As soon as new music from artists you follow hits Spotify, you'll receive a mobile alert.

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"The phone is ringing all the time, " said Czarnek's mother, Victoria, who signed up for the university's mobile alert system.

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Muwembe is part of a team testing a new mobile alert system aiming to improve the delivery of weather forecasts and help vulnerable fishing communities in Lake Victoria protect themselves from dangerous conditions.

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