9/26/18 Newsletter: 🎉 Google’s Big Announcement 🎉

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Spotlight

Google announced exciting updates to its search experience. In fact, users will get an experience so personalized that it’ll feel very much like a social media platform. Expect a lot of cool interactivity and a bigger focus on visual content.

The Deets: The improvements include a Stories feature, which acts similarly to Insta’s, though it’s only available for searches on notable people and celebrity chefs like Giada De Laurentis. Also, Google Feed is being renamed Discover, which acts similarly to Facebook’s News Feed experience by using an algorithm to give users content that interests them most.

The Bottom Line: Imagine your favorite aspects of social media neatly packaged into one product that you’re already comfortable using, and you get Google’s newest updates. These features, as well as a handful of other changes Google’s rolling out, will be available later this year. We couldn’t be more excited. [Swirled]

Life Hack Of The Day: Chalk Edition

Keep a bundle of chalk in your closet to absorb moisture and keep your clothes fresh and dry.

Health

Spotify teamed up with Ancestry to generate individual playlists for users based on their AcestryDNA test results. If you’ve already analyzed your DNA using Ancestry’s at-home testing kit, you can now add your results to the new playlist generator tool on Spotify for a personalized song list that reflects the cultures of your ancestors. [Swirled]

Did You Know? There’s a good reason why you get the muscle shakes when you work out. While it feels super awkward to be trembling like a newborn giraffe, the sensation indicates that your muscles have worked at their absolute maximum and have reached a state of fatigue. If you get the shakes quickly, take it easy. You don’t want to risk injury! [Swirled]

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Career + Finance

First impressions may not be all they’re cracked up to be. According to new research, people tend to underestimate how much another person likes them after they first meet. The person you just met may be more worried about their first impression on you than anything you’re self-conscious about. [Swirled]

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Food + Drink

IHOP’s jumping on the pumpkin-flavored drink bandwagon, with a new beer, just in time for fall. For the rest of September through October, the breakfast chain is offering a limited-edition pumpkin pancake stout cleverly named IHOPS. The new brew is flavored with buttermilk pancake batter mix, pumpkin, maple syrup and other pancake ingredients. Disgusting or delicious? You decide. [Swirled]

Recipe Of The Day: Indulge a little this week by making comforting cacio e pepe. Boil 8 ounces of dried spaghetti in salted water until it’s the consistency you like. Then, combine 4 ounces of grated Pecorino cheese and lots of pepper (to your taste) in a bowl. Add a tablespoon of cold water to the cheese and mix it until it becomes a paste. Toss the pasta in the cheese mixture and enjoy! [Smitten Kitchen]

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Travel

Bangkok, Thailand is the most visited city in the entire world this year. The Thai city is filled with delectable food, historic temples and bustling markets and gets an impressive 20 million visitors per year. Read more to see the rest of the top 10 most popular travel spots. [Swirled]

Deal Of The Day: You can fly roundtrip to China for as low as $293. Prices on flights leaving U.S. cities like LA, NYC, Orlando, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. to Beijing and Shanghai are unusually low if you fly between October of this year and June of next year. [The Points Guy]

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