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• Google loses appeal against huge EU Android fine

  14-09-2022 16:37
  Over four years after Google was fined €4.3 billion for abusing the dominant position of Android, a European court has dismissed most of its appeals.
  We don’t know how long Google took to lodge its appeal but four years still seems like a long time. Still, if that’s the price of legal due process then so be it. The responsibility for judging the appeal fell to the European General Court, which is part of the EU Court of Justice. It was charged with assessing the legal merits of
  
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• West London’s HS2 construction site reaches landscape restoration milestone

  14-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Work to turn a large HS2 railway construction site next to the M25 motorway into a large chalk stream wildlife haven has reached a milestone, with the millionth cubic metre of chalk laid out around the south portal of the Chiltern tunnel. Before HS2 turned it into a construction site, the area was mainly monoculture arable fields, but using the chalk dug out of the ground for the railway tunnels, they plan to turn the area into a wildlife haven dominated by the chalk landscape they are creating.
  
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• Bharti Airtel taps up IBM for enterprise edge compute services

  14-09-2022 15:01
  As India finally enters the 5G era, Bharti Airtel is keen to push on with an accompanying edge deployment.
  The telco has partnered with IBM to roll out its enterprise edge computing platform across its Nxtra-branded footprint of edge locations, of which there are more than 120 spread across more than 65 cities. The platform is based on IBM Cloud Satellite, the tech giant’s hybrid cloud portfolio, which incorporates its Red Hat unit’s OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) suite. Once
  
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• Google spinoff aims to provide global connectivity with space lasers

  14-09-2022 14:11
  A startup that uses novel connectivity technologies developed by Google promises to ‘revolutionize communications networks across land, sea, air, and space’.
  Aalyria announced its emergence from stealth mode with all the hyperbolic claims and lofty aspirations you would expect from a US startup. While not explicitly stated in the press release, it’s clear the company has been formed from elements of Google’s Loon project, on which it pulled the plug at the start of 2021.
  
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• BICS and Thales buddy up to push eSIM adoption

  14-09-2022 14:11
  Belgian telco BICS and French engineering giant Thales are working together to smooth out some of the pain points associated with eSIM technology in IoT devices.
  To cut to the chase, the level of integration required with mobile network operators is proving a barrier to entry for enterprise IoT, according to BICS and Thales. So they are coming together to tackle this, hoping to be able to increase eSIM adoption and in turn give the enterprise IoT space a boost.
  The companies noted that Thales ha
  
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• Find the moved John F Kennedy Memorial

  14-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you walk along Marylebone Road near Great Portland Street, you might spy a plinth with a memorial to John F Kennedy, but the memorial is missing.There used to be a large bust of the former President on top of the black marble plinth. Cast by the sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz, it was unveiled by the late president’s brother Senator Robert Kennedy on 15th May 1965, the day after the more famous memorial was unveiled in Runnymede by The Queen. The bust was funded by readers of the Daily Teleg
  
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• More trains to London for the Queen’s Lying in State and the funeral

  14-09-2022 10:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Several mainline train companies that serve London have announced extra trains and overnight services to support the crowds heading to London for the Lying-in-State and the Queen’s funeral.All the train companies are advising that with large crowds expected, trains and train stations will be exceptionally busy this week, and on the day of the funeral. They’re saying that it will not be possible to view both the funeral in London and travel to Windsor, where Her Majesty the Queen will
  
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• The remarkable concrete interior of the LSE’s Marshall Building

  14-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A rather grim dark brick building overlooking Lincolns Inn Fields in central London that used to be a cancer research facility is now a dramatic concrete and stone building that’s part of the LSE cluster of university buildings. A slight fortress like lower level with large concrete walls is lightened by the very large open entrance and the use of more open upper floors that have replaced the old car park fronted brick and steel building that had been here before.When you go inside though,
  
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