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• A big tree made from little trees for the Platinum Jubilee

  22-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A 21-metre tall tree sculpture will appear outside Buckingham Palace this summer, made up from 350 smaller trees. It’s the latest idea from Thomas Heatherwick, better known in London for the Garden Bridge and New Routemaster buses, and will be a tree-shaped framework structure that then holds 350 pot plants.
  (c) Thomas Heatherwick studio
  It’s tied in with the ongoing Queen’s Green Canopy, a campaign to plant over a million trees to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this s
  
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• IoT firm Sigfox acquired by UnaBiz

  22-04-2022 13:40
  
  Troubled French IoT startup Sigfox has been saved from receivership by Singapore based UnaBiz.
  From an array nine potential bidders, IoT firm UnaBiz has been selected as the new owner Sigfox, which came onto the scene with a proprietary narrowband tech designed specifically for IoT, during insolvency proceedings at the Commercial Court of Toulouse.
  UnaBiz says it will safeguard 110 existing employees of a total of 174 – so that’s 64 heads on the chopping block – and make &lsquo
  
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• Half-price tickets to Doctor Who: Time Fracture

  22-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Doctor Who: Time Fracture is an immersive theatre event where you will be part of the show, and selected dates are offering half-price tickets. Featuring an original story arc, Doctor Who: Time Fracture will feature Daleks, Cybermen, Time Lords and many other strange and mysterious characters as you undertake a mission to save the universe as we know it.In an immersive theatre, actors interact with the audience for individual scenes, often improvising with willing audience members. Some audience
  
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• FCC set to fine Truphone over alleged Russian ties

  22-04-2022 12:29
  
  US comms regulator, the FCC, has taken enforcement action against UK eSim firm Truphone for failing to accurately disclose foreign ownership stake by dual Russian/Cypriot nationals.
  The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a fine of $660,639 against Truphone (through Montana-based subsidiary iSmart Mobile) for ‘exceeding statutory limits for ownership by foreign individuals or entities holding equity or voting interests in FCC-issued licenses without Commission approval.’
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• CNN + Musk = changing of the guard

  22-04-2022 12:22
  
  The failure of CNN+ and the establishment panic over Elon Musk’s attempt to acquire Twitter are related events.
  Less than a month after its much-hyped launch, news-focused SVoD service CNN+ has thrown in the towel. The apparent rationale was that, with people increasingly disinclined to watch CNN for free, the smart move was to start charging for it. The frequency and extent of corporate folly never ceases to amaze, with this futile and stupid gesture marking the perfect finale to AT&T
  
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• London Underground sends first test trains through Bank station upgrade

  22-04-2022 08:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the Easter weekend, Northern line trains made their first test trips through Bank tube station’s new southbound platform.
  The Bank station upgrade has seen a brand new and much larger southbound platform built alongside the existing station, and during the current Northern line closure, they’ve been linking the new platform into the old Northern line tunnels. Joining the new and old tunnels was completed a few weeks ago, and since then, they’ve been laying the new track in
  
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• OneWeb to launch satellites from India in new deal

  22-04-2022 02:00
  Since its rescue from bankruptcy back in 2020, the UK’s OneWeb has gone from strength to strength, attracting over $2.7 billion in investment for its planned LEO satellite constellation. Following steady launches over the past two years, OneWeb’s constellation currently stands at 428 satellites, with the company able to provide commercial services above the 50th Parallel North (essentially covering Northern Europe and Canada)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia to supply data center switching for Microsoft’s data centres

  22-04-2022 02:00
  Nokia has announced it will provide its data center switching solutions for Microsoft’s data center facilities to support the bandwidth growth to Microsoft Azure as part of a multi-faceted deal. With the significant growth of cloud services and cloud computing and the move to 400GE, Nokia has been selected to supply its 7250 IXR chassis…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ethiopian newcomer Safaricom to share Ethio Telecom’s infrastructure

  22-04-2022 02:00
  In May last year, a consortium led by Safaricom won a telecoms operating licence in Ethiopia for roughly $850 million, intending to break up the monopoly of existing state-backed operator Ethio Telecom for the first time.Building out a mobile network from scratch is not something that can be done quickly. The company has already begun work on rolling out infrastructure in major cities, with a wider deployment to follow…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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