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• Free entry to National Trust properties this autumn

  26-09-2023 18:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This autumn, the National Trust is offering free tickets to visit most of its properties across the UK. The free entry pass allows free entry for two adults and up to three children, one adult and up to four children, or two adults on their own.
  Each ticket is single-use and valid until Friday October 20th 2023.
  Knole House, Sevenoaks
  The number of free tickets they’re offering is limited, and the promotion is open until the limited number of tickets have been distributed, or 20th October,
  
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• SK Telecom targets $18.5 billion in AI revenue by 2028

  26-09-2023 17:51
  South Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) will triple investments in AI over the next five years in an effort to cash in on the hype.
  It has launched the ‘AI Pyramid Strategy’, which paves the way for SKT to become a global AI company – at least that’s what it hopes the plan will do.
  There are three layers to this pyramid: AI infrastructure, AI transformation, and AI service.
  AI Infrastructure represents the bottom layer. It consists of AI data centres, AI semiconductors and m
  
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• Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow’s disused gasworks

  26-09-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there’s another chance to go on a tour of the decommissioned gasholders that dominate the view from the trains passing through West Ham station.The gasworks was established here by the Imperial Gas Imperial Gas Light & Coke Company in 1870. However, changes to the way gas is supplied to homes and businesses led to most of the original site being redeveloped, and the gasholders being decommissioned later in 2010. The site is now being earmarked for housing development, but w
  
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• Closed for 70 years, London’s Cold War tunnels are to be opened to the public

  26-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large network of tunnels under central London could be opened to the public in a few years time if an application to convert them into a public facility is approved.
  (c) DBOX for The London Tunnels
  The tunnels near Holborn were built as shelters during WWII, but were never opened to the public. Kept secret, they were taken over by the London Civil Defence for operational staff and some government offices. One of the more famous occupants was the seemingly innocently named Inter Services Resear
  
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• US pays top dollar for mobile data, but UK gets a fair deal

  26-09-2023 13:17
  The cost of mobile data is still pretty high in the US, but on this side of the pond customers are getting a much better deal, according to new research published on Tuesday.
  The US ranks 219th in the world when it comes to purchasing mobile data, Cable.co.uk claims in its latest worldwide mobile data pricing report. The average cost of 1 GB of mobile data comes in at US$6.00 stateside, which is way above most other nations, particularly the more developed ones. The bottom of the ranking –
  
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• Ericsson moves to further embrace open standards

  26-09-2023 13:08
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has released a salvo of Open RAN and Cloud RAN related announcements in quick succession, one involving a collaboration with Spanish operator Telefónica.
  First up, Ericsson and Telefónica have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to ‘accelerate the adoption towards an increasingly open network built upon Ericsson’s Cloud RAN architecture’ – which seems to mean a series of joint Cloud RAN trial deployments in Europe.
  The firm
  
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• NGMN Alliance doesn’t want 6G to spark another capex boom

  26-09-2023 13:06
  With telco finances feeling the squeeze from inflation, the last thing the industry wants to think about is spending billions on new RAN kit.
  But as 6G research slowly but inexorably gains momentum, the prospect of a new and potentially costly capex cycle is beginning to make its presence felt among the operator community.
  Which perhaps explains why the Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance is setting out its stall early, with a new position paper which states that one of its foremost g
  
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• Dare to Be Free: London’s 1000th blue plaque unveiled at Suffragist headquarters

  26-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s 1000th official blue plaque was unveiled last week, in a location just off Strand in central London. The latest addition to the London blue plaques scheme marks the former London headquarters of the suffragist organisation, the Women’s Freedom League (WFL).One of the few parts of Robert Adam’s Adelphi development to survive, this three-storey building on Robert Street near Charing Cross station was the WFL’s bustling base of operations for its longest and most ac
  
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• London Underground’s mobile coverage project gains momentum: Euston station gets connected

  26-09-2023 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Mobile phone coverage on the London Underground expanded today when it was switched on in parts of Euston station.
  It’s part of an ongoing project to offer phone coverage in the stations and tunnels across the tube network, and this morning, coverage was switched on in Euston station’s ticket hall and on the Charing Cross branch platforms of the Northern line.
  (c) TfL
  The platforms on the Bank branch of the Northern line, as well as the Victoria line platforms at Euston, will also ge
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Neo Bankside, SE1

  26-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a linear park that runs alongside a permissive right of way created as part of the Neo Bankside housing development, and is open to the public for 12 hours a day.Neo Bankside is the modern housing development that’s been in the news after the residents took legal action to stop people in the Tate Modern looking at them and having secured their privacy, it’s less well known that there’s a public right of way at the ground floor that lets you walk right through the estate
  
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