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• See hot air balloons over London in June

  27-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All being well, a Sunday morning in June will see up to 50 hot air balloons drifting over central London.
  This is the Lord Mayor’s Hot Air Balloon Regatta, a now annual event that raises money for the Lord Mayor’s charity, and gives early risers on a Sunday morning a lovely sight of all the balloons silently drifting over sleepy London.
  The lift-off is weather dependent and takes place at first light on a Sunday morning in June.
  Balloon lift-off in 2015
  Hopefully, they’ll head
  
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• Oppo and Thales claim 5G SA eSIM first

  27-05-2021 15:16
  
  Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo has launched a new phone that contains the first eSIM compatible with standalone 5G.
  We don’t know what special sauce has to go into an eSIM for it to work with SA (proper) 5G, as opposed to NSA (preliminary) 5G but, with help from French tech company Thales, Oppo reckons it’s the first to make it. You can experience this revolutionary eSIM in the Oppo Find X3 Pro, which may be somewhat easier than finding a 5G SA network to try it out on.
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• Singtel sells broad range of assets as earnings plummet

  27-05-2021 14:55
  
  Singtel distracted the industry from a weak set of full-year results with the publication of a new strategy that includes the planned sale of a broad swathe of infrastructure assets.
  The Singaporean incumbent joins a long list of global telecoms operators looking to monetise infrastructure. It has already made a start, having kicked off the process to offload around two thirds of its Optus unit’s mobile towers in Australia, an auction that financial analysts have put at around the A$2 bill
  
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• Facebook doubles down on ‘good’ censorship

  27-05-2021 14:04
  
  Social media giant Facebook has announced it will be shadow-banning accounts that repeatedly share stuff it doesn’t approve of.
  A post by Facebook titled Taking Action Against People Who Repeatedly Share Misinformation stated, “Starting today, we will reduce the distribution of all posts in News Feed from an individual’s Facebook account if they repeatedly share content that has been rated by one of our fact-checking partners.”
  Leaving aside the awkward fact that many of
  
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• Xiaomi confirms US reprieve as revenue rockets

  27-05-2021 13:59
  
  It’s a good day for China’s Xiaomi, which has confirmed reports that it is no longer blacklisted in the US and shared first-quarter numbers that show pretty stellar growth.
  “Xiaomi is pleased to announce that on May 25, 2021 at 4:09 pm (Eastern Standard Time), the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a final order vacating the U.S. Department of Defence’s designation of the Company as a ‘Communist Chinese Military Company’ (CCMC),” the
  
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• Hackers – a cyberpunk exhibition in a basement

  27-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a basement in central London that’s currently filled with movie costumes from one of the original cyberpunk cult movies
  The film, Hackers about a bunch of, well, computer hackers, is very much of its time, when the internet wasn’t that well known, and “hackers” were seen as nerds who weren’t popular at school. Then this film came along, and let’s be candid, it’s pretty bloody awful as plotlines and scripts go, but the visuals were astonishi
  
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• Stephen Hawking’s office coming to the Science Museum

  27-05-2021 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The contents of Professor Stephen Hawking’s office when he worked in Cambridge are to go on display at the Science Museum.
  It’s part of an agreement with the Hawking’s estate that will see his archive papers gifted to Cambridge University Library, while personal item from his office have been gifted to the Science Museum.
  The decision to distribute the archive to the two institutions is part of a £4.2 million Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) agreement, which allows inheritance ta
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Charlton station

  27-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a pocket park that sits next to Charlton station in southeast London and was created in 2013 as the first site of a local community gardens group.
  The area is owned by the railway company, and following its refurbishment a couple of decades ago as part of a Millenium upgrade, some plots of planting were created, but not especially managed.
  In 2013, the Community Gardens group took over the site, cutting back the overgrown planting and turning it into a mix of decorative planting as well
  
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• What are operators doing to support their customers during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  27-05-2021 02:00
  The UK is heading into lockdown once again, with pressure building on the operators to deliver quality connectivity and support their customers during this difficult time May 27th AT&T are working with Walmart to offer people in financial hardship cheap or even free internet and wireless plans as part of the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program  March 9th Vodafone launching communities.connected, offering unlimited data plans to the private and public sector at reduc
  
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• Vodafone Germany aims to cover 30m people with 5G in 2021

  27-05-2021 02:00
  Vodafone Germany’s 5G network coverage has been rapidly expanding in the past year – so much so that they are now announcing fresh targets for the coming financial year. Previously, Vodafone Germany had said that it would target 5G coverage of 20 million people by the end of 2021. Now, the company has announced that their rollout is…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Proximus makes breakthrough with 25G PON technology

  27-05-2021 02:00
  Yesterday, Proximus demonstrated what they are calling the world’s fastest fibre access network at a media event in Antwerp, Belgium. The demonstration used Nokia equipment on Proximus’s existing network to deliver network speeds exceeding 20 Gbps using 25G PON technology.The demonstration connected the Havenhuis building in the Port of Antwerp with the Proximus central office in the middle of the city…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Mexico’s largest private tower company could soon be up for grabs

  27-05-2021 02:00
  Reports suggest that the international investor appetite for mobile infrastructure may soon hit Mexico, with Digital Colony and Macquarie mulling the sale of MTP.  MTP was formed back in 2014 by Digital Colony’s predecessor Digital Bridge, with the company at the time having a portfolio of around 550 towers in its network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson partners with Leonardo for 5G security solutions

  27-05-2021 02:00
  Ericsson and Italy-based cyber and security solutions company Leonardo are set to share their R&D capabilities across various fields, including cybersecurity and 5G, as part of a new deal signed earlier this week.In particular, the duo said they would focus on cybersecurity for critical strategic infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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