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• BT invests £5 million into ‘UK’s drone superhighway’

  04-01-2023 18:22
  UK telecoms group BT is investing £5 million into Reading based UTM (Unified Traffic Management) software firm Altitude Angel as it looks to accelerate the development of ‘Project Skyway.’
  The £5 million pot is being invested through BT’s incubation unit called Etc and is supposed to aid Altitude Angel with the roll out of its drone detection technology called ARROW.
  The idea is this will form the basis of Project Skyway – a 165-mile drone corridor spanning ai
  
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• V&A Museum doubling the size of its Photography Galleries

  04-01-2023 17:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The V&A Museum is doubling the size of its Photography Centre and has confirmed that the new galleries will open on 25th May 2023.
  The current galleries sit on the second floor of the museum in two large long rooms that opened as the Photography Centre in 2018. What’s unseen is that behind them is a series of smaller rooms that were added to the museum in the late 1850s as spaces for paintings and a potential site for the National Gallery.
  Location of new galleries – edited V&
  
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• London’s 2023 ceremonial gun salutes

  04-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Ceremonial military guns will go bang bang several times in London during 2023, at the Tower of London and in the Royal Parks.
  The number of rounds fired in a Royal salute depends on the place and occasion.
  The basic Royal salute is 21 rounds.
  In Hyde Park and Green Park, an extra 20 rounds are added because they are Royal Parks. Gun salutes in the Royal Parks usually take place at Noon. Preceding it, the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery will parade their 71 horses and six First World Wa
  
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• New Qi2 standard for faster wireless charging developed with Apple’s help

  04-01-2023 14:00
  The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) will detail a new, apparently faster, wireless charging standard for mobile devices called Qi2 at CES this week.
  The WPC – a global body which handles the creation of standards around wireless power – worked with Apple which provided the basis for the new Qi2 standard (pronounced ‘chee two’, for some reason) building on its MagSafe technology.
  Qi2’s ‘Magnetic Power Profile’ will ensure that phones, wearables, or other
  
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• Euro IXP group comes out against the ‘fair contribution’ argument

  04-01-2023 13:31
  Euro-IX, the association of European Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), reckons forcing big tech to pay for the content it sends over the internet is a rubbish idea.
  In a letter to the European Commission Bijal Sanghani, MD of Euro-IX, addressed the concept underlying the ‘fair contribution’ argument (referred to in the letter as ‘fair share’), of Sending Party Network Pays (SPNP). Essentially SPNP would fundamentally change the way the internet works by effectively introdu
  
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• Euro IPX group comes out against the ‘fair contribution’ argument

  04-01-2023 13:31
  Euro-IX, the association of European Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), reckons forcing big tech to pay for the content it sends over the internet is a rubbish idea.
  In a letter to the European Commission Bijal Sanghani, MD of Euro-IX, addressed the concept underlying the ‘fair contribution’ argument (referred to in the letter as ‘fair share’), of Sending Party Network Pays (SPNP). Essentially SPNP would fundamentally change the way the internet works by effectively introdu
  
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• New cycleway between Holloway and Finsbury Park construction starts this month

  04-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Construction of a new experimental cycle lane, Cycleway 50, between Holloway and Finsbury Park will start later this month, as TfL announces plans for a consultation when the route opens. Apart from providing both a new cycle lane and more space for pedestrians, Cycleway 50 will also eventually connect to an existing C50 cycle lane running between York Way and Royal College Street in Camden.A significant reason for the route that’s been chosen is the Nag’s Head gyratory in Holloway,
  
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• Samsung’s new Flex Hybrid mobile display both folds and slides

  04-01-2023 12:38
  Korean tech powerhouse Samsung has offered a sneak peak of a foldable and slide-able phone screen ahead of CES 2023.
  Tech giant Samsung has given a sneak peak of one of the no doubt extremely large selection of new prototype and market ready kit it will be showing off at CES this week in the form of the Flex Hybrid – a mobile which has an OLED screen that can both fold and slide out to create a larger screen space.
  The foldable technology bit is on the left side of the screen and slide-abl
  
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