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• Tours of 10 Downing Street and the new London Museum with Open House London

  21-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a chance to go on one of two guided tours of 10 Downing Street next month, or see inside the building site that’s creating the new London Museum in Smithfield.10 Downing Street tours
  The tours of 10 Downing Street take place on Saturday 16th September 2023, and although not confirmed, based on my own previous visit many years ago, is likely to include the main state rooms on the first floor, and if it’s not in use, maybe the Cabinet Room as well.
  There should be time fo
  
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• Help name London’s next two giant tunnel boring machines

  21-08-2023 13:55 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two more tunnel boring machines digging HS2 railway tunnels under London will set off early next year, and the public is being asked to name them from a shortlist.
  One of the giant TBMs for the Northolt Tunnel East in the Herrenknecht factory (c) HS2
  The two latest HS2 TBMs will construct the Northolt Tunnel East travelling through Brent and Ealing. The TBMs will set off early in 2024 towards Greenford, travelling 3.4 miles from HS2’s Victoria Road site, close to the new Old Oak Common sta
  
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• eSIM shipments forecast to boom

  21-08-2023 13:42
  A surge in eSIM adoption will be driven by ecosystem simplification, claims Kaleido Intelligence.
  A new report says that 1.4 billion eSIMs will be shipped in 2028, which it puts at a 77% hike, while CAGR will rise 21% between now and then. As the sector evolves operators will be ‘forced’ to embrace eSIM, we’re told.
  The report says that today many operators rely on QR code mechanisms for eSIMS which it asserts ‘do not offer an optimal end-user experience,’ and that
  
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• Vodafone UK and Ericsson push network slicing for cloud gaming

  21-08-2023 13:34
  A recent live network trial aimed to demonstrate the performance benefits of dedicating a slice of a 5G standalone network to cloud gaming.
  The trial, which took place at Coventry University in the UK, used an optimised 5G standalone network slice to deliver a better cloud gaming experience than a regular 5G connection. Specifically the demo run jointly by Vodafone UK and Ericsson claimed a 270% increase in download performance, a 25% decrease in latency and 57% less jitter as a result of using
  
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• Bringing the console experience to mobile

  21-08-2023 13:31
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Andrea Donà, Chief Network Officer, Vodafone UK, describes the significance of a recent network slicing trial.
  At Vodafone, we are constantly looking for ways connectivity can create novel connectivity experiences. 5G Standalone presents us with new capabilities and few areas will benefit more than gaming.
  Last month, we ran a trial at Coventry Unive
  
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• Imber Bus 2023: Thousands turn up to visit an empty village in a fleet of old buses

  21-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On Saturday, several thousand people took the chance to take a trip in a random assortment of buses to an empty village where no one lives, because, well, why not?That was Imber Bus – a now annual event that’s been running since 2009 and it can be fairly said that it has hit peak popularity. What started with five buses and mostly people who know about buses, is now hugely popular, and candidly, this year, unexpectedly so. Maybe there’s pent-up demand after last year’s tr
  
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• Horizon 22 – London’s highest viewing gallery opens next month

  21-08-2023 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Even higher than the Shard, a new viewing gallery at the top of the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper will be opening to the public next month, and it’s FREE to visit.
  The skyscraper, in the City of London, will have not only London’s highest viewing gallery — at 254 metres above ground vs the 244 metres for the View from the Shard, it’s also the highest in Europe that will also be free to visit.
  The view (c) Horizon 22 / Brendan Bell
  The viewing gallery is being called Horizon 2
  
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• US and Germany warn of Chinese espionage threat

  21-08-2023 12:10
  Various US security agencies have warned of foreign threats to its space sector, while the German government has increased pressure on its telcos to ditch Huawei.
  Perhaps conscious of the fact that it hardly ever issues a press release, the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center recently saw fit to publish a PDF pamphlet warning the country’s space sector to be extra vigilant against foreign baddies. In this case they’re characterised as Foreign Intelligence Entities (FI
  
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• Ericsson launches new AI lab in Vietnam

  21-08-2023 12:09
  Kit vendor Ericsson and RMIT University have signed an agreement to launch an AI lab at the latter’s campus in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed to bolster education in AI and 5G related technology.
  The lab’s mission is to help drum up some AI expertise and generate applications to help industry 4.0 concepts in sectors such as energy, manufacturing, agriculture, transport and logistics, alongside the Vietnamese government’s National Strategy for Digital Transformation which is designed
  
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• London’s Alleys: Carmel Court, W8

  21-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a rather charming residential alleyway that can be found close to Kensington High Street and offers a mix of appearances as you walk along it.This part of Kensington was originally countryside with a modest manor house, Parsonage House that was bought/built in 1722 by John Jones. As he was a bricklayer, it’s not unlikely that he bought the land to develop the area into housing, which started fairly soon afterwards.
  The alley first appears as part of developments around the 1730s, r
  
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