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• Look out for a spacecraft in St Pancras International station

  10-10-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  St Pancras International station currently has a large spacecraft hovering over the entrance to the London Underground — and it’s art.If St Pancras International station was to be turned into a spaceship and take flight off into outer space, then this is what it might look like. This is HMS Alice Liddell, a new artwork by the local artist Shezad Dawood.
  The artwork reflects elements of William Henry Barlow’s radical engineering of the station, as well as Sir George Gilbert
  
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• PayPal ties itself in censorious knots

  10-10-2022 17:58
  Payment processor giant PayPal has twice had to backtrack recently from an apparent attempts at censoring its users.
  Late last week the Daily Wire reported on a raft of new PayPal policies, scheduled to be implemented on 3 November, among which were the ability to unilaterally take $2,500 from the account of its users every time they violate its acceptable use policy. There were also some additions to the list of things deemed to be violations, including the promotion of misinformation.
  Since mi
  
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• Charles Dickens and Professor Pepper’s ghost at the Dickens museum

  10-10-2022 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  One December evening 160 years ago, during a stage performance of one of Dickens’s plays, the London audience was startled to see a ghost walk across the stage.
  The play was The Haunted Man, and this was the first ever use of Pepper’s Ghost, a method of projecting the illusion of a ghost into a theatre. It caused a sensation, and this winter, the Charles Dickens Museum is looking at the author’s fascination with ghosts and the supernatural. Although he’s famous for the Ch
  
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• Paddington Station returns Paddington Bear to Platform One

  10-10-2022 15:53 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Paddington Bear has returned to his home on Platform 1 in the eponymous railway station, after a temporary move to the other side of the station resulted in an outpouring of complaints.
  The Paddington Bear statue was moved from under the clock arch to the other side of the station when the Elizabeth line opened earlier this year, which Network Rail said was necessary as the statue would have stood in the middle of an evacuation route. Sadly, the location chosen on the far side of the station did
  
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• Telenor sells a third of its $3.4 billion fibre business

  10-10-2022 14:04
  Telenor has spun out its multi-billion-dollar passive fibre infrastructure business and inked a deal to sell a 30% stake to an investment consortium including KKR.
  The investment group, which also includes Norwegian life insurance company Oslo Pensjonsforsikring, has agreed a deal that values the business as a whole at 36.1 billion kroner (US$3.4 billion). As a result, Telenor picks up approximately NOK10.8 billion, or a shade over $1 billion in proceeds.
  A fair slice of that money will be spent
  
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• HTC VIVE and e& unveil metaverse partnership

  10-10-2022 14:00
  The Middle Eastern operator group formerly known as Etisalat has partnered with Taiwanese mobile device maker HTC to showcase the latest in metaverse cleverness.
  At GITEX Global, which reckons it’s the world’s largest tech show, awkwardly renamed e& is showing off a metaverse platform it calls e& universe. Its aversion towards capital letters is highlighted by both the name of event and of its partner, which prefer nothing but. The new platform is powered by a technology HTC
  
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• American Tower and Cellnex both acquire new allies

  10-10-2022 13:35
  Giant Towercos American Tower and Cellnex have opted for partnerships to help them with the next phase of their expansion.
  American Tower (ATC) has its sights set on Africa and, rather than go for the kind of sweeping M&A we have come to expect from the passive infrastructure sector, it has decided to agree a multi-year strategic partnership with Airtel Africa. This will bring into play Airtel Africa’s portfolio of sites in Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda, which American Tower will he
  
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• EU launches next phase of 6G research, splurges €250m on new projects

  10-10-2022 13:34
  Sustainability, inclusion and trustworthiness are among the top priorities for the next stage of the European Commission’s 6G research programme.
  Unveiled late last week, Hexa-X-II will combine the work of 44 organisations to create a pre-standardised platform and system view of 6G. The aim is to give the industry a starting point that will inform eventual standardisation. The project will begin in January and run for the next two-and-a-half years.
  While the first phase of the initiative,
  
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• Heritage concerns over £1.5 billion development above Liverpool Street station

  10-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The property developer, Sellar has outlined initial plans for a £1.5 billion development above Liverpool Street station that has provoked widespread concerns about the effect on the station’s heritage.
  The initial plans were outlined last year, and have been fleshed out a bit more since then.
  Proposed Liverpool Street station concourse (c) Herzog & de Meuron
  Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, the development would be for a commercial development above the concourse co
  
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• London’s Alleys: Little Turnstile, WC1

  10-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A narrow winding passage snakes behind the streets of High Holborn and is a relic of a time when the area was mostly fields.Little Turnstile, as with the other turnstile alleys in the area takes its name from the time when Lincoln Inn Fields was largely fields, and used for grazing cattle. It was fenced but was also open to people to walk through and to stop the cattle following them, turnstiles were added to the gates.
  Hence, along Holborn, there are three alleys surviving from those turnstiled
  
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• Campaign to make big tech pay for telecoms networks gathers pace

  10-10-2022 05:00 via ft.com
  Decade-long debate over infrastructure investment heats up in streaming era
  
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