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Every so often Google unveils a new feature that's so cool and helpful that I can't help but get excited. Such was the case when it became possible to compose an email directly from within a Google ...

GMail quietly unveiled a newly designed way to write emails, allowing you to keep one eye on your inbox for urgent messages even while you updating your mother that you are, indeed, still alive.