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• Tickets Alert: Free bus tours of Barking and Dagenham

  13-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Maybe not the most obvious place for a tourist bus tour, but Barking and Dagenham council is now offering free bus tours of their patch.
  On this tour, you can find out about the Gascoigne neighbourhood, the new Barking Riverside station, and the housing for creatives, A House for Artists.
  The bus tour will let visitors know about Barking and Dagenham’s latest projects and visitors will be told about the borough’s history, with places like Barking Abbey (built in 666) and Eastbury Man
  
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• Ericsson notches up Open RAN calling milestone

  13-06-2023 17:55
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson has shown off its cloud RAN prowess with a demo that uses Intel’s latest silicon and HPE’s telco server.
  Officially unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost, promise to handle everything required of them when it comes to the RAN – from baseband processing to the application layer – without assistance from dedicated acceleration hardware, which Intel argues adds to the c
  
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• Germany targets gigabit speeds for train passengers

  13-06-2023 17:46
  All aboard! German train firm Deutsche Bahn, kit vendor Ericsson, operator O2 Telefónica and tower firm Vantage Towers teaming up to trial new ways to pump up 5G along Germany’s train tracks.
  The ensemble of firms today got the nod from German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) for €6.4 million in funding to test the project to pipe gigabit 5G speeds to train passengers in Germany, called Gigabit Innovation Track (GINT). The firms now plan to ‘develop techn
  
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• Exceptional Roman Mausoleum discovered in South London

  13-06-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The most intact Roman mausoleum ever found in Britain has been discovered in south London, on a site that already revealed some of the largest Roman mosaics found in London for over 50 years.
  Roman Mausoleum with earliest mosaic from Liberty of Southwark site (c) MOLA
  The site is close to London Bridge in Southwark and is being studied by archaeologists ahead of a housing development being built there. Last year, several substantial mosaics were discovered on the site, confirming that it was the
  
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• Experts warn it’s still early days for 5G private networks

  13-06-2023 16:19
  The Future Enterprise Networks event in London initially focused on the nascent private networks market and the challenges it faces to achieve mass adoption.
  Pablo Tomasi of analyst firm Omdia opened the day by saying “everyone needs to answer the wifi question” in the context of 5G private networks (5GPN). In other words, why bother with 5GPN when you can already achieve your local connectivity needs via wifi? That set the tone for an examination of a market that is still at an earl
  
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• Historic England wants your modern photos of old postcard views

  13-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A collection of historic postcards is looking to find modern photos of the same views so that past and present can be compared.
  Peckham Rye Park, London General view – people on path by bandstand
  Nigel Temple postcard collection PC07898 (Image date range 1900-1906)
  Source: Historic England Archive
  The project is being run by Historic England and is using their Nigel Temple Collection of postcards as the background for the modern photos.
  Rachel Prothero, Historic England Head of Content, sa
  
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• FCC’s 42 GHz plan puts it on potential collision course with big telco

  13-06-2023 14:22
  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s proposal to offer shared access to the 42 GHz band could open the door to a raft of new service providers and business models.
  But it could also ruffle a few feathers. Big, fancy feathers with money to spare for lobbying, advertising campaigns and even high-priced lawyers.
  Late last week the FCC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) inviting comment on various approaches to making 500 MHz of 42-GHz spectrum available on a non-exclusi
  
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• Belgian fibreco becomes Wyre, network build starts next month

  13-06-2023 13:43
  The fibre joint venture established in Belgium last summer by Telenet and Fluvius has unveiled its new identity in time to start  network rollout next month.
  The company, until now known as NetCo, has become Wyre. It’s one of those quirky rebrands with a hidden meaning: the letter ‘y’ in the middle of Wyre stands for ‘you’ and represents the operator’s aim to “take everyone into the digital future” through the upgrade of the network, it explai
  
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• Grayson Perry’s ‘irrational beast that controls the market’ appears at the Guildhall Art Gallery

  13-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large woodcut print by Sir Grayson Perry has gone on display in the Guildhall Art Gallery, representing the irrational market that governs the City of London’s stock market traders.The print, ‘Animal Spirit’, has been donated by the former director of Mondrian Capital, Hamish Parker and facilitated by the Contemporary Art Society, and will be on semi-permenant display in the gallery.
  The symbolic representation of the ‘irrational beast that controls the market’ sh
  
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• Telefónica and ARME launch robotics research lab

  13-06-2023 12:50
  Telefonica Tech, the telco’s inventive arm, and the Spanish Mobile Robotics Association (ARME) have teamed up to open a hub designed to boost the field of robotics in Spain.
  The hub will be located in ‘The ThinX’, Telefónica Tech’s IoT and big data applied technology laboratory, and will allow firms to ‘research, innovate and co-create’ on technologies around communications, robots, software, navigation and localisation, cloud, edge computing, cyber sec
  
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• There’s an English church with the Sistine Chapel painted onto its ceiling

  13-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Down on the south coast is a church with a remarkable and from the outside, totally unexpected interior — the only known handpainted replica of the Sistine Chapel.This is the English Martyrs’ Catholic Church in Goring-by-Sea in West Sussex, and this remarkable ceiling is the work of one man who took over 5 years to complete the ceiling, working on his own mainly in the evenings.
  The ceiling was painted by Gary Bevans, a signwriter who took a trip to Rome in 1987, and on his return wa
  
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