Daily Archives: December 15, 2015

Google Now on Tap adds related articles, package tracking and more

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Google Now on Tap is easily the biggest feature of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and Google is working to make the service as useful as possible. Beginning today, Google is rolling out a few new features to Now on Tap that add some functionality to the service, particularly in light of the holiday season. First off, Now on Tap can track flights and packages. If you’re looking at a screen with a flight number, you can simply bring up Now on Tap and it’ll show you the status of your flight. The same goes for tracking numbers, which will bring up the current status of your package.

Another new feature is that Now on Tap will bring up related articles. For example, if you’re reading an article about all of the rumors surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S7, opening Now on Tap will bring up related articles.

Finally, Google Now on Tap is now available in six new languages. This means that those who speak French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian or Korean will now have the ability to utilize Now on Tap, expanding its usefulness to a broader audience. It’s good to see Google adding more functionality to Now on Tap. In its current stage, Now on Tap is interesting and has a lot of potential, but the amount of use that it receives is actually surprisingly low, since a lot of functionality isn’t there yet. As time goes on, however, we should see Now on Tap becoming even more advanced and helpful.

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Review — ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’

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Like many others across the country and the world, I’m making it a bit of a project to watch all three (there are only three) Star Wars movies before the release of The Force Awakens on Thursday. I’m not going to try to review them as if I’ve never seen them before, because that would be terribly silly, but I’m interested in spending some time thinking about just what makes these movies so special, so capable of commanding likely one of the biggest releases in history, even thirty years after Return of The Jedi. So first up, we’ve got Star Wars: A New Hope.

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Gift This, Not That: The Tech And Science Gifts You Should (And Shouldn’t) Give This Holiday Season

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Forbes Tech And Science contributors consult their various areas of expertise and share their opinions on the very best (or not so great) tech or science gift for everyone on your list. Check back as we continue to update our Gift This, Not That Gift Guide.

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