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• Floating planet Mars to fill the Natural History Museum next week

  10-03-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For just a couple of days, the Natural History Museum’s main entrance hall will have a huge floating planet Mars filling the space.
  It’s to mark Mars Day 2022 to mark the 6th anniversary of the launch of the first ExoMars mission and NASA’s Perseverance rover exploring Mars for just over a year.
  Previous installation in 2021 (c) NHM
  This year Mars Day falls on 14 March with Mars hour at 11:00 that day, both being part of the larger Mars week. On March 14th and 15th visitors to
  
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• Attend a lecture in the City of London’s Mansion House

  10-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Depending on how you look at it, this is either a chance to hear the Lord Mayor of London talking about an important issue or a chance to visit the sumptuous surrounds of Mansion House.
  The event is Gresham College’s annual Lord Mayor’s lecture is a — by the City of London’s standards — fairly new annual tradition that was started in 2010, and, pandemic permitting, takes place in either Mansion House or the Guildhall each year.This year’s Lord Mayor’s le
  
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• Cellnex picks up private 5G deal in automotive space

  10-03-2022 14:01
  
  Cellnex has inked another deal to roll out a private 5G network for an enterprise customer, this one marking its entry into the automotive sector.
  The fast-growing neutral host company will deploy a private 5G network for engineering group Segula Technologies at its test centre in Rodgau-Dudenhofen, Germany. The pair are talking up the usual advantages of private 5G, namely low latency, dedicated spectrum, enhanced security and so forth. These attributes will help Segula serve its car manufactur
  
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• No trains out of London Euston station over Easter

  10-03-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Network Rail is warning people that Euston station will be closed over the Easter weekend and early May bank holiday as major works will be taking place on the West Coast mainline.
  Over both weekends, there won’t be any trains running between London Euston and Milton Keynes, and people will need to switch to other railways or make use of bus replacement services.
  Affected train operators include Avanti West Coast, London Northwestern Railway and the London Overground.
  To assist, over both
  
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• BT picks Google for public cloud transformation

  10-03-2022 12:55
  
  UK incumbent BT has become the latest big name to buddy-up with a hyperscaler to overhaul its operations.
  The five-year deal announced on Thursday will see BT tap Google Cloud for a broad suite of products and services, including cloud infrastructure, machine learning (ML) and AI, data analytics, security and API management. The aim is to accelerate BT’s digital transformation, and by extension improve the customer experience, unlock new revenue streams, and lower costs and risk.
  BT says t
  
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• DT expands Open Telekom Cloud into Switzerland

  10-03-2022 12:44
  
  T-Systems, a subsidiary of German MNO Deutsche Telekom, has expanded its Open Telekom Cloud platform into Switzerland, opening new data centres in the region.
  T-System’s public cloud platform started off in Germany in 2014 and last year expanded into the Netherlands, so the move into Switzerland with local data centres means Open Telekom Cloud is now available in three regions across Europe.
  It is being pitched as a ‘community cloud developed specifically for Switzerland’, and
  
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• US internet giants tighten the screw on Russia

  10-03-2022 12:41
  
  As the scramble to be seen to be doing the right thing over the Ukraine conflict continues, Amazon and Google have made significant announcements.
  ‘We’ve suspended shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus, and we will no longer be accepting new Russia and Belarus-based AWS customers and Amazon third-party sellers,” said Amazon in a published update. “We are also suspending access to Prime Video for customers based in Russia, and we will no long
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Talbot Yard courtyard, SE1

  10-03-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A rather modern take on the public park can be found hidden away in the narrow side streets to the south of London Bridge station in a corner you’re unlikely to stumble upon by accident.It’s a courtyard space that was created by the construction of the blocks of student flats around it and was originally laid out with a few large trees and planting. However, just under a decade ago it gained its current, rather more practical appearance, which reflects how busy the park gets during s
  
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• Startup Stories: The Belle of Belfast City

  10-03-2022 01:00
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  ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting M2M communications for Smart Cities and Smart Mobility. ANGOKA offers solutions that safeguard communications between devices. The solution effectively provides a “diplomatic bag” to ensure that communications come from an authorised device, arrive at an authorised device…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India considering lowering prices of 5G spectrum at upcoming auction

  10-03-2022 01:00
  Over two years ago, India’s government expressed its intent to set the reserve price for 5G airwaves at 4.92 billion rupees ($64.1 million) per megahertz of spectrum in the 3,300MHz to 3,600 MHz bands.  Since then, the Indian operators have repeatedly complained to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that this price was extortionate…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cloud-first, AI-first: BT selects Google Cloud for strategic shift

  10-03-2022 01:00
  Today, BT has announced a new five-year deal with Google Cloud, aiming to leverage the latter’s AI and cloud expertise to foster a new company culture BT calls ‘The Digital Way’. According to the press release, the partnership will include a wide range of products and services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bug bounties: Telenor Sweden partners ethical hacker group YesWeHack

  10-03-2022 01:00
  It is no secret that cybersecurity attacks are on the rise worldwide, growing both in frequency and sophistication. The number of reported ransomware attacks worldwide, for example, grew by roughly 105% in 2021, with governments, the healthcare industry, and telecoms operators being disproportionately popular targets for attackers.In recognition of this evolving threat, Telenor Sweden has today announced that it has forged a new partnership with crowdsourced security platform YesWeHack, aiming
  
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