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• Crossrail hands control of Canary Wharf’s Elizabeth line station to TfL

  25-01-2022 17:44 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  TfL has taken formal control of the Elizabeth line station at Canary Wharf, leaving just one last station to hand over for the line to be complete.
  Now that’s been handed over, Staff from MTR Elizabeth line, who will operate Canary Wharf, will continue familiarisation with the station, its procedures, facilities and systems. They will also undertake Trial Operations exercises to replicate scenarios that may occur when the station is open to customers.
  Trial Operations is the final phase of
  
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• HRH The Prince of Wales’s Watercolours exhibition

  25-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A recently restored former military chapel is currently hosting an exhibition of watercolours all painted by the Prince of Wales.
  An introduction panel explains that the His Royal Highness took up painting as he “found photography less than satisfying”, and wanted something to convey more emotion and texture than photography could achieve. He also realised that painting is rather hard, especially in watercolours, and admits that some of his early works are rather dreadful.
  (C) The Pr
  
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• Ericsson shares spike as it rolls with the Chinese punches

  25-01-2022 14:11
  
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson managed to offset continued decline in China with gains elsewhere and improved its margins in Q4 2021, which seems to have pleased investors.
  Organic sales grew slightly by 2% year-on-year, but that includes the drag of a three percentage point decline in China. Gross margin also improved by three percentage points, resulting in a 41% YoY jump in profit. All this contributed to an 8% spike in Ericsson’s share price as invested approved of all that lovely extra c
  
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• Facebook teases AI supercomputer built to power the metaverse

  25-01-2022 14:02
  
  Meta, the artist formally known as Facebook, is showing off its new AI Research SuperCluster which it claims will be the fastest AI supercomputer on the planet.
  What’s under the hood of this absolute beast? 760 Nvidia DGX A100 systems comprising of 6080 GPUs communicate with each other via NVIDIA Quantum 1600 Gb/s InfiniBand two-level Clos fabric, and then there’s 175 petabytes of Pure Storage FlashArray, 46 petabytes of cache storage in Penguin Computing Altus systems, and 10 petaby
  
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• Vodafone UK will start switching off 3G next year

  25-01-2022 13:18
  
  After 17 years and many billions of pounds, Vodafone UK is preparing to call time on its 3G network.
  The operator announced on Tuesday that it will begin phasing out the service in 2023 as part of an upgrade intended to improve the performance of its 4G and 5G networks.
  “3G has connected so many customers over the last 17 years, but the future is 4G and 5G. We’re going to be focused on giving customers a faster and more reliable mobile experience, and minimising our impact on the env
  
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• AMH Philippines and Synspective sign MoU for Strategic Alliance to use SAR Data for Geohazard Mitigation Projects in the Philippines

  25-01-2022 13:08
  
  (January 25 2022) AMH Philippines, Inc. and Synspective have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use SAR technology as part of an integrated and comprehensive approach to mitigate geohazards for infrastructure in the Philippines. The partnership includes the Land Displacement Monitoring (LDM) service, fully developed and automated by Synspective, and is empowered with AMH’s years of local experience in various projects in transportation infrastructure, energy, property, and minin
  
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• Tickets alert: Meet a holographic David Attenborough

  25-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A free exhibition is opening next month based around the BBC’s Green Planet TV series, and it includes a virtual David Attenborough who has been transformed into a 3D hologram.
  Sir David Attenborough (c) The Green Planet Experience
  At the exhibition, people will enter the show from Piccadilly Circus through a living rainforest complete with hundreds of tropical trees, plants and shrubs.
  Based on the information, the rest of the exhibition sounds like it will be seen as augmented reality th
  
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• Iliad launches broadband in Italy with cheap FTTH and home-made box

  25-01-2022 12:58
  
  French telco group Iliad launched its fixed broadband service in Italy on Tuesday with all the whooping and hollering one would expect from a new market entrant.
  But behind the hype – and there was plenty of that at the launch event, with Iliad Italia CEO Benedetto Levi heralding a revolution in the Italian fibre market – there’s a serious message for existing Italian broadband providers: prepare for a price war…or a squeeze, at least.
  Iliad’s full fibre fixed broa
  
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• Exhibition about the Northern line extension that wasn’t built

  25-01-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Had things turned out differently, the Northern line would be a lot more northern than it is, and a new exhibition has opened to explore that planned but never built extension.
  What is known as the Northern Heights plans would have linked up several branches of the Northern line, and while some were killed off by WW2, one part was killed off by the arrival of the Green Belt around London, and it was that which killed off the extension this exhibition is looking at.Although construction had start
  
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• Vodafone UK waves goodbye to 3G next year

  25-01-2022 01:00
  After 17 years of continuous operation, Vodafone has today announced that it will begin retiring 3G services from 2023.  As the service is phased out, customers still reliant on the service will gradually be shifted to the more advanced 4G and 5G, offering faster and more reliable services to customers. The spectrum that was previously used for the 3G services will be refarmed to support these more advanced services. Vodafone’s 3G service has been in operation for arou
  
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• Openreach investing £58m in North West broadband

  25-01-2022 01:00
  Around 196,000 more homes and businesses in the North West are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £58m investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen. When work is finished, people living and working in more than 15 communities across Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside, will be able to contact their broadband provider and upgrade to full fibre broadband
  
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• French and German govts team up to fund private 5G projects

  25-01-2022 01:00
  Back in 2020, the French and German governments agreed to collaborate in the development of 5G and by spring 2021 a joint call for 5G projects focussing on private campus networks using Open RAN architecture had been announced. Now, around a year later, the French and German governments are jointly providing €17.7 million to support four winning 5G projects that will be co-developed by a consortia of 14 French and 16 German partner companies. “I am looking forward to an int
  
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• ARMistice? Nvidia may withdraw from battle to acquire chip company

  25-01-2022 01:00
  Back in September 2020, Nvidia announced that it had bid $40 billion to purchase ARM, The deal was immediately controversial for both corporate and political reasons, launching a host of regulatory investigations. One of the main issues is that ARM’s designs are currently used by almost all of Nvidia’s major rivals, including the likes of Qualcomm and Intel, with these companies raising concerns that the purchase would allow Nvidia to block their access to ARM tech or char
  
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