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• Science Museum Lates are returning next month

  22-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a long break, the monthly adults-only late night opening at the Science Museum resumes next month.
  Each of the monthly late openings is themed, and Novembers’s will be all things to do with space, celebrating the final frontier. From rocket launch workshops and space object hunts to a Soyuz simulator.
  There will also be all the regular events from live talks, music and the silent disco.
  General admission to the museum for the Lates is free of charge, although there is also a VIP opti
  
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• A London tube station roof is filled with brightly coloured art

  22-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you go onto the roof of Temple tube station at the moment, the formerly grey terrace is a riot of colours, as the entire half-acre space has been filled in with patterned flooring tiles. It’s art, and the first of a series of displays that will appear on top of the tube station over the next few years, organised by theCoLAB Temple as an “artists garden”.The first installation, which will be here until the end of April 2022 is called Back in the Air: A Meditation on Higher Gr
  
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• Cirque du Soleil returning to the Royal Albert Hall

  22-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cirque du Soleil, the Circus of the Sun, is returning to the Royal Albert Hall in January with a brand new Mexico themed show.
  Cirque du Soleil: Luzia takes you on a journey through Mexico, with a mixture and balance of light (luz in Spanish) and rain (lluvia). Making use of a variety of grand visual surprises, colourfully intense costumes and their characteristically acrobatic performances Luzia pulls on aspects of traditional and modern Mexican culture and lore to bring the show to life.
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• 5GCroCo demos cross-border 5G tech for connected cars

  22-10-2021 12:59
  
  A European consortium created to develop ways of maintaining seamless connectivity even when driving from one country to another has been showing off its work.
  5GCroCo stands for Fifth Generation Cross-Border Control. It was created in late 2018 with a plenty of help from the EU. The point of it is to take borders out of the equation when it comes to maintaining connectivity around the continent. This is especially important for connected and autonomous vehicles. Inevitably for an EU project it
  
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• MYCOM OSI Named in the Global Telecoms Awards 2021 Shortlist

  22-10-2021 12:38
  London, UK – Oct 22nd, 2021 – MYCOM OSI, a leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions, has been named as a finalist in the Advancing AI category of the 2021 Global Telecoms Awards (Glotel Awards) run by Telecoms.com (www.telecoms.com). The Glotel Awards are Europe's leading awards program, recognizing innovation and excellence from the companies involved in advancing and transforming today's telecoms industry. This year's program featured 20 categor
  
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• US Huawei blacklist revealed to be pointless

  22-10-2021 11:32
  
  Despite being on a US export blacklist, Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has apparently been able to buy billions of dollars of US technology.
  When then President Donald Trump issued one of his executive orders, which attempted to prevent almost any commercial interaction between US companies and a host of Chinese ones, it inevitably caused lots of problems. Chief among them, from an American perspective, was that lots of US companies faced a heavy commercial hit as a result of the ban. The blackli
  
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• MMA Germany Brings the Mobile Maturity Self-Assessment tool to Global Brands

  22-10-2021 10:45
  
  Learn how your company performs on mobile with a self-assessment tool developed by experts from Google, Facebook, Adjust, and Ogury. MUNICH, 22nd October — MMA Germany teamed up with mobile experts from Google, Facebook, Adjust, and Ogury to develop a tool that allows companies to assess their mobile readiness in less than 20 minutes. The Mobile Maturity Self Assessment examines areas such as organization, measurement, marketing, and product (e.g. UX). Companies gain valuable insights rega
  
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• TIM increases Open RAN footprint again

  22-10-2021 10:40
  
  Just over a month after launching its second Open RAN location, TIM has added a third to its footprint.
  The Italian incumbent said it has rolled out Open RAN technology in the town of Saluzzo, in south-west Piedmont, using a equipment from a variety of providers, some of which were part of its previous Open RAN launches.
  RAN software components were supplied by JMA Wireless, radio frequency equipment came from Microelectronics Technology (MTI), and Dell Technologies supplied the hardware, while
  
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• EE offers online course to help children avoid a life of Internet misery

  22-10-2021 10:38
  
  BT’s mobile division EE has launched an online course designed to teach children how to safely use the Internet when they get their first phone.
  Called PhoneSmart, it consists of five interactive videos depicting young characters who grapple with subjects like bullying and fake news. Successfully completing each lesson earns the participant a sticker; collecting all five means the child qualifies for their so-called PhoneSmart Licence.
  The course is available for free to anyone, not just E
  
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• TIM adds to its Open RAN coverage with Saluzzo deployment

  22-10-2021 02:00
  At the start of 2021, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone all signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreeing to collaborate and jointly focus on developing Open RAN technology. Not to be left out, TIM became the fifth signatory of the MoU just weeks later and since then has been advancing steadily with its Open RAN drive…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• The emerging customer experience in telecoms

  22-10-2021 02:00
  The last year should have been a golden year for European telecommunication (telecoms) companies. Tens of millions of people were forced to work from home in response to Covid-19 and have become increasingly reliant on robust residential broadband and mobile phone networks to do their jobs and entertain themselves. Demand for the industry’s most important product — connectivity — has never been higher. With the advent of significant mergers and acquisitions in the UK tele
  
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• Nokia deploys 5G standalone core network for Taiwan Mobile

  22-10-2021 02:00
  The timely deployment includes Nokia’s voice core, cloud packet core, subscriber data management, signaling, network exposure, policy controller, cloud infrastructure, and security management for radio transport. With a 5G standalone core network, Taiwan Mobile can readily provide the most advanced 5G services such as network slicing and smart city solutions that require ultra…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Belgium crawls towards 5G auction in 2022

  22-10-2021 02:00
  Belgium’s journey in allocating 5G spectrum has been highly problematic, with numerous delays caused not only by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic but, more generally, due to disagreements between federal and regional governments.   By July 2020 an agreement between the various stakeholders had still not been reached…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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