If you use Google’s label system to sort your Gmail messages, you can create a mail filter to apply one of those labels to new messages that meet the filter’s rules — like the name of the sender. If you do not have a label for the recipient set up before creating the filter, you can make them both at once.

Allowing the Chrome browser to save your login and password information for website accounts is safer now than it used to be with the Smart Lock security feature that Google introduced last year for its Chrome software. Like a standard password manager program, Smart Lock saves and syncs passwords across the computers and mobile devices you use with your Google account. You can see the stored list in the Chrome settings or by logging onto your account and visiting passwords.google.com; you may also need to supply your computer’s main user password if you use it to log into the machine.

Yahoo Inc. revealed Wednesday (14 December 2016) that it suffered a security breach in August 2013 that affected more than 1 billion member accounts, twice as many as in its 2014 hack.

When choosing a smartphone for your child, factor in the amount of parental control you want to have over the device, and the types of phones already used by other family members. Cost and flexibility may also be considerations. Before making a decision, it may be useful to have a chat with the child about what the phone will be used for — and how to behave with it.