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• Canary Wharf walkway covered in bright leggings

  30-06-2023 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A bright wrap of colours has appeared next to the Elizabeth line station at Canary Wharf – as a new permanent artwork by Adam Nathaniel Furman.We’re told that Furman’s work, titled Click Your Heels Together Three Times, is intended as the architectural scale equivalent of Judy Garland’s famous ruby shoes in The Wizard of Oz.
  Candidly, it does look rather like the leggings worn in 1980s fitness videos though.
  The installation wraps the underside and pillars of Canary Wharf
  
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• Bazalgette era stones from the Thames Embankment dotted around the City

  30-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Large stones removed from the Victoria Embankment have been dotted around the City of London in a walking trail that’s also a long line of impromptu benches to sit on.The stones were quarried for use in Joseph Bazalgette’s river wall at Victoria Embankment in the 19th century They have now been removed to enable the new Thames Tideway Tunnel and will be installed across the City on a temporary basis, before moving on to their next long-term use in a forthcoming urban realm project.
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• Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth line’s trainbow and why LGBTQ+ visibility matters

  30-06-2023 13:50 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Earlier today the Elizabeth line gained its first trainbow – a train with a Pride banner on it — and the haters will hate it.I know they will hate it as I wrote up a modest little article earlier this week about Pride on London’s transport network, and then spent much of the day playing whack-a-mole with the ranters, and even a photo of the train above this morning gained disapproval.
  How dare TfL waste money on Pride etc.
  I am not sure why but this year seems to have triggered
  
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• UK digital exclusion report is vague and superficial

  30-06-2023 13:04
  A UK parliamentary committee has criticised the lack of government strategy to tackle digital exclusion but contributes little of use to the matter.
  The report insists there are high levels of digital exclusion but struggles to define the term and is sloppy with its metrics. For example, the press release claims an unlikely 7 million households have no broadband or mobile internet access but the full report (point 8) states that figure as a more plausible 1.7 million. It also leads with the fals
  
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• Imberbus Returns: Take trips in old buses through the Salisbury military firing range

  30-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy spending a very special day riding a load of old buses through a military firing range, then reserve a date in August as Imberbus is returning.ImberBus is a standard London bus route that happens to run on just one day a year and through the middle of the normally sealed-off Salisbury Plain, past burnt-out tanks and military bases to an abandoned medieval church in the middle of a military training village.
  The buses also ride all over the place, through deep valleys and up steep hi
  
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• BT taps HPE for global managed LAN service

  30-06-2023 11:45
  UK operator group BT has brought in HPE to help it address growing demand for hybrid working and IoT deployments.
  HPE’s Aruba Networking solutions will underpin BT’s new managed local area networking (LAN) service, which promises to overhaul enterprise customers’ in-building connectivity, enabling it to cope with anything that modern working methods can throw at it.
  “It’s clear that legacy in-building networks can’t handle modern hybrid working and IoT devices
  
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• European IoT forecast spend to hit $227 billion in 2023

  30-06-2023 11:37
  European businesses will spend US$227 billion on IoT this year alone, as cost-cutting initiatives spur spending on technology and services.
  That figure comes from IDC, which also predicts that IoT-related spending will continue to increase at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11%, to reach almost $345 billion by 2027.
  These big sums of money have to be good news for the myriad players in the Internet of Things value chain, including telecoms operators and equipment makers. And it
  
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