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Joe Maring / Digital Trends I’ve seen a future where you may never need apps or to unlock your phone at all, yet still get everything you want done, plus more, and even faster than you can now. At MWC 2024, Deutsche Telekom and Brain Technologies showed off the concept of an appless phone, where actions we normally perform using them are instead handled by an AI concierge that lives on the device’s lock screen. The week before the show, I spoke to Brain’s founder and CEO Jerry Yue and had an in-depth demonstration…

File photo of Attorney General Letitia James on February 16, 2024.Image: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, announced Thursday that she’s opened an investigation into the recent AT&T outage that left customers across the country without service. And if you live in the state of New York, James would like to hear from you.How to Prep for a Power Outage“Americans rely on cell service providers for consistent and reliable service to help them with nearly every aspect of their…

AI smartphone with an app-free interfaceAt the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2024, Deutsche Telekom introduced a concept smartphone that has an app-free interface. It has been developed by Deutsche Telekom in collaboration with Qualcomm and Brain.AI. This concept phone relies completely on AI so there’s no app installed on the device, according to a report by Android Authority.So instead of any app on the smartphone, users will rely on an AI assistant to use the device. It isn’t clear how exactly this would be possible…

AT&T is sorry for the recent outrage that left some customers without service for up to 12 hours. To make up for it, the company will give those affected a $5 credit that will count towards their next bill, though that doesn’t seem like nearly enough for many ticked off AT&T users.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-FactThe company announced its intentions to “make it right” with customers affected by the outage in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, over the weekend. According to its support page, the $5 credit…

Over 70,000 AT&T customers across the United States reported cellular outages on Thursday morning, according to Downdetector. Thousands of AT&T customers reported that their phones displayed “SOS” in the status bar, indicating they had no service but could still make emergency calls. It’s currently unknown what the cause of the outage is.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact“We are aware of an outage currently impacting our Mobility users and are working to resolve it ASAP,” said AT&T in a banner on its…

Image: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)T-Mobile announced on Wednesday it is buying prepaid wireless carrier Mint Mobile from parent company Ka’ena Corporation in a deal worth $1.35 billion. The acquisition will also include Ka’ena subsidiaries Ultra Mobile (another prepaid wireless service, and wireless wholesaler Plum.In a press release, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said that “Mint has built an incredibly successful digital direct-to-consumer business that continues to deliver for customers on the Un-carrier’s leading 5G network…

German flag carrier Lufthansa's information technology (IT) systems were largely down, affecting thousands of passenger flights. According to the company, the outage was triggered by damage to fiber optic cables caused by construction work on a railroad line in Frankfurt."Unfortunately, this has led to flight delays and cancelations," Lufthansa said via Twitter, without giving exact figures. "We are working on a solution swiftly."The airline's domestic flights were all cancelled and passengers were asked to switch to…

Photo: VDB Photos (Shutterstock)T-Mobile said on Tuesday that it was operating at “near normal levels” after it suffered an outage that affected swaths of users across the U.S. on Monday night.Users started reporting problems with phone calls, messages, and data services at about 9 p.m. ET, according to online outage monitor Downdetector, which at one point collected more than 83,100 self-reported disruptions from people in Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York City, Phoenix, Dallas, and more. Many iPhone…

Photo: J.K2507 (Shutterstock)Earlier this week, Google announced that user accounts for its cell network service, Google Fi, had been compromised. The breach appears to have been the result of the hack on Google’s service provider, T-Mobile, which suffered a massive breach earlier this month that impacted some 37 million customers. Google makes this incident sound fairly innocuous, but a hacker can do a whole helluva lot of stuff with your phone number. The most obvious problem would be spear phishing scams targeted at…

T-Mobile announced that hackers accessed data on 37 million of its customers, in a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The massive security breach impacts both prepaid and postpaid customer accounts, and is the second notable hack in less than two years. The company said it is in the process of notifying those affected.The (sort of) good news: T-Mobile has claimed that sensitive financial customer info like credit card and social security numbers were not part of the hack. Instead, the bad actors…