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Hands-on: Gmail’s new sidebar feels like a big banner ad for Google Chat

Enlarge / The new Gmail design. You can see a chat popup in the bottom left. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Gmail’s latest redesign seems to have finally started hitting a wide number of accounts over the weekend. The new desktop site changes up the 2018 design by turning the top and side portions of the web […]

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So nice they killed it twice: Google+’s business pivot is dead

Release YouTube, you beast! [credit: 123pendejos ] Google+ is dead—again! The consumer version of Google+ may have shut down in April 2019, but Google kept the service rolling as an enterprise-focused social network it rebranded “Google Currents.” You need to pay for GSuite to use it, and only members of your organization can see the […]