AI coral production lines, mapped out chimpanzee origins, reinstated indigenous names

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Today in Squirrel News, AI provides a way to strongly accelerate coral farming, genetic maps could help rescue chimpanzees, and Ngarinyin people reinstate their traditional, indigenous place names.

Marine researchers look to AI assisted coral growing

Coral Maker, founded by Taryn Foster, could manufacture up to 1 million coral skeletons by incorporating AI into its production line.

Source: Planetary Press

Retracing the roots of rescued chimps

A global team of researchers are working on a genetic map, with hopes to both determine the origins of rescued chimps and identify high risk areas associated with trafficking.

Source: Mongabay

Homeless people in Britain to receive free phones in connectivity drive

Crisis is handing out thousands of devices and data packages to highlight importance of technology after Covid-19.

Source: The Guardian

Climate app: saving the planet with peer pressure

The app suggests simple actions to reduce individual emissions based on a pre-calculated carbon footprint. It also sets objectives that can be shared to a wider network.

Source: Euro News

The Morrisons supermarket chain is ditching plastic bags

The British chain is gearing up to permanently substitute their plastic carrier bags for paper alternatives.

Source: Euro News

Loo with a view: transparent public toilets installed in Tokyo parks

Amenities designed so prospective users can inspect their cleanliness from the outside.

Source: The Guardian

Native narratives: the indigenous writers transforming sci-fi

A look at the Native American and First Nation authors that are revolutionising the heavily Eurocentric genre that is fiction.

Source: New York Times

Backtracking sonic footprints left by the Vikings and Celts

A pioneering project is bringing together musicians, historians and literary scholars to apply vocal processing and live electronic music technology while gathering insights into the languages and reanimating surviving texts.

Source: BBC

50 years later: elephant shrew rediscovered in Djibouti

Related to elephants, manatees and aardvarks, the mammal has been rediscovered in Djibouti after 50 years of ‘extinction’.

Source: BBC

They never went away’: reclaiming Indigenous names from a colonial past – a photo essay

The reinstatement of traditional place names in the northern Kimberley signals a new wave of empowerment for Ngarinyin people.

Source: The Guardian

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