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Tailscale: What it is and How it works - Peq42
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Tailscale is a modern VPN service that simplifies the process of securely connecting devices over the internet. Built on WireGuard, a highly efficient and secure VPN protocol, Tailscale provides an easy-to-use platform for creating private, encrypted connections between devices, no matter where...
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Elon Musk's AI, Grok, says he Lies - Peq42
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In a surprising turn of events, Grok—an AI model developed by Elon Musk—has openly criticized its own creator, accusing him of spreading misinformation on X, the social media platform Musk acquired two years ago, previously known as Twitter. The remark surfaced after a user asked Grok about the...
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AMD TURBO Game Mode coming for x3D CPUs? - Peq42
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ASUS recently rolled out a new (BETA) BIOS update for select AMD AM5 motherboards, introducing a feature called Turbo Game Mode. This mode is specifically designed to improve gaming performance by focusing on single-threaded tasks. By disabling one of the CPU's chiplets (CCDs) and turning off...
on Nov 7
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GIMP 3.0 is almost here! RC1 is out - Peq42
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Fans of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) have been eagerly awaiting the release of version 3.0, and just yesterday, GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) was made available. GIMP’s official site, gimp.org, has yet to publish a news post covering the release, leaving users to discover it...
on Nov 6
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DDoS attacks are becoming more Common and Dangerous - Peq42
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The frequency and power of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have skyrocketed in recent years, reflecting significant challenges for cybersecurity across industries. These cyberattacks, which flood targets with massive amounts of traffic to disrupt their services, are not only growing...
on Nov 4
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We are getting close to Curing HIV - Peq42
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The fight against HIV is approaching a breakthrough, as new vaccines and treatments bring the world closer to a cure. Decades of research into the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have led to the development of groundbreaking therapies that could soon prevent new infections and potentially...
on Oct 18
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BEV, PHEV, HEV, HEV FLEX, and MHEV: What are they? - Peq42
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The automotive industry is undergoing a revolution with the increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid technologies. As more people transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of transportation, it’s essential to understand the various types of electric cars and hybrid models...
on Oct 10
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Cloudflare's Lava Wall Security - Peq42
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In the world of cryptography, the quest for true randomness is as critical as it is elusive. Encryption algorithms rely on random keys to scramble data in such a way that it becomes unreadable without the correct decryption key. The challenge lies in the fact that computers, by design, are...
on Oct 5
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The "Brazilian Tesla", Lecar Unveils New Flex-Hybrid EV Sedan - Peq42
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Lecar, a Brazilian startup often referred to as the “Brazilian Tesla” for its initial focus on electric vehicles, has recently shifted gears by announcing a hybrid flex sedan, the Lecar 459 Hybrid. The company is charging R$ 1,300($240) to reserve the car, with the final price set at R$...
on Sep 27
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My First time at Eurofurence and Germany - Peq42
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This past week, as I said in the forums, there weren’t any articles posted or any major activity on the website because I was abroad(More specifically, at Eurofurence 28 in Hamburg, Germany). Now that I am back however, it’s time to talk about my experience! It was the first time...
on Sep 27
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SpaceX: first Private Space Walk mission in History - Peq42
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On Sunday (15th) at 4:36 AM Brasília time, the crew of the Polaris Dawn mission successfully returned to Earth, marking a historic achievement with the completion of the first-ever private spacewalk. This milestone was part of a mission backed by SpaceX, which also included various scientific...
on Sep 16
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AI Increases Workload and Reduces Productivity, Research Shows - Peq42
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A recent study by the Upwork Institute has revealed that the adoption of AI tools in businesses has not led to the anticipated productivity gains(Polar opposite to lowering work time). Instead, 77% of surveyed workers reported that using these technologies has reduced their productivity and...
on Sep 4
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Twitter (X) Officially blocked in Brazil - Peq42
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Brasília, August 30, 2024 – Alexandre de Moraes, from Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF), ordered the immediate suspension of the social media platform X (Twitter) in Brazil. This decision comes after X, formerly Twitter, failed to comply with a judicial order to appoint a legal representative...
on Aug 31
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OpenAI Set to Unveil "Strawberry" for Enhanced Chatbot Capabilities - Peq42
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August 27, 2024 – OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to launch a groundbreaking AI model named “Strawberry,” which promises to significantly enhance its chatbots’ mathematical and programming capabilities. According to The Information, this advanced model could be unveiled in the coming months,...
on Aug 29
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France was target of over 140 cyberattacks during Olympics - Peq42
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The security warnings regarding the cyber safety of the Paris Olympic Games have proven prescient. French authorities have confirmed that the nation faced more than 140 cyberattacks throughout the duration of the Olympic competitions, spanning from July 26th to August 11th this year. Despite the...
on Aug 16
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Zig: A Basic Introduction - Peq42
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Zig is a modern programming language designed to be robust, efficient, and easy to understand. It focuses on providing predictable performance and is often used for system programming, similar to C or Rust. It emphasizes safety, simplicity, and the absence of hidden control flow, making it a...
on Aug 10
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G20 Agrees to Tax the Rich - Peq42
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Finance ministers from the G20 nations have agreed to work cooperatively toward effectively taxing the ultra rich, according to a statement adopted Friday(26th of July) following a two-day meeting in Rio de Janeiro. This decision marks a significant step in addressing the global issue of wealth...
on Aug 9
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Drones are spreading Mosquitoes world wide, and that is Good! - Peq42
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In a move that combines cutting-edge technology with biological ingenuity, Australian researchers from the World Mosquito Program (WMP) have begun employing drones to introduce a unique cargo into Fiji’s skies—mosquitoes infused with a disease-fighting bacterium. Despite the unconventional...
on Aug 4
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Brazilian government to spend 23 Billion in Infrastructure and A.I. - Peq42
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Brasília, 30/07/2024 – Today, the Lula administration unveiled Brazil’s ambitious artificial intelligence (AI) plan, pledging a total investment of R$ 23 billion by 2028. According to documents obtained by UOL, one of the plan’s main objectives is to build a powerful supercomputer capable of...
on Jul 31
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Power over Optic Fiber may make Flights Cheaper - Peq42
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Brazil has been utilizing optical fiber to enhance telecommunications for nearly half a century, primarily for high-speed data transmission via light. But now, Brazilian researchers are exploring a new function for optical fibers: transmitting electrical power. This innovative project, led by...
on Jul 28
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GAA: Gate All Around - What is it? - Peq42
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As the semiconductor industry continues to push the boundaries of Moore’s Law, new technologies are emerging to overcome the physical and electrical limitations of traditional FinFET architectures. One such groundbreaking development is the Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor architecture, which...
on Jul 25
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Cyber Blackout of 2024 - CrowdStrike - Peq42
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Because we can no longer live one day without a historical event, a cyber blackout was detected in the early hours of this Friday morning worldwide and has sparked global turmoil, impacting critical sectors such as aviation, banking, and communications. The outage has led to the cancellation of...
on Jul 20
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Gay Furries hack Heritage Foundation - Project 2025 - Peq42
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Earlier this month, a group of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers” claimed to have breached the Heritage Foundation, releasing two gigabytes of internal data from the right-wing think tank on Tuesday. The hacktivist collective SiegedSec, known for previously hacking NATO’s computer systems,...
on Jul 12
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Radioactive material Stolen in São Paulo, later found - Peq42
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A vehicle belonging to a company transporting packages of radioactive material was stolen on the 30th of June in São Paulo, Brazil, prompting an alert from the National Commission for Nuclear Energy (CNEN). The Civil Police are investigating the incident, which was initially reported as a...
on Jul 9
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New experimental tool to protect against A.I. content stealing enabled - Peq42
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Two days ago I came across cloud cloudflare's new tool for blocking A.I. related crawlers that steal web content to train bots. It apparently is designed to block ones like chatGPT's, Google's geminy and bytedance's(tiktok creators) whatever. I immediately enabled it. The reason for this is that...
on Jul 6
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New Protocol allows to expand GPU VRAM - Peq42
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In an interesting development, Panmnesia has introduced a new protocol that enables GPUs to expand their memory using SSDs or system RAM. This innovation, built on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, offers a significant performance boost for AI and high-performance computing (HPC)...
on Jul 6
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Deadlier than Covid and Still around - White Death - Peq42
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a devastating disease that has plagued humanity for millions of years. Caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, TB spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It kills over 1 million people every year, specially in underdeveloped and overly...
on Jun 26
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RAM CAMM2 - What is it? - Peq42
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Memory technology has seen remarkable advancements over the years, evolving from simple, slow storage devices to highly sophisticated and fast memory modules that power our modern computing devices. One of the latest breakthroughs in this field is the CAMM2 (Compression Attached Memory Module...
on Jun 26
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The Internet Archive is in Danger - Peq42
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Big companies are at it again. A landmark legal decision in the case of Hachette v. Internet Archive in the U.S. has resulted in the removal of over 500,000 books from lending services, with more than 1,300 of these titles being banned or challenged. This unprecedented move follows the lawsuit...
on Jun 25
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Alternatives to Adobe Products - Peq42
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In a world increasingly reliant on digital creativity and productivity tools, Adobe has become a dominant force, offering a wide range of products from graphic design to video editing and document management. However, due to concerns about subscription costs, user privacy, and the high...
on Jun 23
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Alternatives to Google Products - Peq42
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In a world increasingly dependent on technology, Google has established itself as a colossal presence in the digital landscape, offering a vast array of products that range from search engines to cloud services. However, as concerns about privacy, data security, and annoying A.I. related things...
on Jun 5
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Brazil is working on 6G - Peq42
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In the quiet town of Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, with a population of under 41,000, a revolutionary technological proposal is taking shape: The development of a technology that’s project to contribute nearly R$ 17 trillion to global economic growth by 2030. While 5G technology is still in its...
on May 28
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New incredible Open Source Ray Tracing technology by Nvidia - Peq42
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A revolutionary technique developed by researchers from the University of Utah and Nvidia has significantly improved the quality and efficiency of real-time ray tracing. This advancement could transform the way graphics are rendered in video games and other real-time applications, offering a...
on May 27
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Windows Alternatives in 2024 - Peq42
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Microsoft has been slowly but surely making Windows worse. A couple years after announcing that Windows 10 would be the last, the company not only released Windows 11, but did so in a raw, unpolished manner, taking a whole year to fix the severe bugs related to AMD CPUs. They...
on May 26
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Twitter is dead, and so is it's privacy - Peq42
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In a move that signifies yet another bullet on a swiss cheese foot, Twitter has officially changed its domain from Twitter.com to X.com. This takes effect as of today(17/5), and all users attempting to access Twitter.com will now be redirected to X.com, which will be the new home of the...
on May 17
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Science creates Vaccine for Skin Cancer - Peq42
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Melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, claims 75% of lives in this category, as per Instituto Vencer o Câncer. Annually, it affects around 9,000 Brazilians and over 130,000 individuals worldwide. This lethal characteristic stems from melanoma’s high metastatic capacity, increasing the...
on Apr 30
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10 Companies are responsible for HALF the global CO2 emission - Peq42
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Before I even start talking about how absurd this is and how it might literally kill the entirety of life on earth, here are the 10 companies responsible for about 50% of ALL the CO2 emitted by humanity between the years of 2016 and 2022: The study conducted by InfluenceMap,...
on Apr 13
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Wordpress to finally start dropping old versions of PHP - Peq42
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After a couple months trying to convince people involved in the development of WordPress core to drop versions of PHP which, frankly, are not just old but haven’t seen updates in years, and thus are extremely unsafe, my and others’ efforts seem to have paid off! I just received an...
on Apr 9
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Brazilian researchers develop their own chatGPT - Peq42
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In a significant stride for Brazilian AI technology, a national startup has unveiled MariTalk: an artificial intelligence chatbot entirely in Portuguese, rivaling its international counterparts. This breakthrough comes amidst the dominance of giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft, in...
on Apr 5
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Brazil Ranked 1st in Resiliency to Global Internet Failures in 2023 - Peq42
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According to the 2023 Internet Segment Reliability Report, Brazil has remained as the most resilient country to global internet failures. This distinction places Brazil as the only South American nation among the top 10 globally, surpassing its regional counterpart Argentina, which holds the...
on Apr 1
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Facebook exposed for stealing more data than imagined - Peq42
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In a recent development, unsealed court documents have shed light on Facebook’s clandestine project back in 2016. The social media giant, whose parent company’s name changed to Meta to reduce social backlash, embarked on a secret mission codenamed ‘Ghostbusters’ aimed at acquiring, decrypting,...
on Mar 30
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How is Crispr being applied in 2024 - Peq42
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Since my highschool years 10 years ago, I’ve had interest in the area of microbiology(which I sadly couldn’t pursue due to my hemophobia). Back then, a certain technology called “CRISPR” was circulating, which promised to change everything. The other day, I found a video talking about, and...
on Mar 28
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Remote Code Execution Apex Legends security issue - Peq42
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If you have been looking at the news recently, or watching certain twitch streamers, you’ve heard about a massive security concern regarding Apex Legends. Two streamers, Genburten and ImperialHal, were playing the global series live when suddenly a text message stating “Apex hacking global...
on Mar 18
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Half of Africa had no internet this Thursday - Peq42
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On March 14, 2024, internet connectivity across several African countries faced significant disruptions, affecting millions of users and sparking concerns about the reliability of local internet infrastructure. The disruptions, which primarily impacted west and central African countries along...
on Mar 16
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Gleam: A Basic Introduction - Peq42
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Gleam is a statically-typed functional programming language, which recently had its v1 released, designed for building scalable and maintainable software. It is inspired by languages like Elm and Rust and compiles down to Erlang, making it well-suited for building concurrent and distributed...
on Mar 12
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How I prevented Bots from causing problems on my Website - Peq42
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Bots are a massive issue nowadays. They infect basically all social websites(even your dumpster fire that you call “”””X””” Elon Musk. By the way its Twitter), flooding people’s DMs with spam, posting cringe and lies to attract any attention, filling up comments of people asking for help and...
on Mar 6
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Monopoly(Google) Accuses Monopoly(Microsoft) of being Monopoly - Peq42
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In a recent turn of events, the ongoing conflict between Google and Microsoft has taken a new twist. The search giant alleges that its competitor’s monopoly in cloud computing is hindering technological development, particularly in emerging fields such as generative artificial intelligence. This...
on Mar 2
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First Private Lander landed on the Moon today! - Peq42
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On Thursday, at 6:23 pm ET, the United States achieved a remarkable milestone by landing on the Moon once again, over 50 years since the last mission. This feat was accomplished through the Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission, showcasing the robotic probe Nova-C, also known as Odysseus. The Landing...
on Mar 1
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Chinese Hacking tools and informations leaked - Peq42
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In a startling revelation, a trove of documents has surfaced on GitHub, allegedly exposing the covert cyber operations of a Chinese information security (infosec) company, I-Soon. These leaked documents detail the development and utilization of sophisticated spyware targeting social media...
on Feb 29
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Young inventor creates solution for Microplastics - Peq42
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In a world grappling with environmental challenges, Irish inventor Fionn Ferreira has emerged as a beacon of hope, addressing the pervasive issue of microplastics polluting our oceans. Ferreira’s innovative solution, developed using a compound known as ferrofluid, has proven remarkably effective...
on Feb 23