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• Greater Anglia offering £10 return fares on train trips this summer

  06-06-2023 17:25 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Train operator, Greater Anglia, is launching special summer ‘Hare Fares’ from London for just £10 return for a limited time.
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  The new ‘Hare Fares’ offer passengers off-peak returns across the Greater Anglia network with simple return prices: £10, £15 and £20, with children travelling for just £2 return each.
  There is no limit on the number of tickets that can be bought, but they must be booked between 6th and 26th June for t
  
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• Elizabeth line popularity drives housing demand along the railway

  06-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Rental homes along the Elizabeth line have seen an increase in popularity, with the greatest increase further out from London, at the ends of the Elizabeth line.This could indicate that living away from the centre has become more accessible with larger homes for lower rents becoming more viable now that there’s a more reliable travel link into London for work.
  According to Rightmove, the biggest increase in demand from renters is near stations furthest out, including Reading (+32%), Brentw
  
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• UK government earmarks another £7 million for rural connectivity

  06-06-2023 14:38
  Additional funds have been made available to see which broadband techs might help the UK plug lingering connectivity gaps.
  As part of a broader package to stimulate rural economic growth, the government on Tuesday announced that it will spend £7 million to trial satellite, fixed wireless access (FWA), and fixed-line solutions in an effort to provide reliable broadband to agricultural and rural tourism businesses. This is in addition to the £8 million that the government earmarked in
  
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• Spark gets into satellite-to-mobile game

  06-06-2023 14:27
  Spark on Tuesday announced plans to trial satellite-to-mobile services later this year, joining a raft of global telecoms players keen to get into space connectivity.
  The New Zealand-based operator is excited about the prospect of using satellites for additional coverage and network resilience, but to its credit, it is being highly realistic about the impact the technology will have, at least in the short term.
  Working with satellite provider Lynk, Spark aims to launch a free trial service to an
  
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• Apple launches expensive Vision Pro augmented reality headset

  06-06-2023 14:17
  The King of tech firms Apple has made its long anticipated entrance to the AR/VR/XR field with the Apple Vision Pro headset, which comes with a hefty $3,499 price tag.
  The Apple Vision Pro is described as a spatial computing headset – which at first glance appears to be what everyone else is calling AR – the world as it is around you overlaid with some sort of heads-up display interface.
  However, unlike Google Glass or other such gadgets, what the wearer sees is entirely fed through
  
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• Saatchi Gallery filled with monumental photographs of humanity’s impact

  06-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A huge exhibition has opened at the Saatchi Gallery that looks at human’s impact on themselves as well as on the planet as both social creatures and creators and builders of the world we live in.
  The exhibition, which fills much of the voluminous Saatchi Gallery, snaking around rooms and up floors is broken down into zones that focus on specific genres of civilisation.
  Featuring many previously unseen images, this exhibition acknowledges the diverse material and spiritual cultures that mak
  
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• Amdocs launches a generative AI framework for telcos

  06-06-2023 12:49
  Telco software firm Amdocs has launched amAIz, which aims to bring much of the latest AI cleverness to much of the rest of its portfolio.
  There’s lots of fairly abstract marketing-speak and long sentences in the press release, but this framework essentially aims to integrate the kind of AI cleverness and natural language processing we associate with ChatGPT to both the operator-side and customer-side of a bunch of Amdocs’ offerings.
  “Amdocs amAIz delivers both templated use cas
  
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• Speedcast Delivers First Live Deployment for OneWeb’s Maritime LEO Service

  06-06-2023 12:45
  
  Maritime customer installation completed following successful sea trials of OneWeb LEO connectivity service Oslo, Norway — June 6, 2023 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, and OneWeb, the global low Earth orbit (LEO) communications network, jointly announced today the launch of OneWeb’s maritime LEO connectivity service. Following successful engineering trials, OneWeb’s maritime terminals have been installed on the RV Polarstern, in partnership
  
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• Paul McCartney and Stanley Tucci in conversation at the National Portrait Gallery

  06-06-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  To mark the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, and their inaugural exhibition of Paul McCartney photographs, there will be an in-conversation between Paul McCartney and Stanley Tucci.As part of the in-conversation, McCartney and Tucci will explore their shared interest in the creative arts and photography, drawing on experiences behind and in front of the camera. McCartney’s photographs from the 1963-64 period will form the focus of the discussion, as the pair share stories and se
  
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• Day trips from London: Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire

  06-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A Tudor manor house built around a hall that dates from the Doomsday Book and is only occasionally open to the public — is open this month.This is Dorney Court, which looks proper Tudor, but looks can be deceiving, and with a bit of shuffling around, has been in the same family for 399 years.
  Dorney Court first appears in the Doomsday Book in 1086 as a hall, possibly on land offered to one of William the Conquerer’s fellow conquerors, and passed through many owners being occasionally
  
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• London Underground expands mobile phone coverage into Camden Town station

  06-06-2023 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Camden Town on the Northern line is the latest station on the London Underground to receive mobile phone coverage on the station platforms, as part of an ongoing rollout of phone coverage in stations and tunnels.All four mobile network operators – Three, EE, Vodafone, and Virgin Media O2 – are taking part in the rollout, which has already delivered 4G on the eastern section of the Jubilee line between Westminster and Canning Town, and both 4G and 5G in parts of the Northern line betw
  
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