Can Cell Phones Help Save Rain Forests? This Tribe Thinks So

In collaboration with Rainforest Connection, an environmental nonprofit, the Tembé are using old cell phones hidden in trees and TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning tool, to listen for sounds of illegal logging. Learn more about the Tembé at http://g.co/rainforest and Rainforest Connection at https://rfcx.org/.

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