Migrants in Portugal granted rights, Scottish islands pioneering hydrogen power, and AI that can read minds
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Today’s edition of Squirrel News covers stories on the Portuguese government granting temporary citizenship rights to migrants because of Coronavirus, the small Scottish island chain leading on hydrogen power and how AI can now turn brain activity into text.
Portuguese government grants temporary citizenship rights to migrants
Due to coronavirus, all migrants and asylum seekers with residency applications underway have been granted citizenship rights by the Portuguese government.
Builder aims to help UK construction industry cut down 50,000 tonnes of plastic
The construction sector is the second largest producer of plastic waste in the UK, so with University of Liverpool researchers, Maxwell has drawn up a programme to go plastic-free by 2040.
How one of Brazil’s poorest cities became the best place in the country to get a state education
Since 2015, literacy rates in Sobral have risen from 52% to 92%, and school children have topped 5000 districts, with success replicated across the country.
Smart and sustainable: the diverse ways fungi could aid the eco-crisis
Fungi can break down waste and recycle the usable nutrients back into the soil, could replace petrochemicals and also utilised as pigment for next-generation solar cells.
Sweden and the UK are using AI to help combat loneliness
Some scientists have suggested loneliness is as bad for health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, so voice technologies are being used to try tackle the problem.
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