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• Hawksmoor offering £15 meals on tube strike days

  19-07-2023 18:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There are few upsides to strikes on the railways, but one is that meaty restaurant Hawksmoor is offering meals for £15 when the rail or tube is on strike.
  The offer is valid in their restaurants between Monday to Saturday from noon to 6pm, and is only for their steak & frites (without bone marrow) meal. Exact opening hours vary slightly by restaurant, so you should check when booking.
  (c) Hawksmoor
  The offer is valid from 20th to 31st July 2023 and after that, for the foreseeable futur
  
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• Vodafone drops another broadband social tariff package

  19-07-2023 17:48
  UK operator Vodafone has launched a second social tariff called Fibre 2 Essentials, which offers speeds of up to 73 Mbps for £20 a month for those eligible.
  Vodafone launched the Fibre 1 Essentials in October last year, and this second deal appears to be about providing a slightly more expensive option with faster speeds.
  Social tariff schemes provide people on benefits discounted broadband and mobile deals, and is being pushed by the government in response to the cost of living crisis. Th
  
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• UK gives provisional nod to Broadcom acquisition of VMware

  19-07-2023 17:28
  After giving it some more thought, the UK’s competition watchdog is now in favour of Broadcom splashing out $61 billion for VMware.
  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been conducting a more in-depth, Phase 2 inquiry into the merger after its Phase 1 investigation gave it reason to believe the deal could hamper innovation in the server market.
  On Wednesday, the watchdog revealed that upon further examination of evidence provided by Broadcom, VMware and third parties, the tie-up
  
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• Dulwich Picture Gallery expanding with new building and gardens

  19-07-2023 16:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  South London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery is to get a bit larger after it secured planning permission for a new building and to open up a closed field next to the site.
  The gallery is going to be building a new Children’s Gallery, in a stand-alone building to one side of the main gallery, which it says is needed to expand its already full capacity children’s classes. The new freestanding building will have the capacity for a standard school class of 30 children, and will sit next
  
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• Geely’s Zeekr leads 5G shift in global auto manufacturing

  19-07-2023 16:32
  Zeekr, a Chinese electric vehicle brand under auto conglomerate Geely, is shaking up global auto manufacturing with its fully-connected 5G factory in Ningbo, China. The factory, developed with China Unicom Zhejiang, enables unprecedented customization options, highlighting the technology’s potential to reshape the industry and China’s push for commercial 5G.The factory hosts a dozen integrated 5G applications, underscoring the technology’s transformative impact.
  One of the most
  
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• Huawei’s Emergence as a Global Patent Leader: Navigating New Frontiers in the Telecom Industry

  19-07-2023 16:26
  In the dynamic world of telecommunications, patents are akin to creating new parcels of fertile land in the landscape of innovation. Recently, Huawei, the Chinese tech titan, has emerged as a global patent leader, a testament to its relentless dedication to cultivating these new parcels of fertile land in the form of technological breakthroughs. This leadership was brought into focus at its recent flagship event “Bridging Horizons of Innovations: Sharing IP, Driving Innovation,” wher
  
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• The Natural History Museum unveils a new logo and typeface

  19-07-2023 14:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Natural History Museum has decided to commission a new logo that it will be using in the years up to its 150th anniversary in 2031.
  Evolution of the logo
  The new symbol which appears on the Museum’s digital platforms this week and is being introduced across all collateral in the coming months is made of a circular formation of the letters NHM.
  We’re told this represents the earth and the “universal connection between everything in nature”. We’re also told that i
  
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• Spark kicks off 5G standalone rollout

  19-07-2023 13:25
  New Zealand incumbent Spark will spend up to NZ$60 million ($37.5 million) over the next three years upgrading its 5G network to standalone (SA).
  Ericsson and Red Hat are the chosen suppliers. The former will provide its dual-mode 5G core network solution, which will run the latter’s OpenShift software. Last year they participated in a three-month 5G SA trial on Spark’s fixed wireless access (FWA) network. It seems to have gone sufficiently well that the telco is ready to commit to a
  
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• Strong results should make Ethio Telecom look attractive

  19-07-2023 13:15
  Ethio Telecom reported a significant hike in revenue and earnings, as well as customer growth, in the most recent financial year, something that will doubtless help it in its quest to attract a new investor.
  The state-owned Ethiopian incumbent, which recently re-started its privatisation process, has been at the centre of speculation regarding interest from major telecoms companies. Orange and e& have once again been named as likely candidates; the most recent report came from Bloomberg, who
  
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• Generative AI not yet significantly impacting IT spending levels

  19-07-2023 13:00
  According to Gartner worldwide IT spending will grow 4.3% this year – but despite all the noise around generative AI, it is not moving the dial much at the moment.
  The 4.3% jump amounts to a projected $4.7 trillion in worldwide IT spending in 2023, driven in no small part by a 14.5% jump in software spending – according to figures from Gartner.
  However while it seems every other news story in tech at the moment in some way shape or form mentions the impact of generative AI on the wor
  
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• Dry dock tours of the Golden Hinde

  19-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few Sundays next month will offer an opportunity to go down into the dry dock around the Golden Hinde replica ship and get up close to the restoration work being carried out at the moment.
  The ship is a full size replica of Francis Drake’s original and was launched 50 years ago, in 1973 on a global tour.
  Since 1996 she has been berthed in a dry dock next to Southwark Cathedral as a tourist attraction. At the moment, there’s a restoration project underway, and the tours will let peo
  
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• UK calls for communication and cohesion in fibre and 5G

  19-07-2023 11:22
  Communication, collaboration and a common approach will be key to accelerating the development of fibre and 5G networks in the UK, according to a new government report.
  For the most part, the report addresses the role of local authorities in the rollout of gigabit infrastructure, but its conclusions also apply to telecoms operators and network builders.
  The report, dubbed ‘Local Authorities as Connectivity Enablers’ produced by consultancy FarrPoint for the Digital Connectivity Forum
  
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• Vodafone deploys Ericsson’s ‘single antenna technology’ for 5G push

  19-07-2023 10:16
  UK operator Vodafone will begin rolling out new active-passive antenna from Ericsson, promising Massive MIMO for 5G mid-band.
  The kit in question – Ericsson’s Interleaved AIR 3218 – combines an antenna-integrated radio and multiband passive antenna technology in one single enclosure, the chief benefit of which we are told is additional 5G capacity with no additional antenna footprint.
  In terms of the technical details, we’re told the Interleaved AIR 3218 utilizes beam-thr
  
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• A look inside South Western Railway’s new Arterio trains

  19-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  They are, it can be politely said, to be a bit late in arriving, but last week there was a chance to see inside South Western Railway’s new Arterio class of trains.The trains are officially the British Rail Class 701 Aventra supplied by Alstom, and were ordered in 2017 with the first expected to go into public service in the middle of 2019. However, there’s been a lot of problems getting them approved for use with South Western Railway, and the first trains are now expected to go int
  
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