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• Chelsea Flower Show garden is coming to Latimer Road tube station

  12-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the Chelsea Flower Show closes, most of the gardens are taken away and recycled, but one will remain in London, as it’s rebuilt next to Latimer Road tube station.
  The container garden, which will be ready by 30th May, will be developed by landscape designers Amelia Bouquet and Emilie Bausager, who are featured at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
  After it is handed over, the garden will be maintained by Energy Garden and the local residents.
  TfL Energy Garden_Mock up of garde
  
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• One million rarely seen archive photos released online for free

  12-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A five-year project to scan and record over a million photos of world architecture, sculpture, paintings, and decorative objects has been completed, releasing the photos for online study, and use.
  S. Maria dei Servi, Genoa, Italy. Ministry of Works Collection, The Conway Library, The Courtauld
  The Courtauld Gallery in central London holds The Conway Library collection, which contains over one million images dating from the inception of photography to the present day, including 160,000 prints by
  
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• Rakuten Mobile signs roaming deal with KDDI

  12-05-2023 13:38
  As part of a new roaming agreement, KDDI will provide roaming services to competing Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile for the next three years.
  Rakuten will now lean on KDDI’s network in areas such as high-traffic shopping districts in Tokyo’s 23 wards and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya, on top of an existing roaming agreement covering indoor locations such as subways, underground shopping centres, tunnels, and rural areas. The new roaming agreement comes into effect in June 20
  
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• Europe acts against the threat of a social credit system with new AI rulebook

  12-05-2023 13:14
  The European Parliament has voted in favour of document that it describes as the world’s first ever rules for artificial intelligence.
  Running to well over 100 pages, the document itself is the usual legalese tome. Mercifully it is decoded and summarised in a press release, facilitating its further simplification here. The powers that be in the EU want to make sure ‘AI systems are overseen by people, are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly.&
  
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• Alexander Fleming Museum scraps its admission charges

  12-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The museum dedicated to the man who accidentally discovered penicillin has become a free museum after it scrapped the entry charges to visit.The Alexander Fleming Museum is, to be honest, not that amazing, being a couple of exhibition rooms, and then the Hallowed Space, where he famously left his window open in a dirty lab and discovered penicillin. The Hallowed Space is however just a recreation. It has largely original objects, but for many years, the room was used to store nappies for the mat
  
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• Roaming data revenue to hit $10 billion, but eSIM looms large

  12-05-2023 10:46
  Telcos stand to pocket a weighty wad of cash from data roaming next year, but they perhaps shouldn’t get too used to it.
  Juniper Research on Wednesday predicted that globally, mobile roaming data revenue will come in at $10 billion in 2024, compared to an expected $8.6 billion this year. There is money to be made then, driven in part by the increasing availability of, and demand among globetrotters, for 5G.
  Operators do need to tread carefully though. As the industry knows all too well, ch
  
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• TIM on the offensive over network separation

  12-05-2023 10:35
  TIM’s remaining businesses following the probable spin-off of its network operations will be strong and sustainable, the company’s chief executive Pietro Labriola said this week.
  Labriola used the Italian incumbent’s first quarter results announcement to go on the offensive about his network separation plan, which has engendered a broad range of reactions from various parties in Italy and further afield. Specifically, Labriola addressed the issue of the ServiceCo operations tha
  
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• EU plans Black Sea internet cable to reduce reliance on Russia

  12-05-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Move to improve connectivity to Georgia amid global concerns over spying and sabotage
  
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