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United Airlines is giving away free flights for uploading your vaccine records to its app

With a year's worth of travel offered as the grand prize

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As more and more people become fully vaccinated, many are eager to return to some semblance of normal life. Travel is destined to be a big part of summer plans, as people make up for lost vacation time and head out to see loved ones for the first time in months. United Airlines is looking to make itself a part of those plans, offering anyone vaccinated a chance at winning a year's worth of free travel just for uploading your records to its app.

Work-life balance can be tricky. Google Calendar is getting a couple of additions that will hopefully make it easier to delineate when your work time ends and your personal time begins: soon, G Suite users will be able to set both their normal work hours as well as mark when they're out of the office.

In its quest to make our lives easier, Google has recently taken on the travel industry by giving us search tools for flights and hotels, as well as an app to help us plan and organize trips we've already booked. Google Search already shows when a slight adjustment to travel dates can save us money, but now it's adding more robust tools for people whose travel dates are more flexible.

Groupon is a good resource to turn to for people who love to buy or experience new things but hate paying full price. The service offers discounts on everything ranging from refurbished electronics to entrees for two at the local bar. It also does vacations, and now Groupon has released a separate Android app that's dedicated entirely to getting away.

An update to Gmail started rolling out this morning, bringing it from version 4.6.1 to 4.7. We have the APK for you below, as usual, because waiting is for suckers.