For those who made their Google email addresses something cringe and have been longing to change it, the time has come. Google announced it is rolling out a way for users to change their Gmail ...

Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Two long-standing features are being removed from Gmail, and they both relate to how you access messages from other, non-Google email accounts through the Gmail ...

Google is ending Gmailify and POP-based fetching in Gmail, pushing users toward forwarding or IMAP in the mobile app to keep third-party mail accessible. If you’ve been using Gmail as the “one inbox ...

Google is adding Gemini AI features to Gmail, which now has more than 3 billion users. Some of the AI features will be turned on by default in inboxes, so users will have to opt out if they don't want ...

Under the shift, which Google said would eventually be rolled out to all users, old addresses would remain active. Messages and services would not be lost. By Adeel Hassan For more than 20 years, ...

*Google has clarified that there has been no direct Gmail password breach affecting its 2.5 billion users. Instead, the concern stems from a Salesforce data breach earlier in 2025, carried out by the ...

For more than 1.8 billion people in the world, there is one service that rules them all: Gmail. A primary conduit for communication, the email service that Google launched in 2004 is now as prevalent ...

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Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21. The greatest April Fool’s Day joke that never was has to have taken place on April 1, 2004. It was then that Google, without a hint of irony, launched what was to ...

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Last year, I told you about the grueling ordeal I went through to move everything from my old Google account to my new one. Although I did this for many reasons (a digital life reset, consolidating ...

Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.