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• Last ever ice rink at the Natural History Museum this winter

  24-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the very last time, the grounds in front of the Natural History Museum will host a large ice-rink this winter.
  The reason it’s the last time, is that there’s a plan to revamp the front gardens, and that will reduce the amount of flat surface available for the ice rink. Where we lose an ice-rink in the winter, we gain a new wildlife garden all year round. So this winter will be the last time you will be able to fall over on the ice in front of the magnificent Victorian building.
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• Ericsson CEO warns of Chinese advantage if 6G standard splits

  24-08-2021 15:53
  
  Börje Ekholm, CEO of Swedish kit vendor Ericsson, reckons the West could be at a disadvantage if China ends up developing its own 6G standard.
  Ekholm was speaking exclusively to Light Reading “If the tech world is fragmented East and West then it is going to mean competition between two ecosystems,” he said. “A Chinese ecosystem will be formidable competition for the West. It concerns me that end users – customers and enterprises – will feel it in their mobile
  
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• CityFibre set to raise £1bn as UK fibre competition heats up

  24-08-2021 15:07
  
  Altnet CityFibre is said to be on the verge of securing new debt and equity funding that would give it an extra £1 billion to spend on its fibre deployment.
  Sources cited by the Wall Street Journal on Monday claim that the company is close to selling a stake worth £500 million to Mubadala Investment Co., Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. The deal would value CityFibre at more than £2 billion. It would also highlight just how attractive the ultrafast broadband market has
  
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• 5G smartphone share of global total set to double this year

  24-08-2021 14:03
  
  New research from analyst firm Omdia reckons the 5G smartphone installed base will approach half of the total by the end of this year.
  The main reason is the significantly increased presence of 5G modems in cheaper devices as their cost decreases and the rollout of 5G reaches a point at which it’s worth investing in them. Of those 5G smartphones, 81% of them will only support ‘Sub6’, which refers to Gigahertz and covers all frequencies below millimetre wave. The proportion of 5
  
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• Facebook keen to add calling functions following amended FTC complaint

  24-08-2021 13:20
  
  Facebook has reportedly begun testing a version of Messenger that will add voice and video calling to the world’s largest social network.
  According to Bloomberg, which cited Messenger’s director of product management Connor Hayes, Facebook began letting select members in the US play around with the new feature on Monday. There’s no word on when it might be rolled out to all users though.
  This development represents something of a homecoming for Messenger. It was originally an i
  
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• Facebook keen add calling functions following amended FTC complaint

  24-08-2021 13:20
  
  Facebook has reportedly begun testing a version of Messenger that will add voice and video calling to the world’s largest social network.
  According to Bloomberg, which cited Messenger’s director of product management Connor Hayes, Facebook began letting select members in the US play around with the new feature on Monday. There’s no word on when it might be rolled out to all users though.
  This development represents something of a homecoming for Messenger. It was originally an i
  
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• Call to help digitise Euston’s burial records

  24-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Archaeologists are looking for volunteers to help record nearly 58,000 burial records related to the recently excavated St James’s Burial Ground in Euston.
  The burial ground at Euston was excavated between 2018 and 2019 as part of the preparation works for the HS2 station to be built there, and was the largest excavation of its kind ever undertaken in the UK. It was also the topic of a BBC2 documentary which is currently available on iPlayer.
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• Tours of buildings sites taking place in October

  24-08-2021 11:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The semi-annual event that shows off the construction industry by letting people go behind the hoardings onto building sites returns this October, and booking is open now.
  The event, Open Doors 2021, shows off the construction industry and was set up to show off how varied and interesting a career in the trade can be, but it’s also an event that’s open to anyone interested in modern civil engineering. It’s also a fascinating opportunity, as anyone who has ever been on a buildin
  
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• Exhibtion looks at the design of the Tokyo Olympics

  24-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s currently an exhibition in London about the Tokyo Olympics — the 1964 Olympics, and it shows off the design and architecture of the games, not the sports they hosted.
  And for this “interested in design and less so in sports” writer, it’s the perfect Olympic’s exhibition.The 1964 games were firsts in many areas – the first in Asia, the first to be broadcast by satellite and in colour, and the first to have the unified event branding that we take f
  
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• Semiconductors, 6G and biopharma: Samsung’s $206bn 3-year plan

  24-08-2021 02:00
  Today, Samsung has announced that it will invest an enormous $206 billion in semiconductors, biopharmaceuticals, 5G, and other emerging technologies including 6G and quantum computing over the next three years.In total, this new investment plan is around a third larger than the company’s previous three-year plan, announced back in 2018. The company says that three quarters of the total investment would be spent on expanding facilities and employment within South Korea itself…r
  
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• Nokia launches scholarship programme for underrepresented communities in tech

  24-08-2021 02:00
  Nokia has today announced the launch of a scholarship program aimed at providing greater opportunities for underrepresented communities in the technology industry. Working together with online learning and talent transformation platform Udacity and Blacks In Technology (BIT) Foundation, Nokia will offer over 300 scholarships, with a focus on empowering students and career changers from underrepresented communities.The fully funded scholarships cover a range of core tech competencies, from cloud
  
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• Djibouti Telecom upgrades DARE1 cable with Ciena tech

  24-08-2021 02:00
  The Djibouti Africa Regional Express1 (DARE1) cable first entered service back in March, greatly improving connectivity around the Horn of Africa. The cable spans around 4,900km, with landing points in Djibouti, Somalia, and Kenya, with a design capacity of 36 Tbps, the largest in the region.Now, Djibouti Telecom has announced it will upgrade the network using Ciena&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre on verge of £1bn stake sales to new investors

  24-08-2021 02:00
  UK alternative fibre company CityFibre could be on the brink of securing a major investment that could have a significant impact in their growing rivalry with BT and Virgin Media.  According to sources speaking to the Financial Times, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company and Interogo Holding, best known for owning Ikea…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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