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• Royal Opera House offering guided tours and gins

  19-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House has resumed its tours of the building, and added a new tour, focusing on its gay heritage. And is also offering gin cocktails.
  The tours offer visitors a chance to step into the Covent Garden site, hear about its history, and find out what it takes to stage a production in one of the world’s leading theatres.
  All the tours cost £16 per person.
  The classic Royal Opera House Tour – designed to give both an overview of the building and an in
  
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• Nvidia acquisition of ARM in the balance as regulators take their time

  19-08-2021 16:06
  
  US semiconductor company Nvidia has admitted regulatory investigations of its proposed acquisition of UK-based chip designer Arm won’t be completed within its anticipated timescales.
  The admission was made by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang in an interview with the FT. “Our discussions with regulators are taking longer than initially thought, so it’s pushing out the timetable,” he said. “It’s not one particular regulator, but we’re confident in the deal, we&rsq
  
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• Cheap train tickets sale on LNER services

  19-08-2021 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London North Eastern Railway (LNER) are offering 200,000 train tickets with prices from £5 each way for journeys taken between 6 September and 15 October 2021.
  Fares range from £5 for a single journey between destinations such as London King’s Cross and Peterborough, Durham and York and Edinburgh and Berwick.
  In addition, £10 fares are available for single journeys between Leeds and London King’s Cross in Standard or £25 in First Class to just £20 for a
  
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• Chinese telco fundraising drive leads China Unicom to float connected cars unit

  19-08-2021 15:11
  
  China Unicom has shared plans to spin off and list its majority-owned SMART Connection technology business in mainland China.
  The decision marks the latest move from one of China’s big three state-owned telecoms operators to seek additional domestic stock market flotations to raise funds after they lost their appeal against expulsion from the NYSE earlier this year.
  The removal of the Chinese telcos from the New York Stock Exchange came at the behest of former US president Donald Trump, am
  
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• Qualcomm reportedly replaced Huawei in a recent China Mobile tender

  19-08-2021 14:34
  
  Reports from Chinese media talk of US chip company Qualcomm winning a significant proportion of recent China Mobile 5G module business, but the details are sketchy.
  Asia Times offered the English-language interpretation of a National Business Daily Chinese-language report. We can read the latter but only with the assistance of Google Translate which, while it does an admirable job with such a different language, still produces some semi-coherent outcomes, so everything needs to be understood in
  
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• New Zealand heads towards cap on Chorus fibre revenues

  19-08-2021 13:48
  
  New Zealand’s competition body has shared its view on the value of Chorus’s fibre network, a figure that will form the basis of its move to cap its fibre revenues.
  Essentially, the country’s new regulatory regime aims to link the revenues Chorus can bring in – and therefore the prices it is able to charge – with the value of the fibre asset and the costs the telco incurred in rolling it out, to ensure that the operator is receiving a fair return on investment while
  
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• Tube strike warning for next week

  19-08-2021 12:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UPDATE – tube strike called off – details here.
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  Transport for London (TfL) is warning customers that planned strike action by the RMT union next week may cause severe disruption across the tube network if it goes ahead.
  A previous strike due earlier this month was called off at the last minute, and unless there is another last minute deal, there will be two strikes next week:Noon on Tuesday 24th Aug to noon on Wednesday 25th Aug.
  Noon on Thursday 26th Aug to noon on Friday 27
  
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• East London’s new military museum – RAF Hornchurch

  19-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new museum opened a few months ago in East London telling the history of a major RAF airfield that helped defend London during WW2 – RAF Hornchurch.The airbase, RAF Hornchurch took over a site that had been farmland, and during WW1 as an airfield, but it was formally developed as an RAF base due to its strategic position to defend London from approaches along the Thames. The base eventually closed in 1962, and while some of the base was used for housing and a hospital, the rest was a gra
  
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• Vocus completes Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable with latest subsea link

  19-08-2021 02:00
  Earlier this week, Vocus announced that it had signed contracts to build the final section of the long-awaited Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable (DJSC), an AU$500 million cable system linking Perth, Darwin, Port Hedland, Christmas Island, Jakarta, and Singapore. With these latest construction contracts, worth AU$100 million, Vocus is funding the creation of a 1,000km cable linking the existing Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) to the North West Cable System (NWCS) in Port Hedland…read mo
  
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• Telstra offers employees A$200 to get fully vaccinated

  19-08-2021 02:00
  As if the avoidance of catching and spreading a potentially deadly disease wasn’t enough motivation to get vaccinated, this week Telstra have announced that they will offer their staff A$200 if they get the jab by the end of the year.In an email sent by Telstra’s CEO Andy Penn on Monday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Subsea cables and data centres: An evolution in interconnection

  19-08-2021 02:00
  It goes without saying that data centres and the submarine cable industry are intrinsically linked, heavily reliant on one another to support their customers. But, with the coronavirus accelerating digitalisation and data demand skyrocketing, the relationship between these two industries is growing more complex.  “We see success, as a data centre operator, in terms of the number of cross-connects – and these are measured in the hundreds for each system – that interco
  
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• Lumen taking its private cloud capabilities to the edge

  19-08-2021 02:00
  Lumen Technologies has introduced Lumen Edge Private Cloud, providing pre-built infrastructure for high performance private computing connected to a global fiber network. Lumen Edge Private Cloud is fully managed by Lumen and helps businesses go-to-market quickly with the capacity needed for interaction-intensive applications."Lumen has decades of experience helping our customers implement private cloud solutions for critical workloads…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• GM to produce 5G-connected cars in 2023 with AT&T

  19-08-2021 02:00
  AT&T’s relationship with GM goes back all the way to 2014, when the two companies first partnered to launch in-vehicle Wi-Fi hotspots. Since then, the relationship has continued to develop, with AT&T launching connected car data plans back in 2017, even making WarnerMedia’s library of podcasts, movies and television programming available in…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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