Jonathan Geller

No, they’re not the apocalypse-level bouts of intense shaking that brings down buildings and send society into a panic, but they’re still happening, and most of them you’d never even feel. Using a new analysis tool to sift through the wealth of sensor data the team was able to isolate even smaller quakes than their systems were originally able to detect. When that system tackled the exact same decade-long data set a number came back that is truly mind-boggling: 1.8 million quakes. Faint rumbling that isn’t noticed by California residents can still be picked up by ultra-sensitive sensor arrays, and while the intensity of the majority of the nearly two million earthquakes lands near zero on the Richter scale, they’re still happening, and they’re occurring with such frequency that one or more of them probably happened while you were reading this article.

We’ve known for a while now that Google offered Android users in Europe a different experience than international customers, and that’s because the European Union really wants Google to behave a lot less like a monopoly than before. portable SSDs are way too good to be this affordable Google explained in a new blog post on the matter that Android users in Europe will get search app and browser options, and showed the world what those prompts will look like. The new screens will be shown the first time a user opens Google Play after receiving an update. These screens will show up on both existing and new Android phones in Europe in the coming weeks, Google explained, and their implementation will “evolve” over time.

It’s a good answer and, even if shark attacks are relatively rare, it’s hard not to see a shark The research, which was conducted with the help of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and published in the journal Scientific Reports, closely studied the habits of white sharks, orcas and seals over a span of 27 years. In fact, the white sharks tracked by the scientists not only abandoned areas where orcas were present, but refused to return for huge lengths of time, presumably to avoid any possibility of confrontation with the species they fear. When confronted by orcas, white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year, even though the orcas are only passing through,” Dr. Salvador Jorgensen of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, lead author of the study, said in a statement.

We’ve also covered myriad plans and patents from other tech companies that likewise want to rush into the flexible game, and now along comes Sony with a patent for a flexible display that can be attached to a bag — like a handbag, or backpack. The Sony patent, published towards the end of March, was spotted by Dutch tech news blog LetsGoDigital, which reports that it depicts a bag with a flexible display module. Additionally, the screen connects to the bag through multiple removable contact points, so you can use the bag for, you know, things that don’t involve screens. Whether or not Sony ever does anything with this patent, meanwhile, it does serve as one more reminder that we’re going to start seeing flexible screens pretty much everywhere now, even if manufacturers don’t totally know what to do with them yet.