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• HS2’s London tunnel boring machines reach Amersham

  07-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  HS2’s two tunnel boring machines heading northwards out of London have now reached Amersham, passing 5 and a half miles of their 10 mile drive under the Chilterns.
  Chiltern tunnel with crosspassageway visible to the right (c) HS2
  The two tunnel boring machines (TMBs) have now spent almost two years excavating the twin tunnels running under the Chilterns between the M25 and South Heath in Buckinghamshire.
  Each machine is a 170m long self-contained underground factory, digging the tunnel, li
  
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• Orange Business will serve up in-car features for Lucid’s teched-up cars

  07-03-2023 18:26
  American electric car firm Lucid has signed a deal with Orange Business, the B2B arm of the French operator, to provide it with technology inside its software-defined vehicles.
  Lucid is prepping an expansion into Europe and Orange Business will provide the ‘infotainment and telematics connectivity’ for the software-defined vehicles sold in the region. More specifically this seems to be about navigation, security and communication tools, diagnostics, and audio streaming features.
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• EU gives final approval to Starlink alternative

  07-03-2023 17:14
  The Council of the European Union has given the final go-ahead to a new LEO communications satellite programme called IRIS² that is essentially designed to reduce the continent’s reliance on Starlink et al.
  The €6 billion programme covers the 2023-2027 period and should see early services from next year will full operational capability to come three years later. At least, that was plan just over a year ago, when it was first presented. Now the EU notes that the Infrastructure for
  
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• Several days of tube and rail strikes next week

  07-03-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  UPDATE – the national rail strikes by the RMT have been cancelled, but the London Underground strikes are still going ahead.
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  There will be hardly any London Underground services next Wednesday (15th March) as two tube unions stage a coordinated strike, and there will be disruption for the rest of the week due to national rail strikes.Both the RMT and ASLEF unions are calling a strike, and Transport for London (TfL) is warning that there will be very limited or no service on the tub
  
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• Germany reviews security risks posed by China’s 5G technology

  07-03-2023 16:16
  Berlin examines use of Chinese components in its telecoms networks backed up by possible change in law
  
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• Sigmund Freud’s clutter excavated to reveal its treasures

  07-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  During his life, Sigmund Freud loved to collect and fill his house with antiquities, and a new exhibition at his London home is highlighting some of the more insightful items in his collection.The museum normally tries to leave the home as it was when Freud lived there, but that makes it harder to get up close to some of the items, so they’ve “excavated” a small selection from the shadowy corners and put them into the museum’s exhibition space for a closer look.
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• Fixed wireless access is booming in the US

  07-03-2023 14:08
  The search for 5G use-cases seems to have at least one definite success if the uptake of FWA in the US is anything to go by.
  A recent study from Leichtman Research Group, previously reported on by Light Reading, claimed that nearly all of the new subscribers added by the major US fixed-line providers came, somewhat ironically, from fixed wireless access (FWA). Furthermore, the 3,170,000 FWA subscribers added by T-Mobile and Verizon in 2022 were more than four times the previous year’s tota
  
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• Telecoms and Big Tech: collaboration or assimilation?

  07-03-2023 13:56
  Will telcos evolve into new types of business? Will tweaks to the business model more or less maintain the status quo, or will big tech start to swallow the sector up? It feels like change is in the air, but that can take many forms.
  One of the key themes of MWC 2023 appeared to be the merging, or increasing intertwining, of the telco and wider tech industry –  the latter of which certainly seemed to have a larger presence at the show than ever.
  Sometimes this merging is focused on MN
  
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• e& expansion ongoing, but no Vodafone bid coming

  07-03-2023 13:25
  e& has shared a solid set of financials for full-year 2022, aided, it says, by a transformation strategy that includes investments in overseas markets.
  That strategy will continue, the United Arab Emirates-based telecoms group indicated alongside the publication of its latest numbers, which naturally leads industry watchers’ thoughts to Vodafone, into which it has ploughed billions of dollars over the past 10 months. But we need to temper our expectations; while e& might yet buy mo
  
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• Steganography breakthrough could be a gift for hackers

  07-03-2023 13:20
  A team of researchers has developed a new method of hiding information inside innocuous-looking documents.
  The technique itself – steganography – has been used in various forms for centuries; it differs from cryptography because the information has not been scrambled, just hidden. One early example would be the use of invisible ink to conceal a message in an ordinary-looking letter. In the computer age, so-called stego apps can be used to add secret data into image or video files by
  
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• German government reportedly looks to ban Huawei and ZTE kit

  07-03-2023 13:11
  The German federal government is reportedly planning to ban operators from using kit from Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE.
  According to Zeit Online, which heard the news from ‘government circles’, the ban would affect components that have already been installed by German operators as well as future deployments.
  The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior are the government departments that have been looking into this for months, we&
  
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• British Museum to look at China’s “long” 19th-century of conflicts and change

  07-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  China’s long 19th century is the topic of the British Museum’s summer blockbuster exhibition, looking at the lives of the last line of China’s emperors.
  The “long 19th century’ is longer than a century, stretching from the accession in 1796 of the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty, Jiaqing, to the abdication in 1912 of the tenth, Puyi, making way for the modern Communist republic.
  The exhibition will take a look at the lives of the people during this transition cent
  
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• A plan to extend the Elizabeth line — into Essex and Kent

  07-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Less than a year after it opened, another attempt is being proposed to extend the Elizabeth line, this time via a 30-mile loop through parts of Essex and Kent. The proposal, from Thurrock Council, is included in a wider proposal to improve local transport links and could see the two eastern spurs of the Elizabeth line joined in a loop that would run under the Thames.
  Elizabeth line map with proposed extension (c) Thurrock Council
  The suggested proposal is for the Elizabeth line to take over the
  
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