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• HS2 to cut London Euston station to ten platforms

  20-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans for HS2’s station at Euston to be built in two stages and to have 11 platforms have been changed by the government to a slightly smaller station with ten platforms, to be built in one single phase.
  The decision to cut Euston station down to ten platforms was revealed in the six-monthly report released by HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson earlier today.
  HS2 concept image – not finalised design
  The original plan had been to build the HS2 Euston station in two phases, with phase one
  
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• HS2 to cut Euston station to ten platforms

  20-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plans for HS2’s station at Euston to be built in two stages and to have 11 platforms have been changed by the government to a slightly smaller station with ten platforms, to be built in one single phase.
  The decision to cut Euston station down to ten platforms was revealed in the six-monthly report released by HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson earlier today.
  HS2 concept image – not finalised design
  The original plan had been to build the HS2 Euston station in two phases, with phase one
  
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• The Importance of Backhaul Performance in Wireless Networks

  20-10-2021 18:45
  
  Wireless Networks are at the core of modern communication and enable ubiquitous, high-bandwidth connectivity independent of the user’s location. While the term “wireless” may imply that all the communication happens in a wireless fashion, it is actually only the last-mile from the radio tower to the end user device which is traversed over the air. The majority of the communication path is still wireline. In this scenario the radio towers act as collection devices that receive w
  
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• Tickets Alert: An evening of Georgian era confectionery

  20-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fancy a Friday evening of fancy clothes and sugary delights with the Georgian Dining Academy? That’s what’s on offer at the Foundling Museum in December.
  There will be an opportunity to make your own confectioners’ delights and to join in decorating cakes large and small, all with maritime and foundling token subjects.
  With these sugary nuggets, the museum aims to celebrate the life of George King, from orphan to Trafalgar. Also, to please the eye there will be a splendid displ
  
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• Tesco takes on Amazon with its first checkout-free store

  20-10-2021 14:58
  
  A new Tesco store trial called ‘GetGo’ uses similar technology to Amazon Fresh shops to automatically charge you for any stuff you walk out with.
  Tesco has been mulling this development for a while, being understandably wary of Amazon doing to groceries what it has to much of the rest of the retail sector. Earlier this year Amazon opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in the UK using its own ‘Just Walk Out’ technology involving smartphones, cameras, sensors and RFID to
  
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• Ofcom pushes reporting services after summer of scams

  20-10-2021 14:19
  
  The vast majority of UK consumers received suspicious phone calls or text messages this summer, according to Ofcom, which is now pushing reporting services to help mitigate telecoms scams.
  The UK regulator has released the results of a new survey that showed that 82% of adults, or around 44.6 million people, have received a suspicious message – be it in the form of a recorded message, live phone call, or text message – in the past three months.
  It is worth pointing out here that Ofco
  
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• Google creates its own chip for the Pixel 6

  20-10-2021 13:07
  
  US internet giant Google has joined the DIY chip gang with its latest smartphone launch in the shape of the Tensor SoC.
  Thanks to the Arm business model, which licenses chip designs to third parties, and advanced foundries such as TSMC, a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to making your own chip is already taken care of. Apple has had its own chip for years, as has Samsung, with new device-makers joining the fun all the time, so the only surprise is that it took Google this long.
  In a blog
  
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• Macro 4's information management suite extends personalization and business intelligence capabilities

  20-10-2021 13:06
  
  Columbus version 9 keeps strong focus on digital customer communications Crawley, UK, October 20, 2021 – Macro 4, a division of UNICOM® Global, has today released the new generation of its Columbus enterprise information management (EIM) suite. Columbus version 9 builds on the software’s digital transformation capabilities, introducing additional features to personalize multi-channel customer engagement and generate better business intelligence. Dynamic personalized experiencesCo
  
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• Orange hooks up Chinese subsea cable in Marseille

  20-10-2021 13:01
  
  The latest subsea cable designed to ease capacity constraints in East Africa has landed in Marseille, according to Orange, which will operate the landing station in the French city.
  The China-backed PEACE (or Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) cable – nice work on the acronym – has come ashore in France and will be commissioned for use next year. Landing party Orange will now extend the system to a major data centre in Marseille where the submarine line terminal equipment is
  
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• There’s a model of a Japanese bullet train on display in Kensington

  20-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the next few weeks, you can see a scale model of a Japanese bullet train on display in a Kensington High Street shop.
  This is the Series N700S Shinkansen, which is the newest model of the bullet train, and that started service on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen line in July 2020, with a maximum speed of 300km/h (186mph), and has an improved acceleration letting it reach 170mph in just three minutes.A member of staff in the shop offers brief talks about the train, highlighting that it
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Pont Street, SW1

  20-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It doesn’t look it yet, but this patch of ground that looks like it’s been used by the local horse riding society is going to become London’s newest pocket park.
  The big trees are already a long term tenant of the area, but what used to be here was a flat uninspiring oval of brown gravel infill that looked pretty bleak, even when the trees were doing their best.Last week though, the gravel was removed, a lot of fresh topsoil added and a range of new plants added. At the moment,
  
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• PEACE comes to Marseille

  20-10-2021 02:00
  The PEACE cable system was first announced back in 2018, with the system notable for being the first Chinese neutral submarine cable in France.The cable itself is the joint creation of PEACE Cable International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hengtong Optic-Electric, as well as PCCW Global…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• How can telecoms providers transform how they service their corporate customers in digital?

  20-10-2021 02:00
  As corporate customers are presented with more choice, telecommunication providers (telcos) need to look for opportunities to present themselves as strategic partners for business-critical solutions, beyond the standard offering of connectivity. Digital technologies are disrupting core telecommunications products in a variety of ways: nimble entrants to the sector are proving that they can provide similar products with an innovative digital flavour. This means that Chief Information Officers (C
  
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• Arm to set up 5G lab with focus on Open RAN

  20-10-2021 02:00
  This week, chip specialist Arm has announced that it will open a new 5G Solutions Lab, seeking to provide their ecosystem partners with an ideal location to demonstrate end-to-end solutions for 5G in a live environment. The lab is being opened in partnership with Indian tech firm Tech Mahindra and will be built in New Jersey, USA. Arm expects the site to open to developers in early 2022…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel launches video streaming platform ‘Airtel IQ Video’

  20-10-2021 02:00
  Indian telco Bharti Airtel has this week announced the launch of ‘Airtel IQ Video’, a Video Platform as a Service (VPaaS) solution they have developed in-house. The platform has been designed as an end-to-end, omnichannel cloud solution that will allow businesses to build their own video streaming products, optimised for both large and small screens…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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