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• An immersive lights display coming to east London

  20-02-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large warehouse in East London is to be filled with a huge light and sound exhibition next month.
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  Ranging from live-action laser experiments to cavernous light and soundscapes, the installations are described as “compelling, thought-provoking and big enough to get lost in”.
  The exhibition will feature work by contemporary artists including 404.zero, James Clar, Robert Henke, Kimchi and Chips with Rosa Menkman, Matthew Schreiber, S E T U P and UCLA A
  
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• Arnos Grove tube station car park to close next month

  20-02-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A project to build housing on top of Arnos Grove tube station’s car park will start next month, after which the car park will be closed to the public.
  The plans to close the car park and build housing was controversial, and although the council initially refused planning permission in 2021, this was overturned on appeal in March 2021.What’s being planned is for there to be four blocks of flats built for rental, with the blocks on one side set further back so that they don’t ove
  
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• Meta follows Twitter down the blue check rabbit hole

  20-02-2023 15:09
  Facebook parent Meta wants a piece of the premium social-networking action.
  CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Sunday that his company plans to roll out ‘Meta Verified’, a service that will let Facebook and Instagram users verify the ownership of their account with a government-issued ID. It also promises to offer better protection against impersonators, and offer direct access to customer support. The monthly fee is $11.99 for Web users, and $14.99 for iOS and Android users.
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• What does the future hold for 5G and 6G?

  20-02-2023 14:10
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Colin Bauer and Roger Nichols, of Keysight Technologies, offer a look into where the mobile market is headed.
  The implementation of 5G networks is well underway, a billion connections took place in 2022, but the industry is already exploring 6G and that future isn’t far away. 6G is the next generation of wireless networks and with cloud-based technolo
  
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• Global RAN market continues to stagnate

  20-02-2023 13:54
  Telecoms analyst firm Dell’Oro has announced that the 2022 market for Radio Access Network kit came in below expectations.
  In common with many analyst firms, Dell’Oro tends to be sparing in the datapoints it publishes with its press releases. It did reveal, however, that four out of the six regions it tracks saw year-on-year RAN market decline in Q4 2022, a continuation of a year-long trend.
  “The results in the quarter further validate the reduced growth scenario we have discus
  
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• FTTH to pass half of UK households in March

  20-02-2023 13:40
  The UK’s full-fibre rollout is rumbling along rapidly, according to Ofcom, which praised altnets for their contribution.
  According to forecasts published by the telco watchdog late last week, fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks are on course to pass 50% of UK households in March, up from 42% at the end of September last year. Based on its current data, it expects full-fibre to pass 80 percent of households within the next two years. That’s a big improvement on five years ago, when
  
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• Starlink appears to be prepping a ‘global roaming service’

  20-02-2023 13:19
  Elon Musk’s satellite telecoms operation Starlink has reportedly sent out emails pitching a ‘global roaming service’ for $200 a month.
  “You are invited to try Starlink Global Roaming service, which allows your Starlink to connect from almost anywhere on land in the world,” says the message, as reported by PC Mag. The publication also received word from two people who received the email who do not live in countries where Starlink is currently available.
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• Ericsson confirms 1,400 Swedish job cuts

  20-02-2023 13:17
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson plans to shed 1,400 staff in its home country as part of its broader cost-cutting drive, the company has confirmed.
  Ericsson said it has reached agreement with trade unions in Sweden on reducing headcount and explained that it aims to do so through a voluntary programme but has yet to provide further details of how that might pan out. Managers will share details of how each business unit is affected by the move with their employees over the coming days.
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• See Darth Vader fishing in the City of London

  20-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you pop into the Royal Exchange in the City of London at the moment, you can see Darth Vader sitting on a ledge and had ditched his lightsabre for a glowing fishing rod — this is Darth Fisher.It’s an art installation by Dutch artist Streetart Frankey, and was originally created for the anniversary edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival in 2021, where he sat close to the water actually fishing.
  Here in the Royal Exchange, he’s hovering over the people dining in the posh rest
  
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• Vodafone develops ‘prototype 5G network’ built on a Raspberry Pi

  20-02-2023 11:01
  Operator Vodafone’s R&D boffins have put together a device that functions as a 5G base station but runs on the simplest of hardware, apparently costing no more than a router.
  Vodafone invited media and analysts to its Paddington HQ to show off the prototype gizmo that can apparently acts as a private 5G network. The headline innovation is that it is running off of a credit card sized Raspberry Pi computer within the housing, giving it both a small form factor price.
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• London’s Alleys: Pigsty Alley, SE10

  20-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a very narrow and steep alley in the side streets of Greenwich, which was longer and steeper than it is today.The alley came into existence with the development of the area from fields into housing in the early 1850s running behind a long row of houses from Maidenstone Hill at the south to the now lost Atlas Street at the northern end.
  The earliest written reference I can find to the alley is from 1853, in a complaint about the “filthy state” of Pigsyte-alley in a vestry meet
  
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