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• A 10-day closure of part of the DLR starts next Saturday

  10-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Part of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) will be closed for just over a week later this month due to track replacement work.
  DLR calling at Star Lane station
  The section affected is between Stratford International and Canning Town, and the line closure will be from Saturday 19th August until Tuesday 29th August 2023. Although the Jubilee line runs parallel to the DLR up to Stratford, it doesn’t stop at Star Lane, Abbey Road or Stratford High Street, so people living locally will need to u
  
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• Growth slows in cloud services market but AI looms

  10-08-2023 16:55
  The global market for cloud infrastructure services continued to show significant growth in the second quarter of the year, albeit at a lower rate than it did in Q1, according to new analyst data.
  And with artificial intelligence (AI) front-of-mind for cloud services providers, but yet to have a meaningful impact on revenues, there is plenty of cause for optimism. But cloud providers will have to be selective when deciding who to partner with in this market.
  Worldwide cloud infrastructure servic
  
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• Off-peak travel on London’s transport exceeding pre-pandemic levels

  10-08-2023 16:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) says that its off-peak travel has recovered to pre-pandemic levels and exceeded them at times, although commuter traffic is still down on pre-pandemic levels.Tube figures on Saturdays have surpassed 2019 levels on several occasions including 29th April (104%), 27th May (103%) and 17th June (104%), while the London Pride parade on 1st July saw 6.9 million entries and exits on the Tube network – making it the busiest Saturday on the network since December 2019.
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• Japan’s graphic art exhibition opens in Kensington

  10-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The creative output of 60 of Japan’s most significant graphic artists working today has arrived in London, as an exhibition about the Japanese wave of graphic art opens.Walking in, you’re confronted in the distance by a grinning distorted face which is more horror story than the cute Japanese image you might be expecting, but it’s also the only painting of that genre. The rest of the collection is quite wide-ranging, from delicate landscapes to pop art to very modern, covering
  
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• Qualcomm claims sub-6 GHz speed record

  10-08-2023 13:29
  Momentum behind 5G Advanced continues to build, with chip maker Qualcomm showing off its capabilities by reaching a new speed milestone.
  Using its first 5G Advanced modem, the Snapdragon X75, Qualcomm was able to aggregate four carriers of sub 6-GHz spectrum giving it a total of 300 MHz to play with. Added to that was 1024 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and the result was a peak downlink speed of 7.5 Gbps. The speed was achieved under test conditions with a dedicated 5G standalone (SA) n
  
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• US declares Chinese tech development a national emergency

  10-08-2023 13:15
  The US attempt to put the Chinese genie back in its bottle has escalated further with an executive order prohibiting US investment in a bunch of Chinese industries.
  Hilariously, the published executive order insists on referring to ‘countries of concern’, directing people to an annex at the bottom of the lengthy announcement to for the solution to the mystery. There’s only one – China. It frames the development of military, surveillance and cyber technologies by China as
  
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• BT teases 5G SA progress with wideband FDD trial

  10-08-2023 13:14
  UK incumbent BT has been playing around with various combinations of its sub-6-GHz spectrum as it inches towards rolling out 5G standalone (SA).
  Together with Ericsson and MediaTek, BT said on Thursday that it has successfully transmitted 5G data in a wideband frequency division duplex (FDD) carrier. More specifically, it used 2×50 MHz of its 2.6 GHz spectrum, and as everyone surely knows by now, more spectrum equals a faster connection.
  It also tried out downlink aggregation of two time d
  
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• Petition to reopen the disused Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace railway

  10-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A petition has been started calling for a disused railway linking Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace which is now a nature walk to be reopened as a railway.The railway line opened in 1867 as part of the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway, which built the railway from Edgware to Finsbury Park, linking up with the existing Great Northern Railway (GNR) into King’s Cross.
  A branch line from Highgate station to Alexandra Palace opened in May 1873 to capitalise on the expected popularity of the
  
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• Deutsche Telekom lifts guidance again on Europe strength

  10-08-2023 12:59
  Deutsche Telekom has once again raised its full-year earnings guidance, a further sign of improving trends for European telecoms operators.
  The move comes after the group’s T-Mobile US unit increased its own guidance across a range of metrics last month. But while that doubtless informed Deutsche Telekom’s decision to do the same – T-Mobile US accounts for nearly two-thirds of turnover and earnings, after all – the telco also made it clear that its European businesses pla
  
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• Nokia shows off some 5G carrier aggregation for 360-degree video broadcast

  10-08-2023 12:34
  Kit vendor Nokia has teamed up with TPG and Mediatek to show how carrier aggregation can be used to transmit live 360-degree broadcasts which could be used for metaverse stuff.
  The demonstration was designed to show how carrier aggregation technology can ‘transform the experience of watching TV, movies and sports’ and took place at Nokia’s 5G Futures Lab in Sydney, Australia.
  The combination of two or more sub-6 GHz frequency bands means optimized 5G uplink speeds can be achiev
  
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• Nokia shows off 5G 360-degree video broadcast

  10-08-2023 12:34
  Kit vendor Nokia has teamed up with TPG and Mediatek to show how carrier aggregation can be used to transmit live 360-degree broadcasts which could be used for metaverse stuff.
  The demonstration was designed to show how carrier aggregation technology can ‘transform the experience of watching TV, movies and sports’ and took place at Nokia’s 5G Futures Lab in Sydney, Australia.
  The combination of two or more sub-6 GHz frequency bands means optimized 5G uplink speeds can be achiev
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Holly Grove Shrubbery, SE15

  10-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a long strip of parkland that runs along a road close to Peckham Rye Station which was created by the local council nearly 130 years ago.The houses in this part of Peckham developed as middle-class housing in the early 19th century, and the road layout was established by the 1860s, with Holly Grove — at the time South Grove — lined with houses on the south side, but was still empty land on the north.
  The arrival of the railway in 1867 saw an increase in housing development in
  
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