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• Notice regarding Launch Schedule for our Third SAR Satellite “StriX-1”

  16-08-2022 22:30
  
  TOKYO, 2022, August 16 – Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and analytic solutions provider, announced today the official launch schedule of StriX-1, the company’s third SAR satellite.Scheduled Date of LaunchStriX-1 has a launch window starting from mid-September (UTC). Exact lift-off target date and time will be confirmed soon. Please note that the launch may be postponed or canceled due to unforeseen weather conditions or complications. For the latest information, please visit
  
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• City commuter numbers continue to rise following the pandemic

  16-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The number of rush hour commuters into the City has doubled over the past year, although they’re still down on pre-pandemic levels.
  Based on anonymous connection data captured by the O2 mobile network in the weeks surrounding July 19th, 2022, the report showed commuter highs have almost doubled year-on-year, however, peak levels are still 27% off where they were pre-pandemic. The latest wave of anonymised data intelligence from the mobile network suggests that commuting trends are stabilis
  
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• Lyft and Motional launch new automated electric taxi service in Las Vegas

  16-08-2022 18:16
  
  App based taxi service Lyft has teamed up with autonomous vehicle outfit Motional to offer autonomous rides to people in Las Vegas using a new fully electric autonomous vehicle.
  The firms have been running autonomous driving trials in Las Vegas for quite a few years, and have now officially launched a service where users can use the Lyft app to order a Hyundai IONIQ 5-based robot taxi, a purpose built fully driverless commercial vehicle.
  This service is a kind of dummy run for a ‘fully dri
  
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• St Matthias – London’s only interregnum church

  16-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On a side street in Poplar, East London, is an old church that’s now used as a playschool — and is London’s only church that was built during the Interregnum, the time England was a republic.England and Wales, and later Scotland and Ireland, were governed as a republic following the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Very few churches were built during this period for unrelated reasons, but one of the few was built in Lond
  
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• Uber raises prices in the UK in bid to attract more drivers

  16-08-2022 13:47
  
  The taxi app is raising the per mile rate and minimum fare for drivers, which will lead to fare increases for users.
  Changes to peak hours, minimum fares and price changes will lead to a 5% increase for grabbing an Uber in London, though the increase will vary city by city. The increase is described as a move to grow its driver base in London with 8000 new drivers, in order to meet demand and boost service levels.
  This follows measures brought in by Uber to give drivers access to holiday pay and
  
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• Halloween trail coming to Chiswick Park and Gardens

  16-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  We’re in a heatwave, so the best time to start talking about Halloween – mainly as tickets for a nighttime woodland trail are now on sale.
  Watch out for flickering flames in a fiendish fire garden, daring fire artists and grinning pumpkins aglow. Wind your way through the illuminated haunted woods filled with creepy neon cobwebs, ghastly ghouls, wicked witches, larger-than life spiders and beastly bats. Then discover a Secret Garden filled with more hidden surprises. Could it be a tr
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and Bayern Munich extend partnership to 2027

  16-08-2022 12:42
  
  German telecom incumbent Deutsche Telekom and the Bundesliga team with 10 successive titles, FC Bayern Munich, have agreed an extension to their 20-year partnership to 2027.
  The German duo have announced that the deal benefits the telecom operator’s brand popularity while it will help drive technological innovation in the game, albeit no details were shared. The announcement states the deal was extended prematurely, alluding to a successful existing partnership over the past 20 years.
  For
  
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• Nokia, Telekom Serbia and MTEL test a 600Gbps optical network over 600km

  16-08-2022 12:02
  
  Kit vendor Nokia has successfully deployed and tested a 600Gbps line rate on Telekom Serbia and MTEL’s optical transport network, over a distance of 600km between Banja Luka and Belgrade.
  The mission to pipe generous quantities of data through the network utilized Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch powered by a PSE-Vs chipset, and the whole endeavour was undertaken in order to lay ‘the foundation for future growth to meet the needs of low latency, high-capacity traffic demands enabli
  
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• There’s a medieval wall inside a London office that you can visit

  16-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a large section of medieval wall from the City of London’s first monastery that can be found inside a modern office, and it’s open for the public to pop in and have a look.
  The medieval wall as seen from the basement (c) ianVisits
  This is one of the few surviving sections of Holy Trinity Aldgate, the City of London’s first monastery, founded around 1108, later to be the richest monastery in London, and thanks to those riches, the first to be shut down by King Henr
  
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• Vodafone Ghana network expansion continues amid takeover turmoil

  16-08-2022 02:00
  This week, Vodafone Ghana has announced plans to expand its mobile network by up to 30% by the end of October. Vodafone says it is currently in the process of rolling out roughly 300 4G and 3G sites across the nation, with around half the work already completed. In addition, the company says it is increasing the capacity of its existing sites…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AWS begins selling private 5G services

  16-08-2022 02:00
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) first unveiled its private 5G services back in November last year, announcing that they were developing a private mobile network offering that would allow enterprises to deploy, operate, and scale up their own mobile networks “in a matter of days”.Now, nine months later, the AWS Private 5G service has officially been launched…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 1&1 announces first live 5G test over Open RAN network

  16-08-2022 02:00
  This week, 1&1 have announced a successful 5G trial using their fully virtualised Open RAN network.  In a LinkedIn post, the company said that the test was conducted under real life conditions with real customer behaviour, delivering impressive results. “In July, we launched the first Friendly User Test under real conditions and in real customer behaviour! The results made our predictions and were sometimes even higher!&rdquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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