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What you need to know The Google Phone app is set for a makeover, swapping out the single call button for a new look featuring dedicated buttons for accepting and rejecting calls. The accept button will be on the right, and the reject button on the left, unlike Samsung’s layout, which is flipped. This feature … Read more

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Aside from a back panel that needs heat to come off, the Galaxy S24 FE looks decently repairable. Most internal components pop out after removing a few screws and detaching a cable or two. Only the screen looks particularly annoying to access. Samsung’s Galaxy S24 FE just launched … Read more

Google has obtained (PDF) a default judgment against two men who abused its DMCA takedown system to falsely target 117,000 URLs of competitors’ online stores. With none of the defendants showing up in court, a California federal court sided with the search engine. Through an injunction, the men are now prohibited from sending false takedown … Read more

July was a big month for model releases: There are new large models from Mistral and Meta, smaller multilingual models from Mistral and DeepL, another Mistral model that specializes in code generation, and a small version of GPT-4o. The security world saw another software supply chain disaster when CrowdStrike released a bad software update that … Read more

Enlarge / Dr. John Timmer, Jeff Ball, Joanna Wong, and Lee Hutchinson discussing infrastructure and the environment. Kimberly White/Getty Images Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled “Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and What Comes … Read more

One of the major new software-based camera features in the iPhone 16 models is support for a wider range of Photographic Styles, complete with more granular controls to make for a setup where you can create a customized look for all of your images. Photographic Styles isn’t a feature that’s quite as easy to use … Read more

Verizon says it has fully restored its network following a major outage that began earlier in the day. “Verizon engineers have fully restored today’s network disruption that impacted some customers,” the company said in a message posted on social media at about 7:15 p.m. ET on Monday. It said service had now returned “to normal … Read more

Slideshow presentations are a great way to convey information in an easy-to-understand, cleanly designed package. But between Apple’s Keynote and Microsoft’s PowerPoint, who does the job the best, and which aligns best to your needs? Pricing: Who’s Got The Better Deal? The Keynote app is free on Apple devices as a pre-downloaded app, and is … Read more

Many U.S. university students returning to campus this month will find their school no longer has a diversity, equity, and inclusion program. More than 200 universities in 30 states so far this year have eliminated, cut back, or changed their DEI efforts, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. It is happening … Read more

Datalec Datacentre floorspace has almost doubled in Europe since 2015 If someone had asked Billy Keeper five years ago what a datacentre was, he admits: “I would not have had a clue.” The 24-year-old joined specialist electrical firm Datalec Precision Installations as a labourer straight from school. He’s now an electrical supervisor for the UK-based … Read more