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.