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• Skulls and speedos at this stained glass exhibition

  15-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of modern stained glass opens in bright airy rooms filled with colour from the monumental glasses hanging in the spaces but swiftly descends into darkness and death. This is an exhibition of works by Brian Clarke, who is widely regarded to be the most important artist working in stained glass today, and it ranges from some of his earliest to his most recent works.He is it should be noted, a secular artist, so while some motifs shown can look as if they’ve come from a church,
  
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• T-Mobile US taps up Google for edge compute

  15-06-2023 17:43
  T-Mobile US has partnered with Google so it can resell the Internet giant’s edge computing services to its private 5G networking customers.
  The agreement relates specifically to Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Edge, which is the Internet giant’s on-premises solution, rather than an edge cloud instance operating from a nearby data centre.
  T-Mobile said bringing GDC Edge together with its 5G network allows it to support more advanced – and therefore more throughput-and-latency-int
  
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• Dish makes good on 5G coverage commitment

  15-06-2023 17:26
  Dish Wireless has extended its 5G network to over 70% of the US population, satisfying the coverage requirements of its spectrum licences.
  But while the telco is talking up its breadth of coverage and the advanced technology its infrastructure is built upon, it still has very little to say about customers actually using the network. Clearly that user base hasn’t gone up much in the past few weeks.
  As of 14 June, Dish’s 5G broadband network reaches over 70% of the population or more t
  
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• Queen Elizabeth I’s silver thread dress going on display in the City of London

  15-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Some of the richest fabrics ever made, including the remarkable Bacton Altar Cloth will go on display in the City of London later this year. The Bacton Altar Cloth, despite its name, is actually the only known piece of a dress worn by Queen Elizabeth I.
  Woven with silver thread inlays, it would have ensured the Queen glowed in the firelight and candles when she attended state events. So precious was the silver threaded and embroidered fabric that when the Queen stopped wearing the dress, it was
  
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• Amid warnings, UK defence lab forms Google AI pact

  15-06-2023 14:01
  A UK government defence lab has struck a partnership with Google Cloud that includes AI, conjuring forth exactly the sort of images of killer robots that people have been warning about.
  To be fair to the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), its CEO Paul Hollinshead insisted in a statement that his lab is committed to “safe and responsible AI.”
  Nonetheless, Dstl is very keen to work with Google to accelerate the adoption of AI in the UK defence sector, ergo the two hav
  
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• US throws $700 million at rural fibre

  15-06-2023 13:47
  The US government has awarded $714 million worth of grants and loans to small telecom companies for the provision of high-speed Internet in rural areas.
  The award forms part of the fourth round of funding allocation under the ReConnect program, whose remit is to financially support the build out or improvement of infrastructure required to provide decent broadband in rural communities. The multi-billion-dollar program has been ongoing for around five years and this latest award is the third to t
  
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• BT moves to accelerate its cloud transformation

  15-06-2023 13:42
  UK telco group BT’s Digital Unit has completed an EDM Council cloud assessment, which it says will provide a ’robust framework for moving forward at pace with its cloud and data ambition.’
  EDM Council – a data and analytics trade association – is behind the Cloud Data Management Capabilities framework which is a metric to assess an organisation’s ‘cloud readiness’, described as a ‘comprehensive set of industry standard guidelines, standards a
  
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• BT eyes accelerated cloud transformation after completing assessment   

  15-06-2023 13:42
  UK telco group BT’s Digital Unit has completed an EDM Council cloud assessment, which it says will provide a ’robust framework for moving forward at pace with its cloud and data ambition.’
  EDM Council – a data and analytics trade association – is behind the Cloud Data Management Capabilities framework which is a metric to assess an organisation’s ‘cloud readiness’, described as a ‘comprehensive set of industry standard guidelines, standards a
  
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• EU contemplates splitting up Google’s advertising operations

  15-06-2023 13:14
  The European Commission reckons Google controls too much of the digital advertising ecosystem and that the only remedy may be forced divestments.
  Say what you like about the EU but when it decides to look into something it’s usually thorough, albeit at the expense of speed. In sending a Statement of Objections to Google over abusive practices in online advertising technology, the European Commission, which is the executive arm of the bloc, detailed all the ways in which Google dominates th
  
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• There’s a scale model of the Barbican estate in the Barbican Arts Centre

  15-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you go to the Barbican at the moment, you can take a look at a large scale model of the estate, which is on display following conservation work.A curiosity about the model is that the label says it was made in 1959 by McCutchon Studio, but the buildings shown in the model are from the late 1960s design that was later approved for construction. The theory is that when the successful architects, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon presented their ideas to the City of London, they reused the base and s
  
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• ZTE Strives for Sustainable, Digital Future and Joins SBTi

  15-06-2023 12:48
  As digital transformation enabler, ZTE has made a strong commitment to working with partners and customers in building a sustainable, resilient future. In a newly released report, the global ICT solutions provider highlights recent accomplishments in the areas of digital innovation, decarbonization and social responsibility.The “2022 Sustainability Report” highlights both the company’s internal efforts and work with third parties toward sustainability and resilience. ZTE says i
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Pedlar’s Park, SE11

  15-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a park in two halves that sits next to the railway in Vauxhall, and is the result of a school closing in 1960.It was, unsurprisingly, once all fields, but the area was starting to develop in the mid 19th century, and the arrival of the main railway line helped to spur housing along the roads that already existed. In the 1880s, there was still empty land behind the houses, but just 20 years later, the whole area was fully filled in, with a large school occupying the eastern half of the mo
  
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