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• Orange to build out smart city platform in Saudi Arabia

  04-09-2023 18:03
  Orange Business has signed a deal with the King Abdullah Financial District Development and Management Company (KAFD DMC) to design, build and run a new end-to-end smart city platform.
  The work will involve connecting up some existing digital technologies at Saudi Arabia’s KAFD business district, while plugging in some additional AI and data analytics. Orange Business will also provide a range of ‘Digital Master Systems Integration’ services and orchestrate its partner ecosyste
  
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• Huawei Mate 60 Pro confirmed to use domestically made chips

  04-09-2023 16:37
  A teardown of Huawei’s furtively launched new flagship smartphone appears to confirm greater Chinese chipmaking capability than previously thought.
  Canadian company TechInsights, which specialises in investigating device components, partnered with Bloomberg to get hold of a Huawei Mate 60 Pro unit. The phone was launched with almost no fanfare in China last week, prompting speculation about how Huawei managed to produce such a thing given the extensive restrictions placed on it by the US.
  
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• Huawei Mate 60 Pro confirmed to use Chinese made chips

  04-09-2023 16:37
  A teardown of Huawei’s furtively launched new flagship smartphone appears to confirm greater domestic chipmaking capability than previously thought.
  Canadian company TechInsights, which specialises in investigating device components, partnered with Bloomberg to get hold of a Huawei Mate 60 Pro unit. The phone was launched with almost no fanfare in China last week, prompting speculation about how Huawei managed to produce such a thing given the extensive restrictions placed on it by the US.
  
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• Former IKEA superstore could be turned into homes

  04-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The site of the former IKEA store in Edmonton could be redeveloped into blocks of flats, as a sales brochure has appeared offering the site to developers.
  IKEA Edmonton – source CBRE brochure
  Describing the site provisionally as Pymmes Waterside – it is right next to the Pymmes Brook, a concreted culvert that was once a river — CBRE says that the site could host nearly 3,000 homes plus non-residential space for two primary schools, community services and offices.
  The area is al
  
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• London’s Transport nearly back to pre-pandemic levels as bus and tube record busiest August Bank Holiday

  04-09-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  New figures from Transport for London (TfL) show the busiest August Bank Holiday for bus journeys and tube journeys since the pandemic.
  (c) TfL
  Bus travel this August Bank Holiday saw a nearly 10 percent increase on the equivalent weekend a year ago, with journeys on the London Underground seeing a near six percent increase.Year
  Bus journeys
  Tube journeys
  2019
  11,167,000
  7,224,000
  2020
  7,134,000
  3,016,000
  2021
  8,589,000
  4,996,000
  2022
  9,789,000
  6,630,000
  2023
  10,774,000
  7,022,000The weekend roun
  
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• Deutsche Telekom tinkers with multi-vendor RAN optimisation

  04-09-2023 13:50
  Operator Deutsche Telekom, alongside AirHop, Juniper Networks, VIAVI Solutions and VMware conducted a trial of non-real time RAN Intelligent Controller (Non-RT RIC) technology based on Open RAN specs.
  Framed as a commitment to developing Open RAN tech, the multi-vendor trial was around ‘programmable radio access networks that demonstrates the potential of the Non-RT RIC and rApp concept to automate and optimize disaggregated RAN.’
  In the trial the firms completed a RAN closed-loop op
  
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• EFF speaks out against ISPs acting as extralegal digital censors

  04-09-2023 13:33
  Reports that a Tier 1 ISP has been partially denying service to a customer in order to censor a contentious online forum raise fundamental questions around freedom of speech.
  “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is,” states the headline of a recent blog by digital civil liberties advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation. The catalyst for that statement was provided by reports that Hurricane Electric, one of the world’s largest internet backbone prov
  
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• EFF speaks out against ISPs acting as censors

  04-09-2023 13:33
  Reports that a Tier 1 ISP has been partially denying service to a customer in order to censor a contentious online forum raise fundamental questions around freedom of speech.
  “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is,” states the headline of a recent blog by digital civil liberties advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation. The catalyst for that statement was provided by reports that Hurricane Electric, one of the world’s largest internet backbone prov
  
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• Annual open day of the Strand Lane “Roman Baths”

  04-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A date for your diary, as the little-known Roman Baths behind the back of the disused Aldwych tube station will be open to the public later this month for one day only.
  The bathhouse is right in the centre of bustling London, just off Strand, and yet also hidden away down a back alley that hardly anyone knows exists. As such, the bathhouse is one of my personal favourites to show people, mainly as so few people have heard of it.
  It’s also almost certainly not Roman, but heck, that’s
  
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• PTI bolsters tower footprint in urban France

  04-09-2023 12:33
  Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has closed on two transactions yielding it 1,978 sites in dense urban areas across France.
  The deals in question include 1,226 sites hosting SFR through a subsidiary owned by PTI, and the expansion of the firm’s subsidiary Phoenix France Infrastructures 2, with the addition of 752 sites hosting Bouygues Telecom.
  This puts 3,600 French sites in PTI’s pocket, and it is on track to own and operate over 5,000 sites in the region within two years, we
  
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• Flash sale on Northern Rail train tickets

  04-09-2023 11:50 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s not London (sorry!), but for those who are interested, there’s a flash sale on Northern Railway train tickets for journeys across much of the north of England.
  (c) Northern
  They’re offering up to 1 million adult Advance tickets with prices from just 50p per trip, and a further 4 million tickets are available for just £1 or £2.
  Children’s tickets are available for 25p, 50p and 75p. Also, up to two children under the age of 5 years may travel free with
  
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• London’s Alleys: Helen’s Place, E2

  04-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a cobbled passage in Bethnal Green that runs around the back of a Victorian block of flats and at first glance doesn’t seem that interesting, but read on.The area was still fields in 1800, but by the 1820s, the first hints of urbanisation had appeared, with a row of buildings fronting onto Roman Road, marked on an 1828 map as Chester Place.
  Those buildings don’t seem to have lasted long though, as the current block of flats with shops on the ground floor was built in 1888 by
  
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