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• Waterloo station to replace its glass roof

  24-04-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The glazed roof above Waterloo station’s concourse is to be stripped back and repaired with new glazing and support structures which will allow more light into the station.The two-year project will see Network Rail replace the existing glazing and support structures using approximately 10,000 new glazed panels. The panels will be made from a polycarbonate glazing material which is around 50% lighter in weight, reducing stress on the structure and future proofing it for decades to come.
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• HomeGrid Forum congratulates member Oledcomm on the first LiFi G.hn launch into space 

  24-04-2023 18:15
  
  The world’s first integration of a Light Fidelity (LiFi) module onto a nanosatellite marks a new era for LiFi technology, HomeGrid Forum said today. Speaking after the successful launch of the INSPIRE SAT-7 nanosatellite by SpaceX earlier this month in California, HomeGrid Forum President Livia Rosu discussed how the implementation of the SatelLife® module – developed by Oledcomm and LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales) of France – showcases the b
  
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• History of Telco Network Evolution: The Three Key Phases

  24-04-2023 17:45
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Founder and CTO of RtBrick, Hannes Gredler, offers some context for the current phase of telecoms network technology.
  All technology is constantly evolving. The telecoms industry is no exception and has transformed massively since its inception. To those born during the last couple of decades, the early telecoms networks would have been unrecognisable. It’
  
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• Telefónica and NEC among contributors to new Spanish 6G R&D initiative

  24-04-2023 17:34
  The ENABLE-6G project is yet another EU-funded initiative designed to work out what the point of 6G is and how to achieve it.
  If state-funded 6G R&D projects are anything to go by, Europe is miles ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to the next generation of mobile technology. There was Hexa-X-II last October and soon after Interdigital said it was part of no less than five EU 6G projects. Meanwhile Germany seems determined to lead from the front all by itself.
  Now Spanish outfit th
  
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• BT’s ‘virtual wards’ project aims to give the NHS some new tech tools

  24-04-2023 17:33
  UK telecoms group BT has launched a ‘virtual wards’ programme, designed to give the NHS and other healthcare providers some technological solutions to patient care, including apps, AI monitoring and online consultations.
  The firm pitches virtual wards as allowing ‘patients access to the healthcare services they need remotely, safely and conveniently, outside of a hospital setting’ – which seems to mean providing some form of monitoring or consultation service to pat
  
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• Tickets Alert: Demonstrations and workshops during London Craft Week

  24-04-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month sees London Craft Week return, with a mix of exhibitions, displays and workshops for anyone to attend.
  It’s a chance for retailers and craftspeople to show off their works, and hopefully sell some, but they also include a number of workshops and craft demonstrations for people to attend.
  I’ve trawled the over 200 events taking place looking for the workshops that you can attend.
  They range from turning up during the day to see someone at work to events you book tickets to
  
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• New exhibition tells the story of fashion during the reign of the Four Georges

  24-04-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new summer exhibition has opened at the Queen’s Gallery that takes a long and richly decorated look at Georgian-era clothing fashions. The exhibition tells the story of 18th-century fashion through portraiture, covering the four Georges – from the accession of King George I in 1714 to the death of George IV in 1830.What makes the exhibition more interesting than just room after room of paintings of rich dead people is that they’ve also looked at how the clothes were made, cle
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Freshwave, Open RAN and US vs China

  24-04-2023 14:14
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Freshwave, Open RAN and US vs China
  
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• TAWAL pays €1.2 billion to break into European tower space

  24-04-2023 14:09
  United Group has brokered a €1.2 billion deal to sell a portfolio of telecoms towers across Eastern Europe to Saudi Arabia’s TAWAL.
  The deal, presuming the parties gain all the necessary approvals, will mark TAWAL’s first foray into Europe. And the company, an infrastructure specialist carved out of Saudi Arabian incumbent STC just over four years ago, might be looking for other European opportunities.
  “This partnership with United Group marks our first investment in the E
  
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• Google doubles down on generative AI with reorg

  24-04-2023 13:31
  Despite all the apocalyptic warnings, AI development shows no signs of slowing down.
  Quite the opposite, in fact. Google last week merged two of its AI development units into one bigger one. Called Google DeepMind, it brings together the Brain team from Google Research and DeepMind.
  Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet said in a statement that the reorganisation aims to accelerate the company’s progress with AI.
  “We’ve been an AI-first company since 2016, because we see
  
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• US reportedly pressures South Korea over memory chip sales to China

  24-04-2023 13:21
  It looks like the US is calling in even more favours among its allies in its bid to cripple China’s technology capabilities.
  The FT reports the White House has asked the South Korean government to pressure its domestic chip-makers not to increase their supplies to China if that country decides to take action against American company Micron. So this will mainly be in reference to the memory chip market, where Micron is the third biggest global player behind Koran firms Samsung and SK Hynix.
  
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• Final phase in opening the Elizabeth line confirmed for next month

  24-04-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The final phase of the staged opening of the Elizabeth line will go ahead as planned next month, in a move that effectively completes the project.A new timetable offering trains roughly every two and a half minutes between Paddington and Whitechapel at peak time will be introduced from Sunday 21st May 2023 – although in practice, as Sunday is off-peak all day, the first application of the peak hours service will be on the Monday morning.
  In addition, the regular pausing of eastbound trains
  
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• Only 5% of UK broadband social tariffs have been taken

  24-04-2023 12:53
  An Ofcom study has revealed that while uptake of broadband social tariffs has quadrupled since January 2022, only 5.1% of those eligible have signed up, and around half don’t know about them.
  An estimated 4.3 million households are eligible for broadband social tariffs, a scheme which provides people on Universal Credit and other benefits discounted broadband and mobile deals – however only 220,000 (or 5.1%) have snapped up the cheaper broadband deals, reckons Ofcom.
  The study, put t
  
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• 5% of those eligible for broadband social tariffs have signed up

  24-04-2023 12:53
  An Ofcom study has revealed that while uptake of broadband social tariffs has quadrupled since January 2022, only 5.1% of those eligible have signed up, and around half don’t know about them.
  An estimated 4.3 million households are eligible for broadband social tariffs, a scheme which provides people on Universal Credit and other benefits discounted broadband and mobile deals – however only 220,000 (or 5.1%) have snapped up the cheaper broadband deals, reckons Ofcom.
  The study, put t
  
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• Look out for a swarm of unmanned flying objects in Greenwich

  24-04-2023 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re struggling to get to sleep tonight and have a view of the Millennium Dome, look out for something happening.
  There will be a swarm of 400 unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying over the Thames in the vicinity of the Greenwich peninsula tonight and tomorrow night. Why is unknown, but you don’t hire 400 flying machines and issue a traffic warning to the boats unless you’re filming something fairly decent.So, the swarm of 400 UAS will be in action over two nights.Tuesday
  
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• London’s Alleys: Wild Court, WC2

  24-04-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a slip of a passage near Holborn that provides little today other than back doors and rubbish bins, but once lead to a grand mansion house.The alley is named after a mansion house that stood on the site – Weld House, which was the mansion house and gardens owned by the lawyer and public official, Humphrey Weld.
  William Morgan Map 1682
  Humphrey Weld was a significant figure in the years around the English Civil Wars, and also a secret Catholic at a time when that was illegal. He was
  
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