their final delivery of DVDs as the company prepares to close its 25-year-old service, the company announced on Monday. In April, Netflix confirmed it will be shutting down its DVD mail order option, telling existing customers in a Twitter post last…

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India’s space agency is gearing up for a lunar touchdown, hoping to stick the landing this time after a failed first attempt nearly four years ago.

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• The US housing market is historically unaffordable, and home sales and inventory remain low.
• National Association of Realtors data shows existing-home sales are down 16.6% from last July.
• At the same time, total housing inventory is 14.6% lower compared to a year ago.

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• GOP presidential candidate Larry Elder filed his financial disclosure on Monday, three months late.
• He reported earning between $1 million and $5 million from the far-right newspaper, The Epoch Times.
• The paper has close ties with the Chinese Falun Gong religious sect and spent millions

Meta took a step towards a universal language translator on Tuesday with the release of its new Seamless M4T AI model, which the company says can quickly and efficiently understand language from speech or text in up to 100 languages and generate translation in either mode of communication. Multiple tech companies have…

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• Jeremy Grantham's GMO has filed with regulators to create its first ETF.
• The proposed fund will be actively managed and focus on high quality stocks.
• This comes as investment firms are turning towards ETFs over mutual funds, which have fallen in popularity. 

Jeremy Grantham's GMO is hopping into the ETF

If you love video games, both Best Buy and Amazon are having BOGO sales as of August 22. Check out the details of the sales and terms and conditions you should know about below.

Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller. He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney and Taylor Swift to The Matrix and Grand Theft Auto as well as several publications like TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot. It’s a big, complicated media company in a big, complicated time for media companies