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you don't have to know your neighbor to send them a text message I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update twitter is adding more security when you sign in to make it harder for someone to hack into your account and Twitter's doing this because there have been some high-profile accounts hacked recently including the account for the Associated Press this extra security is called two-step authentication you could turn it on by going into your settings at twitter.com and every time you login you'll have to enter a six digit code that's sent to your phone as a text message Jennifer Lopez has a new wireless company called Viva movil which is targeting the Hispanic market and through a partnership with verizon viva movil will sell the same devices and plans sold by verizon Lopez's chief creative officer of the brand which will have 15 stores opening up this year and these stores will cater more to the growing Hispanic demographic in different ways for example employees will be bilingual and stores will have a children's play area and Lopez says that's because Hispanic families often shop with their children and these stores would offer more devices for people to test out before they buy those all sound like pretty good improvements maybe other stores could take a lesson from JLo android users can now create a digital archive of receipts with the updated google Drive app with the scan feature you can use the phone's camera to take a photo of your receipt and the text on the receipt is searchable that's all thanks to optical character recognition the Google Drive app also added new ways to edit a spreadsheet cell and a new app worth checking out is called next door it's a social network for people in your neighborhood to post news about what's happening it could be anything from a garage sale add to a notice about construction nearby or babysitter recommendations it's existed as a social network on the web for about 18 months now and it just launched an iPhone app with Android coming soon I spoke with next-door CEO nirav Tolia and he said the app will be useful for when you need to send a real-time alert to your community about something urgent like a disaster a crime or big accident nearby and that wasn't the original purpose for the site but totally said there were hundreds of urgent alerts sent to Boston community users during the bombing and the same happened with warnings about the tornado in Oklahoma so to answer that need for real-time alerts users can send them as a notification or text message to others in a private community right now there are more than twelve thousand six hundred neighborhoods using it and if your neighborhood isn't on it well you can start one and say you want to just message people inside your apartment building well you can make a private mini network within a neighborhood that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey