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• Buckingham Palace’s Royal Mews reopens in March

  21-02-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Around the back of Buckingham Palace is the Royal Mews, where the King’s horses and carriages are kept, and they will reopen to the public to visit next month.The Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace evolved from the King’s Mews, which were originally just to the north of Trafalgar Square and were originally to house royal hawks. The name ‘mews’ derives from the word ‘mew’, meaning moulting, as the birds were confined there at moulting time. Stables for horses are
  
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• Nearly half of Londoners have used the Elizabeth line – survey

  21-02-2023 18:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just under half of Londoners have taken a trip on the Elizabeth line since it opened, and not just because they want to have a look at London’s shiny new train service.
  A survey by YouGov found that 45% of Londoners say that they have travelled on the Elizabeth line, although more interestingly, 7% of Londoners are unsure if they have.
  That could account for people on the Shenfield and Reading branches, where the Elizabeth line shares tracks with other rail services, and the new trains mig
  
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• Sateliot and Gospace Labs team up on satellite 5G enabled water contamination monitoring

  21-02-2023 17:05
  LEO firm Sateliot has teamed up with Gospace Labs to connect the latter’s IoT solution water quality testing kit to 5G satellite networks, in order that they act as an early warning systems.
  Gospace Labs’ Meratch water management IoT solution monitors contaminants in water by measuring pH acidity levels, temperature, well as water flow and level when deployed in specific areas such as bridges. Hooking it up to Sateliot’s 5G satellite constellation will allow the system to ping
  
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• Vodafone and Altice get EU approval for German FTTH venture

  21-02-2023 16:06
  The European Commission has given the green light to plans by Vodafone and Altice to spend billions of euros rolling out a joint fibre-to-the-home infrastructure in Germany.
  Brussels’ approval was essentially a rubber stamp. The new business needed to satisfy certain merger rules because it is a JV, but the Commission took just a few weeks after the companies lodged their application to authorise it. However, it comes at an interesting time in the German fibre market.
  When Vodafone and Alt
  
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• A new museum for the City of London

  21-02-2023 16:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A property development in the City of London is to include a new permanent home for the Migration Museum, currently based in Lewisham, with three floors including exhibition and event space, a cafe and shop.
  (c) 3XN, Migration Museum and Dominus
  The museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. It will include an educational outreach programme to engage with diverse communities across London and the U
  
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• More delays to Old Street station and roundabout upgrade

  21-02-2023 15:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The heavily delayed project to rebuild part of the Old Street station and the surface roundabout which was due to have been completed last year is now not expected to be completed for another year. Plans to revamp the Old Street roundabout emerged in 2017, with construction work starting in 2020, and was due to have been completed last year.
  Apart from building two new entrances to the tube and mainline station, along with new lifts between the street and ticket hall levels, the project will see
  
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• 30 years after sending the first text, Vodafone opts for Google RCS

  21-02-2023 13:20
  UK-based telco group Vodafone will adopt Messages by Google as the default messaging app on every Android device it sells.
  The move is part of an expanded European partnership announced on Tuesday. Under the deal, Vodafone will migrate its Rich Communication Services (RCS) service to Google’s RCS infrastructure, Jibe Cloud, which underpins the Messages by Google app. The migration applies to business users as well as consumer customers.
  The operator talked up the benefits of using RCS for
  
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• European telcos reveal their cunning plan for Open RAN

  21-02-2023 13:13
  Some of Europe’s biggest telcos have outlined their goals for the progression of Open RAN technology this year and beyond, including a suggestion of commercial launches in the near future.
  Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone have together identified three key areas of focus for Open RAN in 2023. Firstly, they are looking at the technology’s growing maturity, and what that means for further rollout, but are also working on security and energy efficiency. The
  
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• Gilbert & George opening a free gallery in Spitalfields

  21-02-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The artist duo, Gilbert & George are opening their own free gallery and museum in Spitalfields, that’ll both house their own collection and put on free exhibitions of other people’s art as well.
  Outside the new gallery (c) Gilbert & George
  Gilbert & George are known for their “two people but one artist” approach of creating art that is often based around themselves and their trademark suited appearance.
  They came up with the idea of an art gallery in 2009, and
  
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• Microsoft hits the publicity jackpot with unhinged Bing

  21-02-2023 12:54
  US tech giant Microsoft has incorporated ChatGPT-based AI into its search answers, which produced some remarkable results.
  Late last week the AP asked “Is Bing too belligerent?” The question was posed after the reporter had a long conversation with the new chatbot, during which it apparently complained about the reporter’s previous criticisms of it. Things continued to escalate to the point that Bing compared the reporter to the worst people in history, including Hitler, becaus
  
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• Nokia and Bosch say 6G will track even unconnected objects

  21-02-2023 12:37
  As kit vendor Nokia and manufacturer Bosch show off a proof of concept for 5G positioning tech, they claim that in the future 6G will have the ability to track the position of any object whether connected to a network or not.
  The ‘precision positioning technology’ tracks mobile and portable devices connected to the 5G network and is intended for Industry 4.0 use cases. It has been deployed in a Bosch production plant in Germany, and has apparently shown an accuracy within 50cm in 90%
  
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• There’s a Status Quo exhibition at the Barbican

  21-02-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The gold disc and original lyrics to Status Quo’s Caroline are on display in the Barbican, as part of an exhibition celebrating seven decades of the rock band.Featuring never-seen-before material, the exhibition is a mix of photos, record covers, ephemera from their shows and quite a few gold records. Likely to be the highlight for many fans, the original handwritten lyrics to ‘Caroline’ and ‘Down Down’ being shown here for the first time. The side cases with the co
  
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