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• Theatre displays fill empty shop windows

  06-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A number of shop windows in Central London have been turned into art galleries showing off work by students at several of London’s theatre arts schools.
  More than 100 students from the BA Costume for Theatre and Screen, BA Production Arts for Screen and BA Theatre Design courses have their final degree pieces exhibited in 30 sites across the City of London, along Strand, and Victoria.
  Strand Palace
  Work on display includes costumes for productions such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, W
  
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• Julian Opie at Pitzhanger – bold lines meets ornate architecture

  06-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The recently restored Pitzhanger Manor in the heart of Ealing is currently home to one of those artists whose name is less familiar than their art is.
  Julian Opie made his name and reputation in the cool Britania era, and was responsible for that famous Blur album cover, and indirectly many a personal avatar image on early chat websites as people remade their photos in Blur-style imagery.
  He is now back, with a curious exhibition that if you didn’t know Opie has a thing for solid blocks of
  
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• GSMA says 20,000 people turned up for MWC 21

  06-07-2021 15:59
  
  The numbers are in for this year’s exceptional Mobile World Congress Barcelona event and, while it missed attendance targets, it did OK under the circumstances.
  It was always a big ask to stage a huge international physical event at a time when the Covid pandemic is still raging in many parts of the world. Even those permitted to enter Spain were forced to jump through multiple hoops, with the prospect of being quarantined when they got home at the end of it. Those that did turn up deserve
  
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• Nokia takes aim at 5G IoT with iSIM management software

  06-07-2021 15:26
  
  Finland’s finest has launched new software designed to help operators get to grips with cellular IoT device provisioning and subscription management.
  Called iSIM Secure Connect, it builds on embedded SIM (eSIM) and integrated SIM (iSIM) technology by linking it to trusted digital identification, enabling telcos to authenticate and manage cellular IoT devices quickly and securely. It is vendor-agnostic, and can be deployed in various network and cloud environments, lending itself to a wide
  
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• Telefónica, Telia, Globe indulge in some 5G back-slapping

  06-07-2021 14:05
  
  There are all manner of metrics that telcos cite when crowing about their 5G milestones, and these last few days have seen some top-notch braggadocio.
  Telefónica Germany let everyone know this week that its mobile network carried 1 billion Gigabytes – or 1 Exabyte – of data during the first six months of 2021, representing a doubling of data usage in just two years. Go back just five-and-a-half years, and O2 Germany’s network carried 178 million Gigabytes in the whole of
  
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• Nexperia acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab calls into question UK’s tech strategy

  06-07-2021 13:57
  
  China-owned semiconductor company Nexperia has acquired full ownership of the UK’s largest chip manufacturer and yet Huawei was banned from its 5G networks for being Chinese.
  Nexperia is based in the Netherlands, having been spun out from NXP, which itself was once part of Phillips. However it was sold to Chinese state-owned investment firm Jianguang and Chinese private-equity firm Wise Road Capital (which seems to have been created for that purpose) in 2016 and is now owned by Chinese com
  
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• HS2 launches its second TBM under the M25 motorway

  06-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The second of two tunnel boring machines has been launched from just inside the M25 to dig tunnels for HS2 under the Chilterns.
  The second tunnel boring machine (TBM), called Cecilia after Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an astronomer, started a month after the first, called Florence, named after Florence Nightingale. Despite starting second, Cecila will run slightly faster, aided by geological data fed back from Florence, meaning that both machines are due to breakthrough at the end of the tunnels at
  
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• Moorgate tube station entrance reopens after a decade of closure

  06-07-2021 11:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The larger entrance into Moorgate tube station, which closed in 2011 for Crossrail works, has reopened with lifts and a cleaner wider appearance.
  The opening of the old entrance comes as the Moorgate-Liverpool Street station built by Crossrail is formally handed over to TfL to manage.Due to the length of the trains, the future Elizabeth line stations are so long that in a couple of places they link two separate London Underground stations – here Moorgate and Liverpool Street. The deep plat
  
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• See the Charterhouse’s restored Great Chamber

  06-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just around the corner from the brutalist Barbican estate can be found a medieval monastery, with a recently restored Great Chamber that you can now visit.
  The Charterhouse has long been hidden from the outside world by a high wall, but a few years ago, the people who still live there started offering tours, and then a museum was opened, and now the tours are a regular event.Apart from the cluster of stone houses and gardens to visit, there is also the Great Chamber — originally built by E
  
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• Why the telecommunications industry must still make its operations, products and services more sustainable

  06-07-2021 02:00
  The telecommunications industry contributed 2.6 per cent of total global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2020, according to the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ (ETNO) Association.
  Although the sector isn’t as energy or resource-intensive as the likes of electricity production and manufacturing, many key players are already taking steps to improve their environmental impact. Telefónica, home to telecoms giants such as O2, recently updated its sustainable finan
  
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• Net-zero targets are not achievable without digital solutions like 5G, fibre and IoT

  06-07-2021 02:00
  FarrPoint, the consultancy specialising in digital connectivity, is calling for businesses, government and individuals to embrace digital solutions to increase the chances of reaching the UK’s ambitious target of becoming a net-zero economy by 2050.
  The case for achieving net zero is high on the agenda for many ahead of COP26 taking place in Glasgow later this year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Colt and IBM aim to accelerate digital transformation for our enterprise customers

  06-07-2021 02:00
  Colt Technology Services has today announced it will collaborate with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to help customers adopt an edge computing strategy designed to enable them to move data and applications seamlessly across hybrid cloud environments, from private data centres to the edge. Colt, a leading provider of high bandwidth and on demand connectivity solutions, plans to work with IBM to jointly explore innovative use cases using IBM Cloud Satellite and Edge Application Manager, designed to benefit ente
  
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• Cargo drones could revolutionise delivery of network equipment to hard to reach locations

  06-07-2021 02:00
  Delivering network equipment to hard to reach locations continues to be an expensive and time consuming obstruction on the path to rollout of networks. However Italian company FlyingBasket has demonstrated how cargo drones could revolutionise the process via their latest project with cablex…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT trials IoT technology at the Port of Ipswich

  06-07-2021 02:00
  BT has partnered with Associated British Ports (ABP) to trial the next generation of IoT and sensor technology. The trial, which aims to digitise the port’s logistics and operations, will be taking place at the Port of Ipswich.IoT devices have been installed on cranes and transport equipment…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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