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Gmail’s web client is set to receive one of its most substantial overhauls ever in the next few weeks, but Google has yet to publicly announce the update. But that hasn’t stopped The Verge from sharing details about the new design all week, including a new report today covering an interesting...

Apple isn’t the only company fighting against government-backed cyber attacks. While Apple and the FBI bicker over user security, Google is bringing security into the public eye in a different way – by simply telling you what’s going on. The company will be increasing the visibility of Gmail...

Trying to keep your head above water in an email inbox — it can be a pain in the neck. For the gobs of people using Google’s wildly popular Gmail service, however, the handy Unsubscribe and Block buttons can be used to help manage onslaughts of unwanted email, whether they’re from subscriptions...

According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords associated with Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here's what you should know. The list has since been taken down, and there's no evidence that Gmail itself was hacked—just that these passwords have...

Q: I got spammed, and the junk e-mail came from my own address. Was my account hacked? A: Not necessarily, because it's trivial to fake an a-mail address. But before you assume that somebody spoofed yours, you should verify that your account was secure. In this case, the account in question...

Gmail doesn't display a true message count by default, because Gmail uses the conversation view. Turn the conversation view off to see the real number of individual messages in your Gmail account. It's sometimes useful to know how many messages you have from a certain sender or on a particular...

One trick you may or may not have picked up about Gmail is that you can add in periods anywhere in the front part of your address and it makes no difference whatsoever: john.smith@gmail.com works just the same as johnsmith@gmail.com. What's more, you can add a plus sign and any word before the @...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in New York has granted prosecutors access to a Gmail user's emails as part of a criminal probe, a decision that could fan the debate over how aggressively the government may pursue data if doing so may invade people's privacy. U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel...