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• Two Adam Dant exhibitons in London at the same time

  25-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A bit like buses, you wait for ages for an Adam Dant exhibition, then two appear at once. The famous maker of arty maps now has displays in Westminster and the City of London.
  The smaller of the two exhibitions is at the London Mithraeum in the City of London. The Mithraeum has a ground floor art gallery above the subterranean Roman temple, and they’ve commissioned The Budge Row Bibliotheque, a sepia ink drawing encapsulates 2,000 years of the everyday life and times of Budge Row, the once
  
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• The Winchcombe meteorite goes on display in London

  25-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It fell from outer space and landed in a small Gloucestershire town, and now it’s gone on display in the Natural History Museum. The Winchcombe meteorite fell in several places after lighting up the skies in February, and while the most famous was the sooty splat found on a suburban driveway, the largest fragment was found in a nearby field.
  Tint pieces of the rare carbonaceous chondrite meteorite have been sent to scientists to study, but the largest piece is now on display for the rest o
  
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• The fight back against digital censorship gathers momentum

  25-05-2021 15:20
  
  There are signs that bulk censorship and state surveillance may have reached their high-water mark, at least in the West.
  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a Senate Bill designed to allow Florida residents to sue social media platforms if they feel they have been unfairly censored. It specifies greater transparency regarding content moderation practices and requires advance notice whenever they move the goalposts. It implies DeSantis thinks social media platforms actively censor viewpoint
  
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• European operators play the green card with smartphones

  25-05-2021 15:16
  
  Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia, and Vodafone jointly start Eco Rating labelling scheme to score how sustainable mobile phones are, aiming to encourage device makers and device buyers to be more environmentally minded.
  Starting from June, the labelling scheme will stamp a score on phones to show how environmentally friendly the devices are throughout their entire life cycle. The score will be between 0 and 100, the higher the better environmental performance (though the initia
  
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• AT&T is becoming a telco – it’s crazy but it might just work

  25-05-2021 14:25
  
  AT&T this week shared a groundbreaking new strategy: to focus on being a telco.
  That’s right, the once media-obsessed US operator is concentrating its energies on fixed broadband and mobile services, which hardly comes as a shock given it’s decision last week to merge WarnerMedia with cable channel Discovery.
  The partial sale of those assets – AT&T gets US$43 billion plus a 71% stake in the merged entity – will enable the firm to increase investment in its network
  
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• Leaked Huawei memo reveals plan for global software domination

  25-05-2021 13:19
  
  Chinese tech vendor Huawei has been forced out of much of its hardware business by unilateral US restrictions, so it plans to return the favour in software.
  We know this because Reuters reported on a recent internal memo sent by Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, covering the strategic pivot to software. While the cunning plan itself is no secret, this memo sheds more light on the internal culture driving it and expected long-term consequences of the strategy.
  “Once we dominate Europe, the Asia Paci
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Oxford House

  25-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A grand Victorian building in the East End is reopening after the lockdown, and offering tours of the restored interior and chapel.
  Oxford House is a Grade II Listed building from the 1890s that originally housed student volunteers from Oxford University in a “settlement” that served to enhance the poverty-stricken local community.
  Today the building and the charity that runs it is an important social and community centre for the area and was recently given a major restoration. That
  
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• French rail operator latest to get into fibre

  25-05-2021 12:31
  
  French rail network operator SNCF has officially launched a new subsidiary that will see it break into the market for wholesale fibre connectivity.
  Starting this year, SNCF’s new Terralpha unit will provide data transport services using the approximately 20,000 km of fibre the rail operator has deployed alongside the tracks. As many rail outfits have done, SNCF replaced old copper cables with fibre to support its own connectivity needs and is now looking to monetise the excess capacity.
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• Cromwell Place – South Kensington’s art dealer collective

  25-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A South Kensington building that looks like a posh hotel is in fact a collection of art galleries — and it’s freely open to the public.
  This isCromwell Place, and it’s a new idea in how to show off and sell art.Rather than dealers having a dedicated gallery somewhere in Mayfair or St James, they can use rooms in this building for a few weeks or months as needed. Here, a series of early 19th-century buildings all interlinked now give the dealers a range of different spaces to us
  
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• Standalone 5G is coming to Singapore

  25-05-2021 02:00
  Around a year ago, Singapore issued two nation-wide 5G licences, won by Singtel and a joint bid from M1 and StarHub, with the stipulation that they must begin rolling out standalone 5G in 2021, cover half the country with the technology by 2022, and all of the country by 2025.Now, it seems that both parties are beginning to make good on their promise…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Smarphones to receive Eco Rating label from major European operators

  25-05-2021 02:00
  Just how sustainable is your mobile phone?Today, a new joint initiative from Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telia Company, and Vodafone intends to make the answer to this question very clear with the introduction of Eco Rating labels for mobile devices. The labels will be based on five categories related to sustainability: durability…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Masmovil sticks with Ericsson for 5G core

  25-05-2021 02:00
  With this agreement, Ericsson will transform MASMOVIL Group’s existing core network in Spain with the latest 5G Standalone technology products and solutions to offer the most innovative 5G services to its customers.This core network transformation project to evolve MASMOVIL Group’s network supports the evolution to 5G standalone includes: Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU plans satellite constellation but Eutelsat’s role is in question

  25-05-2021 02:00
  With the likes of SpaceX’s Starlink programme and Amazon’s Project Kuiper about to get underway, the EU has recently announced that it has plans to build its own LEO satellite constellation for broadband connectivity.The project seeks to make broadband connectivity available throughout the EU, particularly in areas which are typically unfeasible or too expensive to cover with conventional connectivity.Part of the motivation here is the fact that the EU is lacking a major presence in
  
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