public safety technology

On June 24, 2026, Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts system warned 11.4 million users in Venezuela before two major earthquakes, using accelerometers in nearby Android phones to detect early P-waves and push alerts seconds to roughly two minutes before stronger shaking arrived in affected areas...

The West Midlands Police decision to advise Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending a Europa League fixture at Villa Park has landed as a defining embarrassment for modern policing: a public-safety judgement built on weak, poorly documented...