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• Tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show 2023

  30-01-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tickets are now on sale for the floral extravaganza that takes place in May inside the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
  (c) Royal Horticultural Society
  The flower show runs from 23rd-27th May, but note that the first two days are for members of the RHS only, so the rest of the public have three days — Thur 25th May to Sat 27th May to attend.
  It’s not a cheap show to visit though, as tickets cost £89.85 per person – and can be bought here. There’s also a show g
  
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• The US and EU want to make AI work for the public good

  30-01-2023 18:32
  The US and EU have agreed to collaborate on research into how AI might be used to help wrestle with problems around climate change, natural disasters, medicine, energy and agriculture.
  The United States Department of State and the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission (phew) got their pens out last week and signed an agreement called ‘Administrative Arrangement on Artificial Intelligence for the Public Good’.
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• Two rail strikes this week to cause “severe disruption”

  30-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There is expected to be severe disruption to train services later this week, due to strike action on Wednesday 1st and Friday 3rd February, as train drivers who are members of the Aslef union go on strike.The strikes will affect services on 14 train companies with trains due to start later and finish much earlier than usual – typically between 7.30am and 6.30pm.
  Most of the affected train companies have announced that they will be closed all day, although Greater Anglia, GWR and LNER say t
  
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• Orange seeks to win over regulators with Belgium network deal

  30-01-2023 14:59
  Orange Belgium has brokered a pair of fixed network wholesale deals with rival Telenet that it clearly hopes will help push through its acquisition of smaller player VOO.
  The deals will give Orange and Telenet access to each other’s fixed networks – both current HFC infrastructure and future fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks – for a 15-year period. However, the deals will only come into force on completion of Orange’s planned acquisition of a majority stake in VOO, a tran
  
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• The future of broadband service delivery

  30-01-2023 13:55
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Craig Thomas, VP of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Broadband Forum, looks at how fixed internet access is evolving.
  Broadband internet access is not a luxury, but a necessity for economic and human development and it acts as a powerful tool for the delivery of essential services such as education and healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic and the inc
  
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• DoCoMo trials give a window into possible 6G tech

  30-01-2023 13:44
  Japanese telco DoCoMo wants windows to be a help not a hindrance to signal propagation.
  In what it claims is a world first, the operator used a ‘metasurface’ attached to a window that was able to redirect a signal coming from an indoor base station to the foot of the building outside.
  Metasurfaces, like metamaterials, consist of intricate, nanoscale structures laid out in a specific pattern in order to manipulate the path that radiation – whether that be light or electromagneti
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Interdigital, 6G and the Twitter Files

  30-01-2023 13:43
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Interdigital, 6G and the Twitter Files
  
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• BT looks to HAPS to nail down rural coverage

  30-01-2023 13:31
  BT has teamed up with Stratospheric Platforms Ltd (SPL) to trial HAPS-based technology with a view to boosting rural mobile coverage.
  The UK incumbent is looking ahead to the use of hydrogen-powered aircraft to deliver mobile signals to difficult-to-reach consumer and business customers, but at this initial stage it is testing the technology using a tall building.
  It is carrying out trials at Adastral Park alongside SPL, using the latter’s HAPS – or High-Altitude Platform Stations (H
  
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• The Twitter Files – manufacturing misinformation

  30-01-2023 13:03
  The latest tranche of Twitter Files revelations focuses on a tool extensively used by the media as proof of coordinated Russian disinformation campaigns.
  As anyone who read our summary of all the Twitter Files reporting thus far will have noted, the journalistic opportunity offered by Elon Musk, following his acquisition of Twitter, was most enthusiastically taken up by independent reporter Matt Taibbi. It is he who has provided the latest scoop, this time focused on an online ‘dashboard&r
  
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• The English Civil War Society marches through Central London

  30-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Had you been in central London on Sunday morning, you’d have seen over 200 people in full English Civil War clothing and arms marching through central London.
  This was the 51st annual (pandemic notwithstanding) march by the English Civil War Society in memory of the execution of King Charles I.
  The English Civil War Society, founded in 1980 is the umbrella organisation for the King’s Army and the Roundhead Association – and unsurprisingly, yesterday’s march was by the Kin
  
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• Which? calls on telcos to scrap exit fees for broadband contracts

  30-01-2023 12:40
  Consumer watchdog Which? says broadband customers are having to choose between mid-contract price hikes or exit fees of over £200.
  Which claims broadband customers ‘are trapped in a lose-lose situation’ in which they have to either accept ‘exorbitant’ mid-contract price rises or pay exit fees, which vary but can be as much as £200.
  The report says many ISPs raise prices every April in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus an additional 3% to 3.9%, and
  
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• London’s Alleys: Kendall Place, W1

  30-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an alley that passes through a block to the north of Oxford Street, and half of the block is owned by a single family.The area owes its origins to Sir William Portman, Lord Chief Justice to King Henry VIII, who leased the land in this part of London when it was still fields. Fields it remained until the 18th century, when the expanding London saw this area developed as housing.
  The block that Kendall Place passes through was built in the 1770s, as a block of houses with back gardens, and
  
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