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VISTA Focuses on Inner Regions of Magellanic Clouds

This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: ESO / Cioni et al.

Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have observed the densest, most crowded regions at the centers of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, our Milky Way Galaxy’s closest dwarf companions, offering an unprecedented look at areas that have long resisted detailed study.

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“Os americanos cruzaram o Rubicão”: Fundador do Office EU quer destronar a Microsoft e Google na Europa

Maarten Roelfs, fundador da Office EU, diz que a Europa não pode continuar dependente das "big tech" americanas e está a construir uma alternativa europeia ao Microsoft 365, que conta já com mais de um milhão de utilizadores em lista de espera.

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Entrevista: “Nos próximos anos, a televisão vai sentir-te e tornar-se uma amiga”

Em entrevista ao TEK à margem da IFA 2026, Sonny Ming, responsável máximo do negócio de TVs da Hisense explica porque é que a marca aposta tudo no RGB MiniLED, como lê o consumidor europeu e o que espera da televisão daqui a cinco anos.

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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

In the mid-'90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and Ask Jeeves promised to tame the chaos, each with its own suite of quirks, charms, and flaws.

The real story of pre-Google search is not that early engines were inferior. It's that they reflected a different Internet entirely, one where directories mattered, crawling was still an art, ranking was fragile, and the idea of “search” had not yet hardened into a single dominant interface.

A different kind of web

The first thing to remember about the pre-Google Internet is that there was no built-in assumption that you could search for everything. Many users found pages through Yahoo-style directories, bookmarks, newsgroups, email signatures, and links from site to site because the web was still small enough that human organization could compete with machine indexing. It was an era of Wild West-style discoverability. Search engines existed, but they were only one part of a larger ecosystem that blended curation and accident.

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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

In the mid-'90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and Ask Jeeves promised to tame the chaos, each with its own suite of quirks, charms, and flaws.

The real story of pre-Google search is not that early engines were inferior. It's that they reflected a different Internet entirely, one where directories mattered, crawling was still an art, ranking was fragile, and the idea of “search” had not yet hardened into a single dominant interface.

A different kind of web

The first thing to remember about the pre-Google Internet is that there was no built-in assumption that you could search for everything. Many users found pages through Yahoo-style directories, bookmarks, newsgroups, email signatures, and links from site to site because the web was still small enough that human organization could compete with machine indexing. It was an era of Wild West-style discoverability. Search engines existed, but they were only one part of a larger ecosystem that blended curation and accident.

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© Aurich Lawson

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“Vamos conseguir capturar consumidores que nunca consideraram um dobrável com o novo Fold8”

As expectativas para a nova geração de dobráveis da família Galaxy Z são elevadas e Bernardo Cunha, responsável pela estratégia e marketing de produto da Samsung Portugal diz que quem entra no universo dobrável raramente volta atrás e acredita que o novo formato do Z Fold8 vai ter grande adesão em Portugal.

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Quanto ganha um developer em Portugal? A Teamlyzer está a medir valores com base em respostas de profissionais

Esta semana a Teamlyzer abriu uma folha para reunir dados sobre os salários tech em Portugal e há uma espécie de movimento pela transparência salarial a formar-se. A plataforma já partilhou os primeiros resultados

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Do lixo eletrónico à “mina urbana”: A economia circular pode salvar a soberania tecnológica da Europa?

Em entrevista ao TEK, Peter Windischhofer, cofundador da Refurbed, antecipa um cenário de maior pressão nos preços dos novos equipamentos devido à escassez de chips e deixa um alerta: há milhões de smartphones esquecidos nas gavetas dos portugueses que podem ser a chave para a independência de recursos na Europa.

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