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• Botanical art show blooms with delicate wonders at the Saatchi Gallery

  20-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Delicate flowers from the Tower of London, to bold tulips that can’t be sold only donated, to seaweed and huge peonies — it can only be the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show at the Saatchi Gallery.Although the RHS has been awarding prizes for botanical drawings for over a century, it’s only in the past couple of years that there’s been a public exhibition, and it has returned for a third year.
  Two large rooms filled with daylight are decorated along the walls by so
  
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• British Sci-Fi TV exhibition coming to London

  20-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Gunnersbury Park Museum in west London is planning an exhibition of the best of British science fiction television and put out a call to help stage the show.The location is suitable as the area has been home to many stage and costume designers who worked in British television science fiction shows from the 1960s to modern times. Ealing and Hounslow’s set designers, model makers, and costume designers played a pivotal role in creating films and TV shows which would go on to become house
  
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• Intel and Germany reach deal on €30 billion chip fab

  20-06-2023 15:01
  Chip maker Intel has finalised another multi-billion euro plan to build even more state-of-the-art factories in Europe.
  The money hose is being turned on Magdeburg Germany, which will see Intel and its partners, including the German government, spend more than €30 billion over the coming years on two semiconductor plants – commonly referred to as ‘fabs’.
  The plan is part of Intel’s €33 billion investment programme for Europe, launched in March 2022. It originall
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the Old Bailey

  20-06-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, there will be regular tours of the exceptionally famous Old Bailey courthouse in the City of London.In fact, anyone can already go into the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, which is the official name for the Old Bailey, if they want to watch a court case, as most courtrooms are open to the public.
  There are small tours during the week, but now, the City of London Guides will be offering regular tours on Saturdays this summer.
  Apart from the courtrooms themselves, there a
  
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• Wicker Man exhibition opens in central London

  20-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The basement of the atmospheric Horse Hospital is currently showing a small but interesting exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wicker Man’s release.
  Dominating half the exhibition though is The Wickerman itself – or more correctly, the model made for the very peculiar 2016 music video to accompany Radiohead’s Burn the Witch – blending the Wicker Man and the 1960s children’s show, Trumpton.The scale model is flanked by drawings for the design of the origi
  
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• Telenor takes on hyperscalers with new cloud venture

  20-06-2023 12:46
  Telenor has teamed up a with a renewable energy specialist and a venture capitalist to launch a new company that will secure sensitive data on behalf of Norwegian enterprises.
  The new venture aims to meet the growing demand from government and corporations for data sovereignty, and will build three brand new data centres in Oslo – with a combined capacity of 40 megawatts and at a cost estimated by Telecoms.com to be several hundred million dollars – expressly for this purpose.
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• BT details cautious Digital Voice rollout plans

  20-06-2023 12:29
  Awareness activity for BT’s Digital Voice Service will begin in the East Midlands in July, as the UK telco group looks to swap over its landline customers to VoIP telephony from analogue.
  The project is described as a ‘once-in-a-generation upgrade to future-proof the UK’s landlines’ and is designed to replace obsolete analogue technology, which BT says for most customers will be as simple as plugging a phone into a broadband router instead of into a wall-mounted phone soc
  
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• US awards close to $1 billion in middle mile fibre funding

  20-06-2023 10:55
  The US government has awarded funding grants of more than $930 million for the provision of middle mile infrastructure to boost regional connectivity, but demand was much higher than that.
  The ‘Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program’ received more then 260 applications in the second half of last year comprising $7.47 billion in funding requests. That’s well over seven times the amount available under the $1 billion programme.
  As it was, the National Telecommunica
  
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• London Underground expands mobile phone coverage to Mornington Crescent station

  20-06-2023 10:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The latest extension to underground mobile phone coverage has gone live this morning, with 4G and 5G coverage now available at Mornington Crescent station.The underground phone coverage is extending along the Northern line at the moment, and they expect to have coverage in the tunnels between Mornington Crescent and Camden Town in the coming few weeks.
  Along the rest of the Northern line, there’s also phone coverage at Archway, Tufnell Park and Kentish Town stations. Although Kentish Town
  
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• Kentish Town tube station closing next week for a year

  20-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Kentish Town tube station on the Northern line will close from next Monday (26th June) for about a year as they will be replacing both of the old escalators in the station.During the closure, customers are being advised to use the neighbouring Kentish Town Thameslink station or the nearby Tufnell Park tube station for Northern line services, or local bus routes.
  The closure is to replace the station’s 26-year-old escalators, which are the most unreliable on the network, and their breakdown
  
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