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• Works to improve the Bakerloo line and London Overground completed

  01-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Upgrade work that closed parts of the Bakerloo line and the London Overground over the past few weeks has now been completed, Network Rail has confirmed.
  Railway improvements in Harlesden (c) Network Rail
  Engineers worked between Sunday 23rd July and Friday 25th August to overhaul track, signalling and power supplies for electric trains on a 20-mile stretch of railway and upgrade six stations in north London. The track work will bring improved journey reliability while the weatherproofing and ta
  
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• UK signs contract with IBM to provide police with facial recognition tech – report

  01-09-2023 14:20
  An investigation claims IBM has signed a contract with the UK government to provide facial recognition tech, despite vowing not to do so previously.
  The journalistic arm of human rights advocate Liberty teamed up with US tech site The Verge to expose the claim that signed a $69.8m (£54.7m) contract with the British government to develop a national biometrics platform that ‘last month IBM signed a $69.8m (£54.7m) contract with the British government to develop a national biometr
  
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• Operator lobbying ramps ahead of European ‘fair contribution’ decision

  01-09-2023 13:24
  The European Commission is expected to detail the results of its consultation on whether big content providers should pay for network use.
  Characterised as ‘fair contribution’ or ‘fair share’ by supporters of the concept, the essence of the argument is that a disproportionate amount of network traffic is accounted for by the big streaming video providers, such as Netflix and YouTube, so it’s only fair that they chip in for the cost of carrying that traffic. One coun
  
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• London’s free exhibitions to visit in September 2023

  01-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of ten free exhibitions to visit in London while the shops are busy putting up their Christmas/Halloween/BonfireNight decorations.Bowie and Beyond
  Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames
  (Open Thur-Sat only)
  Note: exhibition ends 16th Sept.
  When David Bowie took to the stage at the Toby Jug pub in February 1972, the 60 or so people in the room had little idea that they were witnessing history. 50 years on, Kingston Museum’s Bowie And Beyond exhibition looks at the remarkable mome
  
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• Win a cab ride in an Elizabeth line train

  01-09-2023 12:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to win a ride in the driver’s cab of an Elizabeth line train, as part of a charity raffle for a wide range of railway prizes.There are just 2,000 tickets being offered, with 23 prizes — so far — so the odds of winning a prize are rather higher than the average raffle. The raffle tickets cost just £10 each, and you have until the end of this month to buy them.
  Tickets are on sale from here.
  The Prizes
  Trains:
  Cab ride on Elizabeth Line with MTR Eliza
  
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• Unveiling the unsung hero: 360-year search ends as first witness to Great Fire of London identified

  01-09-2023 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s taken nearly 360 years to find him, but researchers now believe they have identified the person who first raised the alarm when the Great Fire of London started on the evening of 2nd September 1666.
  The Great Fire of London 1666 (woodcut) (later colouration) by English School, 17th century (c) Museum of London
  It’s taken this long to work out who would have been the first to see the fire due to confusing reports afterwards, but research undertaken for the museum’s new site
  
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