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• Energy stocks: first, select your shade of green

  26-05-2023 17:45
  Diversified SSE powers on despite the energy crisis
  
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• Step inside Sir John Soane museum’s hidden “drawing room”

  26-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A room inside the Sir John Soane museum that’s never been open to the public is now open twice a week, and it’s quite a remarkable space, even for this already remarkable museum.
  It’s also a room that thousands of people have walked under without even realising, but until recent conservation and cleaning work, wasn’t possible for the public to visit. As a room, superficially it looks not that dissimilar to the rest of the house, being packed full of plaster casts acquired
  
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• Tickets Alert: Vintage tube train trips to Heathrow Airport

  26-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A tube train built in 1938 and restored to its art-deco original interior will be running between central London and Heathrow Aiport next month.
  Apart from the fun of riding in the vintage train itself, an awful lot of fun is to be had watching people when the train goes through stations as people waiting for a modern train look up in shock as this tiny little red train rumbles through instead.The 1938 Stock was the first kind of tube train to have all of the electrical equipment underneath the
  
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• US and allies continue to chip away at Chinese tech sector

  26-05-2023 12:03
  US semiconductor trade sanctions against China seem to be having an effect, but at what cost to its own companies.
  Considered a key US ally in the region, Japan this week announced a bunch of export restrictions to China, with a focus on chip-making equipment. Japan insisted the move has got nothing to do with US pressure, and is instead only to stop chips being reappropriated for military use, but that’s hard to believe.
  Meanwhile America’s other main East Asian ally, South Korea, t
  
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• Free tours of a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

  26-05-2023 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Did you know that the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor is not far from London, and it’s occasionally open to the public for tours?
  Before you worry that the dreaming spires of nearby Oxford will melt in a nuclear accident, nuclear fusion is the sort-of nice sort of nuclear power, the version that doesn’t go bang, and potentially could be the fuel of the future.
  Probably not an accurate representation of the future of fusion power
  While a huge fusion reactor is being built
  
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• Viasat to close Inmarsat acquisition in coming days

  26-05-2023 10:59
  Viasat’s proposed acquisition of rival Inmarsat will close imminently, the companies having received the green light from the European Commission.
  The go-ahead from Brussels, which came on Thursday, was the last major regulatory hurdle the companies needed to clear to get their tie-up over the line. It has been a long time coming… although we should be used to the speed at which the wheels of competition regulation turn by now.
  US-based Viasat announced a US$7.3 billion cash, stock
  
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• Portugal paves way to a Huawei ban on country’s 5G network

  26-05-2023 10:58
  Lisbon’s new security assessment could deal blow to Chinese telecom equipment group’s ambitions in Europe
  
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• Judge dismisses Ericsson shareholder lawsuit over Iraq scandal

  26-05-2023 10:40
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson has been let off the hook after a court ruled that it didn’t dupe shareholders about its misdeeds in Iraq.
  Ericsson, as well as CEO Börje Ekholm and CFO Carl Mellander, were named in a class action lawsuit brought against the company in March 2022 in the aftermath of the stunning revelations of corruption at its Iraqi unit.
  Ericsson’s admission of various kickbacks – coupled with allegations by investigative journalists that some of its payments
  
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• IQ Fiber’s network rollout costing more than it expected

  26-05-2023 10:13
  Florida-based fibre builder IQ Fiber has announced a new $150 million cash injection from its biggest shareholder SDC Capital Partners to fund a network rollout that seems to be costing more than it had expected.
  Naturally, the firm is pitching the receipt of follow-on equity funding in a positive light, talking up its plans to use the cash to get further with the first phase of its network deployment, through which it aims to reach 60,000 homes in the north east of the state by an unspecified d
  
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• CelcomDigi eyes network savings amid Malaysia’s 5G muddle

  26-05-2023 10:12
  Recently-merged Malaysian telco CelcomDigi hopes to save as much as $1.4 billion over the next three years.
  Alongside the publication of its first quarter financials, the operator shared its network integration and synergy targets. In the coming three years it aims to decommission around 7,000 sites and build 2,000 new ones, leaving it with 16,000-18,000 in total. At the same time, it aims to increase its 4G population coverage from 96% to more than 98%, and accelerate average download speed to
  
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• Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College offering tours of their domes

  26-05-2023 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Seen by millions from the outside, but hardly ever from the inside, later this summer, the Old Royal Naval College will be taking small groups into their Wren-designed rooftop domes.
  (c) Old Royal Naval College
  The tours are part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of Sir Christopher Wren’s death in 1723, and the Old Royal Naval College will be inviting visitors to climb the steps high inside the Chapel dome for an exclusive tour.
  Only six people at a time — plus a guide &mda
  
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• BT’s Immersive Spaces is like a holodeck for education and training

  26-05-2023 09:59
  UK telco group BT has unveiled Immersive Spaces, an ‘interactive simulation experience’ for jazzing up things like education and corporate training.
  The firm invited journos down to its London HQ to experience the ‘mobile unit’ version of Immersive Spaces, kitted out with projectors creating three interactive walls inside. These can be made to run an array of programmes designed to serve up the ‘interactive immersive experience.’
  The presentation started with
  
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