Tech Life: Lithium battery safety campaign for air travel, AI competition, and tech-driven wildlife conservation
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This article covers three tech-related stories: a new safety campaign about lithium battery fires on planes (urging passengers to pack power banks and gadgets safely), an international competition for new AI applications in San Francisco, and a high-tech scheme to train conservation workers in protecting Africa's endangered wildlife using modern skills.
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· 3 pulledWhen we fly we love to take our gadgets with us. But the lithium batteries that power them can catch fire.
Protecting Africa's endangered wildlife is an increasingly high-tech business - a new scheme aims to give conservation workers the latest skills.
Check before check-in. What's behind a new safety campaign about power banks on aircraft?
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