Inbox by Gmail is getting a new feature, and you’ll really like it


Do you use the Inbox by Gmail App? Are you interested in a more efficient and rapid way to respond to emails? Duh. Well, the guys over at Gmail had an idea, and it looks to be a pretty decent one. They’re going to answer your emails for you. Kind of.

 

The feature is called ‘Smart Reply’.

 

When you receive an email, it will give you three options of phrases and short sentences to choose from, for a reply. The responses are created by deep machine learning and analysis of the content of the email and will (hopefully) make perfectly awesome sense.

 

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The feature also learns over time which replies you pick most often, and which one’s you discard, making the process even more efficient.

 

 

From the sauce:

 

“For those emails that only need a quick response, it can take care of the thinking and save precious time spent typing. And for those emails that require a bit more thought, it gives you a jump start so you can respond right away.”

 

 

The feature will be rolling out later this week as part of the Inbox by Gmail App, which you can get from the App store!

 

 

Check out the official Gmail blog for more info!

 

 

Want to buy an Apple related Andy Warhol painting?

You can! Next week, in fact.

 

 

On November 12th, Sotheby’s will auction off a Macintosh painting by Warhol, however the price-tag is enough to stop more than a few of us. The painting has a starting bid of $280,000, but the auction house is estimating that the painting will receive between $400,000 and $600,000.

 

 

The artwork is an acrylic and silkscreen canvas painting featuring Apple’s old rainbow logo between the words Apple and Macintosh, and is from Warhol’s “Ads” suite from 1985, which was 1 year after the OG Macintosh was released.

 

 

An intriguing tidbit about the inspiration for the painting, right from the Sauce:

 

 

“We went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.” — Andy Warhol

 

 

Interested? The auction starts on November 12 at 9:30 AM Eastern. Check it out!