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? Due to a bug, the Mic Drop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. The Gmail Blog announcement for the Mic Drop feature has been updated since yesterday, confirming Google has terminated the prank:

Update: According to TechCruch, Gmail’s April Fools’ Mic Drop prank had to be disabled after a number of Gmail users inadvertently inserted the mic-dropping Minion gif into emails and muted email threads. “If you can’t find one sock, you can press the beacon on its pair and let the Google Search app on your phone pinpoint its whereabouts,” says the announcement on the Google Australia blog. According to the Google Australia blog, the Bluetooth-enabled Searchable Socks are lined with thin LTE beacon straps. Google Australia engineers were slightly less ambitious, creating an app to help you find missing socks. Here’s the YouTube video showing how it works: The Q&A portion of the announcement didn’t specify a release date but did confirm it would be available in blue, red, black, white, and eventually, “tea” colored. There’s just something missing when you’re swiping across a smooth flat screen,” says the narrator in the Google Flick YouTube video. “We thought again about the ‘Flick’ keyboard and realized it could be really useful.

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Google Japan went all out to develop the Flick bluetooth keyboard - a device that mimics the comfort of striking the keys on a PC keyboard that can be used on any surface.

While the Google Maps pegman may or may not be dressed to disco, he definitely is sporting a beard and purple suit with retro butterfly-collars - a much cooler pegman for April Fools’ Day, versus the square that usually shows up for Street View images.

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As more shenanigans happen, we’ll update this story to include whatever we find. You can see a rundown of April Fools’ announcements from Google, Bing and other April Fools’ perpetrators below. By this morning, Google had disabled the prank and apologized for causing more headaches than laughs.īing has opted to stay away from controversy-causing pranks so far, taking a cute approach to April Fools’ Day with dancing puffins featured on its homepage. The Gmail mic drop feature had a number of users up in arms after they unwittingly inserted a mic-dropping Minion gif into emails. There were also two Gmail hacks that rolled out: an emoji-powered smart reply feature and a “Send + Mic Drop” option. Starting yesterday, we spotted a disco-clad pegman on Google Maps, a Google sock-finding app on Google’s Australia blog, and a new “Flick” keyboard from Google Japan. In the Emoji table, you can see how both girls and boys shrug their shoulders in bewilderment.It wasn’t even April 1, but being the overachievers they are, Google had already started releasing its April Fools’ Day announcements. Currently, this emoji has various racial and gender variations. This gesture is so ambiguous that it does not have one well-established name. The waving emoticon, also called the shrugging emoticon, is an analogue of the Japanese character kaomoji. In addition, the shrug emoji are often used synonymously with the expression Life is life. It can serve as a substitute for an answer to a question it can be a sign of confusion and a symbol of someone's state of mind in a particular situation. This bodily movement or gesture is an internationally recognized symbol of not knowing or not understanding something - and this is exactly what this emoji is usually used in. Shrugging is based on lifting them up, but in some cases it is a complex gesture and may also include one, two or more additional expressions. When we ask someone about things that the person is not aware of, their first reaction is a shrug.

Shrug - Expressing confusion, contemplation, disdain, surprise, etc.

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