Take a trip backward in time with me to April Fools’ Day 2016, when Google decided to prank its users with a terrible new feature: an animated GIF featuring those yellow Tic Tacs we all know and ...

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Anybody could have told you that Google’s email prank today was going to go wrong. How Google itself didn’t see it coming is kind of amazing and mind-boggling. Let’s back up. Gmail’s prank seems ...

Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications. “Today, Gmail is making ...

The only thing Google loves more than creating doodles on random anniversaries is April Fools’ Day. Google went too far with one Gmail prank during the 2016 online laugh-fest, however. Before you ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Google says the feature should not have been placed near much-used Gmail ...

Google has retracted its ‘mic drop’ option from Gmail after complaints from its users, just a few hours after the feature was added for April Fools’ day. “It looks like we pranked ourselves this year, ...