Category: WP-3
No, Google Isn’t Sunsetting Gmail
Have you seen a claim on social media that Google is “sunsetting” Gmail this coming August? What appears to be a screenshot from an official Google announcement has gone viral on X, but it’s completely fake. “We are reaching out to share an important update about Gmail. After years of connecting millions worldwide, enabling seamless …
Google Finally Scraps Its Cookie Deprecation Plans
Google announced today it’s finally doing what everyone suspected and reversing its decision to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. After repeated delays in a four-year-long saga, marketers and advertisers grew increasingly skeptical. In Forrester’s Marketing Survey 2024, 61% of B2C marketers said they do not believe that Google will deprecate the third-party cookie. It’s not …
How to cancel a email from sending in Gmail
Looking to undo sending an email you accidentally fired off in Gmail? Here is the simplest way to delete a sent email. We’ve all sent an email that, on second thought, could have been a little more professional; or accidentally forwarded a meme that wasn’t meant to be seen by our boss. Whether you’re known …
Google’s plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles • The Register
Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies, the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities. In a Monday post, Anthony Chavez, VP of Google’s Privacy Sandbox, said that the search and ads giant has come to understand that its …
What I Learned From Reading Through Old Social Media Posts and Chats From When I Was a Kid
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. The writer at 24 (left) and 10 (right). Kieran Press-Reynolds I recently found a forgotten archive of Gmail chats and Google Buzz posts from when I was 10 to 11 years old. Reading the posts was a bit surreal, and reminded me …
Google’s next streaming player looks nothing like the Chromecast
Google is seemingly about to move on from the HDMI dongle design of all its past streaming devices in favor of a more conventional set-top box. 9to5Google has published images of the upcoming product, which is apparently called the “Google TV Streamer.” So not only is the look of past Chromecasts going away, but so …
Gmail rolls out in-app predictive back on Android 14
Google has yet to enable system-level Predictive Back in Android 14, but the in-app variant is live in some apps, including Gmail most recently. Predictive Back shows a preview of the homescreen as you swipe back from the left/right edge of an application. It’s meant to address how the current back gesture can result in …
Google Wallet now supports even more banks and credit unions in the U.S.
Google Wallet has recently expanded its reach in the financial sector by adding support for 26 new banks and credit unions across the United States. This brings the total number of supported institutions to over 4,700, making Google Wallet a more accessible and versatile payment option for many users.The newly added institutions span a wide …
Google’s Gmail launched on April Fool’s Day 20 years ago
Twenty years on, Google’s Gmail now has an estimated 1.8 billion accounts. ADVERTISEMENT Google launched its email service Gmail 20 years ago today in a press release that some thought was a joke. Gmail was described then as “a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, …
Google Play Store Finally Raises Its App Standards, Apps Have to Actually Work
As an open-source platform, Android has always been a Wild West of sorts regarding apps. Apple requires app makers to meet rigorous standards before apps can be published in the App Store; for Android, not so much. Since its inception as Android Market in 2008, the Google Play store has been a free-for-all where malware-ridden, …