Guccifer, the Romanian hacker who is accused of hacking into the personal email accounts of former presidents, diplomats and celebrities, made his first appearance in court last week. The 44 year old Marcel Lehel Lazr was extradited to the U.S. in March. He faces charges of wire fraud, gaining unauthorized access to protected computers, aggravated identity theft, cyberstalking and obstruction of justice.

Microsoft will soon test a subscription service that will give Outlook users additional features for a monthly fee of $3.99. The so-called "Outlook Premium" service will allow users set up custom domain accounts for more professional email addresses. Instead of having an @outlook.com, @live.com or @hotmail.com address, the user could use their company's domain name.

Microsoft plans to charge $3.99 a month for a premium Outlook service, TechCrunch reports. With “Outlook Premium,” users will be able to set up custom domain accounts to serve as more professional email addresses, and an ad-free inbox, among other special features. The first year will be free for Outlook Premium subscribers.

Michigan legislators have passed a new law that allows people to access the email and social media accounts of their dead loved ones. The bill sponsor's Republican Rep. Anthony Forlini said it was difficult to get tech companies to agree on the new rules.

Google reversed its April Fool's Day Gmail prank after several users accidentally included the silly GIFs in serious business emails. Andy Baio, former Kickstarter CTO and founder of XOXO Festival, for instance complained on Twitter that Google had replaced the "Send+Archive" button with the so-called "Drop Mic" button, making it too easy to add these GIFs to important emails.

Facebook has formed a partnership with KLM to allow the airline's customers to receive flight confirmations, boarding cards, reminders and flight status updates within Facebook's Messenger app. These messages are typically sent via email. If this trend takes off, this could be a step in a new direction in which social becomes the means for communications from brands.

Hillary Clinton talked about her email scandal on Meet the Press on Sunday. In the interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, Clinton acknowledged her mistake in using a private email server for work emails but pointed out that all of the emails had been released. "I think that anybody who's actually looked at this has concluded that I have now put out all of my emails," she said in the interview. "Go and ask others for their emails. Ask everybody else who's in public office. I'm the one who's done it, and I did it because I thought it was the …

Android users aged 13-24 spend 3x as many hours using messaging apps than people over the age of 45, according to App Annie. Older Android users tend to use apps that as more like desktop apps such as web browsers and email. The research also revealed that the average daily time spent in apps increased by approximately 40 percent between 2014 and 2015.

One of Google’s April Fools’ Day jokes didn’t play well with users. A ‘Mic Drop’ button -- which inserted a Minions GIF in Gmail messages -- was briefly placed where the “send and archive” usually appears. This resulted in some inappropriate communications, and Google apologizing for the gaff, as TechCrunch reports.

National Security Agency (NSA) director Michael S. Rogers refuses to comment on whether or not Hillary Clinton's private email server was ever hacked. "It's something I'm just not going to get into," Rogers told Yahoo! News in an interview.