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Home renovation: Lifestyle changes, aging homes, rising prices spur record spending | Science & Environment
About a year after the onset of the pandemic, Kathy Lange-Novak and her husband, Frank Novak, decided it was time to update their Fitchburg home. After 26 years, the floors, countertops and appliances were showing their age, and the couple thought they needed to upgrade before putting the house on the market. “This is the first time we’ve remodeled anything,” Kathy said. “It needed an overhaul.” Like so many Americans, the recently retired couple had spent most of the past year at home as COVID-19 health restrictions limited their social activities. “It’s one thing when you go, ‘We could really use new carpeting, but we can go to the movies,’”…
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Metaverse World For Education and Future
The discussion of the Metaverse is being discussed due to Mark Zuckerberg’s claim to call it the world of the future. Metaverse is a combination of aspects of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), social media, and also cryptocurrencies to allow users to interact in digital reality. “The concept of Metaverse is actually not new, because in 2003 there was already a virtual world called Second Life which offered the concept of a virtual community that could create avatars according to our wishes. The Metaverse platform was created with the aim of being able to interact and connect people without having to meet in person,”. Second Life’s success was seen…
