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• Kew Garden’s winter light show returns for its 10th anniversary

  25-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Now in its 10th year, Kew Gardens will be lighting up the winter evenings once more with its winter lights festival. Marking ten years since the original festive trail at southwest London’s Kew Gardens, this year’s display features a host of seasonal favourites alongside some brand new light installations.
  (c) Kew Gardens
  Many of Kew’s 12,000 trees and other botanical treasures from Kew’s living collection will be accentuated along the new route, allowing visitors to expe
  
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• Ransomware attacks surged by 47% in July

  25-08-2022 18:45
  
  According to a report by NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence division, ransomware attacks increased by 47% in July compared to June, adding more evidence for a trend of rising global cybercrime.
  The report has its own particular metrics but it mirrors others that have come out recently which collectively paint a picture of increasing international cybercrime, with NCC claiming ransomware attacks were up by almost half, from 135 in June to 198 in July. It seems to measure large scale att
  
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• An updated poster map of London’s railways

  25-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A beautifully designed poster map of London’s railways has been updated to add a new station that recently opened, and one that will be opening soon.
  (c) Mike Hall
  This unique map of the present-day railway network in Greater London is an original, digitally-rendered design that takes its inspiration from vintage maps. It displays the courses of all surface and subsurface lines and the locations of all stations, as well as key infrastructural detail such as maintenance depots and new lines
  
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• Four new companies join Small Cell Forum – strengthening work program with diverse expertise

  25-08-2022 14:59
  
  SCF welcomes three new members and a new executive board member 25 AUGUST, 2022, LONDON, UK – SCF (Small Cell Forum), the global membership organization committed to supporting agile, low-cost mobile infrastructure through small cells, today announced it has welcomed four new companies to the Forum – Ontix, O-Cubes, Microamp, and TAWAL, with TAWAL also being a member of the executive board. The new members, which are from diverse areas of the small cells eco-system,...Source: RealWir
  
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• Magenta ploughs more cash into Austria with €1 billion fibre JV

  25-08-2022 14:30
  
  Magenta Telekom has buddied up with investment firm Meridiam in a joint venture that will spend €1 billion on the rollout of fibre in Austria by the end of the decade.
  The operator, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, is pushing pretty hard on network expansion in Austria and wasted no time in reminding us that this latest investment plan comes on top of the €1 billion broadband and 5G pledge it made at its full-year results presentation back in February; it plans to spend that sum between 202
  
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• Social tariffs – how proactive should the telecoms industry be?

  25-08-2022 13:43
  
  Soaring inflation has produced a ‘cost of living crisis’, with many UK households potentially unable to pay their bills, but what should providers be expected to do about it?
  While the primary focus of the crisis is energy, which is in the middle of an inflationary perfect storm, other utilities are also coming under the spotlight. The inevitable shrieks of ‘profiteering’ and calls for a windfall tax on any company seen to be benefiting from this inflation have come thick
  
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• Ericsson and Nokia both partner with Google for network slicing trials

  25-08-2022 13:36
  
  Google’s network slicing credentials are under the spotlight this week thanks to a fresh round of trials by Europe’s big two telco vendors.
  In similar but separate announcements, Ericsson and Nokia each shared details of successful demonstrations of multiple network slices – for both consumer and enterprise use cases – running on a Google Pixel 6 Pro powered by Android 13.
  Ericsson and Nokia emphasised their respective network equipment portfolios support one of the key u
  
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• Fitbit updates its smartwatch range

  25-08-2022 13:25
  
  Smartwatch fitness brand Fitbit has released three new watches into the wild, none of which appear to be loaded with parent company Google’s Wear OS.
  There are three new smartwatches in Fitbit’s ‘fall’ line up – the Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2. All of these use the Fitbit software so as with the rest of the portfolio they don’t differ dramatically, but you get what you pay for in terms of features, for instance they all track how far you’ve jogged, bu
  
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• Canada House tours have restarted

  25-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Canadian High Commission occupies a grand building overlooking Trafalgar Square and is not generally open to the public to wander in. However, they used to offer occasional Friday afternoon tours — which are very good.
  The tours of Canada House had to be suspended during the pandemic, but they’ve just announced that the tours will restart again from October, and will take place roughly once a month from then onwards.
  The tours are free of charge, and take place on Friday mornings
  
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• The unexpected interior of a Mayfair Church

  25-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re wandering down Mayfair’s Curzon Street, you might spy a grand-looking church. You might want to pop inside for a look….Oh, that’s not what I had expected.This is, or was, in fact, sort of still is, the Third Church of Christ Scientist, a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts and was the third church to be founded in London by local Christian Scientists, hence its title of ‘Third’ church. Built between 1908-11, this
  
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