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• London is getting a new Museum — of Shakespeare

  19-04-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The site of what was probably William Shakespeare’s first theatre will open as a new museum dedicated to the playwright and the theatre.
  (c) MOLA
  The Theatre – for that was its name at a time when it was the only one – was originally discovered by archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) back in 2008, as they worked on a site near Shoreditch High Street that has been developed for housing.
  The Theatre was built in 1576 when Shakespeare was only 12 years old, but
  
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• Smartphone market still struggling and India’s not helping

  19-04-2023 18:41
  The global smartphone market is showing signs of stabilising, but it continued to shrink in the first quarter of this year, according to new analyst data.
  And even newer analyst figures suggest that India was likely a contributor to the decline.
  The number of smartphones shipped worldwide fell by 12% year-on-year in Q1 2023 with unit shipments coming in at well under 300 million, representing the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, Canalys reported on Tuesday.
  Limited improvements in a massive
  
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• Cargo bike delivery hub set up in Victoria

  19-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A last-mile cargo bike delivery hub has been opened in Pimlico in a trial to see if it reduces the number of vehicles on the local streets.
  The logistics hub is an idea that’s gaining popularity, especially with the increase in home shopping that’s led to a rise in vehicles driving door to door to drop off parcels. The idea is that deliveries are taken by van to the hub, and then delivered to the destination in electric cargo bikes.
  Microhub Delivery (c) Westminster Council
  The logis
  
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• Huawei urges cooperation in establishing AI’s goals

  19-04-2023 14:10
  Huawei kicked off its yearly analyst summit with a couple of keynotes and a roundtable discussing the current state of digital transformation, why it’s so important, and delved into where bleeding edge tech like ‘super AI’ might take society.
  Zhou Hong, President of Huawei’s Institute of Strategic Research (pictured), was first up to the podium at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2023, and gave a presentation looking at new forms of computing and how it can build an ‘intel
  
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• Huawei urges cooperation in establishing AI goals

  19-04-2023 14:10
  Huawei kicked off its yearly analyst summit by discussing the current state of digital transformation and then delved into where bleeding edge tech like ‘super AI’ might take society.
  Zhou Hong, President of Huawei’s Institute of Strategic Research (pictured), was first up to the podium at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2023, and gave a presentation looking at new forms of computing and how it can build an ‘intelligent world’ – which seems to be about stuffing more
  
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• Orange to coordinate French quantum comms effort

  19-04-2023 13:53
  France has assembled a consortium of tech firms, researchers – and one telco – to kick off its deployment of quantum networks.
  The programme, called FranceQCI (Quantum Communication Infrastructure) falls under the umbrella of the European Union’s EuroQCI, which is co-funding individual member states’ projects and generally managing the whole thing. The aim is to ensure that critical communications between strategically important sites across the continent – like gov
  
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• Study finds Ofcom complicit in UK landline customers being overcharged

  19-04-2023 13:11
  UK comms regulator Ofcom forced BT to lower its standalone landline prices in 2018 but chose not to do the same for other landline providers.
  Economic consultancy Fideres reckons that has resulted in people who have old-school landline-only deals, unsurprisingly mostly older people, being collectively over-charged millions of pounds. Back in 2017 Ofcom noticed BT (and its competitors) had been increasing its landline-only prices since 2009 and told it to revert to pre-2009 levels. It did so the
  
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• TIM squeezes more cash out of NetCo bidders

  19-04-2023 12:23
  TIM has received two new bids for its network assets from the CdP Equity and Macquarie partnership, and from KKR.
  The Italian incumbent confirmed receipt of the two new non-binding offers late on Tuesday, the deadline it had set for the interested parties to improve on their previous bids.
  It did not explicitly state that the groups had submitted higher offers – in fact it did not provide much information at all, as has become the norm with this process – but clearly that is the case
  
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• Classic London street signs being sold at auction

  19-04-2023 12:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to buy a London street sign as a batch of old signs no longer needed are put up for auction. The distinctive street signs are all from Westminster, and were first created by Sir Misha Black in 1967, and are still a copyrighted design that needs permission from Westminster Council to reproduce.
  There are 235 different road names in the auction, and some of them could be interesting gifts, either for people who share the same name, or who lived on the road and have fond memo
  
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• Two new CPE devices launched bringing multi-gigabit connectivity to today’s smart homes

  19-04-2023 10:00
  
  Broadband network operators can ensure a seamless smart home and business experience for their customers thanks to the release of two new multi-gigabit Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) devices today at the FTTH Conference in Madrid. S&T Iskratel unveiled its Iskratel Innbox X24, a multi-gigabit XGS-PON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) that offers symmetrical upstream and downstream data rates of 10 Gbps. The speed of the internet connection on the ONT is verified by the integrated Ookla&trade
  
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• Discover Seven Dials hidden Ching Court

  19-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just down the road from busy Seven Dials in central London, there’s a remarkably quiet courtyard that, locals aside, hardly anyone seems to know exists. When you think how busy the area is, having a hidden oasis of tranquillity is remarkable.The triangular courtyard sits within a triangular development that’s a mix of restored Georgian houses and post-modern development that saw a once run-down area revamped in the early 1980s.
  The road layout was laid out in the 1690s, and over the
  
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