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• England’s oldest hospital gets a central London exhibition

  10-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  To mark its 900th anniversary, an exhibition about Barts Hospital has opened that tells the history of the organisation, from its early religious foundation to a charity and now a major NHS hospital.Unique in being England’s oldest hospital still running on the same location, St Bartholomew’s Hospital first opened its doors to Londoners in 1123, but nearly closed when the dissolution of the monasteries took away most of its income. It was saved by the City of London, which took over
  
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• Verizon taps into towers profits with Vertical Bridge deal

  10-05-2023 18:50
  US operator Verizon has inked a towers build-out deal with Vertical Bridge that will enable it to expand its mobile networks and to make some money from the growing passive infrastructure market.
  The firm has brokered a build-to-suit agreement with Vertical Bridge that will see the latter build mobile towers on its behalf to expand its 4G and 5G Ultra Wideband services.
  Verizon will serve as the anchor tenant on the towers in question, which suggests they will be open to other mobile operators;
  
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• Sir Christopher Wren tricentenary exhibition opens in St Paul’s Cathedral

  10-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren, and to mark the tricentenary, an exhibition has opened in the building most closely associated with him – St Paul’s Cathedral.St Paul’s is famously the first cathedral to be built in the lifetime of its designer and also seems to be the first therefore to be associated with its architect in a way that is familiar today but was very unusual at the time.
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• Three CEO repeats consolidation plea despite solid Q1

  10-05-2023 14:06
  All of Three UK’s numbers are moving in the right direction, but CEO Robert Finnegan still isn’t satisfied.
  The mobile operator’s revenue for the first three months of the year totalled £610 million, a 5% increase on last year. Margin increased 7% to £389 million, and capex was down 14% to £140 million. Monthly ARPU inched up to £13.05 from £12.96, and average margin per user (AMPU) grew 2% to £11.70.
  Things are looking good on the customer f
  
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• Virgin Media O2 upbeat on 5G and fibre rollout

  10-05-2023 13:53
  Buoyed by a pretty solid set of Q1 financials, Virgin Media O2 is talking a good game on network rollout in the UK, both in terms of fibre-to-the-premises and 5G.
  The UK cable and mobile player used its first quarter numbers to reiterate its goal of reaching 80% of the country with full fibre in the coming years and to let us know that it is on track to do that. It also noted that it expects to cover half of the country with 5G by the end of this year, which is still behind some of its rivals, b
  
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• New AI systems tailored to specific jobs are popping up fast  

  10-05-2023 13:39
  As both warnings and promises of hope around AI abound, one of the consistent themes is its potential impact on jobs, with new tools aimed at specific sectors being launched regularly.
  The pantheon of hot takes concerning AI ranges from warnings that we’re about to be terminated by hyper-smart and genocidal robot killers to dismissing it as nothing but a silly novelty that is no where near the capabilities of a human brain yet. But a general consensus seems to be that new generative AI mod
  
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• How can you accelerate RAN deployments?

  10-05-2023 13:10
  Perhaps the most critical aspect of preparing to deliver 5G services is building the Radio Access Network (RAN) itself. Far from being a plug and play exercise, this complex undertaking brings with it many challenges, including tight schedules and budgets to ensuring interoperability with multiple vendors. This fact sheet explores these and other challenges, and how to manage the many facets of RAN deployment:Multivendor laboratory testing
  Material logistics
  Total system quality and lifecycle ma
  
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• 5G Open RAN system integration

  10-05-2023 13:10
  Open RAN brings the benefits of an open ecosystem and the power of virtualization to wireless networks. Mobile operators can now choose best-in-class technologies without being restricted to specific vendors. Open RAN also offers faster innovation and more flexible deployments. However, transitioning from a closed to an open architecture can bring unfamiliar challenges.
  This fact sheet highlights the factors that operators must consider when deploying open architectures, and the keys to successf
  
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• Open RAN is for all: a Senza Fili Deep Dive Report

  10-05-2023 13:09
  Open RAN gives operators more flexibility and choice while creating new opportunities for vendors to widen their global presence in the RAN and end-to-end market. In this conversation with Fujitsu Network Communications, Senza Fili’s Monica Paolini talks with Shingo Mizuno, CEO; and Dr. Femi Adeyemi, Head of Wireless, about a range of topics around Open RAN, including:Open RAN brownfield and greenfield deployment options
  Interoperability lessons learned from early deployments
  Why open netw
  
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• A troubled look at Milk at the Wellcome Collection

  10-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition about milk should be fresh and inviting and wholesome, a bit like the product itself, but somehow this exhibition leaves you feeling like the milk’s gone off.Milk is a difficult topic to look at, as it ranges from the wholesome drink of our youths to the planet killing product that needs to be replaced with oat and almonds. But the exhibition somehow misses most of that and tries a bit too hard to blame milk for perpetuating stereotypes about race and society.
  Opening with a
  
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• Twitter set to become major primary news platform with new Carlson show

  10-05-2023 12:41
  Star US newscaster Tucker Carlson has announced he will bring his show directly to Twitter, following an acrimonious departure from Fox News.
  Carlson was abruptly dropped from Fox news following his 21 April show, despite him being the clear number one at the channel for audience and ratings. The suddenness of the move strongly indicated an acrimonious parting, a theory confirmed by the immediately subsequent slew of leaks, especially to partisan organisation Media Matters, of material designed
  
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• Severe disruption expected due to train strike on Friday and Saturday

  10-05-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The rail industry is warning of significant disruption this Friday and Saturday due to two overlapping train strikes.
  The ASLEF union is striking on Friday 12th May, while the RMT union is striking on Saturday 13th May.
  The impact will vary as each strike is affecting different train companies and to different levels of staff striking, but the rail industry is warning of significant disruption, not just on the days of the strikes, but also in the evenings before and the mornings after.
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Kirkwood Nature Reserve, SE15

  10-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a newish nature reserve in south London, that opened in 2000 on land that was cleared in the 1970s and 1990s alongside a railway line.A new road was built where the old houses had been in the 1970s, but in the late 1990s, that road was partially built on as well for more housing, and the remainder of the road was landscaped to form the nature reserve and planted with a woodland, artificial pond and some open grass.
  It opened to the public in the autumn of 2000.The pocket park was also to
  
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• IBM launches tools to combat future quantum threats  

  10-05-2023 08:00
  IBM has launched its Quantum Safe portfolio of products, a set of tools designed to protect data against attacks from future quantum computing powered hacks.
  IBM announced the new products at its annual Think conference in Florida. They are designed to address the down-side of the nascent quantum computing sector (which it is rather prominently involved in developing) in that should hackers or cyber criminals make use the advanced number-crunching systems for nefarious means, current security me
  
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