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• An enchanted woodland coming to Syon Park

  10-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This November when it gets dark again, Syon Park in West London will be filled with a display of lights and music.
  Now in its 14th year, the trail winds through the arboretum, passing the sixteenth century Syon House, and ends at the Great Conservatory.Normally these “fill the woods with lights” events last a few months, but as Syon Park it will only be open for 9 days through November, so if such a thing appeals, it’s best to book tickets early as they’re likely to sell
  
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• HS2 to use 3D printing at Euston station tunnels

  10-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The contractor building the tunnels approaching Euston for HS2 is using 3D-printing for some of its concrete structures, in the UK’s first live deployment of the technology.
  Printing concrete with computer-operated robots will enable the contractor to make structures on-site, instead of transporting them as pre-cast slabs by road before being assembled and lowered into place by large cranes.Also, where HS2 construction is happening besides a live railway, it offers an opportunity to delive
  
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• Transforming your OSS BSS – new options for new realities

  10-08-2021 15:48
  
  The last 18 months have certainly been a challenge, thanks to the global pandemic, requiring extraordinary resilience in adapting to a “new normal.” While we must never forget the role healthcare workers, scientists and leaders played in keeping us safe, we certainly need to recognize the communications service providers (CSPs) who kept us all connected as we dispersed in many directions – whether working from home, video calling friends and family, or stressing video conferenc
  
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• Exfo founder boosts offer to take company private

  10-08-2021 14:41
  
  Germain Lamonde, who founded Canada’s communications-sector test, monitoring, and analytics equipment maker Exfo and is its majority shareholder, has boosted his offer to take the company private.
  Lamonde’s current offer is US$6.25 a share, up from an earlier $6 offer. Shareholders will vote on the offer in a special meeting on Friday. Lamonde is now the company’s executive chairman. He has also chaired the government of Quebec’s digital strategy advisory board as well as
  
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• Number of announced 5G devices tops 900 — report

  10-08-2021 14:30
  
  The Global mobile Suppliers Association’s latest tracking shows 938 5G devices have been announced, including more than 600 commercially available. The majority are smartphones and CPEs.
  By the end of July the number of 5G devices announced across all categories broke the 900 mark, standing at 938, according to the latest data published by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). This represents a 24% increase over three months ago. A total of 608 devices are commercially available,
  
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• Apple defends new device-scanning tech as criticisms grow

  10-08-2021 13:20
  
  Apple has launched a defence of its controversial new system to scan users’ devices for child sexual material after over 5,000 people and organizations signed an open letter against it.
  The critics argue the scanning system, which hashes images on a user’s device and compares the hash with known images of sexual abuse material, also creates a backdoor authoritarian governments can use to spy on their people, crack down on political dissent, or enforce anti-LGBT policies.
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• Eurobites: Poland’s Nexera bags €73 million EU loan for fiber rollout

  10-08-2021 13:05
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Virgin Media O2 grows its gigabit network, recruits field engineers; Spain’s La Liga may stream itself; Telefónica combines with STC on cybersecurity.Poland’s Nexera has managed to bag a €73 million loan from the EU’s European Investment Bank (EIB) to fund a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout in the more remote, less densely populated regions of the country. Around 530,000 households and 1,400 schools will be connected thr
  
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• A friends reunion for the Laughing Cavalier

  10-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Later this year, one of the Wallace Collection’s most famous paintings, The Laughing Cavalier will be joined with a selection of other paintings by the same artist that have never been seen together before.
  The Laughing Cavalier was painted by the Dutch Master portrait painter, Frans Hals in around 1624, and is the only painting by the artist in the Wallace Collection.
  A new exhibition opening in September will bring together over a dozen of the artist’s best male portraits from coll
  
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• The Museum of Brands and its corridors of nostalgia

  10-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Behind a brightly coloured wall in Ladbrook Grove can be found a roller coaster ride on the nostalgia express down corridors of memories from everyone’s childhood.
  This is the Museum of Brands, and the result of one man’s obsession with collecting the most mass-produced objects in the world, yet objects hardly anyone retains.
  Packaging.The museum has been around for a couple of decades, and at its heart is the original collection by consumer historian Robert Opie, which has been adde
  
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• Virgin Media reaches halfway point with gigabit network upgrade

  10-08-2021 02:00
  Today, Virgin Media has announced that it has successfully upgraded 1.5 million additional premises to DOCSIS 3.1, allowing them to reach broadband speeds above one gigabit per second. This latest batch means that, of their network of 15.5 million homes around the UK…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telxius’ lights LatAm submarine cable Mistral

  10-08-2021 02:00
  Also known as the ‘South Pacific Submarine Cable’ (SPSC), the Mistal cable is in fact named for Chilean poet, Gabriela Mistral, the first Ibero-American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, back in 1945.Jointly developed by Telxius and Claro, and supplied and deployed by Subcom, the cable spans around 7…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sony eyes anime subscription service with $1.2bn purchase of Crunchyroll from AT&T

  10-08-2021 02:00
  News that Sony was considering purchasing popular anime streaming service Crunchyroll first arrived in October last year, with suggestions that the transaction would cost them just under a billion dollars. By December, the deal had been formalised for $1.175 billion, but it has taken eight months for the transaction to be completed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India’s Reliance eyes T-Mobile Netherlands takeover

  10-08-2021 02:00
  Today, sources speaking to media are suggesting that India’s Reliance Industries could be considering a takeover bid for Deutsche Telekom’s Dutch unit, T-Mobile Netherlands. Discussions are reportedly ongoing, with no final decision yet made on the sale. Both parties have refused to comment on the reports…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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