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• Firefighting exhibition marks Sir Christopher Wren’s 300th anniversary

  08-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Paintings by London’s firefighters will be popping up around the City of London over the next few months, as part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren.
  Haines Red Sunday 29 December 1940
  Although the rebuilding of London following the Great Fire of London is closely associated with Sir Chris, the WWII blitz, often called the Second Great Fire, also destroyed much of what Wren had built.
  The exhibition, which will be in a number of City churches,
  
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• US Senate confirms Anna Gomez as fifth FCC commissioner

  08-09-2023 13:22
  Anna Gomez has been appointed as the fifth commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, a role that has been vacant for the entire Biden administration.
  President Biden nominated Gomez in May this year, and she has now been appointed for a term of five years, but that seems to be backdated from July 1, 2021 when the last one left.
  Crucially this gives the FCC a 3 to 2 Democrat majority, breaking a deadlock and presumably making it easier for it to make moves in relation to national tel
  
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• Blue Plaque honours Tommy Flowers, the man behind Alan Turing’s computer revolution

  08-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although Alan Turning gets justifiable fame for his WWII computer work, he needed help, and now a Blue Plaque has been installed to celebrate the electrical engineer who made it all possible, Tommy Flowers.
  (c) English Heritage
  Tommy Flowers worked at the Post Office’s research laboratories in Dollis Hill in northwest London, where he demonstrated how Alan Turning’s computations could be mechanised by a programmable computer.
  In 1941, he spent a brief time posted at Bletchley Park in
  
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• You’ve got a bit longer than you thought to complete your Glotels entry

  08-09-2023 12:03
  Perhaps distracted by the unexpected UK heatwave, people are now clamouring for more time to complete their submissions to the 2023 Glotel Awards.
  When they opened for submissions way back in June, the deadline for submitting entries to the Awards was clearly stated as ‘Sunday 10th September 2023’. And yet, with that date nearly upon us, the awards team has been inundated with pleas for a bit more time. So they have decided to take the unprecedented step of extending the deadline to
  
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• Altice ready to sell data centres and possibly SFR

  08-09-2023 11:22
  Altice is on the verge of agreeing a deal worth as much as €1 billion to sell its French data centres to Morgan Stanley and, more surprisingly, is considering offloading SFR, press reports indicated this week.
  The operator is about to ink the sale of all or some of its 92 data centres in France to Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure fund, Les Echos reported this week. The French paper did not cite its sources, nor was it able to secure a comment on the matter from either Altice or Morgan
  
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• BT targets sustainability improvements with SAP deal

  08-09-2023 11:11
  UK incumbent BT is taking steps to give business customers a clearer view of its carbon emissions, in particular those of its suppliers.
  The telco has partnered with SAP to launch a pilot of the software giant’s Sustainability Data Exchange (SDX). Unveiled in May, it is designed to help companies collect, trace and share data regarding indirect emissions, also known as Scope 3 emissions.
  While Scope 1 and Scope 2 – which encompass direct emissions and emissions due to energy usage re
  
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• DoCoMo launches $300 million bid for market research firm Intage

  08-09-2023 11:03
  Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is splashing the cash in an effort to squeeze more value from its loyalty programme.
  The telco has launched a public tender offer for Intage Holdings, a market research and consultancy firm based in Chiyoda City, Tokyo. As a minimum, DoCoMo hopes to purchase 15.4 million shares, equivalent to a 40% stake. The upper boundary is set at 19.6 million shares, which would give it a 51% stake.
  Price-wise, DoCoMo’s offer is worth up to JPY45.09 billion ($305 mil
  
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• You might be able to see a comet in the skies this weekend

  08-09-2023 09:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A recently discovered comet should be visible early in the morning for the next few days if the British weather permits. And fortunately, the weather forecast suggests it should.
  Comet Nishimura (officially Comet C/2023 P1) is named after the Japanese astrophotography Hideo Nishimura who was taking long-exposure photographs of the sky with a digital camera when he spotted the previously unknown comet. Since then its path has been plotted, and it’s now close enough to both the Sun and Earth
  
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• London Underground expands mobile phone coverage and confirms Elizabeth line coming soon

  08-09-2023 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  More of the London Underground has mobile phone coverage after it was switched on in the Central line between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, and which areas will get coverage next have been announced.Today, mobile phone coverage has been switched on in the Central line tunnels between the Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, and also inside Tottenham Court Road tube station’s ticket hall and escalators, as well as on the Northern line platforms.
  At the moment, along with the Ju
  
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