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searching protect journalists who live in New York and like Star Trek well I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update facebook has unveiled a new way to search within the site and your connections it's called graph search unlike Google where you type in a keyword you can hunt for things more naturally by narrowing down different fields the graph search is focused on people photos places and interests a simple example is searching for restaurants in Chicago or music my friends like take it to another level and you can search for friends in New York that like the show fringe another example Mark Zuckerberg gave was searching for Mexican restaurants in Palo Alto that his friends have been to that way you could reach out to friends to get recommendations that the place is any good if you meet someone but you forgot their full name there's a way to do that to search for people named Chris who are friends of Lars and went to Stanford University the search can also help in professional connections one example given was a search for NASA employees who are also friends with Facebook employees or maybe you want to search for a doctor or dentist liked by your friends facebook is taking on Yelp and LinkedIn with this new graph search it also is taking on Google by letting you search for some things outside of your circle of friends for example search for restaurants in your area like by graduates of the Culinary Institute of America and you just found something that not even Google can give you but you have to sign up on a wait list to try out the new feature it's still a beta product the Detroit Auto Show is going on now and we're seeing more cars unveiled with advanced technology that can assist with driving in heavy traffic the mercedes-benz e-class update features things like brake assist and cross traffic assist to help a driver avoid an accident the 2014 Infiniti q50 uses cameras to help keep the car centered in its Lane a Hyundai concept car called the Genesis takes things a bit further and uses I tracking technology with a display located near the center of the windshield the idea is that drivers glance at an icon they want and confirm it with a knob at the controls drivers can also change radio stations by waving their hand or adjust the volume by twisting an imaginary knob I hate to see what happens that there's a fly you're trying to shoo but honestly I think it'll be a long time before we see this kind of technology manifest itself in a safe way in a real car and today we're looking at the iphone app birthday cards by clever bug it's another app that lets you send personalized paper greeting cards from your phone but it uses Facebook to let you know who has an upcoming birthday and you can insert photos from facebook sending the physical card cost you three dollars but you can also post a digital version on a timeline it's a much more unique way to wish someone a happy birthday than the usual wall post that's your tech news update you can get links to all the stories I mentioned at our blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey