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Xiaomi launches a 12 kg washing machine for around R$ 808 in direct conversion with a top-loading “Brazilian style,” silent motor, 99.99% bacteria removal, and integration with HyperOS; the Chinese giant enters a market dominated by traditional brands.
Valdemar Medeiros 22/05/2026 at 14:19Interesting facts
Interesting facts
End of noise in apartments: rule against noise in apartments forces construction companies to demolish entire floors if residents hear footsteps or flushing; acoustic mats reduce up to 30 decibels and Swiss standard uses ‘hammer machines’ in mandatory tests
Alisson Ficher 22/05/2026 at 14:59
Interesting facts
Without wheels, iron, or machines, teams of up to 32 men would have dragged 2.3-ton blocks over wet sand up a ramp embedded in the pyramid itself, raising the structure in 20 to 27 years, according to a new computer model that reignites a millennia-old debate.
Bruno Teles 22/05/2026 at 12:59Agribusiness
Agribusiness
NASA satellites captured the impossible in the Thar Desert, India, with scorching sand turning into a green patch of crops, but the same miracle that feeds millions already covers 50,000 hectares of salt and threatens to sink the land that just flourished.
Bruno Teles 21/05/2026 at 23:33
Agribusiness
China has fully entered the coffee game, and Brazil is preparing to meet a demand that only continues to grow. The country has more than doubled production in recent decades using the same cultivation area and still has room to expand without deforestation.
Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 21/05/2026 at 22:09Construction
Construction
22/05/2026 at 13:58
A mega-railway of over 5,000 kilometers financed and studied by China could cut across Brazil from end to end, cross the Amazon and the Andes, and connect Bahia to a Chinese port on the Peruvian Pacific, shortening the journey of Brazilian soybeans to Asia by 12 days.
Bruno Teles
Construction
Gas concessionaires, sanitation companies, and other services will no longer be able to tear up the concrete highways of Santa Catarina to lay pipes, and those who cause damage will have to rebuild the road with the same original material and thickness, with no expiration date.
Bruno Teles 22/05/2026 at 12:32
Construction
Just over 20 meters of concrete are missing for Brazil and Paraguay to be physically connected for the first time over the Paraguay River on a nearly 1.3 km bridge that will open an unprecedented road shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific and shorten the journey of goods to Asia.
Bruno Teles 22/05/2026 at 12:21
Construction
Hong Kong built 1,800 housing units in just 12 months using prefabricated modules in China, while the same type of traditional public housing would take an average of 4.1 years. The United Court project was the first fully completed transitional housing in the city.
Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 22/05/2026 at 00:51Most recent
Interesting facts
End of noise in apartments: rule against noise in apartments forces construction companies to demolish entire floors if residents hear footsteps or flushing; acoustic mats reduce up to 30 decibels and Swiss standard uses ‘hammer machines’ in mandatory tests
Alisson Ficher 22/05/2026 at 14:59
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