Android is in a strange place at the moment; it's stronger than ever, but feels further away from what launched almost 20 years ago.

GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.

Google Fiber, now officially called GFiber, is being sold to private equity firm Stonepeak and will be combined with cable-and-fiber firm Astound Broadband to create a larger Internet service provider.

Google owner Alphabet announced Wednesday that it will keep only a minority stake in the fiber ISP that launched with grand ambitions in 2012 but scaled back its expansion plans in 2016. Alphabet and Astound owner Stonepeak announced “an agreement to combine GFiber with Astound Broadband, creating a leading independent fiber provider,” with the merged company to be “majority owned by Stonepeak, an investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets.”

Microsoft has an important update for 365 Enterprise users. The company has shared when it will automatically switch them from Classic to New Outlook for Windows.

Back in December of 2024, Microsoft had shared a timeline for when Microsoft 365 Enterprise users would be switched over to New Outlook for Windows from the classic app. At the time, the company had said that the big switch would happen in April 2026, which means it was set to happen around one month from now.

So if you were preparing to make the jump, you can rest easy, as Microsoft has given more time. The company, last month, shared an update to this timeline and it has said that the opt-out phase for New Outlook for Windows has been pushed back to March of 2027, so admins and users alike will get a whole new year for making the switch.

Patients at The Ottawa Hospital who crave ginger ale to settle their stomachs are being told it's no longer on the menu. The hospital says it's dumping the sugary, carbonated drink because it has "limited nutritional value."

Hospital says sugary, carbonated ginger ale has 'limited nutritional value'

Google has updated Android's Terminal app to let you run full graphical Linux programs.

cross-posted from !samsung@lemdro.id

The classic Samsung DeX mode is gone in One UI 8, replaced with a new version built on top of Android 16's Desktop Mode.

The classic Samsung DeX mode is gone in One UI 8, replaced with a new version built on top of Android 16's Desktop Mode.

Today Google DeepMind and Google Research are launching a public preview of Weather Lab, an interactive website for sharing our AIweather models, and debuting our newest experimental AI-based cyclone predictions.

Nothing has launched a first look at its Nothing OS 3.0 update, delivering revamped designs and features, a new Gallery app, and more, with a launch in beta next month.

Nothing OS 3.0 is the software the company "always wanted" to build, as explained in a new video on the company's YouTube channel. The update, almost surely based on Android 15, is set to bring several new changes including redesigns throughout the Android skin as well as a long-awaited first-party "Nothing Gallery" app.

New features in Nothing OS 3.0 include:

• Nothing Gallery: A new photo app with Nothing's design language and faster access from the camera app
• Lock Screen: More customization for clocks and widgets, including the ability to disable a full-size clock to make more room for widgets.
• Quick Settings: Full customization of icons including their size, similar to homescreen widgets. Auto-brightness toggle in the brightness slider.
• Smart App Drawer: AI will be used to surface apps you may want to use -- in a UI that looks just like iOS' App Library -- or you can manually pin apps to the top of the traditional Android app drawer.
• New Widgets: Countdown widget for dates, "Shared Widgets" that sync content and sticker reactions between users
• UI: Updated typography, new "Dot Engine" updates system animations with dynamic dots (found when charging, fingerprint sensor, etc)