10400GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Technology Google phones become earthquake sensors Google is working on turning its smartphones into mini-seismographs to generate warnings for users to protect themselves before earthquakes hit.https://www.aap.com.au/google-phones-become-earthquake-sensors/Google’s Android phones have started detecting earthquakes to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor. The alerting feature is being first rolled out in California. Japan, Mexico and California already use land-based sensors to generate....Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:34:00 +0200aap-au-ba6a2be2b5e19ea234eea0ebea2dad2120200812173400Google turns your Android phones into earthquake sensorshttps://www.thedailystar.net/toggle/news/google-turns-your-android-phones-earthquake-sensors-1943857lphabet Inc's Google's Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California.Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:25:00 +0200thedailystarBD-1d54b749c10d8d83cca5ed78ea066cec20200812152500Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensorshttps://tribune.com.pk/story/2259184/google-turns-android-phones-into-earthquake-sensorsOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: Alphabet’s Google’s Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California.Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:36:00 +0200tribune-3df8af61c3f09d838e574a0c2f4f991b20200812133600Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensorshttps://www.thedailystar.net/bytes/tech-happening/news/google-turns-android-phones-earthquake-sensors-california-get-alerts-1943793Alphabet Inc's Google's Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California.Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:27:00 +0200thedailystarBD-eee25371c4ca3043560d2c4985f294cf20200812122700