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• Walter x Zoniel portraits at the St James’s Market Pavilion

  07-07-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One hundred portraits can be found in an outdoor exhibition near Piccadilly Circus, each showing a person at the moment they were asked a question.It’s an artwork by the creative duo Walter x Zoniel, which we’re told “celebrates unity, diversity and the concept of home by enrolling 100 participants from United Kingdom’s diverse demographic to participate in the creation of the artwork.”
  The portraits fill the small cubicles within the pavilion, and each looks a litt
  
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• NEC launches its own generative AI

  07-07-2023 15:19
  Japanese vendor NEC has joined the growing list of companies aiming to capitalise on AI hype by launching three new offering.
  Perhaps the most significant of these is NEC’s very own large language model (LLM), specifically targeted at the Japanese market. The vendor says it operates with a high degree accuracy using a relatively small number of parameters – 13 billion to be precise. By comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-4 reportedly uses a trillion.
  Parameters are important because these
  
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• Huawei Unveils ICT Service and Software Innovations and Practices Aimed at Empowering Industry Digital Intelligence Transformation

  07-07-2023 15:15
  At the MWC Shanghai 2023, Huawei unveiled their latest innovations and practices in ICT services and software aimed at empowering industry digital intelligence transformation alongside with global carriers and industrial partners.
  Bruce Xun, Vice President of the Global Technical Service Dept at Huawei, emphasized that by innovating ICT service and software solutions, Huawei will continue to work alongside global carriers to build green, efficient, and robust networks that provide the ultimate e
  
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• Speakers at MWC Event Upbeat about 5G Adoption

  07-07-2023 15:05
  Speakers at a “5G Business Dialogue,” at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2023, delivered a progress report on 5G adoption and discussed future opportunities. Four years into its commercial availability, 5G is delivering positive results that telecom operators can build on for future innovations, speakers said.
  Telcos in China and across Asia are leveraging rapid construction and user migration to scale and monetize eMBB services. Innovations such as 5G New Calling and Naked-
  
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• Edgware bus station set for major redevelopment

  07-07-2023 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The rather awkwardly located Edgware bus station could move to a much more convenient location if plans for a large property development in the town centre go ahead.
  The development in question is the town centre shopping centre, the Broadwalk, which was bought by the property developer, Ballymore in July 2020, and they have plans to rebuild it with a lot of housing above.
  The shopping centre is next to Edgware tube station, but sitting between them is the bus station, which is down a side road
  
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• Telefonica, Entel and KKR ink Peru fibre deal

  07-07-2023 14:16
  Telefonica and Entel will bring together their fibre infrastructure in Peru and sell a majority stake in the resulting entity to KKR, which will then plough additional cash into network expansion.
  Under the terms of the agreement, Entel and Telefonica’s Peruvian fibre networks, including those held under Telefonica’s PangeaCo investment vehicle, will be combined into an independent company controlled by KKR.
  The investment group will hold a 54% controlling stake in the new entity, wh
  
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• Half price tickets to see Spitting Image the Musical

  07-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Love them or hate them, the Spitting Image puppets are truly the spitting image of their real-life counterparts, and a plot that’s even more improbable than the last year of British politics.Join Tom Cruise as he takes on the seemingly impossible task of saving the country at the behest of King Charles. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg and Stormzy will serenade you with a duet that will make you question everything you thought you knew about musical theatre.
  Be warned, – this show is not fo
  
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• Ofcom mulls sharing 6 GHz band between 5G and Wi-Fi

  07-07-2023 12:35
  With vested interests fighting for every scrap of spectrum going, Ofcom wants to know if it’s possible to please everyone.
  The UK telco regulator this week launched a new consultation about sharing the upper 6 GHz band between Wi-Fi and mobile.
  It aims to identify what it calls ‘hybrid sharing’ mechanisms to facilitate coexistence; encourage tech-based sharing solutions like managed databases and dynamic sensing; and lobby for international harmonisation of hybrid sharing at up
  
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• As Threads tops 30 million sign-ups on first day, Twitter threatens to sue

  07-07-2023 11:37
  Elon Musk reckons threads is a bit too much like Twitter and is threatening to sue Meta over a number of perceived intellectual property transgressions.
  The new social media platform was launched by Facebook and Instagram owner Meta two days ago and, according to the most recent post (a ‘thread’, we suppose) from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, had topped 30 million sign ups in its first day. There doesn’t seem to be a fully functional web app, nor the ability to embed threads yet, but, i
  
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• Government criticised over HS2 Euston station delays

  07-07-2023 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A report by a Parliament committee has criticised the government over its handling of HS2’s station at Euston and how it mismanaged the cost expectations of building a large railway station in the centre of a city.
  Proposed Euston station (c) HS2
  The report into HS2 Euston station by the Public Accounts Committee says that the government still doesn’t know what it is trying to achieve with the Euston station site, despite spending more than eight years of work planning it.
  The projec
  
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