Helps | - Part 2

Facebook Now Helps You Make Friends With Strangers

Facebook is rolling out a new feature called Discover People. This is designed to help you make new friends, providing a way of breaking the ice with complete strangers. Unfortunately, to make this happen Facebook needs to know where you live, where you work, and what you do at weekends. Discover People is an extension… read more »

Google Helps You Find the Perfect Recipe for Anything

Google has upgraded the Google app to help you find the perfect recipe for anything. Google has always been good at surfacing the best recipes, but now it will help you narrow down the options before you burrow too deep down a particular rabbithole. Even if you’re not cooking rabbit. The web is a wonderful… read more »

Apple Helps You Sleep Better With Night Shift on macOS

Apple is bringing Night Shift to macOS. Night Shift being a popular feature baked into iOS which lets you change the color of your screen depending on the time of day. Having added Night Shift to iOS in 2016, Apple is now bringing the feature across to your Mac too. First, the science. There is… read more »

Facebook Might Be Listening, Google Helps You Find Your Phone… [Tech News Digest]

Facebook gets accused of listening to users’ conversations, Google tracks lost smartphones, Microsoft’s spam filters fail to work, Periscope enlists juries to take down trolls, and making Windows error messages sound sweet. Facebook Might Be Listening to You Facebook has been accused of listening into people’s conversations, using the results to serve contextual advertising to… read more »

Google’s New Site Helps You Find the Perfect Chromebook

Chromebooks are awesome devices. They’re easy to switch to and are perfect for those who only need to browse the web. Now that Chromebooks have been out for a few years, however, there are lots of models and you might have trouble finding the right one for you. Google’s revamped Chromebooks site now includes a Find… read more »

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