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• CES 2023 showcases a bunch of fancy new smart cars

  05-01-2023 18:54
  They can change colour, turn the AC on for you when they sense you are approaching, and ‘fade out reality’ altogether – behold the latest teched-up motors being shown off at CES 2023.
  Cars, in particular connected electric ones, have been taking an increasingly prominent role at the Consumer Electronic Show for a while now, and this year is no different with new in car technology, chips, and motors bristling with gadgets being paraded about in Las Vegas this week. Here are a fe
  
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• Barkers department store to be refurbished

  05-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The former Barkers department store in Kensington has been given planning permission for a large redevelopment of the interior spaces, and a new roof terrace to be added on top.Bakers started as a small drapers store in 1870, and the current department store building was constructed between 1937 to 1958s, with a long pause in the middle due to WWII. The store was bought by House of Fraser in 1957, but in the 1980s, the store was shrunk radically with most of the building being converted into off
  
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• Qualcomm talks up the ‘software defined vehicle’ at CES 2023

  05-01-2023 14:07
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has gone big on automotive at the first big tech show of the year, launching a suite of car oriented SoCs.
  They’re collectively branded Snapdragon Ride Flex and are positioned as a scalable family of chips to power everything from the ‘digital cockpit’, to ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and even automated driving. They’re the latest addition to the Snapdragon Ride platform, which Qualcomm seems to be hoping will be a one-size-fits-
  
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• Ericsson warns of $76 million hit to cloud business

  05-01-2023 13:49
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson has revealed the expected financial toll of impending cutbacks at its Cloud Software and Services division.
  The unit was formed last May by the combination of Ericsson’s Managed Services and Digital Services divisions, which encompassed its OSS/BSS, core network platforms, and orchestration and automation activities. Both of these had hitherto struggled to turn a profit, and so the restructure was pitched as a means to lower costs by leveraging synergies between
  
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• Iliad and Wind Tre create wholesale mobile JV

  05-01-2023 13:05
  Iliad and WindTre have formally announced the creation of their new wholesale venture Zefiro Net, an entity that will manage the supply of mobile infrastructure in hard-to-serve areas of Italy.
  The project, which has been on the cards for the best part of a year – publicly at least – will cover more than a quarter of the Italian population; 26.8 percent, to be precise, according to a joint statement issued by the two operators.
  It’s a pretty straightforward model. Iliad and Win
  
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• Make a spectacle of yourself at the Wellcome Collection

  05-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An exhibition at the Wellcome Collection is taking a look at eyesight, from how we see things to how we correct how we see things, and the cultural baggage we’ve wrapped that medical issue up in.Beyond the obvious sign of vision difference – the spectacles, we tend to assume that everyone sees things the same — if I am looking at a building, it’s the same concrete, steel, and glass for everyone. But vision is interpretive, a combination of how the brain interprets signals
  
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• One World Cup game drove record traffic for December

  05-01-2023 12:43
  UK ISP Zen Internet clocked its biggest spike in internet bandwidth consumption last year during the France v Morocco World Cup semi-final, which was 21% higher than 2021’s peak.
  Zen’s UK broadband traffic peaked on December 14th at 20:30 during the end of the France v Morocco World Cup semi-final football match, clocking a 21% increase on 2021’s highest peak which also apparently happened in December that year.
  Zen Internet says ‘internet demand’ in general rose ov
  
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• One World Cup game drove record internet traffic for December

  05-01-2023 12:43
  UK ISP Zen Internet clocked its biggest spike in internet bandwidth consumption last year during the France v Morocco World Cup semi-final, which was 21% higher than 2021’s peak.
  Zen’s UK broadband traffic peaked on December 14th at 20:30 during the end of the France v Morocco World Cup semi-final football match, clocking a 21% increase on 2021’s highest peak which also apparently happened in December that year.
  Zen Internet says ‘internet demand’ in general rose ov
  
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• The unexpected interior of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone

  05-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Not far from Marylebone can be found an austere looking church building, that has a surprisingly light and open interior. This is the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone, and was built by a prolific architect, H.S. Goodhart-Rendel.There had been a church next to this one for nearly a century, but with a growing congregation, expansion was needed, and as it happens, a large office block stood next to the old church – an employment exchange, which they were able to bu
  
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