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Google is using AI to issue flood warnings in India

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 8:53 am
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Google is now issuing flood warnings using AI to detect and issue flood warnings – starting in India – to help people prepare better for the situation. The company issued its first alert last month in the state of Bihar in India where it’s partnered with the country’s Central Water Commission. Google issues these warnings through what it calls Google Public Alert – a system for notifying its users in emergency situations like a flood – integrated into Google Search, Google Maps and Google Now The company says that every year 250 million people are affected by floods each year, with India accounting for 20…

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Google is using AI to issue flood warnings in India

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 8:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Insider


Google is now issuing flood warnings using AI to detect and issue flood warnings – starting in India – to help people prepare better for the situation. The company issued its first alert last month in the state of Bihar in India where it’s partnered with the country’s Central Water Commission. Google issues these warnings through what it calls Google Public Alert – a system for notifying its users in emergency situations like a flood – integrated into Google Search, Google Maps and Google Now The company says that every year 250 million people are affected by floods each year, with India accounting for 20…

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Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 8:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Insider


Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. The September-ish roundup lands on the beautiful Harvest Moon! As of this month, the US patent office issued over 17,000 patents and published over 21,000 patent applications. Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As I cannot list all these patent assets here, the PatentYogi team and I have selected the five most interesting…

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Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 8:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Insider


Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. The September-ish roundup lands on the beautiful Harvest Moon! As of this month, the US patent office issued over 17,000 patents and published over 21,000 patent applications. Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As I cannot list all these patent assets here, the PatentYogi team and I have selected the five most interesting…

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Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 8:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Insider


Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. The September-ish roundup lands on the beautiful Harvest Moon! As of this month, the US patent office issued over 17,000 patents and published over 21,000 patent applications. Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As I cannot list all these patent assets here, the PatentYogi team and I have selected the five most interesting…

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