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Google to start deleting inactive Gmail accounts December 1

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Google plans on deleting inactive Gmail accounts and photos starting December 1, our friends at PCMag and others reported. Google announced the news of deleting abandoned Gmails earlier this year, as well as the December start, but now that deadline is weeks away. SEE ALSO: Here’s how to get alerts when your personal info shows … Read more

Google Calendar Now Makes It Easier to Find a Time to Meet. Here’s How

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Whether it’s deciding when to meet a friend for coffee or setting up a meeting for work, scheduling is annoying. The inevitable back-and-forth—“I’m free Monday, does that work?” “No, I’m busy then, what about Thursday”—is just plain tedious. Google Calendar can help with this. The application now offers a free tool called Appointment Schedule, which … Read more

The AI I want to see in the world: 5 ways it could manage my Gmail inbox for me

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MirageC/Getty Images OK, Google: Can we talk about what I really want from an AI assistant? Many of us have become familiar with generative AI’s ability to write some text for us in response to a prompt. It’s becoming so common, in fact, that many tech companies are racing to add that capability to their … Read more

5 Tools to Help You Manage Email Newsletter Overload

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There are a lot of great email newsletters—you can find an excellent selection here—and they’re the perfect way to keep on top of the news and features you want to read without having to continually trawl the wilds of the web. If anything, email newsletters are too convenient and appealing, which means they can quickly … Read more

Google Makes Passkeys Default, Stepping Up Its Push to Kill Passwords

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Less than six months ago, Google announced that it was launching support for the password replacement known as “passkeys” for all personal accounts across its billions of users. Today, the company said it is going a step further and will make passkeys the default login setting for users. When you log into your Google account, … Read more

How to Use Google Bard to Find Your Stuff in Gmail and Docs

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Google recently rolled out multiple updates to Bard, its AI chatbot. The new features include extensions that connect Bard to more aspects of Google’s portfolio, like Gmail, Docs, and YouTube. The company is continuing to experiment with artificial intelligence as part of the next wave of information retrieval. Although my initial impressions of Bard’s extensions … Read more

Gmail Is Now Getting Emoji Reactions: Here’s How to Use Them

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A thumbs-up here, kissy lips there, a cat face here — emoji are seemingly everywhere. The colorful little images show up in text messages, Facebook, Instagram, even Slack. And now, emoji are coming to Gmail. According to a new post on the Google support site, the feature is now rolling out gradually for Android device users and … Read more

How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location

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With its most recent update, Google Bard can now sort through your trove of Google Docs, rediscover ancient Gmail messages, and search through every video on YouTube. Before experimenting too much with the new extensions available for Google’s chatbot, it’s worth going over the steps you can take to protect your privacy (and the ones … Read more

Google Bard AI Dips into Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube

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Prepare for extra methods to make use of Bard, Google’s synthetic intelligence chatbot and rival to ChatGPT. Bard can now combine with and pull info out of your Google apps like Gmail, Docs, YouTube and extra, based on a weblog put up Tuesday by the corporate.  These “Bard Extensions” will discover info extra simply throughout … Read more