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• Listen out for Stephen Fry on the London Underground tomorrow

  30-10-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tomorrow (Thur 31st Oct) is the 14th annual London Poppy Day, and TfL along with the The Royal British Legion will be fundraising across tubes, trains and buses.
  During the day, service men and women from the Armed Forces will join volunteers at more than 40 stations across the rail network. To highlight the day, both Stephen Fry and 2016 Britain’s Got Talent winner, Lance Corporal Richard Jones, have created a series of specially recorded announcements to be played over the tannoys.
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• HUBER+SUHNER enters mining market with innovative solutions for critical communication infrastructure

  30-10-2019 16:49
  The company’s established knowledge and expertise in fiber optic technology has proven to be key in the mining market and will be showcased at China Coal & Mining Expo 2019Drawing on its extensive experience in providing solutions for optical connectivity in harsh environmental conditions, HUBER+SUHNER is now leading the way in supplying the mining industry with innovative bespoke solutions that address the market challenges.Working with Ampcontrol, a key player in the industry for pow
  
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• London’s Science City at the Science Museum

  30-10-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a new gallery at the Science Museum that shows off an awful lot of wood, brass and books.
  It’s the Science City, a journey through a stylized London streetscape that explores how London’s scientists transformed our understanding of the world between 1550 and 1800.
  The display can be seen as thin, in that it’s a number of objects in glass cases spread out quite generously over a lot of space. Which does however mean that there’s plenty of space to look at the
  
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• Chelsea’s Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More

  30-10-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a very small side street near Kings Road is a modern yet older looking Catholic Church with a very long name.It was opened in 1895 — although not consecrated until 1905, as the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, presumably to differentiate it from the slightly holy redeemer and the not at all holy redeemer. What is it with churches and long names?
  The name got even longer though, as following the Catholic canonization of Sir Thomas More, it added his sainthood to the church as well. The
  
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• Sink into Victorian nostalgia at Pollock’s Toy Museum

  30-10-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hidden away in a warren of side streets, two old creaky buildings are home to one of the delights of London, a curiously old fashioned toy museum.Named after Benjamin Pollock, who married into a family that was already printing, and he diverted into making toy theatres for sale in homes, which far many years kept the firm going, but in the 1950s, the firm finally closed down.
  The a few years later, the BBC journalist Marguerite Fawdry wanted a spare part for her son’s toy theatre, and ende
  
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• The industry is not ready for AI – and AI is not ready

  30-10-2019 01:00
  The reality of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential to transform operators’ business models does not yet live up to the hype – and operators are not ready to embrace it.
  This was the message delivered during a panel discussion at Total Telecom Congress, which saw Elisa, Telekom Austria, Hrvatski Telekom and Telenor Research came together to debate how to capitalise on the AI opportunity…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sprint: Build networks for IoT, not smartphones

  30-10-2019 01:00
  Operators should no longer be building networks for smartphones, the Senior Vice President Internet of Things (IoT) at Sprint said today.
  Speaking during a keynote at Total Telecom Congress, Ivo Rook told the packed auditorium that telcos should instead be designing and creating infrastructures specifically for the IoT and software era.
  This, he said…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SK partners with Now Telecom to launch 5G in The Philippines

  30-10-2019 01:00
  Korean telco, SK Telecom, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Filipino carrier, Now Telecom, to launch 5G mobile network services in the Philippines…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Digital Reality to acquire Interxion in $8.4bn deal

  30-10-2019 01:00
  Data centre specialist firm Digital Reality has agreed to acquire one of Europe’s biggest data centre operators, Interxion, in a deal reported to be worth $8.4bn…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Can 5G deliver on its promise without edge computing?

  30-10-2019 01:00
  5G will not work without Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) – and operators need to act now to prepare their networks.
  This was the message delivered by BT, Vodafone, CenturyLink and STL Partners at Total Telecom Congress during a panel entitled: ‘Enabling the digital world with edge computing.’
  When asked by the panel moderator Phil Laidler, Partner and Consulting Director at STL Partners, whether edge computing needs 5G more than 5G needs edge computing…read more on TotalTel
  
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• Inside Huawei’s first 5G phone: teardown reveals rush to innovate

  30-10-2019 00:00 via ft.com
  In-house chips have reduced reliance on US tech but speed comes at a cost
  
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