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Former Apple engineer’s Mimestream app is a nifty Gmail client for Mac
Former Apple engineer Neil Jhaveri has been working on an email app for Mac called Mimestream. It is now out of beta after a long test phase of more than two years. The app uses Gmail’s API —
Google to delete accounts inactive for two years in security push
Google, which hosts billions of user accounts, said on Tuesday that it plans to delete accounts that have remained inactive for two years. The decision is part of the internet giant’s ongoing ef
Blue verified checkmarks are coming to Gmail
Google is going to start displaying a blue checkmark next to select senders’ names on Gmail to verify their identity, the company announced on Wednesday. The new blue checkmarks will automatical
Google goes all-in on bringing AI to Workspace
Google and Microsoft are locked in a head-to-head competition to bring as much generative AI to their productivity services as possible. Only days ahead of Microsoft’s “Future of Work̶
Gmail will no longer allow users to revert to its old design
Google announced today that it’s making the new Gmail interface the standard experience for users. The company first released the new interface earlier this year but allowed users to go back to
Gmail to add a new package tracking feature ahead of holiday shopping season
Google announced today a small but useful update to Gmail that will allow users to soon be able to track their upcoming package deliveries directly from their inbox. The feature works by looking for e
After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay
Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks. Bank was previously c
Google introduces a set of iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets for your iPhone
Google announced this morning it will bring access to a number of its popular apps, including Search, Maps, Gmail and more, to the iPhone’s Lock Screen. With the updated version of Apple’s
Email will be with us until the universe dies, so these startups are working to make it better
Email is a necessary evil. Startups have taken note. We're looking at two of them, Gated and EtherMail.
Shuffles, Pinterest’s invite-only collage-making app, is blowing up on TikTok — here’s how to get in
Collage-style video “mood boards” are going viral on TikTok — and so is the app making them possible. Pinterest’s recently soft-launched collage-maker Shuffles has been climbin
Google faces ‘spam ads’ ePrivacy complaint in France
Google is facing a fresh privacy complaint in Europe over ads it inserts into its Gmail email service in the guise of emails. Privacy advocacy group, noyb, has filed the complaint with France’s
Gmail gets a new look, Instagram trips while trying to be TikTok and India blocks Battleground Mobile
Hello hello! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we do a quick rundown of the most-read TechCrunch stories from the past week. The idea: When you’ve had a busy few days, you sho
Gmail rolls out its latest Material You redesign and search improvements to all users
If you feel like you’ve seen a lot of “Gmail redesign roll out” posts in the last few months, it’s not just you: Google has been teasing and testing features for new, integrate
Gmail’s redesigned interface including Chat and Meet is now the new default
Gmail is now rolling out a new user interface that will show Chat and Meet sections in the side pane by default — unless you’ve already disabled them. Google introduced this new integrated vie
iOS 16’s Mail app will now let you schedule your email and undo sending
Along with a number of other updates coming in iOS 16, including a revamped lock screen, Apple is rolling out a series of updates to its built-in Mail app. Most notably, it will now allow users to sch
Google brings phishing detection to Docs, Sheets and Slides, along with other privacy and security updates
Among the privacy and security-related updates announced today at Google’s I/O conference, the company says it’s bringing phishing protection to its suite of productivity apps, including D
Too much email? Try Gated, which asks unknown senders to make a donation first
If you aren’t drowning in email these days, you either don’t have an email account or you are a very young person who marketers haven’t discovered quite yet (they will!). To push bac
Google Docs now lets you draft emails with others and export them to Gmail
Google is introducing a new feature in Google Docs that aims to make it easier to collaborate on an email draft, the company announced on Wednesday. The new Google Docs email draft template lets users
Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox
Google’s Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company’s next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it’
Google Workspace goes all in on shadow IT
Google today announced a new version of Workspace, the company’s productivity service that you probably still refer to as G Suite. With the new — and free — Google Workspace Essentia