Google is expanding its Android Earthquake Alerts system to cover all 50 U.S. states and 6 U.S. territories. The system uses phone accelerometers to detect earthquakes.
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TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturing company, has resumed work on its factories with limited disruption to its operations after Taiwan was struck by a powerful earthquake.
TrendForce has reported that several semiconductor-related companies in Japan have factories in the earthquake zone. Luckily, the first batch of investigations reported no significant damage.
Skype calls to the regions affected by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico have been made free until further notice. However, do note that Skype cannot be used to make emergency calls.
The fastest X-ray generator in the planet was fired for the first time, while machine learning was used to predict earthquakes and AI leveraged to analyze gravitational lenses 10 million times faster.
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China's Ministry of Public Security has put four people into detention for causing panic by spreading false rumours that subsequent earthquakes, following the one in Sichuan, had hit the country.
The gaming community behind Destiny banded together with Bungie and Activision and managed to raise more than a million dollars, money that's being donated to Direct Relief to help victims in Nepal.
Similar to what happened with the last earthquake in Nepal last month, Viber has taken the lead in making their services free for Nepalese users trying to contact others within Nepal and abroad.
In response to the destruction of the devastating magnitude 7.8 Nepalese earthquake, Google has rolled out several useful tools to make responding and recovering from the disaster easier.
Apple will include built-in earthquake warning notifications in iOS 5 for Japanese users, following the devastating Tohoku earthquake that devastated parts of Japan in March.
The launch of the iPad 2 in Japan has been postponed indefinitely as the country attempts to cope with the wake of the earthquake and tsunami disaster. Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris told All Things Digital's John...
As the people of Japan struggled to comprehend the enormity of the natural disaster that struck last Friday, at least one Apple Store reportedly threw its doors open in an effort to help the public....
As Japan attempts to recover and rebuild after the devastating natural disasters of the past week, the effects of nature’s wrath on the tech industry is slowly becoming clear. According to Engadget, tech giants Sony,...
As Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster continues to unfold, telco AT&T and VoIP provider Vonage have moved to offer free calls and texts to US customers trying to get in touch with friends and family...
Microsoft has confirmed it plans to make an initial commitment of $1.25 million to support the relief efforts in Haiti following a massive 7.0 (on the richter scale) earthquake on January 12. The software giant...
Yesterday morning, Pakistan was hit by a earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale. So far, it is thought that as many as 20,000 people might have lost their lives in what is perhaps one...
