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• Watford Museum will be closing in October for two years

  16-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Watford Museum will be closing in October for a couple of years as it prepares to move to a new home, as the current building is considered unsuitable to house its growing local history collection.
  (c) Watford Museum
  Like most local history museums, it tells the story of Watford including Watford at War, Print and Brewing and a display on Watford Football Club – which also includes some Elton John memorabilia.
  The museum, which is currently based in a Georgian building near Watford High St
  
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• Ooredoo asks Google and Tech Mahindra to help it with APIs

  16-08-2023 18:39
  Qatar-based telco group Ooredoo is betting on APIs to unleash an exciting new generation of customer experiences. To that end, it has tapped up Google Cloud to use Apigee, its API management platform.
  Apigee is a suite of tools designed to make it easy for companies like Ooredoo to create APIs and make them available to developers for the purposes of creating applications or services that can leverage that company’s data. It also comes with various monitoring tools enabling it to keep tabs
  
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• Ooredoo asks Google and Tech Mahindra to help it harness power of APIs

  16-08-2023 18:39
  Qatar-based telco group Ooredoo is betting on APIs to unleash an exciting new generation of customer experiences.
  To that end, it has tapped up Google Cloud to use Apigee, its API management platform.
  Apigee is a suite of tools designed to make it easy for companies like Ooredoo to create APIs and make them available to developers for the purposes of creating applications or services that can leverage that company’s data. It also comes with various monitoring tools enabling it to keep tabs
  
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• Charles Dickens Museum to study Wilkie Collins’s Moonstone

  16-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Later this year, the Charles Dickens Museum will broaden its reach, with an exhibition about Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone, amongst others.
  He won’t be alone though, as Wilkie Collins had a famously close friendship with Charles Dickens, who was an early supporter of his writings, and the exhibition will trace the shared work, travels, confidences and, above all, the bond of friendship between two men.From the moment they met in 1851, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins began to w
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the BT Tower taking place next month

  16-08-2023 15:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month is two weeks of visiting lots of usually closed buildings, and one of them is the BT Tower*, which will be open as part of London’s Open House Festival.
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  The full list of venues that will be open for the fortnight festival is now live on their website for you to browse, and while most are open to just turn up and go in, some will need booking in advance to secure entry.
  One that needs booking in advance, is the BT Tower, but due to expected demand, tickets will be all
  
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• Public telco cloud held back by slow 5G SA progress

  16-08-2023 13:52
  According to a report the migration of 5G workloads to the public cloud is taking longer than expected due to the lethargic pace at which the industry is rolling out 5G standalone (SA).
  That’s the primary reason behind Dell’Oro’s decision to lower its growth forecast for revenues generated by 5G SA workloads hosted on public cloud.
  The research firm expects cumulative revenue to reach $5.4 billion by 2027, representing a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65%.
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• US Linear TV viewership share drops below 50% for the first time

  16-08-2023 13:16
  The latest figures from TV audience tracking firm Nielsen illustrate the move among US viewers from traditional TV to streaming video consumption.
  While the direction of travel is no great surprise, this inflection point in the world’s most lucrative and influential TV market is worthy of note. As you can see from the Nielsen chart below in July of this year the combined share of daily broadcast and cable TV viewership in the US was 49.6%. Meanwhile the use of SVoD (subscription video on d
  
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• UK ad watchdog rules 6G does not exist

  16-08-2023 13:13
  The Advertising Standards Authority has come down hard on 6G Internet for misleading the UK public over the existence of 6G mobile technology.
  Having investigated a complaint against 6G Internet, the UK watchdog ordered it to pull its offending advertising, and its ruling suggests that the company might now struggle to use its brand name at all. Indeed, a quick look at the ISP’s website in the wake of the ASA ruling shows that 6G Internet is now styling itself as 6Gi and has added ‘F
  
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• A bundle of bamboo strips fills a corner of the Southbank Centre

  16-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you walk around the back of the Southbank Centre at the moment you’ll see what looks like a huge pile of roughly woven strips filling the space.It’s a work of art by the Indian artist, Asim Waqif, which we’re told is a mix of modern architecture and his interest in traditional crafts such as basketry and weaving. The installation took ten days, to build up the bamboo poles and woven strips around the metal scaffolding.
  Called Venu, it’s supposedly a space for contempla
  
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• Generative AI will usher in ‘transformational benefit within two to five years’

  16-08-2023 12:50
  Analyst firm Gartner has highlighted a series of emerging technologies peaking their heads over the horizon, and says AI will have a ‘profound impact on business and society.’
  Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies’ lists various bleeding edge tech areas and positions them on a life cycle from early innovation towards maturity and a point where they are actually a productive thing. It is a distillation of insights about ‘2,000 technologies and applied
  
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• Beau Brummell’s statue on Jermyn Street

  16-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander along posh Jermyn Street lined with men’s outfitters, you’ll spy a statue of Beau Brummell, a man who defined the very idea of dressing well and being a decorative dandy.Today to be a dandy is often assumed to mean someone who overdresses, but at the time it was someone who dresses so sensibly that they almost fade into the background as nothing is out of place. A perfect ornament for a room.
  And it was George ‘Beau’ Brummel who set the trend for elegant dre
  
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