Brands find time for usual April Fool's jokes

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April 1 has historically been a great time for brands to have a little fun pranking their customers. Today is no exception. Google is offering two April Fool's hoaxes: Gmail Autopilot, a program that writes your e-mail replies for you; and the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE). After scanning, CADIE created this hilarious page to reflect the likes and dislikes of the unwashed masses. YouTube flipped its videos upside down. Amazon launched a fleet of cloud-computing airships.

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