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• Smithfield’s Christmas Eve auction – cancelled for 2021

  07-12-2021 20:25 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Smithfield meat market has confirmed that the annual Christmas Eve auction won’t be happening this year, due to you know what.
  Considering that much of the fun of the event is being part of a tightly packed crowd shouting for attention and waving money as fresh meat and turkeys are flung around — it was unlikely to take place. Smithfields meat market has now confirmed the auction cannot go ahead safely this year. They are hoping that they will be able to hold the auction next year.
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• Tours of the triforium in St Paul’s Cathedral

  07-12-2021 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  St Paul’s Cathedral is running occasional tours of its triforium, the space high up above the nave once again during December.
  The triforium is a huge hidden corridor that runs around the nave hidden high up above the heads of the worshipers below. No one is entirely sure why the space is called a Triforium, but in ancient times someone described a similar space in Canterbury with such a name, and it stuck.
  For those cathedrals that are large enough to have one, it’s a valuable space
  
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• Intel eyes 2022 listing for connected car unit Mobileye

  07-12-2021 16:14
  
  US chip giant Intel intends to retain majority ownership of Israel-based connected car tech company Mobileye after an IPO.
  More than four years ago, Intel raised some eyebrows when it acquired Mobileye for a fairly hefty $15.3 billion. Now, the chip giant is aiming to take the connected car specialist public in the United States during 2022 — in a deal estimated to be worth more than $50 billion.
  No surprises, then, that Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel, has described the acquisition of Mob
  
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• Beam Park station funding forces delay in housing development

  07-12-2021 15:54 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans by Havering Council to buy up plots of land to support new housing in Dagenham have been withdrawn due to the confusion over plans for a new railway station next to the housing development.
  The site, Beam Park is the former Ford manufacturing plant in Dagenham, now owned by the GLA, and in 2019 received consents for a 3,000 home development, with around half classed as “affordable”. As part of the agreement, a new railway station was to be built next to the site on the existing
  
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• Life360 reportedly sells precise, identifiable location data

  07-12-2021 15:45
  
  Self-styled “family safety platform”, Life360, is alleged to have sold the precise location data of its users to many data brokers, which then sell it on to all kinds of customers.
  Former employees of one of the most popular data tracking apps, Life360, have told The Markup, a New York-based non-profit organisation, that their former employer sells location data it collects from its own app to around a dozen data brokers including Cuebiq, X-Mode, SafeGraph, and Arity. These brokers t
  
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• Samsung names new CEOs, merges mobile and consumer electronics divisions

  07-12-2021 13:56
  
  Leadership reorganisation at Korean tech giant Samsung  will see separate parts of the business combined into the new SET Division, led by newly promoted CEO and Vice Chairman JH Han.
  The move is part of a raft of promotions announced today by Samsung, which sees two of its three main verticals – consumer electronics and mobile – fall under a single boss. Meanwhile  President Kyehyun Kyung was simultaneously named CEO of its semiconductor unit.
  Perhaps pointing to an emphas
  
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• Samsung names new CEOs, merges mobile and CE divisions

  07-12-2021 13:56
  
  Leadership reorganisation at Korean tech giant Samsung  will see separate parts of the business combined into the new SET Division, led by newly promoted CEO and Vice Chairman JH Han.
  The move is part of a raft of promotions announced today by Samsung, which sees two of its three main verticals – consumer electronics and mobile – fall under a single boss. Meanwhile  President Kyehyun Kyung was simultaneously named CEO of its semiconductor unit.
  Perhaps pointing to an emphas
  
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• Virgin completes its gigabit upgrade

  07-12-2021 13:33
  
  As anticipated a month ago, Virgin Media O2 now claims to provide average speeds in excess of 1 gigabit per second over its entire fixed network.
  For some reason VMO2 issued a press release teasing this milestone in November, which must have coincided with a quiet news day because we covered it anyway. The big day was promised before the end of the year and has some with weeks to spare, so credit where it’s due. The underlying significance of the milestone, however, is not so clear cut.
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• Louis Wain’s kaleidoscopic cats fills a gallery with colour

  07-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One Christmas, a patient in a psychiatric hospital was asked to help with the decorations, and he painted Jesus on a mirror, but no ordinary Jesus, this was Jesus as a cat, and the patient was Louis Wain.
  Louis Wain was once exceptionally famous, but his fame has faded over time, and he is now almost as well known for suffering a mental health condition than for drawing lots of cats, but a new film about his life with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role will give him and his work a new burst o
  
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• JICA and Synspective detect new risks in Guatemala using SAR satellite data

  07-12-2021 12:15
  
  The development of a disaster prevention management system makes progress 　Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Synspective started a satellite use service demonstration to monitor ground movements in Guatemala City, Guatemala, as part of an information gathering and pilot project. Using "Land Displacement Monitoring" (LDM), a ground deformation monitoring service using satellite data provided by Synspective, we conducted a ground deformation analysis for approximately three
  
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• Speedcast Secures Multi-Year Contract with Oliveira Energia for Connectivity Backbone Supporting 42 Sites

  07-12-2021 12:00
  Agreement with Speedcast’s local entity, SC Caprock, covers service delivery to Amazon Basin power plants and ensures reliability for operationsRio de Janeiro, Brazil — December 7, 2021 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, today announced that the company has been selected by Oliveira Energia for a multi-year contract to deliver connectivity service to 42 power plants in the countryside of Amazonas State. Brazilian power electric generator Oliveira En
  
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• Wireless Broadband Alliance Signs 150th Member Amid Growing Interest In Wi-Fi 6E And OpenRoaming™ Technology

  07-12-2021 10:00
  
  Telefonica joins WBA as 150th member alongside a host of new operator and enterprise members, as Wi-Fi and cellular convergence drives momentum London – December 7th, 2021: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced that it had reached a new milestone in its nearly two-decade history, attracting its 150th member, Telefonica, to the organization. Operators such as Altice, Telia, Turkcell and Telefonica have recently joined the alliance, along with several new enterprise members i
  
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• QA Cafe and prpl Foundation join forces to expand automated self-testing for prplWare broadband gateways and Wi-Fi routers

  07-12-2021 10:00
  
  Dover, N.H., USA - A new partnership between QA Cafe and prpl Foundation will expand the performance and security for broadband Wi-Fi routers and gateways with enhanced automated testing. QA Cafe’s CDRouter test solution for broadband, enterprise edge and Wi-Fi gateways provides repeatable, automated testing of prplWare open-source CPE software that can be easily replicated for self-testing by developers. The partnership will bring expanded self-testing to a broader community of developers
  
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• Moor Park, the tube station in a private estate

  07-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In northwest London lies a tube station that sits almost entirely inside a private housing estate. The tube station, Moor Park on the Metropolitan line sits between a private golf course on one side and a large private housing estate on the other.
  Baring a tiny gap, the entire tube station is surrounded by private owners, and you can just about, use a footpath to get to the station from the southwest side that runs along the side of the golf course without entering the private estate.The Moor Pa
  
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• Samsung reshuffle sees consumer and mobile units merge

  07-12-2021 01:00
  Samsung has not been shy when it comes to organisational restructure over the past decade.  Back back in 2017, then CEO Kwon Oh-hyun resigned, citing an “unprecedented crisis” facing the company. At the time, the company was performing fairly well financially, hence the crisis Kwon is referring to is almost certainly the imprisonment of Samsung chairman Lee Jae…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Mission complete for VMO2 as it finishes national network upgrade

  07-12-2021 01:00
  Today, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that they have completed upgrading their existing network to DOCSIS 3.1 technology, four years ahead of schedule. The upgrade process has been underway for the last two years, accelerating at an incredible pace. VMO2 announced that they had reached the halfway point  (around 7.75 million homes) in their upgrade plans only back in August…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Meet the Asian telecom superstars! #ACA21

  07-12-2021 01:00
  Launched by Total Telecom in 2012 the Asia Communication Awards are the region's leading platform for recognising innovation and excellence amongst communication service providers, suppliers and other participants based in the Asia region or with product offerings specifically serving the region.For 2021 we totally reimagined the categories and enhanced the judging panel to ensure these are the only awards you want to win in Asia. This resulted in a record number of entries from more than 50 or
  
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• Crosslake goes CrossChannel with new system launch

  07-12-2021 01:00
  CrossChannel is a next generation, high-capacity system with 96 fibre pairs supporting over 2,400 Tbps of capacity. The network spans 550km, 149km of which is submarine. The system is the first to be installed between the UK and France in over 20 years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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