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• Tickets Alert: 1950s British Transport films with live music

  07-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month, the Barbican will be screening a series of British Transport Films featuring a range of views of 1950s Britain, accompanied by hybrid electronic and orchestral music.
  In these films, shown silently with no narration, impressions of life in British industrial valleys and towns are shown alongside bucolic scenery and holiday destinations throughout the UK.Embarking on a journey through 1950s Britain, follow the testing of a shiny new Blue Pullman train (said to be the ‘businessma
  
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• The Clash’s broken guitar going on display at the Museum of London

  07-07-2021 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Clash’s third album, London Calling, famously features bassist, Paul Simonon breaking his guitar on stage, and that same broken guitar is going on permanent display at the Museum of London from 23 July 2021.
  The guitar had been the museum’s earlier exhibition to mark the anniversary of the album release, but the exhibition was cut short due to the lockdown.Later this month, visitors will be able to see the bass guitar on permanent display in the museum’s World City gallery
  
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• TPG and Samsung to have Australia’s first go at 5G vRAN over mmWave

  07-07-2021 15:31
  
  An imminent trial marks a significant step for Samsung in Australia as well as adding to a busy week for TPG.
  Earlier this week Australian operator TPG got Nokia’s help with what it claimed was the world’s first 5G SA network over the 700 MHz frequency. Now it has switched to the other end of the spectrum by dabbling with 26 GHz, otherwise known as millimetre wave. On top of that it’s being trialled using Samsung’s virtualized RAN solution, which is the direction radio is
  
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• A bunch of old fossils are getting 5G SA coverage

  07-07-2021 14:48
  
  A stretch of the UK’s famous Jurassic Coast has become one of the first locations in the world to receive standalone 5G coverage at 700 MHz.
  The 5G RuralDorset project has installed a few base stations at various points along a 30-mile stretch of coastline, beginning in Kimmeridge in the east, and ending in Portland Bill in the west. Together, these provide 5G coverage to clifftops, bays and beaches, as well as out at sea.
  RuralDorset is an £8 million 5G R&D scheme led by Dorset
  
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• Protected: Charting the Engineering Route to 6G

  07-07-2021 13:38
  
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• Charting the Engineering Route to 6G

  07-07-2021 13:38
  
  Although the world is only two years into the 5G era, the communications industry is already looking at what technologies will come next. The desire to always move ahead is already making the next generation in telecom, 6G, a hot topic.
  Given this high level of interest, Telecoms.com Intelligence, in collaboration with IEEE, recently conducted a survey of telecoms professionals to get their views on the engineering challenges posed by 6G. The survey covered topics ranging from cell-free radio ne
  
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• US government decides single-vendor public cloud contracts are a bad idea

  07-07-2021 13:30
  
  The US Department of Defense has decided to cancel its $10 billion cloud contract with Microsoft because it reckons it no longer meets its needs.
  It took years for the DoD to pick Microsoft for the deal, a decision that seemed to be influenced by then President Trump’s intervention to make sure AWS didn’t get any of the action. There was suspicion that the move was influenced by Trump’s personal dislike of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post new
  
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• Singtel chief says last year was one of the toughest in company’s history

  07-07-2021 13:26
  
  Singapore’s incumbent operator this week gave an unvarnished appraisal of its performance during its recently-ended financial year.
  However, its turnaround plan is already bearing fruit, with this week seeing progress on asset sales and new 5G offers coming to market.
  “This has been one of the most challenging years Singtel has seen. The distresses of the pandemic exacerbated competitive pressures inherent in our industry, making this one of the toughest operating environments in rec
  
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• New summer poems on the London Underground/Overground

  07-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new set of Poems on the Underground are currently appearing in Underground and Overground trains. The latest collection focuses on a range of themes related to summer, although not the typical British summer of a rained-out barbeque.
  Judith Chernaik, founder of Poems on the Underground said: “Our new summer poems have been specially chosen to reflect the renewed importance at this time of our closest relationships, art and memory, and the natural world.”
  The collection features the
  
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• Blue Plaque for one of Britain’s first black British medical consultants

  07-07-2021 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of Britain’s first black British consultants, the pioneering neurologist James Samuel Risien Russell has been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque.
  Dr Risien Russell, a Guyanese-British physician, neurologist, professor of medicine, and professor of medical jurisprudence, played a critical role in establishing the British school of neurology in the 1890s and was revered in his day.
  Dr Risien Russell (c) English Heritage
  A brilliant researcher, with a flair for scien
  
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• See a Parish Boy’s Progress at the Charles Dickens Museum

  07-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An exhibition at the Dickens Museum has opened about Charles Dicken’s second novel as a full-time writer, which was also probably his second most famous novel, after a Christmas Carol.
  A Parish Boy’s Progress is also rather better known as Oliver Twist, and even if you’ve never read it, you probably know the story and some of its famous lines as they’ve become part of the wider English culture.
  “Please, sir, I want some more”
  Society already had plenty of Dick
  
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• Telefonica strikes partnership with TikTok

  07-07-2021 02:00
  Telefónica, one of the world's largest providers of telecommunications services, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with TikTok, the leading destination for short-form mobile video. The partnership will create innovative new ways for the TikTok community to enjoy their favourite TikTok videos across Telefónica services. The partnership will include a series of local activations in Telef&oacute…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Starlink starts LatAm rollout in Chile

  07-07-2021 02:00
  For many years, satellite broadband connectivity was considered something of a novelty by the global telecoms community, if not simply an outright failure. The expense of launching numerous satellites into orbit, coupled with the relatively poor service they could deliver to customers, meant that these solutions were widely overlooked in favour of alternative infrastructure deployments, even in the most hard-to-reach areas.Now…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Samsung making mmWave 5G a reality in Australia with TPG

  07-07-2021 02:00
  In the trial, which is the first of its kind in the nation, Samsung will place its vRAN solution in TPG Telecom’s brand new Innovation Lab in Glebe, NSW. Additionally, Samsung’s latest 5G mmWave product—Compact Macro—will be deployed in the wider Glebe area.The announcement follows the launch of Samsung’s Networks Business in Australia in April 2021, and since then, the company has been exploring the delivery of Samsung’s leading 5G mmWave technologies to the
  
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• Monetising the IoT in the 5G era

  07-07-2021 02:00
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is undergoing a major transformation. Not only is the market growing to an incredible extent, with some analysts even predicting a total value of $1.4 trillion by 2027, but its composition is also changing. For now, the vast majority of these devices are not really roaming, or even using mobile connections, but are instead reliant on other forms of connectivity, like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  However, this will not be the case for long. Low power wide-area net
  
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• Mass production of 14nm chips in China will spur future growth of its chip industry

  07-07-2021 02:00
  China is steadily moving towards achieving its goal of mass-producing 14nm chips next year.
  "Despite the technical difficulties, there is still a great hope that 14nm chips can be mass-produced next year," says Dr Wen Xiaojun, Deputy Director, Institute of Electronics, China Electronics and Information Industry Development Research Institute.China decided to work towards self-sufficiency in chips to meet its domestic demand and address the unprecedented shortage of chips after the outbreak of t
  
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• DoD scraps $10bn JEDI cloud project with Microsoft

  07-07-2021 02:00
  Back in 2019, the US DoD announced that it was seeking to modernise its IT infrastructure by introducing the public cloud, beginning a tender process for the $10 billion JEDI contract. Meeting the data security requirements of the US military and shifting the government’s computing power to the public cloud would be no small feat, and the contest soon became a close battle for supremacy between two of the US’s largest tech giants, Amazon&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.
  
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