IMAGINE A COUNTRY where a polarising president lost his bid for re-election and refused to accept the result. He declared the ballot rigged and used social media to urge his supporters to rise up. They did so in their thousands, … Read more
Brazil’s data protection authority ruled that tech firm Tools for Humanity, cofounded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country, it said in a statement on Friday. The ban is a preventive measure, … Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Meta’s updated privacy policy enables the … Read more
Variety could make Brazil one of the world´s largest wheat exporters. Production already started in the Midwest with good results. Tropical wheat yield is 3 times higher than that of common wheat. After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientists and … Read more
SAO PAULO (AP) — A federal judge in Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of messaging app Telegram, citing the social media platform’s alleged failure to provide all information Federal Police requested on neo-Nazi chat groups. The move is … Read more
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice ordered in September the suspension of iPhone sales in the country after concluding that Apple harms consumers by not offering the power adapter included with the device. Even after million-dollar fines, Apple still fails to … Read more
The Fiat 147 production line, 5 July 1979. Image: Fiat/Stellantis. Moving away from petrol-powered vehicles is possible, as Brazil has proven. The country’s history of sugar-ethanol production provides both an inspiring vision of what a rapid shift away from petroleum might … Read more
Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded prison system a novel way to shorten their sentences – cutting four days for every book they read. Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil’s most notorious criminals will be able to read … Read more
We have two pieces of news about the Gamaleya Institute’s “Sputnik-V” vaccine today. Neither of them are going to be enjoyable to go into. First off, many may have heard that the Brazilian regulatory authorities had a hearing yesterday to … Read more