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• Digital Catapult gives 5G starring role in advanced media production

  20-09-2023 18:40
  UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has teamed up with virtual effects specialist Target3D to launch a network of 5G-enabled, advanced media production (AMP) studios.
  One is based in London, the other in Gateshead in the North East. Digital Catapult and Target3D have enabled seamless connectivity between the two sites, which they say will facilitate high-calibre production at scale, and promote wider access to cutting-edge content creation technology.
  There is a smorgasbord of tech on offer, incl
  
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• Online Safety Bill now ready to become law

  20-09-2023 18:25
  The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has announced the controversial Online Safety Bill has been signed off by the Houses of Parliament and will become law soon.
  Having passed its final Parliamentary debate the government says the ‘bolstered’ bill will ‘make the UK the safest place in the world to be online by placing new duties on social media companies’.
  The piece of legislation, which will be enforced by Ofcom, is pitched as a tool prim
  
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• Dennis Severs’ House to have its annual Christmas makeover

  20-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tickets have now gone on sale for Dennis Severs’ House’s popular Yuletide makeover that will start in November.
  The building is set out as a Georgian house where the family have just stepped outside for a moment. You are invited into their home to have a walk around while they’re out. It’s not a museum with lots of precious objects but an experience. You are exhorted to step back a bit and look at the rooms in their totality, not to look at the individual objects within.
  
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• Tube strike on the London Underground in October

  20-09-2023 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The RMT union has announced that its members at the London Underground will walk out in strike action in October. The strike only affects station and revenue staff, not train drivers, so many stations will be closed on the strike days.The union, which says it has been in a running dispute with Transport for London (TfL) is calling the strike for Wednesday 4th and Friday 6th October.
  The full details haven’t been announced, but the likely effects will be:Tues 3rd Oct – Services may st
  
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• Germany set impose stronger restriction on Chinese telecoms kit

  20-09-2023 14:06
  A leaked strategy paper written by the German government suggests fresh restrictions are on the way for Huawei and ZTE within the country’s telecoms networks.
  German press, Politico and others have got their hands on the strategy paper, drafted by German officials, which apparently details plans to ban German operators from using Chinese equipment in the core by January 1, 2026, and to phase out reliance on Chinese RAN kit within three years.
  According to reports, only 25% of Deutsche
  
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• Deutsche Telekom’s API launch is a win for Ericsson

  20-09-2023 13:55
  German incumbent Deutsche Telekom, together with Ericsson, has taken the plunge and commercially launched a suite of network APIs.
  Developers have a choice of three from DT’s new platform, MagentaBusiness API Portal, which has been developed and implemented by Ericsson’s Vonage unit.
  First up is ‘quality-on-demand’, which enables an app to request a specific quality of service for a SIM card. This is useful for real-time services that rely on high throughput and low laten
  
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• AST SpaceMobile claims a 5G first in the space race

  20-09-2023 13:47
  AST SpaceMobile this week announced its latest satellite-based connectivity milestone, making 5G voice and data connections between a standard smartphone and a satellite.
  It’s a world first, the company claims, which it might well be. Barely a week goes by without another ‘first’ or a new record being trumpeted by a handful of companies keen to capitalise on the opportunity of merging cellular technology with non-terrestrial alternatives. Equally, with the market very much in i
  
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• AI applications drive strong demand for data centre infrastructure

  20-09-2023 13:34
  The data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI) market revenue grew 15% year-on-year in Q2 2023, as AI applications usher in new demand and vendor backlogs continue to grow, according to the Dello’Oro Group.
  While this increase is noted as a deceleration in revenue growth for the first time in six quarters, the research and analyst house reports that supply chain limitations are beginning to ease and price realisation are beginning to diminish. Combined with the new AI driven demands and re
  
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• AI applications and vendor backlogs drive new demands in data centre infrastructure

  20-09-2023 13:34
  The data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI) market revenue grew 15% year-on-year in Q2 2023, as AI applications usher in new demand and vendor backlogs continue to grow, according to the Dello’Oro Group.
  While this increase is noted as a deceleration in revenue growth for the first time in six quarters, the research and analyst house reports that supply chain limitations are beginning to ease and price realisation are beginning to diminish. Combined with the new AI driven demands and re
  
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• Book Review: Little Boxes by Roger Elsom

  20-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s rare that a book about railways can be said to be relaxing, but one has arrived that is packed full of lazy summers travelling around the countryside looking for those often lonely outposts — the railway signal box.Roger has had a life-long passion for recording railway signal boxes, and while he clearly knows enough to have written a very conventional railway book, packed full of facts and details and likely as not, suffocatingly dull, it’s a delight that he chose not to.
  
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• Qualcomm cranks up the hype for Wi-Fi 7

  20-09-2023 10:00
  Chip maker Qualcomm recently held an event at its San Diego HQ dedicated to Wi-Fi 7 and all the benefits it sees this latest standard ushering in.
  The gathering, called Wi-FI 7 Day, was there to explain the improvements the latest version of wifi will bring over previous versions, and furthermore to cement Qualcomm’s position as a driver of the technology.
  Wifi isn’t the most headline-grabbing topic in the telecoms industry, and is probably mostly taken for granted as a technology by
  
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• Behind the curtain: Exploring the intriguing past of Hackney Empire

  20-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Hackney Empire is one of those buildings that’s had a remarkable life that manages to encapsulate many of the various histories that happened in pieces to other theatres across the country.Built in 1901 as the flagship music hall by Sir Oswald Stoll for the Stoll Moss company, it was initially very successful as many music halls were. The rise of the radio and television saw theatre audiences decline, and it became a TV studio, and then a bingo hall, and then thanks to a high profile c
  
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