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• Four principles for deploying AI responsibly

  20-07-2022 18:22
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Alejandro Saucedo, Machine Learning Engineering Director at Seldon, looks at best practice for the use of artificial intelligence.
  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the process of transforming every industry, with over one in three organisations now having AI in widespread or limited production. But as is the case with any technology, AI comes with substantial
  
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• Tickets Alert: Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse

  20-07-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few years ago, I spent a couple of hours bashing an ancient monument with a hammer, and there’s a chance to do it again.The Uffington White Horse, an iron-age era hill figure formed from deep trenches cut into the Oxfordshire countryside and filled with white chalk needs to be topped up to keep it fresh and white by re-chalking each year.
  You’ll be given a hammer and a bucket of chalk and asked to bash the chalk into the monument to give it a fresh clean look.An hour or so sitting
  
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• Rajant And AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RADIO (A.I.R.) Partnership to Bring Kinetic Mesh Networking to Middle East, Turkey, And Azerbaijan

  20-07-2022 15:13
  
  A.I.R., EMEA’s Largest Two-way Radio Reseller and Rajant Provide a Natural Complement Malvern, PA – July 20, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RADIO (A.I.R.), a leading radio communication solutions and mobility/IT applications provider. This agreement represents Rajant’s further investment in the Middle East, Turkey,
  
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• The public cloud wilts in the UK heatwave

  20-07-2022 14:15
  
  Google and Oracle both confessed to data centre outages as temperatures hit 40C in the UK yesterday.
  The Google Cloud status update site refers to an ‘Incident affecting Google Compute Engine’, caused by a ‘cooling related failure in one of our buildings that hosts zone europe-west2-a for region europe-west2.’ Oracle also confirmed its ‘Cloud Infrastructure Compute UK South (London)’, among other services, was affected by a ‘cooling infrastructure’
  
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• FBI calls in Verizon to beef up its network

  20-07-2022 14:08
  
  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will dish out $400 million to US operator Verizon to modernize and expand its network infrastructure, data and voice solutions.
  The job, termed an Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task order is designed to help the agency’s connectivity hardware meet what it calls an ‘increasing demands for data bandwidth around the globe successfully.’ The upgrades will apparently enable the FBI to support things such as cloud computing, ‘video a
  
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• Igneo buys into German fibre builder

  20-07-2022 14:06
  
  E.ON has sold a 50% stake in its German fibre operation to Igneo, a deal that demonstrates the enduring appeal of infrastructure assets to the investor community.
  The energy company this week announced it has brokered a deal with asset manager Igneo for half of Westenergie Breitband, Neither party shared financial information.
  In fact, the companies involved didn’t give away much at all about the deal, but it’s pretty clear that we’re looking at another case of an operator want
  
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• GlobalFoundries celebrates US vote to push through CHIPS act

  20-07-2022 14:01
  
  After US legislation that would provide funding for its chip industry passed its first hurdle, chip-maker GlobalFoundries said ‘now our country needs the Senate, House of Representatives and White House to make a final push.’
  A bipartisan bill which suggests subsidising the US semiconductor industry passed its first test on Tuesday, with a 64-34 vote. The legislation known as CHIPS would have the US pump $52 billion into boosting chip production at home, amid the supply chain chaos w
  
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• Ooredoo set to follow Telenor out of Myanmar

  20-07-2022 13:58
  
  The sorry saga of Myanmar’s regression towards international isolation is about to add another chapter.
  Reuters reported on Wednesday that Qatar-based Ooredoo, which along with Norway’s Telenor swept into Myanmar’s mobile market on a wave of optimism in 2014, is in talks to sell its business there. According to unnamed sources in the report, Ooredoo has informed the country’s telco regulator, the Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications Department (PTD), of its intentions.
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• Silent London Underground and Metropolis with live music

  20-07-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Wilton’s, an atmospheric Victorian Music Hall is putting on a series of silent films with live music accompaniment.
  The films are being screened at Wilton’s by The Lucky Dog Picturehouse, which presents a mix of classic silent films and live, period specific music. Tickets range from £8-£13 depending on the seating location in the music hall.
  Tickets are available from here.
  Underground (1928) plus shorts
  1st and 4th August 2022
  World premiere piano scores from Peter
  
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• Cyberman to open the BBC’s centenary display at the Science Museum

  20-07-2022 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition about the BBC in its centenary year opens at the Science Museum next week, with a 6ft tall 1988 Cyberman from Doctor Who highlighting the display.
  A Cyberman on Gallifrey in the 1983 BBC special, The Five Doctors
  In collaboration with the BBC, Broadcast Lates, taking place on the museum’s adults-only late opening next week, will also bring the world of TV and radio to life with a range of events, activities, workshops and Q&As. Visitors will be able to try their hand at p
  
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• New LTE700 antenna from HUBER+SUHNER empowers mission-critical networks

  20-07-2022 10:00
  
  As the amount of data traffic for mission critical networks continues to grow, this directly impacts the requirement for a broader frequencies range. To meet the challenge of this increasing demand, HUBER+SUHNER has developed the LTE700 antenna, the latest addition to the Special Communication portfolio, enabling reliable communication for private and mission critical networks. The LTE700 antenna operates between a range of 698 – 960 MHz and is able to empower private networks across a...S
  
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• Night Tube strike suspended after deal between RMT and TfL

  20-07-2022 09:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The RMT’s long running strike every weekend on the Night Tube has been suspended after TfL made an offer that the RMT union says was acceptable.
  The heart of the dispute was a decision to merge the part-time Night Tube drivers with the main pool of drivers, enabling the part-time drivers to upgrade to full-time if they wanted. This merger resulted in 200 tube driver vacancies then not needing to be filled, and the existing tube drivers being asked to work occasional night shifts.
  TfL had p
  
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• Sculpture in the City of London – a walking trail of public art

  20-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A walking trail around the City of London has appeared, dotted with works of public art. This is the 11th almost-annual Sculpture in the City, which will run until later this year. This year’s exhibition is a bit of a pandemic hangover, with seven artworks being left on display from last year’s show, and eleven new sculptures dotted around the city.There is an official app you can download, but I found it rather useless as the map can’t zoom in/out, so I ended up using the maps
  
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• Verizon scores $400m contract with FBI

  20-07-2022 02:00
  This week, Verizon’s public sector unit has announced that it has struck a $400 million deal with the FBI, pledging to update the Bureau’s IT technology and wireless networks. The deal includes the incorporation of Verizon’s Ethernet access capabilities and global Virtual Private Network Services (VPNS) with a 4G LTE and 5G Nationwide cellular fixed wireless access, which they say will give the FBI various benefits…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sparkle activates Monet submarine cable in the Atlantic

  20-07-2022 02:00
  Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the activation ofspectrum capacity on Monet submarine cable system connecting Brazil to the United States. With this addition…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sparkle activates Monet activates Atlantic

  20-07-2022 02:00
  Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the activation ofspectrum capacity on Monet submarine cable system connecting Brazil to the United States. With this addition…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Seven EU states urge caution over strong-arming big tech

  20-07-2022 02:00
  This week, reports suggest that seven EU member states – Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, and the Netherlands – have penned a joint letter to the EC, asking them to tread lightly when it comes to forcing tech companies to help pay for network rollout.The letter, seen by Bloomberg, called for an &ldquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• G.Network signs Armed Forces Covenant

  20-07-2022 02:00
  Full fibre broadband company G.Network has signed the Armed Forces Covenant, a pledge to recognise the contribution of serving personnel, both regular and reservists, veterans and military families. G.Network is proud to support its staff who have served their country, or continue to serve as reservists.G.Network has a specific ex-military recruitment and support pathway…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airbus launches HAPS-based connectivity business

  20-07-2022 02:00
  This week, aviation giant Airbus has announced it has launched a new dedicated HAPS Services Business unit, aiming to provide connectivity to those currently underserved by terrestrial and space-based solutions.The new subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space will focus on providing connectivity to customers via its Zephyr HAPS platform, a solar-powered, unmanned aerial system with a 25m wingspan that glides through the stratosphere and beams down low…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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