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• London Public Art: Water’s Murmur by Julian Stocks

  09-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander through Belgravia, you might spy a large metal map of London and wonder why it’s there.The artwork is a celebration of the River Westbourne, one of London’s “lost” rivers that runs from the Serpentine to the Thames, and was created in 2009 by London based artist, Julian Stocks.
  It’s a steel triptych screen that you can find on Kinnerton Street, which is also one of the streets that the Westbourne (just about) flows under.
  The art blurb says that the ar
  
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• Cloud security market continues to grow  

  09-06-2023 13:03
  Dell’Oro Group says the traditional approach of deploying hardware ‘just doesn’t cut it anymore’, as the market for virtual and SaaS network security clocks its twentieth consecutive quarter of growth.
  According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide market for virtual and SaaS based network security solutions clocked 20% revenue growth in Q1, which we’re told was over twice as strong as traditional network security hardware applianc
  
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• We Will Rock You musical tickets less than half price from just £15

  09-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Running for twelve weeks this summer, We Will Rock You tells a futuristic story based loosely on Queen songs and was written by Ben Elton.There’s a special offer on tickets for some June performances with many seats being offered for less than half price, some good seats for a third of their usual price.£39 seats are now £15
  £45 seats are now £25
  £153 seats are now just £50The discounted seats are on sale from here if booked by 12th June 2023.
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• Gigaclear bags £420m for rural FTTP expansion

  09-06-2023 11:36
  It’s not all doom and gloom for UK altnets, as Gigaclear has attracted £420 million of equity investment that enables it to significantly raise its coverage target.
  Under its existing rollout plan, Gigaclear aims to reach 500,000 premises by the end of this year. In a statement on Thursday, it revealed that the fresh source of capital will give it the financial clout it needs to connect more than a million premises by 2027.
  The money comes from infrastructure-focused fund manager Equ
  
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• EU okays €8.1 billion worth of state aid for microelectronics R&D

  09-06-2023 11:16
  The EU has given the green light for up to €8.1 billion in state aid to be ploughed into R&D linked to chip design and manufacture, with a particular focus on 5G and 6G communication, autonomous driving, AI and quantum computing.
  The European Commission’s thumbs-up means that 14 countries will be permitted to put the money into 68 projects involving 56 companies – some of them big names in the telecoms industry as well as SMEs and start-ups – in the areas of microelect
  
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• Superloop bus consultation opens between North Finchley and Walthamstow

  09-06-2023 10:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The second section of the proposed Superloop bus service around London has opened for public consultation. The X34 bus route is planned to run between North Finchley and Walthamstow, with a limited number of stops between to provide a faster bus service around North London.
  This is the second consultation that has opened since the Superloop was announced in March.
  This section of the Superloop will see a new express route, the X34, introduced to run alongside part of the 221-bus route between No
  
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