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• Marcelo Claure to depart SoftBank after long-running Son dispute

  27-01-2022 20:28
  Executive who turned round WeWork is latest senior figure to quit after falling out with founder
  
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• HS2 testing building piles that can suck heat out of the ground

  27-01-2022 18:49 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A test is being carried out by an HS2 contractor that could see heat being extracted out of the ground to heat buildings and railway stations.
  Extracting heat from the ground is not a new technology, but it has struggled to be incorporated into large commercial construction sites. Considering that a heat pump needs lots of pipes drilled into the ground to pump cool water down, and warmed water back up, and as most construction sites dig large deep piles into the ground to support the building, i
  
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• BT datacentres to power London Underground’s new mobile connectivity

  27-01-2022 18:18
  
  Telecoms group BT has signed a multi-million pound contract to deliver data centre facilities to infrastructure firm BAI Communications, which is masterminding the plan to get 4G on the underground.
  BT will provide BAI, which has a 20-year concession with TfL to deliver to deliver mobile connectivity, with data centre facilities based in London. All UK mobile operators will be able to co-locate their equipment within these data centres, with BT manging them as a ‘neutral party’.
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• Tours of Aldwych’s disused tube station resume

  27-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The disused London Underground station at Aldwych is to once again open its doors to let people down and see this most famous of abandoned tube stations.
  Opened to the public in 1907, it was never as heavily used as originally intended and closed nearly 100 years later in 1994. Occasional public tours started in 2010, and following the pandemic, are resuming once more.Aldwych station is still used for training exercises and filming, and it’s also never been modernised, so was use
  
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• Spotify continues to back Rogan after Neil Young ultimatum

  27-01-2022 13:55
  
  Music streaming service Spotify has removed Neil Young’s music after the legendary rocker said he wouldn’t share a platform with podcast giant Joe Rogan.
  Young wrote an open letter to his management earlier this week asking them to remove his music from Spotify, because he didn’t want to be on the same platform as the Joe Rogan Experience – the world’s biggest podcast – which he claims has been spreading false information about covid vaccines.  In what ap
  
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• New TIM CEO looking into network spin-off

  27-01-2022 13:54
  
  TIM’s broad of directors has charged new chief exec Pietro Labriola with examining options for the future of its infrastructure assets, which could include a network spin-off.
  The Italian incumbent’s network assets have been at the centre of debate for months, if not years, but the situation has intensified in recent weeks, following KKR’s takeover offer at the back end of last year.
  To simplify somewhat, KKR’s offer naturally includes the network, but there’s a big
  
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• Deutsche Telekom pulls the plug on its cloud gaming service

  27-01-2022 13:47
  
  It’s game over for MagentaGaming, which has announced it is shutting down on February 26th.
  Once the deadline passes, players won’t be able to access their game libraries and, worse, they won’t be able to transfer their saved games to another service. It means that anyone who has invested hundreds of hours into a game has less than a month to get to the end before all that time and effort is erased forever. That’s going to sting a bit.
  “It is with a heavy heart that
  
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• 200th anniversary of London’s oldest surviving surgical theatre

  27-01-2022 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden away in the roof of an old church near London Bridge can be found the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe, and plans have been announced to mark its 200th anniversary.
  Tucked away in the attic of an 18th- century church on the original Southwark site of St Thomas’ Hospital, the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret is a remarkable survivor in the history of medicine and surgery.
  Opened 200 years ago in the roof of the old church as an operating theatre for women, it
  
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• Exhibition shows off the electronic music legacy of Thomas Leer and Robert Rental

  27-01-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At the turn of the 1980s, as punk morphed into electro, two men released an album that was highly rated at the time, but most people today probably haven’t heard of them.
  This collaboration is the topic of an underground exhibition by the Horse Hospital, From the Port to the Bridge, which covers the early years of the two musicians, Thomas Leer and Robert Rental,  along with their struggles and later careers.
  “The Bridge spans the gulf between punk and electro. It’s as goo
  
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• MagentaGaming fades to black as Deutsche Telekom announces shutdown

  27-01-2022 01:00
  Back in August 2020, Deutsche Telekom launched its MagentaGaming service, proclaiming the ambitious goal of scaling up the cloud platform to compete with major players in the gaming industry.  At the time, Deutsche Telekom said that the service will allow uses to access around 100 games, which they can stream directly from the cloud to their computer, mobile, or tablet…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FWA to account for 9% of US broadband subs by 2026

  27-01-2022 01:00
  FWA, effectively providing fixed broadband services using mobile network connectivity, has been a part of telecoms operators’ repertoires for many years now. For the most part, however, the technology has been viewed as a something of a stopgap, providing connectivity to the relatively small number of customers who are too difficult – or costly – to reach with traditional fixed broadband infrastructure, like fibre.  Until recently, the technical performance of FWA ha
  
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• Digital Realty opens first carrier-neutral data center in South Korea

  27-01-2022 01:00
  Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, today announced the official opening of its first data center in South Korea, and the first carrier-neutral facility in the country. Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10) will serve as a gateway to global expansion for enterprises in Korea to scale their digital business into new markets globally, and vice versa.ICN10 is a multi-story facility spanning 22,000 square feet and is str
  
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• BT announces apprentice hiring spree for 2022

  27-01-2022 01:00
  Today, BT has announced its latest drive to hire and develop the next generation of telecoms professionals, with plans to hire over 600 apprentices in 2022 as part of their September intake.This total represents a significant increase from last year, in which BT hired 428 people in related roles.The roles available will reportedly span a wide variety of subject areas…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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