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• The Lyceum Theatre is having a free open day for local residents

  11-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, the Lyceum Theatre near Covent Garden will be opening its doors to families, community organisations and local residents for Lyceum Local, a day of activities for all the family.For the purpose of this event, they are classing local as being a resident living, working or at school in Westminster, Camden, RBKC, Hammersmith & Fulham, City of London, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Hackney or Islington.
  There will be theatre tours and drop in activities along with careers talks a
  
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• Wildanet looks to hook up Devon to fibre

  11-07-2023 16:38
  Gigabit broadband could benefit Devon to the tune of £1 billion by the end of the decade, according to fibre builder Wildanet which, not at all coincidentally, has just announced its expansion into the county.
  Cornish fibre firm Wildanet commissioned a report from policy institute Curia that claims the rollout of Gigabit-capable broadband will generate £1.125 billion of new business gross value added (GVA) by 2030. The report is a little light on details, but it also lays out the soc
  
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• Lost Victorian animal returns to Crystal Palace’s dinosaurs

  11-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A sculpture of an extinct animal that was created to go among the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but vanished in the 1960s has been restored.
  Palaeotherium magnum (c) Natural History Museum / James Balston
  Palaeontologists, historians, and artists have collaborated to rebuild a Victorian-era sculpture of Palaeotherium magnum, a 2.2-meter-long, extinct mammal distantly related to horses, and it has been installed amongst the collection of dinosaurs at Crystal Palace.
  Although the Palaeotherium magnum c
  
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• Ten more London Underground stations shortlisted for step-free access

  11-07-2023 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ten more tube stations have been announced as the next to get step-free access upgrades, although funding is not yet in place to deliver the upgrades.
  TfL staff assists a customer (c) TfL
  Transport for London (TfL) says that the ten stations, spread across London, have been identified using an approach focused on the benefits to customers, such as reducing journey times for those needing to use step-free access and reflecting issues that impact the delivery of step-free access such as the feasib
  
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• IoT to account for over a quarter of 5G roaming connections

  11-07-2023 14:14
  The Internet of Things will account for more than a quarter of 5G roaming connections in the next few years, new research shows, which could be good news for operators looking to generate returns on the new generation of mobile technology.
  The number of 5G IoT roaming connections will reach 142 million by 2027, up from just 15 million this year, Juniper Research predicts. IoT will account for 27% of all 5G roaming connections by that same date, four years hence, the analyst firm notes.
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• German telcos try out EU’s digital ID scheme

  11-07-2023 13:07
  Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone are field-testing the EU’s digital ID scheme in anticipation of a broader rollout.
  It is part of a large-scale trial being carried out by an EU-organised consortium called ‘Potential’. It is taking place in 19 countries across the bloc. The field test by DT et al will see smartphone-based digital identity wallets used for opening bank accounts, applying for digital driving licences, and car rentals. Tests for online citizen servi
  
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• Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram’s Mars comes to West London

  11-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Luke Jerram, the artist who fills large buildings with floating models of the moon and the Earth has now turned his attention to Mars, and the God of War will be visiting three venues this summer for free.
  (c) Luke Jerram
  Measuring seven metres in diameter, the artwork features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Martian surface. At around one million times smaller than the actual planet, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 10 kilometres of the surface of Mars.
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• Vodafone dials up its solar energy supply in Europe

  11-07-2023 12:53
  Renewable energy firm Iberdrola will provide Vodafone’s operations in Germany, Portugal and Spain with 410 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy per year.
  The deal announced today builds on an existing power purchase agreement (PPA) for solar power in Germany and extends it to Portugal and Spain, and the two firms are apparently looking at further renewable energy-based initiatives elsewhere in Europe.
  Vodafone Portugal will be fed energy from the newly built Velilla solar
  
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• New EU-US data privacy framework seems destined to fail, again

  11-07-2023 12:05
  The EU and US have cobbled together yet another framework that claims to protect EU data stored in the US but there are still many reasons to be sceptical.
  This has been an issue for years, largely because much of what takes place on the internet is controlled by US companies, who have most of their servers over there. The EU is inclined to prevent the transfer of its citizens’ data to the US unless it can be sure it will be protected. For some reason the EU seems to think the US security
  
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