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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago

Google is using two billion Android phones to detect earthquakes worldwide

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Google is using two billion Android phones to detect earthquakes worldwide

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago
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Unlike conventional systems that use dedicated, expensive seismic instruments, Google's Android Earthquake Alerts system leverages the sheer scale of smartphones, which continuously collect motion data unless users...
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    Yeah, my first thought was “No way all those people opted-in to that, right?”

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