Your Gmail inbox is about to get weird. As part of an update to its Accelerated Mobile Pages project, Google will serve up content from the internet inside e-mails to provide always-up-to-date information.
Backstory: The AMP project was designed to make web pages load faster, so you could click through from search results to content almost instantly. Now Google wants to do some … interesting things with the technology.
E-mail plus plus: Developers are going to be playing around with AMP widgets for Gmail messages. The idea: you’ll be able to browse parts of the web—to, say, respond to an invitation, or check if your flight is delayed—without leaving your e-mail. The feature will appear in Gmail later this year.
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