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• Final Crossrail costs are “unknown” warns report

  23-07-2019 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  A report by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that the final bill for the already over-budget Crossrail project cannot be foreseen.
  In a report into the project the committee of MPs said that given the scale and complexity of the remaining work to get the railway open, it was “staggering” that they were still projecting to open in December 2018 as late as July 2018.
  The previous Chair and Chief Executive still assert that sticking to the December 2018 open
  
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• Breaking down the Supply Chain Review Statement

  23-07-2019 17:51
  Although there was very little said during the Supply Chain Review statement yesterday, there are some interesting developments worth keeping an eye on.
  Speaking to the House of Commons, Secretary of State for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright did as most expected he would and dodged the Huawei decision. Although we were promised a decision by March, the slippery politician has managed to create enough breathing room to get him through to September.
  Despite some b
  
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• Tickets Alert: Manga on the Big Screen

  23-07-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This summer, there will be a season of Manga films shown on the Barbican’s big screens. Some big name films are in the mix, including Patlabor. which I would say is the second best Manga film ever made (no guesses needed for #1).
  The season is all about the fusion with and problems that come with human-machine interfaces, from robots to cybernetic implants.
  All tickets cost £12.60 and need to be booked in advance.Tetsuo, The Iron Man + panel discussion
  Thur 12th Sep 2019, 18:30
  The h
  
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• Huawei suspected of decade long relations with North Korea – report

  23-07-2019 14:21
  The Washington Post has obtained internal documents showing the Chinese vendor and its partners have been working with North Korea’s national mobile operator for over a decade.
  A former Huawei employee turned whistle-blower has passed on the documents to the newspaper, which has had them translated into English and shared on GitHub. The two spreadsheets are project logs of Huawei’s business in the China region, which covers North Korea (codenamed A9 inside Huawei). Details inclu
  
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• HS2 railway to get a driverless shuttle service

  23-07-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A spur railway off the HS2 line at Birmingham could use a driverless automated train to provide a link between the mainline railway and the airport.Although Birmingham airport already has a railway station on the existing mainline railway, the route for HS2 puts it a bit too far away from the terminal buildings for a simple travolator style link.
  Hence, they’ve shown off plans for an Automated People Mover (APM) that will link HS2’s new Interchange Station in Solihull to Birmingham A
  
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• Minister confident of improving UK mobile coverage

  23-07-2019 12:51 via ft.com
  Culture secretary ‘very optimistic’ deal will be struck with telecoms industry
  
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• 206 days: IBM’s estimate on how long it takes to find a security breach

  23-07-2019 12:47
  A new study from IBM suggests it takes 206 days on average for companies to discover a breach and another 73 to fix it.
  With cybercriminals becoming savvier and assaults becoming much more complex, it seems many companies will have been exposed for months without even realising it. The average cost to the business could be as much as $3.92 million, with the firm feeling the impact over three-year periods.
  “Cybercrime represents big money for cybercriminals, and unfortunately that equates t
  
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• Apple eyeing up $1bn Intel smartphone chip purchase – sources

  23-07-2019 12:01
  Reports emerged about Apple’s interest in Intel’s smartphone modem business a few weeks back, and now the rumour mill is back up-and-running as more sources suggest conversations.
  According to The Washington Post, a deal worth $1 billion, including various patents and staff, is entering advanced talks. Apple has always been a business which wants to control its ecosystem and such a deal would take it one step closer to developing critical components for its devices.
  Although the Inte
  
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• This announcement is about further delay – UK Gov on Huawei

  23-07-2019 11:03
  The UK Government has made it clear the Supply Chain Review is about more than one company or one country, but the Huawei dilemma is the most important question; and there still is no answer.
  Speaking in the House of Commons late Tuesday (22 July), Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright updated the world on the progress of the Supply Chain Review. This Review has seemingly faltered progress towards the digital euphoria, and it appears this statement is nothing mor
  
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• The three smallest monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral

  23-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most visitors to a grand cathedral are going to want to admire grand monuments, of which St Paul’s is packed full of – but what about the smaller monuments?
  Or the smallest.
  Here are, which I think are the three smallest monuments inside the mighty and grand St Paul’s Cathedral.
  This can be found in the corner of the North Transept.These two fairly small brass plaques are mounted underneath a much larger and related monument to those who lost their lives in the South African Wa
  
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• Telstra and Ericsson complete Australia's first end to end SA 5G call

  23-07-2019 02:00
  Swedish tech giant, Ericsson, has joined forces with Australian telco, Telstra, to showcase the country's first end to end 5G call.The call was made over 3.6GHz spectrum and made use of a 5G stand-alone device based on a MediaTek chipset.“Successfully completing Australia&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Etisalat sees profits surge on MENA 5G launch

  23-07-2019 02:00
  UAE based telco, Etisalat, has reported a 3.1 per cent increase in its net profit for the first half of 2019.
  During this period, Etisalat launched 5G mobile network services in the UAE and prepared for subsequent launches across the Arabian Peninsula…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Apple set to swoop for Intel's chip-manufacturing wing

  23-07-2019 02:00
  Apple is in talks to buy the smartphone chipset manufacturing wing of US tech giant Intel, in a deal worth a reported $1 billion.
  Sources familiar with the matter told reporters at The Wall Street Journal that talks were now at an advanced stage…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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