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  • Joined: June 24, 2025
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Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts Partially Failed to Warn Millions of Users During 2023 Turkey Earthquake

Google says its Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system, available in nearly 100 countries, failed to adequately warn users during a major 2023 earthquake in Turkey. Despite being active, the system severely underestimated the quake's magnitude, resulting in millions of Android users not receiving crucial "Take Action" alerts before the disaster. This lapse occurred even though the AEA aims to provide early warnings in regions lacking expensive detection systems.

After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso review – the truth about population

We shouldn’t celebrate a falling population, according to this persuasive debunking of demographic myths

As a member of the 8.23 billion-strong human community, you probably have an opinion on the fact that the global population is set to hit a record high of 10 billion within the next few decades. Chances are, you’re not thrilled about it, given that anthropogenic climate change is already battering us and your morning commute is like being in a hot, jiggling sardine-tin.

Yet according to Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, academics at the University of Texas, what we really need to be worried about is depopulation. The number of children being born has been declining worldwide for a couple of hundred years. More than half of countries, including India, the most populous nation in the world, now have birthrates below replacement levels. While overall population has been rising due to declining (mainly infant) mortality, we’ll hit a peak soon before falling precipitously. This apex and the rollercoaster drop that follows it is the eponymous “spike”.

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Redmi 15C 5G Leaked Renders Suggest Colour Options and Key Specifications

The leaked design renders of the Redmi 15C 5G show the phone in green and lavender colourways. It is expected to launch in a black option as well. It will likely get a flat 6.9-inch HD+ LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, a waterdrop notch for the front camera, and a rectangular rear camera module with a 50-megapixel main sensor. The handset may ship with Android 15-based HyperOS 2.0, a 6,000mAh battery with 33W charging, and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.