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By Jeffrey Bonforte, SVP of Communication Products

This month marks Yahoo Mail’s 18th birthday and we’re celebrating the occasion by giving you a brand new Yahoo Mail app that’s fast, intuitive and beautiful. The new app is fully redesigned. It’s more powerful, yet simple to use. And, of course, we’ve made a significant investment in the technology that powers the app, so it’s fast and responsive.

In addition to overhauling the app, we have two other major updates. First, the Yahoo Mail app (and our browser interface) can manage email accounts from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail. Second, the new Yahoo Mail app is the first from Yahoo to feature our password-free sign-in experience called Yahoo Account Key, taking user convenience and security to the next level.

The new Yahoo Mail app is available in the Apple App Store to all global users now, and rolling out to Android users in Google Play starting today.

Let’s dive into the details:

The New Yahoo Mail App

Fast

Speed is very important to our users, so we’ve dedicated a lot of time enhancing the performance of the entire app. From the moment you open Yahoo Mail, the app is snappy, actions are responsive and transitions are smooth and quick.

Beautiful

Right from the start, you will notice the new app is clean, intuitive and beautiful. Here are some examples of the key design elements:

Photos: Yahoo Mail is the only major mail service that can connect to Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook, so you’ll see great photos from senders more often.

Avatars: No ugly avatars. In most apps, if they can’t get a photo, they will insert a gray contact icon or maybe a colorful letter. But the contrast of photos and default avatars looked ugly to us, so we partnered with Flickr to show the sender’s initials from a photo curated from our library of gorgeous Flickr images.

Contact cards: No email app knows the people in your inbox better than the new Yahoo Mail app. Tap anyone in an email to see any contact information they’ve shared with you - name, company, title, email history, even recent tweets. Yahoo Mail maintains it all for you, automatically, even when someone’s not in your address book.

Swipe to triage: Swiping right on a message marks it read or unread. Swiping left deletes the message.

Long press to select more than one message: Want to move or delete a lot of messages at once? Simply tap and hold on a message and you are in multi-select mode. Don’t worry if you make a mistake, you can easily undo the recent action.

Get your news in Yahoo Mail: Need a break from your inbox? Check the top stories on Yahoo with a tap on the Yahoo news icon in the top right corner.

Smart

Forget scrolling and foldering, Yahoo Mail’s new search lets you find a message, photo or attachment with just a few taps.

Most people search for things by the sender (either person or company), so we’ve made that the fastest and easiest way to search. Give us a couple of letters of a person’s name, and we’ll suggest the most likely contact. Your results automatically organize into messages, photos and attachments you’ve exchanged. Or maybe it’s something you sent, just toggle the results to show messages you’ve sent to that person.

Of course, sometimes you want to search by keyword, and the app will make smart suggestions; results are more relevant and we search across messages, photos and attachments.

Compose Better Email

We’ve made it even easier to create and send beautiful, effective emails.

Attach photos or videos from your phone easily by clicking on the “+” icon on your new message. Photos and videos appear right in your email, scaled automatically. Prefer to attach rather than show the photos in the message, just tap the “…” on the photo to convert it to a regular attachment.

A lot of people send emails to themselves with reminders and notes throughout the day (we call these “me” mails). To quickly send yourself an email, just long-press the compose button.

Beyond Your Yahoo Mail Account

Most people have more than one email account. Now you can enjoy all the power of the new Yahoo Mail app (and our desktop interface) with your other mailboxes including Outlook.com, Hotmail, AOL Mail and, of course, Yahoo.

For each connected mailbox, you now have access to Yahoo Mail’s features – powerful search, smart contacts and auto-suggest, rich compose – across all your emails. The ability to manage multiple mailboxes is rolling out globally today in the Yahoo Mail app. The desktop experience is available for U.S. English users today and will be coming soon to users outside of the U.S. You can find more details on this announcement here.

Yahoo Account Key

No matter where you are on the internet, passwords are a pain. We’re happy to announce a big step forward to a password-free future with Yahoo Account Key. Account Key uses push notifications to provide a fast and secure way for you to access your Yahoo accounts from your smartphone. It frees you from memorizing complicated passwords, making signing-in to your Yahoo Mail app easy as tapping a button. You can learn more about the Yahoo Account Key here. Get started today!

Starting at the top.

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From the TED-Ed Lesson What percentage of your brain do you use?

2. You cry three types of tears: basal, reflex and emotional tears. As far as scientists can tell, humans are the only species that cry for emotional reasons.

From the TED-Ed Lesson Why do we cry? The three types of tears.

3. When you overeat sugary foods, you crave more of them. That’s because an overload of sugar spikes dopamine levels and leaves you wanting more.

From the TED-Ed Lesson How sugar affects the brain.

4. Whether you’re left-handed or right-handed, you were born that way. Today, about one-tenth of the world’s population is left-handed.

From the TED-Ed Lesson Why are some people left-handed?

5. Sitting for a long time is bad for your health. That’s because the human body is built for movement. Take a deep breath, stand up and stretch!