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• Former V&A Museum of Childhood reopens as Young V&A, focused on learning and play

  26-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Having closed for longer than planned, the former V&A Museum of Childhood in East London is reopening this weekend with a changed focus on educating the young of today.The museum, renamed as Young V&A still announces itself as the V&A Museum of Childhood on the outside, but that’s a listed mosaic and not exactly the sort of thing that can be changed. Local street signs have been changed, and the banners outside tell you that “joy is this way”.
  Walking into the ex-mu
  
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• Samsung and Wind River team up over the ‘software-defined vehicle’

  26-06-2023 18:31
  The supposed utopia of cars receiving constant over-the-air software updates is the reason for a new collaboration between Samsung’s chip business and embedded software specialist Wind River.
  There’s a version of the Samsung Exynos system-on-chip that is designed especially for automotive use, called the Auto V920. The cunning plan seems to be to preinstall a bunch of handy Wind River software on these chips, to create the proverbial end-to-end solution. Specifically, it will use Win
  
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• What happened to Westminster Abbey’s coronation carpet after the Coronation?

  26-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large stage covered in a bright yellow carpet was built inside Westminster Abbey for the Coronation earlier this year, but something surprising happened to the carpet afterwards.Known as the Coronation Theatre, the stage was specially made for the two thrones.  It was covered in a brand new bright yellow carpet – but what happened to the carpet afterwards?
  You might be surprised.
  Well, to set the scene, the Coronation chair was set on the High Altar with its 13th-century Cosmati Pav
  
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• TfL makes a colorful statement for London Pride with tube posters and wraps

  26-06-2023 14:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A London bus has been shown off wrapped with a new decoration to mark London Pride, which takes place this coming Saturday, with trains also getting the same treatment later this week.With a variant on Transport for London’s (TfL) branding slogan of Every Journey Matters, the Pride bus and posters message say simply Every Story Matters.
  A diverse range of people are being featured on TfL’s posters this year including drag superstar, Bimini; stylist, Gok Wan MBE; dancer and fashionist
  
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• Telecoms and tech plays ‘defining role’ in new US-India pact

  26-06-2023 13:49
  6G research, Open RAN and semiconductors are among the main highlights of the US and India’s newly-strengthened strategic partnership.
  In a joint statement last week, US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “technology will play the defining role” in the US-India Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership.
  Under the agreement, the countries have committed to “promoting policies and adapting regulations that facilitate greater technology sha
  
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• Telekom Malaysia and Maxis ink RAN sharing deal

  26-06-2023 13:35
  Telekom Malaysia has brokered a deal to share rival Maxis’ RAN infrastructure and thereby boost its 4G coverage as it looks to improve its position in the country’s mobile market.
  The two operators talked up the benefit of the deal as being “to strengthen the nation’s digital ecosystem through industry collaboration,” which is fair enough, but really it’s more about giving Telekom Malaysia, or TM, as it is more commonly known, a leg up in mobile.
  Specifically,
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and AI

  26-06-2023 13:17
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and AI
  
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• Sutton Council approves funding for railway upgrade, Doubling trains between Sutton and Belmont by 2026

  26-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An ambition to double the number of trains on the railway between Sutton and Belmont stations in south London is progressing after Sutton Council allocated funding to Network Rail to design the upgrade.
  Track layout over Google Map
  At present, the Belmont area is serviced only by a half-hourly train service and a limited bus service, and the narrow roads restrict the options to increase the bus service. Although not ideal at the moment, the service will get busier in the future thanks to the lar
  
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• Nokia claims mmWave speed/distance record

  26-06-2023 12:42
  In a test environment, Finnish kit vendor Nokia says it not only broke a 5G speed world record but did so over a relatively long distance.
  The bad news with millimetre wave (mmWave) is that it has rubbish propagation (range, penetration, etc) characteristics. The good news is that there’s plenty of it, which enables high bandwidth in the event that it makes it from A to B. It is noteworthy, therefore, when that bandwidth promise is realised over a significant distance.
  At the OuluZone test
  
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• London’s Alleys: Abchurch Yard, EC4

  26-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a yard and narrow alley that snakes around the sides of a City of London church that’s over 800 years old. The church, of St Mary Abchurch dates to at least the 12th century, and as its name suggests, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Abchurch is unclear but thought to be the name of an early vicar.The patronage of the church belonged to the convent of St Mary Overy, Southwark, until around 1455, when it passed to the master and chaplains of the college of Corpus Christi at the
  
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