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• London’s free exhibitions to visit in October 2022

  30-09-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A selection of ten excellent (and free) exhibitions to visit in October so you can turn the heating off at home and keep warm in London’s museums and galleries instead.Off the Rails: The Line that never was
  Elstree & Borehamwood Museum, Borehamwood
  An exhibition exploring the Elstree Extension through the Northern Heights that was suspended during World War 2, and never restarted. Come and see the scale model of the Tube line and how it would have looked if it had been completed.
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• Discounts on Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tickets

  30-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A major new production of the classic story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is now showing at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre – and there are some savings on tickets for the beginning of October.Prices currently start from £24 – and offers vary depending on the date chosen, but range from:£60 or £72 seats offered for £35
  £84 seat for £45
  £108 seats for £55The cheap tickets offer is valid for all performances to 16th October 20
  
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• Just a tenth of the expected trains to run due to Saturday’s rail strike

  30-09-2022 14:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Due to strike action on Saturday (1st October), Network Rail is warning that a reduced timetable confirms just 11% of rail services will be in operation amid coordinated strike action by the RMT, TSSA and Aslef unions.
  Although strikes in the past have been disruptive, as this is the first time the RMT, Aslef and TSSA have walked out on the same day, services will be even more significantly disrupted than before. The few trains that can run will start later in the morning and finish much earlier
  
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• Nokia and Vodafone look to pave the way forward to 6G

  30-09-2022 13:55
  Kit vendor Nokia and operator Vodafone New Zealand have signed a strategic partnership which will see them collaborate to ‘explore the capabilities of 5G-Advanced and 6G networks.’
  The Memorandum of Understanding between Nokia and Vodafone NZ is supposed to ratify collaboration on the development of new applications and services on existing 4G/5G networks, as well as explore the capabilities of 5G-Advanced and 6G
  This will take the form of joint resource investment in technology vali
  
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• The beauty of the Apollo moon landing photos at the Royal Albert Hall

  30-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A number of recently restored photos from the Apollo moon landings have gone on display in the Royal Albert Hall to coincide with the release of a book about the photos and their restoration.Running around the ground floor, they’re a mix of the staggeringly beautiful and highly technical, as the moon landings fused technology with visits to a landscape never before visited. To me, these photographs are reminiscent of the watercolours painted by artists on early sailing ship explorations to
  
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• GSMA, IBM and Vodafone set up taskforce to mitigate quantum computing risks

  30-09-2022 12:33
  The GSMA Post-Quantum Telco Network Taskforce has been set up to look at how telecoms can be protected once quantum computing kicks in, with IBM and Vodafone having signed up as initial members.
  The group, or ‘taskforce’ as it calls itself presumably to sound more dynamic, says it is going to ‘help define policy, regulation and operator business processes for the enhanced protection of telecommunications in a future of advanced quantum computing.’
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• ITU gets its first female leader… and she’s American

  30-09-2022 10:25
  The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) member states have elected Doreen Bogdan-Martin (pictured) as its new Secretary-General.
  Bogdan-Martin will replace China’s Houlin Zhao as leader of the United Nations telecoms and ICT agency on 1 January, becoming its first female Secretary-General as well as the second American to hold the post since its inception in 1865.
  The nationality of a new ITU head always captures headlines, but on this occasion perhaps more than usu
  
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• Deutsche Telekom hopes to cash in on Ethereum Merge

  30-09-2022 10:14
  German telco group Deutsche Telekom is making the most of Ethereum’s newly-acquired eco-credentials.
  Earlier this month, the world’s second-most-valuable cryptocurrency switched the method it uses for validating transactions on its blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.
  What does this mean? Well, it’s hard to explain in brief, but if a blockchain is to fulfil its role as a trustless and immutable digital ledger, it requires a complex method of authenticating each new
  
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