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• HS2 completes complex Colne Valley viaduct manuvre

  22-08-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the past few weeks, HS2 has been moving a 40-metre section of the long Colne Valley viaduct into place over a main road in west London.
  Colne Valley Viaduct over Moorhall Road (c) HS2
  HS2 had to close the Moorhall Road near Harefield, in order to bring in cranes to lift eleven of the 115 to 130-tonne segments into position over the road. These were then strengthened with internal steel cabling to complete the span.
  Normally, most of these segments are slotted into place by a giant 700-tonne
  
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• Nokia’s refreshed software takes aim at home wifi performance

  22-08-2023 16:35
  Finnish kit maker Nokia has relaunched its home wifi software suite under a new name and with some additional bells and whistles.
  Formerly known as Wi-Fi Cloud Controller, the marketing department has since had a proper stab at it, and now it goes by the name Corteca.
  There are three elements to it.
  Corteca Cloud is a hosted intelligent controller that offers the vaunted ‘single pane of glass’ interface for managing home wifi networks and keeping tabs on the devices that connect to t
  
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• There’s a Batman pop-up exhibition coming to London

  22-08-2023 15:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a free Batman exhibition in central London next month to mark the 15th anniversary of the Dark Knight movie, and Warner Bros’ own 100th anniversary. The three-day exhibition, Batman Unmasked is set to take fans on a journey through the Caped Crusader’s legendary history, descending into an immersive Batcave and showcasing releases spanning from 1989 to 2022.
  Tickets will be released this coming Friday (25th Aug).Alongside Batcycles from The Dark Knight (2008) and The Ba
  
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• US shares another $671 million from rural broadband pot

  22-08-2023 13:48
  The US Department of Agriculture has allocated a further $671 million in grants and loans for the provision of high-speed broadband connectivity to rural areas.
  The cash will enable small telecoms companies, ISPs and county authorities boost access to fast Internet – mainly, but not exclusively, via fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) – for rural residents, business owners and farmers in difficult-to-reach areas.
  The funding is a continuation of the fourth round of the ReConnect Program, wh
  
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• SK Telecom continues AI push with Persona investment

  22-08-2023 13:38
  A week after ploughing $100 million into OpenAI rival Anthropic, SK Telecom has invested in another promising AI company.
  Persona AI is a Korean AI contact centre (AICC) specialist that has developed its own natural language processing engine, which it offers via subscription to businesses that want to provide automated customer service.
  It offers AICC solutions both in Korea and abroad, and SKT was keen to point out that Persona is currently undertaking pilot projects in the highly-demanding fi
  
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• UK reconsiders Microsoft Activision deal after cloud gaming concessions

  22-08-2023 13:25
  After it’s initial plan to purchase gaming giant Activision Blizzard was blocked by the CMA, Microsoft has submitted an amended deal it hopes will appease the UK’s regulator’s concerns.
  The new proposal means that Microsoft would not acquire the cloud streaming rights to all current and future Activision games released during the next 15 years, and they would instead be divested to another games publisher called Ubisoft prior to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard – th
  
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• A selection from London Open House 2023

  22-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The annual festival of buildings opening to the public, London Open House returns next month, letting Londoners inside normally private or difficult to visit buildings for free.
  It’s running over a fortnight, and although most venues are open at weekends, the double weekend of open days does spread the load out a bit to make it easier to see more buildings.
  Most of the venues that need tickets to visit are sold out, but there are loads of places to visit that you can just turn up on the da
  
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• Understanding broadband and its evolution

  22-08-2023 10:47
  Our panel of experts explore the current state of the fibre rollout and how technologies like Fixed Wireless Access and satellites are developing to provide additional techniques of improving the world’s internet access.
  Table of Contents
  The legacy and future of broadband
  Types of broadband: Full fibre, legacy, and cable networks
  Full fibre networks
  Legacy networks
  Cable networks
  Fiber vs cable: Core differences and performance metrics
  The role of PON in broadband connectivity
  Exploring f
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Cossall Park, SE15

  22-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a relatively new park in Peckham being about 50 years old created in the 1970s as part of housing clearance and council building.One of the unexpected mysteries of the park is exactly when was it created. This shouldn’t be a difficult thing to work out, as it’s a fairly new park, but the best I can do is to say that it was created sometime in the middle of the 1970s, and apparently related to the cancelled plans for the Ringway around London.
  My best assumption in the absence
  
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