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• A gigantic statue of a demon has appeared in North Greenwich

  13-04-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A monumental 18-metre tall statue has appeared in North Greenwich, and frankly, it’s absolutely awful.It’s actually a piece of art by Damien Hirst that was first shown in Venice, where it stood within a classical building, and was part of a collection telling a fictional tale of an ancient shipwreck.
  Looking at it in context surrounded by related art in the classical building, it looked amazing, as if it had stepped straight out of a Ray Harryhausen movie — such as Clash of the
  
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• Boost for business as bandwidth busting broadband trialled in London

  13-04-2023 17:30
  
  London broadband provider G.Network and technology provider Xantaro to test next generation fibre broadband using Nokia 25G PON equipment A successful test of the latest development in full fibre broadband networks, which could help to bring the UK up to speed in terms of internet connectivity for businesses, has recently taken place in central London. Working in partnership with full fibre broadband provider G.Network, technology firm Xantaro have demonstrated how Nokia’s 25G PON technolo
  
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• US dangles $1.5bn in front of Open RAN community

  13-04-2023 17:07
  The Biden administration is ramping up its efforts to grow the US’ open RAN ecosystem.
  The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) this week officially launched its Wireless Innovation Fund, which has a budget of $1.5 billion and a mandate to spend it on stimulating the development of new and exciting telco tech.
  On Wednesday, it announced its first notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), which invites interested parties to apply for some
  
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• Last chance to go on a tour of the historic St Barts Hospital

  13-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 900th anniversary of the founding of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and while public tours of a hospital may sound like an odd thing to go on, these tours focus on the historic buildings in the estate.
  The tour will show you the oldest remaining parts of the hospital and also enable you to compare and admire both 18th and 21st century hospital architecture and the hospital’s own Church.
  In addition there will be the opportunity to view the splendours of the Grade I li
  
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• China Telecom and Huawei Completed the First 50G-PON Industrial Internet Pilot Project, Facilitating Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing Industry

  13-04-2023 15:56
  Recently, China Telecom Research Institute joined hands with Huawei in Jiangsu Etern Optoelectronics under the Etern group (Etern Optoelectronics for short) to complete an Industrial Internet pilot project based on 50G-PON. This project combines the industry’s latest 50G-PON dual-mode all-optical network technology with the China Telecom self-developed industrial PON self-service platform. In the innovative scenario of digital factories, the pilot project verified the ultra-high bandwidth,
  
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• Wind Tre at loggerheads with unions over network spinoff

  13-04-2023 14:04
  Wind Tre faces industrial action over its plan to spin off its mobile network and sell a majority stake in the new company to Sweden’s EQT.
  The Italian telco this week held its latest meeting with union and government representatives aimed at resolving their differences over the proposed restructuring. However, the talks ended without resolution, according to a statement published by Fistel CISL. The other major unions were also present.
  It’s not wholly clear exactly what that means
  
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• EU warns Broadcom-VMware deal could hurt competition

  13-04-2023 13:10
  The European Commission has become the latest jurisdiction to raise concerns about the $61 billion mega-merger between Broadcom and VMware.
  On Wednesday it sent a statement of objections to Broadcom explaining that it believes the deal has the potential to harm competition in the market for server hardware that works with VMware’s virtualisation software. The development comes three weeks after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) aired similar concerns.
  The EU has been i
  
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• West London Orbital Railway likely to get approval

  13-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A long-running campaign to open up a freight railway in West London for passenger use is likely to go ahead, although the opening date is being pushed back until the early 2030s.
  Once built, the West London Orbital (WLO) could link Hounslow to Old Oak Common via Neasden and then head to either Brent Cross West and/or West Hampstead. The plans have been under development since 2017, but as always, how to pay for the railway upgrade is the key issue.Last year, Transport for London (TfL) was awarde
  
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• AWS pours fuel on the generative AI flames

  13-04-2023 13:00
  Public cloud giant AWS has opened an initiative designed to promote the development of generative AI startups.
  It’s called the ‘Generative AI accelerator program’ and invites startups with bright ideas in that field to submit applications from today. The top ten applications will be announced later this month, who will then get lots of training, mentorship, and resources from AWS, as well as some AWS credits to enable them to build-out their concepts on the platform.
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• Nokia drops new industry 4.0 apps

  13-04-2023 12:53
  Kit vendor Nokia has launched four third-party apps on Nokia MX Industrial Edge, designed to offer all sorts of handy things in smart industry settings.
  ‘Asset-heavy industries’ – which presumably means something along the lines of lots of physical machinery or equipment – can ‘accelerate their digital transformation’ and benefit most from Nokia’s OT edge ecosystem-neutral approach, we’re told. The new apps also leverage the GPU capability on Nokia
  
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• Telecom Ops: Driving efficiency and cost saving through network automation

  13-04-2023 11:31
  Operational efficiency and cost saving are increasingly pushed to the forefront as Communication Service Providers (CSPs) continue to grapple with increasing operational costs due to the growing energy crisis and the continued inflation.Meanwhile, as the demand for future generation services and capacity continues to grow, so do the investments CSPs make in the next phase of 5G. To this end, network automation and AI play a key role in driving new revenue streams, enhancing go-to-market strategi
  
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• Avoid Waterloo station – SWR warns of major disruption to train services

  13-04-2023 09:08 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Due to a major signalling problem, Network Rail is advising customers not to attempt to travel to and from Waterloo station this morning.
  Waterloo Station
  14 out of the stations 22 platforms at Waterloo station are currently closed, and are not expected to fully open for the rest of the day.
  South Western Railway said that it’s “advising customers not to attempt to travel to or from London Waterloo this morning”.
  The delays are only affecting the mainline railway, the London Un
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: St John’s Churchyard, SE1

  13-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a large public park close to Tower Bridge that is unsurprisingly, the former graveyard for a church, but also a much more important space than that.Long before there was a church here though, and the area was still largely fields, the land around here was known as Horseleydown. The name is thanks to the low-lying and often waterlogged fields being used as a pasture for horses that were used for moving cloth from the nearby tenter grounds.
  By the 16th century, the area was starting to be
  
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• London’s Hunterian Museum reopens next month

  13-04-2023 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Closed for the past six years, one of London’s more interesting museums will reopen in May as a free to visit medical museum.
  The Hunterian Museum, based at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in central London includes the display of over 2,000 anatomical preparations made by the 18th century surgeon anatomist John Hunter, from whom the museum takes its name.
  (c) Hunterian Museum
  The specimens will be displayed alongside instruments, equipment, models, paintings and archive material,
  
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