How Google’s Earthquake Alerts Protected Millions — And How to Turn It On in Quake-Prone Countries When two massive earthquakes (7.2 and 7.5) struck Venezuela recently, the country had no national early warning system. But millions of Android phones lit up with loud alerts seconds to minutes before the shaking hit — giving people precious time to drop, cover, and hold on. Google’s clever system turns the accelerometers in over 2 billion Android phones into a giant crowdsourced seismic network. It detects the first waves, confirms the quake, and blasts notifications to users in the affected area. In Venezuela, it reached 11.4 million people — proving technology can save lives even where governments can’t. How to activate it (works in nearly 100 countries): Open Settings on your Android phone. Tap Safety & Emergency (or search for “Earthquake alerts”). Select Earthquake Alerts and toggle it ON. Keep Location services ena...
Top 5 best laptop in 2021 Here is the list of my best 2021 picks of laptop; Based off overall performance to price ratio. LENOVO 1. Lenovo Legion 5 : Fist things first, this is the plethora of high-performance, while keeping a low profile with clean, minimalist looks, still gat the gaming theme to it though, arguably cheap/fairly priced for everything going for it. It's an AMD based processor it's not the best looking laptops out there, I'd take the Alienware over this in terms of design😅. this is a quite powerful pc for the price, good enough to sit with the big boiz gaming pc, with good thermal control. APPLE 2. Apple Macbook pro 14 : Apple is know to always to deliver sleek and powerful without fails but the case is different this this year with the new Apple M1 chips is the game changing move that Apple made. The pros with the M1 pro chip is the best among the series dropped this year, fast & the most power efficient chip in a laptop wit...