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 ...
Google is in hot water with Gmail users after a relatively harmless April Fool’s Day prank went awry. Google added an option to include an animated GIF of a Minion dropping the mic—a cocky way the ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
An April Fool’s prank gone wrong caused Google to officially apologize to its more than one billion users on Friday. The gag inserted animated minion GIFs into unwitting users’ emails, but Google ...