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• See a Japanese float on display in the British Museum

  03-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A scale model of a Japanese festival float that was donated to the British Museum to mark the 1908 London Olympics has gone on display for a few weeks. Even though it’s only a model, and far smaller than the real thing, it’s still a substantial sized object that’s been expertly carved from wood and assembled.Although the museum knew it has been donated to the British Museum by the art dealership Yamanaka & Co. in 1908, to mark the Olympic Games in London, its story, and eve
  
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• Vodafone serves up a slice of 5G for coronation broadcast

  03-05-2023 14:23
  UK broadcaster ITN will get a slice of Vodafone’s 5G standalone (SA) network to go with its slice of coronation quiche this weekend.
  The mobile operator on Wednesday announced that ITN’s coverage of Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III will be carried on a dedicated slice of its public 5G SA network. Voda claims this is the first time this technology has been used in the UK to enable a broadcast.
  “It feels fitting that 70 years on from the 1953 coronation, itself a m
  
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• Mavenir pockets another $100 million to ramp up brownfield Open RAN effort

  03-05-2023 13:27
  Network software specialist Mavenir has raised another chunk of change to help maintain Open RAN momentum.
  The US-based company has been championing disaggregated mobile infrastructure for years, and has made significant inroads that lend credibility to this new architecture, securing greenfield network deals with the likes of Dish in the US and 1&1 in Germany, for example.
  More recently, Mavenir has been gaining traction with telcos that want – or need, due to anti-Huawei policies &nd
  
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• Apple and Google team up to combat Bluetooth stalking

  03-05-2023 13:12
  Big tech rivals Google and Apple have got together and jointly submitted a proposal for an industry specification designed to curb the use of Bluetooth devices for unwanted tracking.
  The basic purpose of Bluetooth location tracking tags is supposed to be that you pop them on your keyring or in your wallet, and if you lose them, instead of flapping about trying to remember where you might have dropped them you can locate them on your phone. However the joint announcement from Apple and Google ope
  
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• Dennis Severs House fills its rooms with a young man’s ceramics

  03-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields, the remarkable time capsule of Georgian life, has become an unusual setting for a display of unusual chinaware.Dennis Severs lived in the house which he part-converted, part-restored into an exceptional experience to visit between 1979 to 1999, and in 1983, was joined by his boyfriend, Simon Pettet who was an artist who specialised in ceramics.
  Inspired by the interior of the house, Simon started creating modern versions of Delftware pottery but died y
  
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• Major satellite players and telcos aim to run IRIS²

  03-05-2023 10:30
  A number of major satellite companies, telecoms operators and others have come together to bid for the right to implement the EU’s IRIS² low-earth orbit satellite project.
  The consortium this week announced that it will be run by Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, Hispasat, SES and Thales Alenia Space, with the backing of a core team from Deutsche Telekom, OHB, Orange, Hisdesat, Telespazio, and Thales. The group is responding to the publication of a tender the tender published by the
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: The White House Garden, SE1

  03-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just behind the Southbank centre is a large public garden in full view of the crowds, that hardly anyone knows is actually open to the public.It’s not that the owners go to a lot of effort to make it welcoming, with no seating, lots of locked gates and warning notices that it’s private — but yes, it’s also open to the public. This is the Whitehouse Garden, and it was created as a pocket park as part of the conversion of the Downstream Building of the Shell Centre offices
  
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• Rececently uncovered Roman Wall in the City of London given heritage protection

  03-05-2023 02:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Three large sections of a previously unknown Roman wall discovered under the City of London in recent years have been designated as scheduled monuments in the National Heritage List for England.
  Recording of the Roman riverside wall at Riverbank House (c) MOLA
  Although the Roman Wall that surrounds the old city is well known, what’s been discovered is a relatively unknown riverside wall that was constructed later and severed the city’s connection to the Thames docks, indicating that
  
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