Neowin News Feed for: Floods

Google expands its AI-powered Flood Hub to 80 countries

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:36:01 +0000

Google has expanded its Flood Hub project to cover 80 countries. The tool also provides 7-day forecasts now instead of 48-hour forecasts. This can give communities more time to prepare for floods. Read more...

SpaceX's Starlink is helping people connect in flood-hit Germany

Sayan Sen — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:58:01 +0000

The Rhineland-Palatinate state authority in Germany has announced today that it has set up 12 Starlink satellite dishes that will help the flood-affected people. More dishes will be deployed later. Read more...

Google Maps set to receive updates to help mitigate the effects of crises

Paul Hill — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:24:02 +0000

Google has announced a series of updates that it'll be making to its Google Maps application in order to help people prepare and respond to the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes. Read more...

Apple is offering free repairs for devices damaged by floods in Japan

Vishal Laul — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:16:01 +0000

Apple is offering free repairs to consumers affected by the devastating floods in Japan. Eligible devices include Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, as well as Apple Watches. The offer ends late September. Read more...

Analyst: Hard drive prices won't be back to normal until 2014

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:26:38 +0000

An analyst claims that prices for PC hard drives, which skyrocketed in 2011 thanks to floods in Thailand that affected hard drive factories, won't return to their pre-flood price levels until 2014. Read more...

Thailand floods cause hard drive prices to soar

John Callaham — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:38:46 +0000

The continuing floods in Thailand are officially affecting PC hard drive supplies and have sent prices for those products soaring as much as 40 percent higher in the past week. Read more...

File swapping news floods in

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:52:43 +0000

Firstly, an interesting story at CNN about the return of Napster, except in a legalised form - heres a snip : "Once the scourge of the music industry, Napster had at its peak... Read more...