Category: In Focus
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Tickets for Rio samba school parades on sale
The league of samba schools in Rio, LIESA, on Monday, December 5, began selling tickets for the parades of the highest-ranked samba schools in February 2023.
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2022 World Cup: Brazil Champion of Digital Sustainability
Who will win the 2022 World Cup? For now, we don’t know, but from the perspective of web sustainability, the World Cup of digital sustainability goes to Brazil. Every web page pollutes, causing CO2 emissions; to draw attention to the issue of “digital pollution,” KarmaMetrix.com calculated the CO2 emissions caused by the homepages of the…
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Alex Pereira Claims UFC Middleweight Title
Make way for the new champ! Alex Pereira defeated Israel Adesanya and claimed the UFC Middleweight Champion title at UFC 281. The 35-year-old Brazilian from São Bernardo do Campo stopped the reigning champion by TKO in the fifth round and earned the UFC Performance of the Night bonus of $50,000. Adesanya vs. Pereira was contested…
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End of the Cup
The victory in the last Copa América, in Brazil, ending a 28-year drought without official titles, returned to Argentina the joy of celebration. The South American champions wanted more. They wanted the world. And it came, after 36 years of waiting and two painful runner-up finishes (1990 and 2014). This Sunday, December 18, the albiceleste…
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The Countdown Begins: The Next World Cup Is Here!
The final of the Qatar World Cup, contested between Argentina and France, left any fan of good football overjoyed. No matter who you were cheering for, how could you not be satisfied with such an exciting match? But the thrilling game this Sunday (18) left a taste for more. It’s no wonder that the World…
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PJ Caldas, Novelist, Launches the World’s First Book Trailer Entirely Made by Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI, the technology behind popular programs like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2, which allows anyone to turn words into inspiring images, has been gaining a lot of mainstream attention recently. And few groups seem more excited about it than writers. Using written language to build images is what they do. But often, to…
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Romero Britto Launches a SpongeBob SquarePants Collection
Romero Britto, internationally renowned artist and founder of the Happy Art Movement, in partnership with Paramount Consumer Products, announces the launch of four new limited edition artworks of SpongeBob SquarePants on canvas. Each edition of these artworks is a new expedition for the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise in the fine art market. SpongeBob and the Bikini…
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Screen-Free Year-End Gift Ideas for Families
Year-end shopping for families with kids? Check out these five totally screen-free gift ideas that are sure to brighten the season by giving families the much-needed quality time together. 1. Enhanced outdoor games: Upgrade outdoor play with the KidiGo NexTag from VTech, designed for ages 5 and up. Much more than just tag, it’s a…
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Singer Margareth Menezes to Lead the Ministry of Culture in Brazil
Singer Margareth Menezes confirmed that she accepted the invitation to be the Minister of Culture, a department that will be recreated in 2023.
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São Luís Celebrates 25 Years as a World Heritage Site
The city of São Luís, capital of the state of Maranhão in Northeast Brazil, celebrated on December 6th 25 years since its recognition as a Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan), the title — granted in Naples, Italy,…