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• Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights festival has opened

  19-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy a couple of hours of free enjoyment and delight, then a visit to Canary Wharf is in order, as the whole estate has been lit up with 22 large light installations, including a huge floating planet earth.Returning after a two-year break, the now-annual event drags people into the Canary Wharf estate to wander around for free at a time when the streets are usually a bit quieter, so a boon for the estate, and a free art exhibition for us.
  A few of the displays are regulars, such as the g
  
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• Trains from Sutton to the London Cancer Hub to double in frequency

  19-01-2023 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Funding has been secured to double the number of trains running between Sutton and Belmont, where a major centre for treating cancer is being developed.
  The £14.12 million funding package is part of the Levelling Up funding that was announced today.
  Track layout over Google Map
  Along with more trains, Belmont station will also be improved with step-free access, better wayfinding signage and new walking and cycling routes to the London Cancer Hub, which is about a 10-minute walk from the ra
  
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• BT explains why it’s hiking broadband prices by 14.4%

  19-01-2023 13:57
  BT has confirmed what we already knew: that many of its broadband customers will face hefty price hikes in the next couple of months.
  The UK incumbent confirmed that customers will face an increase of 14.4% as of the end of March, calculated via the just announced December consumer price index (CPI) rate of inflation plus a further 3.9%, as outlined in its T&Cs.
  It’s not the only one upping prices, of course, but it is the biggest and is therefore garnering the most attention, particul
  
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• Microsoft CEO says tech sector is ‘unforgiving’ in culling 10,000 staff

  19-01-2023 13:42
  Employees at Microsoft this week learned a harsh lesson from CEO Satya Nadella about the fickle nature of the tech industry.
  The software giant on Wednesday announced plans to axe 10,000 jobs this year, almost 5% of its workforce, as customers rein in their spending on digital transformation following the pandemic. In an SEC filing, Microsoft said customers in some parts of the world are also battening down the hatches in anticipation of a recession.
  “As we saw customers accelerate their d
  
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• Spotify and friends complain to the EU about Apple again

  19-01-2023 13:29
  A group of European digital economy stakeholders have written to the European Commission, urging it to belatedly act on claimed anticompetitive practices by Apple.
  Led by Europe’s biggest app – Spotify – the subject of the letter is a ‘Call for swift and decisive action against anticompetitive practices by digital gatekeepers’. This latest move is a reiteration of the long-standing gripe against Apple (and Google’s Android) about it imposing high commissions a
  
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• Apple’s new HomePod smart speaker comes with a hefty price tag

  19-01-2023 13:13
  Tech giant Apple has dropped a pricy new smart speaker with all the bells and whistles its R&D team could conjure up – but will it fly in the current economic climate?
  Smart homes devices were one of the key themes of CES 2023, with a number of new gadgets from the likes of Samsung, Panasonic and LG being paraded around the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Centre earlier this month. Apple still doesn’t exhibit at CES, and so it has dropped its new smart speaker – the secon
  
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• Consultation shows off the office slab to be built above Liverpool Street station

  19-01-2023 12:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The consultation into plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station, having previously shown the passenger concourse, has now shown off the plans for the oversite development that’ll pay for it.
  (c) Sellar / Herzog & de Meuron
  A very substantial slab of a building, a mix of hotel and offices, is planned to sit above the station, which anywhere else in the City would probably be a good addition to the area, but here, it sits very uncomfortably as a dominant feature overwhelming the area.
  
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• Iliad borrows €300 million to densify French fibre footprint

  19-01-2023 10:53
  France-based telco Iliad has secured yet another loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
  This one weighs in at €300 million and brings the total level of EIB funding to Iliad to €1.4 billion since 2009.
  Iliad CEO Thomas Reynaud said in a statement on Wednesday that the loan will “enable us to pursue our ambitious rollout and densification objectives for our fixed networks in France.”
  It isn’t entirely clear what those objectives are. Under its Odyssey 2024 strat
  
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• Rare display of clown costumes in central London

  19-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The atmospheric Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury has turned its basement space into a clowns paradise, with an exhibition of costumes and memorabilia.As a display, it’s a mix of costumes with small notes about a few of them, lots of photos, and for clown aficionados, the eggs.
  Eggs?
  In the 1930s, Stan Bult started painting clowns faces onto eggs, capturing each clown’s own unique makeup style. It’s a form of trademark for the clowns, and although it stopped when Bult died in 1966,
  
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