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• Maria Callas exhibition at the Royal Opera House

  26-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a small but interesting exhibition in the Royal Opera House looking back at the career of the soprano Maria Callas in this year, the centenary of her birth.
  As a display, it’s mainly a mix of photographs from her performances in London and a few adverts. There’s also some commentary from reviews at the time. I think it’s fair to say that this isn’t an exhibition to tell you who Maria Callas, more a small celebration of her for people who already know who she
  
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• Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI launch AI safety body

  26-07-2023 18:39
  Some of the biggest players in the AI sector have grouped together to set up Frontier Model Forum – described as ‘an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.’
  We’re told the Frontier Model Forum will draw on the expertise of its member companies – who currently are Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI – to do things that ‘benefit the entire AI ecosystem’ – such as advancing technical evaluat
  
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• Crown Castle cuts jobs as telcos slash spending

  26-07-2023 16:42
  Crown Castle this week revealed that it will shed around 15% of its workforce as part of a restructuring effort that is closely linked to reduced spending by telecoms companies.
  The job losses will amount to around 750 staff, based on the fact that Crown Castle says it employs circa 5,000 people.
  The passive infrastructure specialist said that as well as cutting jobs it will discontinue its installation services, which it currently has a product offering within its towers segment. However, it wi
  
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• Lynk lays claim to world’s first satellite smartphone call

  26-07-2023 16:28
  A battle is brewing in the satellite direct-to-device (D2D) market as another company has staked its claim to a significant milestone.
  Lynk is building a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation it describes as ‘cell towers in space’ to offer direct connectivity to unmodified, off-the-shelf devices. On Tuesday it said it has carried out two-way voice calls over its network, posting a video on YouTube as proof, and claiming the feat as a world first.
  The thing is, rival D2D opera
  
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• NHS at 75 exhibition in Covent Garden

  26-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A photography exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS, of photos taken by NHS staff and volunteers has opened at the Fujifilm shop in Covent Garden.The display is a shortlist of 75 photos from a competition run by NHS England and Fujifilm to capture moments from the NHS over the past few years, and there’s also highlighted the winners from each of the categories.
  The winners include a portrait of a nurse at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital who has been looking after patients for
  
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• Intel to produce custom 5G chips for Ericsson

  26-07-2023 13:46
  US chip giant Intel has struck a deal that could shore up its already strong position in the RAN market.
  It has agreed to manufacture custom 5G system-on-chip (SoC)s for Ericsson, which the Swedish kit maker will use to develop what promises to be “highly differentiated” networking products. The chips will be based on Intel’s latest fabrication process, 18A (1.8nm), which is so new that it has yet to begin commercial production.
  When it does, the chips will offer up to a 10% im
  
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• BT looks to repurpose decommissioned street cabinets as EV charging ports

  26-07-2023 13:39
  UK telco group BT’s incubation unit, Etc, will begin a campaign of technical and commercial pilots to transform redundant street cabinets into electric vehicle charging points.
  The cabinets are currently used to provide copper-based broadband and phone services, but will be decommissioned in the wake of BT’s fibre rollout. Over the next two years the telco will conduct a series of technical and commercial pilots to turn them into watering holes for electric cars.
  The first of these w
  
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• 1930s modernism at the Isokon Flats

  26-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just around the back of Belsize Park tube station is a small row of homes that became home to some of London’s leading artists in the 1930s — and now an exhibition is telling their story.
  If you were to produce a list of recognisable names of the time, many of them lived in this small patch of North London.
  Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Nau, Gabo, Cecil Stephenson
  All moved into a row of studios, originally built in 1872 and funded by the subscriptions of a group of a
  
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• TfL Go app upgrade highlights closed tube lines & improved step-free information

  26-07-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has made a change to its TfL Go app so that it now greys out sections of the live Tube map that are closed due to engineering works or unplanned disruption.
  That makes it easier to glance at the tube map on a smartphone and see what lines are running normally and plan a route around any grey zones that are best avoided. For example, at the moment, parts of the Bakerloo line and London Overground are closed for engineering works, so they show up in the smartphone app as
  
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• Ooredoo and Zain to team up on towers

  26-07-2023 10:44
  Ooredoo, Zain and passive infrastructure specialist TASC Towers are in talks to create what they claim would be the largest mobile towers company in the Middle East and North Africa.
  The companies have agreed to carry out exclusive negotiations with a view to bringing together their tower assets in Qatar, Kuwait, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq and Jordan into a jointly owned independent towers company. They aim to hammer out a definitive agreement by the end of this quarter.
  The resulting entity, should
  
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• London’s Public Art: 1960s chess-inspired art near St Paul’s Cathedral

  26-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A side street near St Paul’s Cathedral contains a building with an interesting stone frieze, which if you look carefully seems to be based on chess pieces.The building, officially St Paul’s House, 10 Warwick Lane, was designed by Victor Heal and Partners in the 1960s as a replacement headquarters for the book publisher, Hodder & Stoughton to replace their neighbouring war-damaged offices.
  The frize was carved from stone by Alan Collins in 1963 depicting chess pieces, said to be a
  
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