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• Immerse yourself in gaming history as the Science Museum opens a games arcade

  27-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large basement space in the Science Museum now echoes to the sounds of Space Invaders and Mario Kart as the whole space has been filled with arcade and computer games.The museum’s collection of games consoles used to be brought out of storage for short-term Power Up games sessions, but it’s now a permanent installation so you can play computer games whenever you visit. They’ve also introduced a very affordable annual pass for just £15 giving you unlimited repeat visits.
  
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• TalkTalk and BT top Ofcom’s most complained-about providers

  27-07-2023 18:31
  In a quarterly report covering January to March 2023, Ofcom has published data on customer complaints about telecom and Pay-TV services, stating a slight quarterly increase overall.
  The UK regulator has published a couple of reports today which look at the broader UK telecoms market, including consumers’ views on telecom operators and their services as well as market trends on subscribers and revenues.
  Looking at landline, fixed broadband, pay-monthly mobile and Pay-TV services across the
  
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• Rogers ups outlook after Shaw merger

  27-07-2023 18:24
  Rogers Communications says it’s ahead of the game in the integration process with Shaw, and its second quarter financials seem to suggest that things are indeed going well.
  The Canadian operator’s Q2 numbers are its first since it closed the C$20.5 billion purchase of rival Shaw back in April. As such, a number of news outlets have focused on the fact that the telco’s bottom line took a hit as a result of depreciation and amortisation charges linked to the takeover. But that 73
  
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• Telcos team up for AI platform project

  27-07-2023 18:12
  Deutsche Telekom, e&, Singtel and SK Telecom have established a new industry group that aims to milk generative AI for all it is worth.
  Called the Global Telco AI Alliance, it represents a coordinated effort by these four operators to accelerate the AI-fuelled transformation of their businesses, and to develop new, AI-powered business models.
  Central to this endeavour will be the Telco AI Platform, which will serve as the foundation both for new services – like chatbots and apps &ndash
  
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• Chiltern Railways is now running trains powered by vegetable oil

  27-07-2023 17:55 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Chiltern Railways has started running trains powered by waste vegetable oil instead of conventional diesel in the UK’s first example of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) being used in a UK passenger train.
  (c) Chiltern Railways
  The operator’s Class 68 locomotive-hauled trains will be powered with the new fuel, derived from used cooking oils, tallows and other recyclable wastes, rather than conventional diesel, reducing the impact the trains have on the environment and a
  
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• Telefonica ups outlook as revenues rise

  27-07-2023 16:51
  Telefonica has increased its full-year revenue and earnings guidance after a strong second-quarter performance brought about for the most part by customers paying more for services.
  The Spain-based telco group now expects turnover for calendar 2023 to grow by around 4%, and earnings – or OIBDA, to use its preferred metric – to increase by 3%. It previously guided for low single-digit growth in both, which might not seem like a massive change, but it is describing its new revenue grow
  
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• Urgent decisions needed on new train orders for Bakerloo line and Southeastern services

  27-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new report from the Railway Industry Association (RIA) has shown that unless action is taken now on rolling stock orders for the upgrade or replacement of the oldest trains on the railway, thousands of jobs and decades of experience will be at risk of being lost.
  The issue is that despite a surge in orders for new trains between 2012 and 2017, during which half the UK’s trains were replaced, the order book has been quite low ever since, and in less than a year, the major train factories
  
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• BT revenue boosted by price rises and retail fibre uptake

  27-07-2023 13:32
  Incumbent BT has become the latest UK telco to post higher turnover off the back of price hikes.
  In the three months to 30 June, revenue at BT Consumer rose 3% on last year to £2.42 billion, which CEO Philip Jansen attributed to a combination of higher fees and take-up of “higher performance connections,” which presumably means FTTP and 5G.
  BT raised its prices by 14.4% at the end of March to account for December’s consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate of 10.5%, plus
  
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• Meta’s stock rises following Q2 revenue and profit hike

  27-07-2023 13:23
  Meta snatched an 11% jump in revenue and 16% in profit for Q2 2023, following its ‘year of efficiency’.
  The Facebook owner and insistent proponent of the metaverse concept saw its Q2 revenue jump 11% YoY to $32 billion, thanks it seems largely to a rise in online advertising across the various theatres it operates in, while net income was up 16% to $7.79 billion.
  This is reportedly better than analysts expected, and the company’s stock rose about 7% in after-hours trading Wedne
  
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• Attend the City of London’s ancient Silent Ceremony

  27-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Each year, in a ceremony as rich in pomp as it is ancient in history, and in total silence, the new Lord Mayor is sworn into office.
  For over 800 years, on Michaelmas Day, the city’s liverymen elect a new Lord Mayor for the year ahead, and a few weeks later the Silent Ceremony takes place.
  It’s not absolutely silent, as apart from the occasional muffled cough, or ringing of a mobile phone, the incoming Lord Mayor reads out a vow before signing the book to confirm his (or occasionally
  
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• Dish gets a little Boost through Amazon

  27-07-2023 10:22
  Dish Wireless has started selling its unlimited mobile plan through Amazon, a move that should go some way to boosting its position in the US market.
  The operator’s Boost Mobile unit has made its postpaid Infinite Unlimited plan available to customers of the online retail giant’s Prime service, offering a bit of a discount to accompany the launch. But while Dish needs all the help it can get in flogging its mobile packages – its customer base has been in decline for some time &
  
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• Former North Woolwich railway station to become blocks of flats

  27-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The former North Woolwich railway station next to the Thames in east London, and its goods yard are to become a housing development.
  The planned development site – source planning documents
  The station was on the old North London line, opening in 1847 as the terminus of the railway with a grand building for the station. However, as the area declined, the station building closed in 1979, to be replaced by a much smaller “shed” next door, while the grand building was turned into
  
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