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• Fleet of new electric buses coming to Route 63

  11-02-2022 19:08 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A fleet of new electric buses are being rolled out along bus route 63, and they include a number of new innovations that are being tested together for the first time.The new buses have been under development for a couple of years, and they are slightly experimental, in that a lot of ideas are being tried at the same time. If they work, great, but it’s considerably cheaper to remove something that people don’t like than to add it later if tests elsewhere show it worked.
  So, a new flee
  
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• Canaletto’s largest painting commission coming to London

  11-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  What is thought to be Canaletto’s largest single commission, of 24 Venetian paintings, will be coming to London for the first time this Spring.
  Opening in April at the National Maritime Museum, the exhibition, Canaletto’s Venice Revisited, will show off some of his most famous views of Venice, and look at how the tourism that helped establish Canaletto’s career now threatens the city’s future.
  At the heart of the exhibition is the complete set of twenty-four Venetian view
  
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• Imminent TIM and Open Fiber deal revives hopes of single Italian network

  11-02-2022 14:07
  
  TIM is set to allow Open Fiber to use its ducts and poles to extend fibre broadband to unserved areas of Italy.
  Reports of talks between the pair, and a deal that could be announced at the start of next week, come as the proposed single Italian network plan hangs in the balance and debate continues over KKR’s bid for TIM. All these elements are intrinsically linked, making for some interesting times in the Italian telecoms market.
  Italian daily Il Messagero appears to be the original sourc
  
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• Telefónica Tech and Oracle strike global cloud deal

  11-02-2022 13:53
  
  The stars of telecoms and public cloud continue to align, as Spanish telecoms group Telefónica took its partnership with Oracle to the next level.
  Under the agreement, Telefónica Tech – the operator’s digital transformation division – and Oracle will jointly offer platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and applications to enterprises and public sector organisations. The global partnership enables Telefónica to offer B2B customers an on-ramp to Oracle Cloud Infrastruc
  
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• What happens in metaverse stays in metaverse – or does it?

  11-02-2022 13:31
  
  Network connectivity provider Zen Internet felt compelled to ask the UK what it thought about metaverse dating ethics, with nearly half equating virtual flings to real life cheating.
  According to the research, 42% of UK adults consider that dating someone else in the metaverse is the equivalent to cheating on a real-life partner. Which would seem to imply that over half think a VR headset dalliance is fair game.
  Meanwhile, 37% of respondents said that dating in the metaverse will become more mai
  
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• Stephen Hawkings exhibition opens at the Science Museum

  11-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the next few months, it will be possible to see some of the objects from the late Professor Stephen Hawkings Cambridge office on display in the Science Museum.It’s a smallish display, appropriately next to the space galleries, but includes a number of items important to him if less well known to us, as well as the obvious, such as the famous wheelchair and speech synthesizer he used. As a display though it shows off his humour, from the Simpsons jacket as a memento of his appearance as
  
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• Iliad bid for Vodafone Italia confirmed and rejected

  11-02-2022 11:20
  
  UK telco has confirmed French telecoms group Iliad offered to buy its Italian operation and that the offer was rejected.
  When we first reported on the matter earlier this week it was still at the unconfirmed rumour stage. Subsequent enquiries to Iliad yielded only a steer towards a paywalled Bloomberg article, that they didn’t even link to (so we won’t either), featuring a quote from its CEO confirming a bid had been made but nothing more. That’s a funny way of going about comm
  
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• Vodafone shrugs off Iliad’s bid for Italian unit

  11-02-2022 01:00
  Earlier this week, it was reported that French telco Iliad, owned by billionaire Xavier Niel, had submitted a takeover bid for Vodafone Italy. The move would constitute a major shakeup for the Italian telecoms landscape, reducing the number of mobile players in Italy from four to three and creating a new entity of scale enough to challenge the dominance of market leader TIM…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Smart homes, smart cities, and… smart facemasks?

  11-02-2022 01:00
  Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, facemasks have become a major, though not uncontroversial, aspect of daily life.  Now, a study published in the scientific journal Nature by researchers from the University of Grenada has explored the creation of a smart facemask to help monitor the wearer’s inhalation of CO2.  When wearing a mask, not all the CO2 that we exhale can perfuse through the material before we inhale again, thus increasing the amount of CO2 b
  
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• Oracle and Telefónica Tech partner for global cloud services

  11-02-2022 01:00
  Oracle and Telefónica Tech have announced an agreement to jointly offer cloud platform-as-a-service and applications to enterprises and public sector organizations across Telefónica Tech’s customer base. The services will be delivered through a global partnership which will enable Telefónica Tech to offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services as part of its portfolio as well as support clients through professional and managed services.To support the increasing de
  
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