The crime notifications are a little geographically challenged at the moment, as our editor-in-chief found one in his feed for fayette, Calif., despite not living in that city. Given the public safety angle, however, has probably built in a pretty wide radius for alerting people to especially nefarious activity like this armed robbery. The solar eclipse cards are another one of Now’s attempts to be newsworthy helpful, as Android lice spotted a card with viewing photography tips for Thursday’s solar eclipse. y this matters: Now wants to be the virtual assistant that gives you timely, useful information. It’s a pretty good travel guide sports companion, with new features rolling out all the time. Now’s ability to compile data repackage it in a helpful context lies at the heart of products like ‘s newly-unveiled Inbox. It has a considerable lead over other companies in this area, as organizing information is in ‘s DNA— the better it does it, the more you’ll keep using its products.