I was invited to connect with the creators of Spatial, a social metaverse meeting space app I’ve used many times. But this time, we weren’t using VR headsets. We were just connecting on my laptop, looking at NFT virtual homes. Is this where metaverse strategies are heading next year? Spatial was one of the early …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Some of us are still working from home. Others have gone back to the office. Still, more are embracing a kind of hybrid work, mixing work-from-home and traditional office work, or even doing their day jobs from far-flung locations.  That’s great, …

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Back in the day, when the Razakars were on a terror spree in Hyderabad state and trying to resist the integration of the state into the Dominion of India, a boy who was going to school decided to open a library in Yellanki, a remote village in erstwhile Nalgonda district.  But it was not to be as the feudal landlords …

The Indian Army thanked the locals here who helped in rescue activities after the IAF helicopter carrying the late CDS General Bipin Rawat crashed and resulted in the deaths of 13 of the 14 passengers, as per ET. The Army said the villagers were like ‘God’ to the victims.  Chief of Defence Staff Gen Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 …

Two senior executives of a South African pharma company and two other junior employees of a lab have been arrested in connection with issuing a fake COVID certificate. This helped the first South African Omicron patient leave India in November, as per ABP Live.  The man tested COVID positive and had been quarantined in a star hotel in Vasanthnagar. But …

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