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• Tickets Alert: Visit Cosmic House – a Post-Modern architectural marvel

  19-09-2023 18:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A slightly unassuming house in Holland Park conceals a remarkable interior — a house packed full of early Post-Modernist designs — and is now occasionally open to the public.
  Externally it looks like a normal sort of house for the area, but the architect Charles Jencks and family gutted most of the interior and built something that is really quite stunning. Not necessarily nice, as that’s down to individual tastes, but it is most certainly stunning.
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• Union issues national security warning over Vodafone Three deal

  19-09-2023 18:03
  Unite the Union has sounded the alarm over Vodafone and Three’s proposed merger, claiming that it risks giving China access to sensitive UK government data.
  While Vodafone has been busy espousing the purported benefits the merger will bring to the UK economy, Unite has been busy compiling a dossier detailing Three parent CK Group’s ties to Beijing, as well as its relationship with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government.
  The union, which represents 1.2 million w
  
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• A glowing steam train returns to the Epping Ongar Railway

  19-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A steam train covered in lights will return to the Epping Ongar railway creating a magical ride through the countryside.This is Lights Express – a chance to ride behind a steam train that is not just decorated inside and out for the festive season but lights up the countryside as it passes through the woods and fields.
  A trip inside a steam train is always a delight, but there’s something magical about to arrive, as the crowd waits at Ongar station. A toot in the distance and the fam
  
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• UK competition watchdog fleshes out approach to AI regulation

  19-09-2023 14:03
  Accountability, flexibility and transparency are among the seven principles that will guide the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’s approach to keeping tabs on AI.
  The CMA has a slightly different remit compared to some of the other watchdogs that have weighed in on this year’s hottest tech topic. There is still an emphasis on consumer protection, but this protection is provided by the structure of the market and how it functions, rather than addressing AI development directly.
  
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• T-Mobile US could be Tillman’s anchor tenant for fibre

  19-09-2023 13:56
  T-Mobile US is in talks with open access network operator Tillman FiberCo with a view to using its FTTP infrastructure, it was reported this weekend.
  Should the report, which came from Bloomberg, prove correct, a deal would mark the entry of the US mobile operator into the fast-growing retail fibre market on the other side of the Atlantic. T-Mobile US has dipped a toe in the fibre broadband space and there have been rumblings for some time that it is looking for a partner or co-investor to help
  
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• Ericsson to receive 6G R&D funding from German government

  19-09-2023 13:44
  Nordic kit vendor Ericsson will receive funding from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action to work on the development of 6G radio microelectronics.
  The funding, which the vendor will receive over a five-year period, will be used for a project aiming to advance semiconductor technology and to drive the energy efficiency and sustainability of microelectronics and communication technologies in 6G massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) radios.
  By using massive MIM
  
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• Wallace & Gromit’s wrong trousers is the correct exhibition

  19-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s been thirty years since a villainous penguin, a pair of wrong trousers and the greatest railway chase of all time appeared on TV screens, and the Cartoon Museum is taking a look back at how it was made.Opening with an introduction to the main characters and some early sketches, there’s also a section on the many other comics and cartoons that inspired the animator’s creative minds. And I know it’s only a rough sketch, but one early drawing appears to show Feathers Mc
  
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• DTW 2023 epitomises the telecoms industry’s struggle to evolve

  19-09-2023 12:18
  The TM Forum’s annual jamboree kicked off by pleading for a greater sense of urgency from the telecoms industry to evolve, but took its time in doing so.
  DTW stands for Digital Transformation World, so a core, recurring theme of the event is the need for the industry to move with the times. Perhaps conscious of this Groundhog Day challenge, TM Forum CEO Nik Willets (pictured) opened This year’s Copenhagen event by declaring a ‘code red moment’, which he characterised as a
  
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• Avanti West Coast secures contract extension to keep running West Coast Mainline trains

  19-09-2023 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The train company Avanti West Coast will keep its West Coast Mainline contract after the government said it had reduced delays and cancellations following a chaotic summer 2022.The train operating company had been on short-notice contracts lasting just six months while it sorted itself out, but has now been granted a 3-year agreement, extendable to 9 years if performance criteria are met. However, to keep the train company on its toes, after 3 years, their contract could be terminated at any tim
  
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• Starlight Express is returning to London next year

  19-09-2023 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Put your railway rollers skates on, as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express will be making a return to the London theatre next summer – to mark the 40th anniversary of its first performance at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.In the story, a child’s train set magically comes to life and the engines race to become the fastest in the world, Rusty the steam train has little hope of winning until he is inspired by the legend of the ‘Starlight Express’. Famously, the actor
  
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• Origins of Wimbledon’s famous green towels’ revealed in Museum of Brands exhibition

  19-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just under 175 years ago, how people dried themselves after a wash changed when the first British made terry towel was shown off at the Great Exhibition, and now there’s a smaller exhibition about the company that developed it.
  Terry Towels, at the time more commonly known as the Turkish Towel was “discovered” by the noted collector and ethnologist Henry Christy on a visit to Istanbul, and noticed that the way it was woven with many small loops made it particularly good at abso
  
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