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• London’s first Night Bus started 110 years ago – in July 1913

  17-07-2023 17:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This month marks the 110th anniversary of London’s first Night Bus, when a new service was introduced between Cricklewood and Liverpool Street Station on Monday 14th July 1913.
  First Night Bus service, B-Type (B185) on route 94 outside Piccadilly Circus Underground station. Leslie Green station canopy clock gives time at 2.15am. (c) TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
  The very first Night Bus left Liverpool Street station at 12:40am carrying 24 passengers — which is quite
  
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• Engineers begin ‘brain-inspired computing’ project for 6G

  17-07-2023 16:48
  A project looking how brain-inspired, or neuromorphic computing, can transfer information over networks has been pitched as the basis for the emergence of new 6G services.
  Engineers from King’s College London and Princeton in the US will lead a project which seeks inspiration from the human brain for quicker and more efficient computing and networking, which amongst other things is hoped will allow for better integration of AI into wireless communications.
  Funded by the Engineering and Phy
  
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• Walt Disney exhibition coming to London this Autumn

  17-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large Walt Disney exhibition is coming to London later this year, with tickets going on sale tomorrow morning.
  (c) Walt Disney Archives
  The exhibition, to be held at the ExCeL centre will include ten themed galleries with classics from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to contemporary releases such as Encanto (2021), including the latest members of the Disney family—Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel.
  If you book to visit on Monday 16th October 2023, Disney’s 100th anniversary, you w
  
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• UK extends review of Microsoft acquisition of Activision

  17-07-2023 15:52
  There have been yet more twists in the saga that is Microsoft’s $69 billion bid for games publisher Activision Blizzard.
  Late last week the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) extended the deadline for its review into the takeover by a further six weeks.
  In a brief notification statement, the regulator said it received “a detailed and complex submission from Microsoft claiming that there are material changes in circumstance and special reasons” why the CMA should no long
  
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• Another week of overtime ban disruption for the railways

  17-07-2023 14:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As a week of disruption and strikes starts on the national railways, the ASLEF union has announced it will repeat its overtime ban again at the end of this month.The action, short of a strike, will see train drivers refusing to work overtime, which is expected to lead to short-notice cancellations across England’s railways as many of the train companies rely on staff wanting to work overtime to fill gaps in the schedules.
  They are carrying out the same action this week, and ASLEF says that
  
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• Spain doles out rural 5G backhaul funds

  17-07-2023 13:52
  The Spanish government has distributed €448 million between a group of telcos to help cover the cost of upgrading isolated 5G base stations with fibre backhaul.
  As part of the EU’s overarching post-Covid economic recovery plan, Spain’s UNICO 5G Networks Fibre Backhaul programme – overseen by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation (MINECO) – identified more than 8,000 sites deployed in locations with no more than 10,000 inhabitants that until now
  
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• Proximus builds CPaaS scale with $722 million Route Mobile buy

  17-07-2023 13:44
  Proximus has agreed to spend more than US$700 million on a majority stake in India’s Route Mobile as it seeks to strengthen its position in CPaaS.
  The Belgian telecoms group has brokered a deal through its Proximus Opal arm, which holds the group’s US-based Communication Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) business Telesign. Under the terms of the agreement it will pick up a 57.56% stake in Route Mobile for 59.2 billion rupees (that’s €643 million or around US$722 million) in ca
  
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• TfL proposes a special “bike bus” for cyclists to use the Silvertown Tunnel

  17-07-2023 13:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When it opens, cyclists wont be allowed to use the new Silvertown Tunnel but could be offered a specially adapted shuttle bus to carry their bikes through the tunnel.
  One of two early concepts (c) TfL
  At the moment, there isn’t a convenient cyclist route across the Thames in the North Greenwich area, other than folding bikes on the Jubilee line or the cable car, or via the Greenwich foot tunnel. The existing Blackwall tunnel doesn’t allow cyclists to use the road, and neither will th
  
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• Nearly half of UK generative AI users assume it always tells the truth

  17-07-2023 12:53
  A new report by Deloitte looking at UK attitudes towards generative AI claims 43% of those that have used apps like ChatGPT believe they always produce factually accurate answers.
  Ever since ChatGPT burst into the mainstream consciousness after a step-change in capabilities meant it started to sound a hell of a lot more human, for one thing, the tech sector and then the wider world in general has been speculating as to what degree workplaces  will be transformed – with predictions ran
  
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• A look at generative AI and its ethical landscape

  17-07-2023 09:00
  While global interest in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surged of late, only sporadic progress has been made on the ethical guardrails needed to protect society.
  The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT late last year seemingly sent global interest into an upward spiral. With Silicon Valley companies rushing to launch their own large language models and AI tools, many are asking how much consideration is being given to the ethics of generative AI before products and solutions are unlea
  
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• London’s Alleys: St Swithin’s Lane, EC4

  17-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The lane is one of the earlier London roads to be laid out, and the area shows up as fully developed by the 1300s, with houses along the lane, and St Swithin’s church at the southern end.The church was first recorded in the 13th century and was dedicated to Saint Swithin, the 9th-century bishop of Winchester famous for the folklore that if it rains on 15th July (St. Swithun’s day), it will rain for forty days.
  The church was rebuilt a couple of times until it was destroyed in the Gre
  
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• Why Vodafone’s megamerger could have a 3.9% problem

  17-07-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Many mobile companies add an identical surcharge to bills, attracting the attention of regulators
  
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