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• Street art exhibition coming to the Saatchi Gallery

  24-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Street art will be taking over the entire Saatchi Gallery next year as an exhibition of the once subversive artform continues its migration into mainstream art.The exhibition will feature original art, ephemera, photography, site-specific installations, and archival fashion from over 150 artists who have made their name on the streets of the world. The exhibition will also be the first time in eight years a show has occupied the entirety of Saatchi Gallery.
  From painting trains to social activis
  
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• Nokia and Inria ponder the future of networks

  24-11-2022 18:36
  Nokia and Inria sign a four year collaboration designed ‘to solve the key scientific challenges linked to the evolution of networks and network applications.’
  The two firms are extending their collaboration for another four years as their boffins collectively scratch their heads and try to work out what networks will look like in the future. The new collab will create 15 new PhD student and post-doctoral researcher employment opportunities at Nokia Bell Labs and Inria, and will speci
  
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• The Complex Relationship between Consumers and Cybersecurity and How it Can Impact Telco Revenues

  24-11-2022 16:42
  The need for constant connectivity – further accelerated by the pandemic – has increasingly opened opportunities for cybercriminals to infiltrate and exploit vulnerabilities in devices and in consumer habits. As the industry continues to undergo a digital transformation based on cloudification and virtualisation of services, there are also greater risks of misconfiguration of data storage and security breaches. These have set the stage for some the most unprecedented growth rates in
  
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• Consultation opens into £1.5 billion rebuild of Liverpool Street station.

  24-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Controversial plans for a major redevelopment of Liverpool Street station have opened for public consultation.
  New entrance from Liverpool Street (c) Sellar / Herzog & de Meuron
  The £1.5 billion plans, put forward by Sellar, the developer of the Shard and the Paddington Cube, would see a large hotel and office block built above the station, while the historic hotel would have the ground floor opened up to create a new entrance into the station.
  Inside the station, the current open conc
  
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• Openreach feels the pinch of economic uncertainty

  24-11-2022 13:47
  BT’s networks unit Openreach has warned suppliers that its cost-cutting efforts will impact its long-term spending plans.
  Despite the uncertainty this will inevitably create, the UK incumbent maintains that its FTTH deployment remains on track.
  The Financial Times reported (paywall) on Wednesday that it has seen a letter addressed to suppliers in which Openreach said it intends to build its fibre network “narrower and deeper” and “tighten the timing of investment” t
  
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• Korea recalls mobile operators’ 5G licences

  24-11-2022 13:33
  Two of South Korea’s three mobile network operators have been asked to hand back their 5G licences in the 28 GHz frequency band, it emerged recently.
  Staggeringly, for one of the world’s most advanced mobile markets, the telcos have failed to meet rollout requirements for their high-band spectrum and as such the government is flexing its regulatory muscle.
  KT and LG U+ have had their 28 GHz licences cancelled for falling far short of installing the required number of base stations in
  
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• stc and BICS test ‘world’s first live 5G SA roaming connection’

  24-11-2022 13:25
  Saudi Telecom Company (stc) and Belgian carrier BICS say they have set up the first-ever intercontinental 5G Standalone roaming connection between two live networks in Europe and the Middle East.
  The connection achieved roaming between the 5G SA networks of Belgian mobile operator Proximus and Middle-East-based operator stc Kuwait. The firms say this is the ‘first of its kind’ to be completed outside of a lab.
  The firms say operators have up until now only been delivering 5G non-stan
  
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• Medieval river wall may have been found underneath Parliament

  24-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  What could be the remains of an original riverside medieval wall may have been discovered underneath the Houses of Parliament.
  The discovery came as the result of a series of boreholes that were drilled down into the ground underneath the historic Palace of Westminster as part of a research project to understand the ground conditions. This is necessary before they can start major work on restoring the building.
  Over the summer and early autumn, specialists examined 160 rooms and driled boreholes
  
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• Unused mobile data costs brits £3 billion a year

  24-11-2022 12:03
  People in the UK are £260 million out of pocket every month due to unused mobile phone data, according to a report.
  The report is from Sky Mobile, and it is calling this the ‘data consumption gap’ – the difference between what you pay out each month for mobile data and what you actually use. It reckons on average people loose 94GB of the data paid for each year, which it has equated to a financial loss of £84 a year per person, and it has further tallied this up to
  
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• Waterloo station retakes crown for UK’s busiest railway station

  24-11-2022 11:47 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The pandemic induced wobble where Waterloo station lost the title of the UK’s busiest station to Stratford station, has been reversed, although rail traffic is still down on pre-pandemic levels.
  During the April 2021 and March 2022 period covered by the annual update from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Waterloo station saw 41.4 million passenger entries and exits, but that is still far below the estimated 86.9 million passengers before the pandemic hit.
  Waterloo station
  London Victoria
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Compton Terrace Gardens, N1

  24-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a pair of gardens that run in front of a row of houses and were originally private spaces for the houses, but are now open to the public to enjoy.
  They’re also about to have their bicentennial, having been created in 1823.Compton Terrace is a row of houses on either side of the Union Chapel that were erected piecemeal between 1805-1831, as upmarket townhouses for professionals working in the City of London. They were set back from the noisy Upper Street, which leads to Islington, a
  
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