Brazil, a nation endowed with abundant energy resources, is getting close to completing its third nuclear reactor, Angra 3, whose construction is 65% done. This ambitious project, previously shelved due to corruption allegations, is gaining momentum as the government awaits confirmation from the BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social… Read More... "Brazil is finishing another Nuclear Plant"
In a historic decision, the Vatican announced on Monday (18) that it will now allow priests to give blessings to same-sex couples. This decision, contrary to the Catholic Church’s doctrine condemning homosexual unions, is outlined in a document authorized by Pope Francis and released on Monday. According to the directive,… Read More... "Vatican authorizes blessings for same-sex couples"
The Wi-Fi Alliance has recently announced the imminent finalization of the Wi-Fi 7 specification by the end of the first quarter of 2024, marking a significant leap forward in the world of wireless connectivity. The new standard, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7, based on IEEE 802.11be technology, promises to bring advanced Wi-Fi… Read More... "Wi-Fi 7 to come out in 2024, 4.8x faster than Wi-Fi 6"
Three years after initiating legal action against Apple and Google, the creators of Fortnite and, more importantly, the Epic Store, Epic Games secured a significant victory in the legal battle against Google. The lawsuit, known as Epic v. Google, alleged that both tech giants were running illegal monopolies within their… Read More... "Epic wins v. Google"
In March of this year, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, then a crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS), harvested one of the most significant tomatoes in history: the first one grown in space. The experiment, which arrived at the ISS in October 2022 as part of SpaceX’s CRS-26 mission,… Read More... "Astronaut finds Tomato lost in Space"
Rust is a powerful, low level programming language initially made by Mozilla, which I’ve covered the backs for in a previous tutorial. It’s memory safety and performance are great, but running things off of one single thread can be too slow at times, no matter the language. In this tutorial,… Read More... "Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Rust"
In the not-so-distant past, computers had only one brain, called a CPU, which did all the thinking and processing tasks. However, as technology advanced, making a single brain work faster became challenging. So, clever folks decided to add more brains to a computer, creating what we call multicore processors. Imagine… Read More... "Parallel Programming in C/C++ with OpenMP"
The Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Eletrônica Avançada (Ceitec), Brazil’s federal state-owned microchip manufacturer, has resumed operations after undergoing a process of extinction, which was reversed by a presidential decree. The restart of activities was marked by a ceremony in Porto Alegre, attended by the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation,… Read More... "Brazil may start producing 14nm chips in the future"
Fortran (short for Formula Translation) is a high-level programming language commonly used for scientific and engineering applications. It has been around for a long time and is especially well-suited for numerical and scientific computing. In this tutorial, we’ll cover some basic concepts to get you started with Fortran programming. 1.… Read More... "Fortran: A Basic Introduction"
Assembly language is a low-level programming language that is specific to a computer architecture. It’s a human-readable representation of machine code, which is the binary code that a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) understands. Understanding assembly language helps you gain insights into how computers work at a fundamental level. It’s… Read More... "Assembly: A Basic Introduction"