A sea life centre has created a web app to help visitors identify species within its 65,000 strong marine life population.
The Lost Chambers Aquarium app uses image recognition. The app tells users information about where the animal can be found in the wild, its endangered status and planned or ongoing conservation projects.
BBC Click’s Nick Kwek finds out more.
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Mahbouba Seraj is a prominent Afghan women’s rights activist and journalist. When the Taliban came back to power in August 2021, she stayed in the country and continues to voice the concerns of Afghan women. From Kabul, she tells Yalda Hakim for BBC 100 Women about her fears for her nation, and has a personal…
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Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Netflix announces video games for subscribers at no extra cost Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos goes into space A rover uses artificial intelligence to learn how to pick up cigarette butts from the beach See more at Click’s website…
The pandemic has shown that the US needs to rebuild its public health infrastructure, Dr Minor says.
Covid vaccines are less effective against the variant of the virus identified in India, research has shown. But they would still prevent very seriously illness, University of Cambridge microbiologist Prof Ravindra Gupta said. He told BBC World News: “The virus can potentially infect people who have already been vaccinated, albeit with reduced severity – so…
Film-maker Ed Accura’s second film, Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel looks at the issues of racial stereotypes and barriers to swimming. Figures from 2020 show that 95% percent of black adults and 80% of black children in England do not swim. He tells BBC World News why he made the film and what he wants…
