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• Nalini Malani subverts the Old Masters into a huge video display

  27-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large void within the National Gallery fills with noise and vast walls as grand master paintings are ripped apart and twisted into new meanings. This is a new video art installation by the contemporary Indian artist, Nalini Malani, and it subverts and delights at the same time.Malani, who is also the inaugural recipient of the National Gallery’s Contemporary Fellowship, has taken inspiration from the galley’s collection, to create a large video installation — or as she calls
  
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• China dominates 5G but spending tails off

  27-03-2023 18:58
  China will hit 1 billion 5G users within a couple of years, new research shows, and operators may have already passed the peak of investment in the technology.
  The world’s biggest mobile market is set to reach the 1 billion milestone by 2025, becoming – unsurprisingly – the first to do so, according to new predictions published by the GSMA this week.
  The industry body forecasts that 5G connections in China will reach 1.6 billion by 2030, accounting for nearly one third of the g
  
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• RMT strike on the London Cable Car

  27-03-2023 17:54 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Staff working on the London Cable Car who are members of the RMT union will be on strike over the Easter weekend, although the cable car has enough other staff to keep it operating.Of the 27 staff working on the London Cable Car, 26 voted in the strike ballot, and all voted in favour of strike action.
  As a result, RMT staff at the London Cable Car will be on strike all day from Friday 7th April through to the end of Monday 10th April. That’s the entire Easter weekend, when the IFS Cloud Ca
  
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• The restored “Bovril Castle” in south London is opening to the public

  27-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A “castle” built over 200 years ago in South Dulwich has been under conservation work for the past few years, and will open to the public next weekend with free tours of the building.
  (c) Kingswood Arts
  Kingswood House was built in 1811, but its most famous owner was John Johnston who bought it in 1891 and added the stone facade and castle battlements that now make it so distinctive. As Johnston was also the inventor of Bovril, the house gained the nickname locally of Bovril Castle.
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: BT, Huawei and vRAN

  27-03-2023 14:44
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · BT, Huawei and vRAN
  
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• BT reportedly on the lookout for Jansen’s successor

  27-03-2023 14:19
  Executive headhunters are reportedly helping UK incumbent BT find its next willing victim to take on the top job.
  This is according to a Mail on Sunday report over the weekend, in which an unnamed source said the telco has been sounding out potential successors to chief executive Philip Jansen “for quite some time”, possibly even months. The source also described the succession planning as “an open secret” in the City of London.
  The timing is the most interesting aspect t
  
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• China Unicom said to be introducing 6G applications by 2025

  27-03-2023 13:39
  The boss of Chinese telco China Unicom told reporters he expects his company to start trialling 6G application scenarios in just two years’ time.
  Liu Liehong apparently told journalists as much at the recent China Development Forum, as reported by the SCMP. Exactly what an application scenario means is unclear, as is the nature of 6G, so this claim should be taken with a pinch of salt. But the intention is clear: to position China Unicom, and by extension China as a whole, as the global pi
  
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• Nokia looks to cut telco energy bills

  27-03-2023 13:15
  Nokia has unveiled the latest iteration of its energy-saving software to help reduce power usage in telecoms networks.
  There is, of course, an important sustainability angle here. But the ability of the software to help telcos cut their energy bills might well be a more important selling point in the short term, as evidenced by the number of operators globally to have reported the impact of ever-increasing energy prices in their latest financials.
  The Finnish vendor has upgraded its AVA Energy e
  
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• Competition to design a mural for  Hackney Wick station

  27-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A passage that runs underneath the railway next to Hackney Wick station that’s currently covered in graffiti is to be given over to an artist to be professionally decorated with a mural.
  (c) Hackney Council
  To select an artist, Network Rail, in partnership with Hackney Council and the London Legacy Development Corporation is running an open competition to choose a design. They say that the mural design must be representative of the Hackney Wick community and help to make the space feel saf
  
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• OneWeb deploys another 36 satellites and completes planned constellation

  27-03-2023 12:57
  Low Earth Orbit satellite firm OneWeb has launched a further 36 satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.
  The launch took place yesterday and the satellites were ‘dispensed’ in nine phases. Signal acquisition on all 36 of them has been confirmed, we’re told, and this marks the firm’s 18th launch and completes the total planned constellation of 618 satellites.
  588 satellites were earmarked to deliver global coverage with additional ones launched
  
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• HS2’s Euston station cost has nearly doubled to £4.8 billion

  27-03-2023 10:13 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The cost of building HS2’s terminus station at Euston has nearly doubled to £4.8 billion since it was originally planned, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO), with the constant changes to the design having wasted over a hundred million pounds.
  Proposed Euston station (c) HS2
  Last month the government said it was pausing work on building Euston station to save money, although it was widely noted at the time that delays usually lead to higher costs. This has now
  
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