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• A confusing AI art exhibition at the Science Gallery

  05-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s an exhibition about Artificial Intelligence next to London Bridge, but probably not the sort of exhibition you’re already thinking it might be.It’s more a sort of show of works by artists with AI as the trigger to create the art. As such it’s a bit of a mix, with some of the artworks being interesting and others leaving you scratching your head in confusion.
  There’s the opening item on the ground floor, an alien-shaped inflatable that moves around erraticall
  
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• Ericsson to site new European tech hub in Estonia

  05-07-2023 17:22
  Ericsson is spending €155 million on a smart manufacturing and technology hub in Europe as it seeks to forge stronger links between R&D and production.
  The Swedish kit vendor announced this week that it will consolidate four facilities in Estonia into a single, 50,000 square metre smart hub that will include test labs, warehouses, production lines, and offices. It’s pretty excited about the plan, but you could argue that it’s jumping the gun slightly on the PR, given that it
  
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• VMO2 paves way for AI with Google Cloud number crunching

  05-07-2023 17:18
  Virgin Media O2 is keen to enhance customer service with AI as part of its ongoing transformation into a data-driven cableco.
  As part of the integration between O2 and Virgin Media, the company has been busy overhauling its legacy back office systems, upgrading and migrating them to Google Cloud. This has been going well. So well in fact that it is paving the way for more ambitious projects due to commence over the next year or so.
  “One project in the pipeline is our plan to incorporate la
  
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• BT lands HSMC as a customer for its quantum secure metro network

  05-07-2023 17:13
  UK operator group BT has been talking up its efforts in using quantum tech to enable super-secure communications and has just signed its first banking customer.
  The quantum secure metro network was launched over a year ago, in partnership with Toshiba. It uses Quantum Key Distribution, an advanced form of encryption, to allow data to be moved over the network in a highly secure way, which especially anticipates future cyber threats and quantum attacks. HSBC will be trialling this system for data
  
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• BT lands HSBC as a customer for its quantum secure metro network

  05-07-2023 17:13
  UK operator group BT has been talking up its efforts in using quantum tech to enable super-secure communications and has just signed its first banking customer.
  The quantum secure metro network was launched over a year ago, in partnership with Toshiba. It uses Quantum Key Distribution, an advanced form of encryption, to allow data to be moved over the network in a highly secure way, which especially anticipates future cyber threats and quantum attacks. HSBC will be trialling this system for data
  
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• Auction of old fairground ride equipment

  05-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own your own piece of a vintage funfair, then this is your chance as there will be an open day at Carters Funfair at their base near Maidenhead, and an auction of much of their surplus equipment. Carters used to be a travelling vintage funfair, but is now in retirement, looking for a new owner, but has a lot of now unnecessary kit.There’s a lot of ordinary clutter that needs to be cleared out, from old tools and furniture to lighting rigs and surplus fittings
  
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• In-building infrastructure to help US telcos monetise 5G FWA

  05-07-2023 13:41
  US mobile operators need to use existing infrastructure in apartment buildings to speed up returns on fixed wireless deployments, and the Broadband Forum is working on facilitating that.
  The industry body on Wednesday unveiled a new project to enable easier deployment of 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) services as a fixed broadband replacement in multi-dwelling units. The Fixed Wireless Access Extension project focuses on faster, more efficient and cheaper deployment of the technology through the
  
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• US tech giants meet EU’s ‘gatekeeper’ threshold

  05-07-2023 13:37
  Seven major tech firms could soon be subject to strict new EU rules designed to curb their power.
  Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok parent ByteDance, Facebook parent Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung all notified the European Commission this week that they meet its threshold for being so-called ‘gatekeepers’ with the power to pick winners and losers in the Internet economy.
  It’s part of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). In force since May, it seeks to safeguard o
  
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• Photo exhibition looks at poverty housing in East London

  05-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The exhibition covers the range of housing problems from the pre-war slums, through the problems with rebuilding devastated London and more recently issues with “poor doors” in shared buildings.It opens with a look at late Victorian slums and the way people were crammed into tiny spaces. The photos do show the deprivation, but also at times, the humour of the young who can’t help but act up for the strange man taking photos of their homes.
  A lot of the early attempts at improvi
  
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• Government confirms plans to close English railway ticket offices

  05-07-2023 11:55 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government has confirmed that it will push ahead with the worst kept secret in the railways — and close most of the ticket offices in railway stations across England. Under the plans, all ticket offices in their current form would close over the next three years, but major stations would retain ticket offices as travel centre hubs.The argument generally being put forward is that people are increasingly buying tickets online and through ticket machines, and with the expansion of London-
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Pegler Square, SE3

  05-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a smart new pocket park that sits in front of Kidbrooke station’s new ticket hall and was created as part of a large housing development going up at the moment.The park is more a series of parklets that are in clusters that help to fill up what would otherwise be a large open expanse of pavement tiles. It’s a change from the very early concept, which was for a square lawn, which would have looked nice in winter, and probably brown and ugly in winter. So they changed it for a
  
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