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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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