209180GDACS 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 Making architecture gorgeous again One of the joys of living in Taiwan for three decades is witnessing the rescue of dilapidated yet appealing structures.When I first arrived in Tainan, the long-shuttered Hayashi Department Store (林百貨) was in a pitiful state.https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2024/06/07/2003818987Four of the panels inside were painted by Pan Yueh-hsiung (潘岳雄), a third-generation temple artist born in 1943. They appear to be in reasonable condition, but images posted on the temple’s social media accounts earlier this year show wooden beams affiliated by severe cracking, flaking and fading. At the time of writing, work was ongoing.2024-06-06T18:12+0200taipeitimes-e8423d436cbd3bbf428f627fb98cecd220240606181200California Earthquake Warning System Gets Upgrade for the 'Big One'https://www.newsweek.com/california-earthquake-warning-system-shakealert-earthscope-1908996People living in California will get more timely and accurate alerts about mega earthquakes with a new upgrade to the state's early warning system. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and EarthScope have started using GPS sensors in the ShakeAlert system, they announced on Wednesday.2024-06-06T15:19+0200newsweek-USA-fb5773f00b4be8521f9ab6c98ff9c74e20240606151900New landslide forecasting system helping researchers save lives in Nepalhttps://kathmandupost.com/science-technology/2024/06/06/new-landslide-forecasting-system-helping-researchers-save-lives-in-nepalScientists from Australia, Italy, and Nepal have teamed up with the Nepal government and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to deliver a new state-of-the-art artificial intelligence system that can analyse the significant amount of data needed to identify when the rain-soaked ground is about to give way.2024-06-06T12:16+0200kathmandupost-02d977372f4ef1ba6a89068d57a1032a20240606121600New landslide forecasting system helping researchers save lives in Nepalhttps://thehimalayantimes.com/environment/new-landslide-forecasting-system-helping-researchers-save-lives-in-nepalScientists from the University of Melbourne, Tribhuvan University in Nepal and the University of Florence have teamed up with the Government of Nepal and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to deliver a new state-of-the-art artificial intelligence system that can analyse the....2024-06-06T07:41+0200thehimalayantimes-2734fbebd84470eb07f412195258da5120240606074100