In today’s edition of Squirrel News, AR glasses for the deaf transform speech into subtitles, Chile bans single-use products in the food and beverage industry, and a school in Nigeria is educating Boko Haram’s children to allow them to escape their radicalist environments.
New AR glasses for the deaf transform speech into subtitles
Connecting a software with glasses, it transforms the spoken world into readable conversations for deaf people – just like watching a T.V. show. Inspired by his grandfather, Dan Scarfe shares more details.
In world first, Chile to ban single-use food and beverage products over three years
In May 2021, Chile announced a legislative ban on single-use products in the food and beverage industry. Similar bans in other countries and cities also address the crux of the plastic pollution problem, but Chile’s ban extends to other materials too.
100,000 happy pictures: a new tool in the cyber ‘arms race’ against child sexual abusers
The volume of child sexual assault material online is on the rise. An Australian project is crowdsourcing images of safe children so it can find those in danger
Supermarket stops ‘best before’ date labels to help fight food waste
The well-known supermarket chain ‘Waitrose’ in the UK is the latest to drop the use of ‘best before’ labels on its food items in a strategy to tackle food waste by putting more responsibility on its customers.
Many cities send trained community members and social service workers to respond to street crime, instead of police. Now some cities are doing the same for public transit.
New documentary shows how U.S. streets are ‘deadly by design’ and how that can change
A shocking revelation by PBS in ‘The Street Project’ demonstrates just how deadly the roads are in America, and finds inspiration in other countries on how to make their streets safer.
This school is educating Boko Haram’s children to allow them to escape their radicalist environments
Amidst a war and tragedy that sees extremist group Boko Haram pitted against the Nigerian government, this school preaches a message of universal love and education for a better world.
There’s no denying that a lot of heartbreak, pain, and injustice was packed into the last year. It’s also true that there were so many moments of hope and stories of helpers to inspire and remind us that progress is possible – and it’s happening all the time.
