Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is ...

Sometimes, people don’t get your joke—and that seems to have happened to Google today. Its joke Mic Drop feature in Gmail, which muted the conversation and sent out a silly gif, seems to have caused ...

A royal Minion dropping a mic in your Gmail inbox is the last thing you see before you get fired. That was the case for Allan Pashby, who fell victim to Google's April Fools' Day prank this year: Mic ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It didn’t take long for this year’s April Fools Day to get off to a bad start, thanks to Google’s Mic Drop. The plug-in was intended to ...

Google's April Fool's gag for Gmail this year was an alternative send option named the Mic Drop. Through the feature, sent emails will include a GIF of Despicable Me Minion dropping a microphone, and ...

When it comes to plotting April Fool’s pranks, it’s important to ensure that your trickery isn’t mean-spirited, and won’t have any last effects to the person on the receiving end. But that’s exactly ...

Gmail’s April Fools’ prank this year enabled users to send Minion GIFs to their email chains with the click of a button. Sounds cute, right? But it went terribly wrong. The new feature Gmail installed ...

The company is known for doing a few innocent jokes on this day every year but one of this year’s pranks seriously backfired and it has been pulled in the face of user outrage. That’s the Gmail Mic ...

Google has pulled a lot of pranks in its day, but this has got to be the worst one. The idea was called "Mic Drop:" a special send button in Gmail that would replace your signature with a Gif of one ...

Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications. “Today, Gmail is making ...