23 Brazilian states are under a storm warning; find out more at Curto Flash

Inmet issues storm alert for 23 states 🌧️

The National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) predicts storms in much of Brazil until next Monday (5). Of the country's 27 states, 23 are under intense rain warning. (g1)

There are two types of alerts:

• Red alert (rain, risk of major flooding, river overflows and landslides) – five states;
• Orange alert (electricity cuts, falling tree branches, flooding and electrical discharges) – eighteen states.

MEC deadlines in 2023 📝

The Ministry of Education (MEC) made public the calendars for registrations in the first selection processes of 2023 for the Unified Selection System (Sisu), the University for All Program (Prouni) and the Student Financing Fund (Fies). The ministry also informed that the three notices, which will detail the complete schedule and rules for each one, will be published in January. (Brazil Agency)

It went viral 📷

Have you ever thought about going viral on social media by publishing photos of little houses in your neighborhood? This is how architect André Gomes, who lives in the Mooca neighborhood, gained more followers on the networks.

Ah, but now André isn't just in the East Zone, you know? All regions of the city of São Paulo are already registered on your Instagram.

Trump will be tried for defamation in April 👨⚖️

Former United States President Donald Trump will sit in the dock in a New York courtroom next April. Trump will face an accusation of defamation made by a journalist who claims to have been raped in the 1990s by the tycoon, according to the investigating judge's decision released this Tuesday (29). (Curto news)

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies 🇨🇳

Chinese state media reported that former Chinese president Jiang Zemin died this Wednesday (30). (g1)

Zenin was 96 years old and died of leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai, where he was born. Death occurred at 1:13 am Brasília time and 12:13 pm local time. The information comes from the official Xinhua news agency.

Lecanemab drug, for Alzheimer's, is announced as a breakthrough ????

The first drug to treat Alzheimer's was announced and considered important. The breakthrough in research, after decades of failure, shows that a new era of drugs to treat the disease is possible. (BBC)

The drug lecanemab works in the early stages of the disease, but the side effects and impact on people's routine are being analyzed.

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How do I join the metaverse?

Since last year, when Mark Zuckerberg announced billion-dollar investments in the metaverse, all eyes on technology have turned to a possible new era of the internet. Since then, in addition to the owner of Meta – controller of Facebook and Instagram – other strong names in the sector have dived headlong into the Web 3.0 bet. But not everyone has yet understood the dimension of this new proposed universe, so if you parachuted here and still wonder what the metaverse is, understand in a practical and quick way how to access the infinite worlds that the internet proposes.

Metaverse could be Oxford University's word of the year

When it was first mentioned, back in the 90s, in a book called Snow Crash, the term metaverse appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary. Now, 30 years later, “metaverse” could be chosen as the word of the year by the traditional English university, through popular voting.