15440GDACS 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 Is Launching a Global Earthquake-Detection Networkhttps://www.wired.com/story/google-is-launching-a-global-earthquake-detection-network/Back in 2016, Ars Technica reported on an interesting use for the bundle of sensors we carry around every day in our smartphones: earthquake detection . The accelerometers in your phone make a passable seismometer, and with location data and enough users, you could detect earthquakes and warn users as the shocks roll across the landscape.Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:33:00 +0200wired-a5329af5812464751cd1d06bbdd4a52020200812143300Google turns android phones into earthquake detectorshttps://www.geospatialworld.net/news/google-turns-android-phones-into-earthquake-detectors/Alphabet’s Google android phones have started detecting earthquakes around the world. This will provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby. The alerting feature will first roll call at California. Japan, Mexico, and California already use land-based sensors to get warnings.Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:22:00 +0200geospatialworld-9eb4255380104fdccf0f0229087edda620200812142200