Google extends AI-enabled Flood Hub to 80 countries

James Murray
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Google extends AI-enabled Flood Hub to 80 countries

App provides flood data and forecasts up to seven days in advance to regions where more than 460 million people are exposed to severe flood risk

Google has today announced the extension of its Flood Hub platform to scores of additional countries, providing early flood warnings to hundreds of millions of people living in some of the regions exposed...

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