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...
Apple does things well whenever they implement old tech, but fumbled the Always on Screen feature.
The release of the iPhone 14 brings the era of AOS "Always on Screen" into the iPhone 14 pro series as a bundle in the package, whilst trying to be unique 'Apple way' they kinda messed it up, it does look cool at first glance until you drop your phone, just to still think your phone is On and you'd wanna press the power button to switch off the screen, which is distracting but not only does it takes brightness up a notch but take a noticeable toll on the battery life. I hope Apple do something about it soon enough though or it's gonna become the most useless feature to be announced by Apple.
It got fixed with a software update, cheers Apple 📣
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