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• Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park

  06-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The annual outdoor sculpture exhibition in Regent’s Park is returning this year, and this year’s selection of works addresses themes including architecture, geopolitical power structures and environmental concern. In addition, Serpentine will present Counterspace, marking the first time a public institution has participated in Frieze Sculpture.
  Daniel Arsham’s Unearthed Bronze Eroded Melpomene presents remnants of a post-apocalyptic fictional archaeology and Stoyan Dechev&rsquo
  
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• Boat tours of the Illuminated River bridges

  06-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the nights get darker, the project to light up the bridges across the Thames becomes easier to see, and there’s also a boat tour service to try out.
  Launched in 2019, the project is expanded this year to include Blackfriars, Waterloo, Golden Jubilee, Westminster and Lambeth bridges, which have joined London Bridge, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium bridges, which were the initial bridges to undergo night-time lighting displays.
  Thames Clippers have now launched an expanded tour of
  
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• Reliance reportedly closes in on acquiring T-Mobile Netherlands

  06-09-2021 15:06
  
  India’s Reliance Industries is said to be lining up potential investors to finance its ambition to acquire Deutsche Telekom’s mobile business in The Netherlands, a deal that could cost the Jio parent company $5.7 billion.
  First reported by The Hindustan Times, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is said to be preparing to launch a $5.7 billion non-binding bid for T-Mobile Netherlands BV. The paper quoted unnamed sources that Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate is shortlisting lenders to fin
  
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• The $200 billion opportunity: network slicing will be critical to 5G growth

  06-09-2021 15:01
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Arvinder Anand, VP Architecture, Technology & E2E Solutioning, North America Digital Services at Ericsson, examines the central role network slicing will play in the success of 5G.
  Technological advances across industries are increasing the demand for high-performance, flexible communications services. Network slicing is emerging as a way to address the
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Vodafone, 6G and AWS

  06-09-2021 14:45
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Vodafone, 6G and AWS
  
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• Veon flogs its Russian towers for nearly $1 billion

  06-09-2021 14:12
  
  Netherlands-based operator group Veon has joined the broader trend by selling its mobile towers in Russia to passive infrastructure specialist Service-Telecom.
  While there is a strong precedent for operators raising cash by selling and then leasing back their towers, it’s novel to see a company other than Cellnex take the opportunity. Service-Telecom already manages a bunch of Veon’s (under the brand Beeline) passive infrastructure in much of Russia and reckons RUB70.65 billion is an
  
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• Mail on Sunday censured over London Underground anthrax story

  06-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Earlier this year, the Mail on Sunday claimed that the deadly bacteria, anthrax was released on the Northern line as a biological weapons test back in the 1960s.
  The newspaper was wrong.
  Mail on Sunday graphic from the article
  The newspaper headline, as published on 7th February 2021 was “The day anthrax was released in a tunnel on the Northern Line – by scientists from Porton Down”.
  The article referred to experiments in 1963 and 1964 where a small package was thrown out of a
  
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• China to bolster chip self-sufficiency with new Shanghai facility

  06-09-2021 12:37
  
  China’s biggest chipmaker will be part of a joint investment of $8.87 billion to build a new fab facility in Shanghai to reduce the country’s reliance on overseas foundries.
  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China’s biggest chipmaker, disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it will enter into a new joint-venture (JV) foundry in Shanghai with the local government as well as other investors. The total investment will be approx
  
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• Apple puts plans to scan its users’ photos on hold due to backlash

  06-09-2021 12:34
  
  Last month Apple announced plans to introduce a number of measures to protect children from abuse, which included scanning images stored in iCloud Photos.
  “Another important concern is the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) online,” said the press release. “CSAM refers to content that depicts sexually explicit activities involving a child. To help address this, new technology in iOS and iPadOS will allow Apple to detect known CSAM images stored in iCloud Photos. This
  
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• Infovista to showcase network lifecycle automation and its business value for CSPs and enterprises at TM Forum Digital Transformation World Series 2021

  06-09-2021 10:28
  
  Unlock unique opportunities to increase automation through AI/ML-driven, cloud-native combined portfolio of applications spanning the entire network lifecycle Paris, France – September 6th, 2021 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced details of its participation at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series, taking place between 22nd September – 14th October 2021. At the event, Infovista will showcase its cross-network li
  
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• London’s Alleys: Heathcock Court, WC2

  06-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a short narrow passage on Strand that used to be somewhere else.
  It originally shows up as Heathcot Court in William Morgan’s map of London in 1682. Quite when it gained a C to become Heathcock is unclear. The origins of the name of the court are also unclear, sometimes cited as coming from the name of a pub, the Heathcock Tavern that was on the site. As a pub name though, Heathcock is fairly commonplace, being named after a type of black grouse which would presumably have been ser
  
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• Veon raises almost $1bn in Russian tower sale

  06-09-2021 02:00
  Today, global connectivity player Veon has signed a new agreement to offload the entirety of their Russian mobile tower portfolio to infrastructure specialist Service-Telecom.The deal, valued at around $970 million, will see Service-Telecom gain full ownership of Veon’s Russian tower unit NTC, comprising around 15,400 mobile towers across the country. This move builds on Service-Telecom&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TIM mulling bid for $1 billion Italian cloud hub project

  06-09-2021 02:00
  Back in April, not long after new Italian Prime minister Mario ‘Super Mario’ Draghi took office, the Italian government sent their Recovery Plan to Brussels, seeking to gain access to EU funds to help the nation’s economic recovery post-Covid-19.  As part of this plan, Rome had earmarked around €900 to create a national cloud hub, hoping to eschew the country&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2 bribery probe resurfaces

  06-09-2021 02:00
  Rumours related to potential bribery offenses surrounding O2 first began back in 2017, when two senior executives left the company at short notice following murmurs that they were involved in the payment of kickbacks to customers.  Later that year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cisco's SD-WAN network powers driverless car at the Red Bull Ring

  06-09-2021 02:00
  It all started with over 1,200 fully electrified horsepower at Hockenheim. Now, DTM and Schaeffler are showing the next electrifying project: during the race weekend at the Red Bull Ring from 3-5 September, the long-standing series and its innovation partner, together with other important partners, presented the DTM Electric Remote Run. Here, the DTM Electric Demo Car that already thrilled fans during its maiden outing in October 2020, will be driven at the 4,326 metres long track in Styria, Au
  
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