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• Capital Crime drops prices for crime and thriller writing talks

  15-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Capital Crime, a festival of talks by authors of crime and thriller writing has reduced the cost of attending and is now offering tickets for individual talks alongside the all-day tickets they had been selling.Over a three-day period, some 100 leading voices from crime fiction will be speaking about everything from horror and history in crime to the legacies of Marple, Chandler and Bond. The event runs from Thursday 21st August to Saturday 2nd September, and you can either buy whole-day tickets
  
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• BT lands ‘major’ air traffic control deal

  15-08-2023 16:10
  UK incumbent BT has been chosen to upgrade air traffic services provider NATS’s data networks.
  The agreement covers the consolidation and modernisation of NATS’s critical data infrastructure across its sites.
  These comprise its two air traffic control (ATC) facilities – one in Prestwick, Scotland, the other in Swanwick near London. Together, they handle on average more than 7,500 flights every day. They also monitor 1.1 million km² of airspace over England, Scotland and Wa
  
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• TfL completes Blackhorse Road station housing development

  15-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) says that it has completed a new block of flats that was built on the old car park opposite Blackhorse Road station in northeast London.
  (c) Barratt London
  The development, a joint development between TfL and Barratt London along with L&Q, provides 350 new homes, with half of them offered at affordable rates. The 350 homes have replaced a 280 space car park.
  Sixty per cent of the affordable homes have been made available through shared ownership, while the other 40
  
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• The evolution of BSS and OSS in the telecoms sector

  15-08-2023 15:48
  BSS and OSS lie at the heart of how telecoms networks function in terms of customer and network management respectively, and new technologies such as AI and virtualisation are changing the landscape.
  BSS (Business Support Systems) and OSS (Operations Support Systems) are perhaps not the most headline grabbing area of the telecoms industry, but it’s a fundamental part of how it operates behind the scenes. As the technology serving these functions has evolved over the years – alongside
  
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• Tickets Alert: See how Japan’s Maglev trains work

  15-08-2023 15:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you want to learn more about the high speed maglev railway being built in Japan, then there’s an event in a couple of weeks which will interest you.
  Japan House London
  Currently under construction, the Chuo Shinkansen railway will use SCMaglev technology to connect the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya, 187 miles apart, in just 40 minutes and run at speeds up to 500 kph (311 mph).
  The SCMaglev system uses superconducting electromagnets to levitate the train up off the track and propel the elev
  
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• Amazon rolls out AI-generated product review summaries

  15-08-2023 13:34
  US ecommerce giant Amazon is using generative AI to distil multiple product reviews presumably written by real people into one easy to digest summary.
  As if to sugar the AI pill, the Amazon blog announcing the move explains at length that when user reviews were first introduced in 1995 they were initially viewed with scepticism before being lovingly embraced. Now, we’re told, we wouldn’t dream of buying so much as a charging cable before consulting the army of strangers who felt move
  
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• MTN sells stake in $5.2 billion fintech biz

  15-08-2023 13:01
  MTN has agreed to sell a minority stake in its financial services business to global payments giant Mastercard in a deal that could be worth a substantial sum.
  The African telecoms group disclosed the deal alongside its first half results – which showed a strong fintech business performance despite some challenges, incidentally – but did not provide much information at this stage.
  “Following the bespoke process to identify and potentially introduce strategic minority investors
  
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• Tickets Alert: Crown and Coronation lights show at the Tower of London

  15-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For one week this autumn, there will be an immersive light and sound experience created by Luxmuralis, celebrating the history of coronations and the Crown Jewels. The show, Crown and Coronation will focus on the spectacle, significance and shared experience of coronation and the pivotal role of the Crown Jewels in this year’s Coronation Service.
  (c) Historic Royal Palaces
  Featuring imagery and footage of monarchs and coronations past and the regalia itself, the video will be projected ont
  
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• Nokia bags GÉANT backbone upgrade deal

  15-08-2023 12:46
  Finnish kit maker Nokia and professional services provider Nomios have won a 10-year deal to triple the IP backbone capacity of the GÉANT European research network.
  Under its GN5 IP/MPLS routing and switching replacement project, GÉANT will deploy 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) routing switches across its 50,000 km long footprint. The network interconnects Europe’s national research and education networks (NRENs), enabling them to share research data with one another and with othe
  
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• Liberty Global signs $1.5 billion IT deal with Infosys

  15-08-2023 12:34
  A whopping $1.5 billion contract will see Indian tech giant Infosys will take over build and operations of operator group Liberty Global’s Horizon entertainment and connectivity platforms.
  Infosys will provide services to Liberty Global with an estimated price tag of €1.5 billion over the initial 5 year term and at €2.3 billion if the contract is extended to 8 years.
  It represents an expansion of an existing deal which was set up in 2020 to support Liberty Global’s technolo
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Old Paradise Gardens, SE11

  15-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This pocket park in Lambeth is a former gravyeard that closed to the dead 170 years ago, and opened to the living 40 years later.Although created as a graveyard in 1703 there isn’t a church here, as the graveyard was an overflow site for the nearby St Mary’s church which sits next to the Thames and Lambeth Palace. The church is now the Garden Museum., and you can climb up the old church tower to get some pretty good views across central London.
  But back in the 18th century, the churc
  
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