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Tata Power & Tata Steel to set up 41MW grid-connected solar projects in Jharkhand & Odisha

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Tata Power and Tata Steel today, i.e., on Friday, October 29, 2021, announced that they have come together to develop grid-connected solar plants in Jharkhand and Odisha Source Link: Source expo.vision

Third-quarter 2021 revenue of €589 million up 79% like-for-like

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Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Accor, said: “This third quarter of 2021 saw a genuine pick-up in demand. Our business was very strong this summer in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, particularly for our leisure destinations.… Source Link: Source expo.vision

Government to support inclusion of Thembang village in UNESCO list: Taba Tedir

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Arunachal Pradesh Art and Culture Minister Taba Tedir has assured all possible support from the State government in making Thembang Source Link: Source expo.vision

Oculus CTO skeptical about Facebook's metaverse undertaking - CNET

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"I hope I can harness all the crisis energy with the metaverse that's going on," said John Carmack, who has been serving as a consulting CTO for Oculus since 2019. Source Link: Source expo.vision

The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

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Eight researchers share their realistic expectations for the UN world leaders summit in Glasgow The post The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve appeared first on Physics World. Source Link: Source expo.vision

Lummus Named Winner of HP Awards for Sustainability, Refining Innovation and Executive Leadership

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HOUSTON, Oct. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lummus Technology announced that it has won multiple HP Awards from Hydrocarbon Processing, receiving recognition in categories for sustainability, executive leadership and refining technology. Lummus' Green Circle busin… Source Link: Source expo.vision

What even is the metaverse?

For most of this year, Facebook has been talking about its plans for the metaverse, pledging to lose a lot of money in order to bolster its ambitions in the space. Yesterday, the company announced that it would rebrand its corporate identity to “Meta” in order to double down on this commitment. (And, you know, the other reason.) The metaverse, as Meta describes it, “is a new phase of interconnected virtual experiences using technologies like virtual and augmented reality.” Given the number of companies who are now starting to talk about the metaverse in very real terms, we have to answer one, very obvious question: What the Hell is a metaverse?Everything that follows is, to a certain extent, meant to be read with the right number of ahs, ahems, polite coughs and other caveats. After all, a number of companies have started using the term in order to bask in the reflected glory thrown out by the metaverse hype train. Much like “Web 2.0,” “The metaverse” has a loosey-goosey definition tha...