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• UK’s largest Christo and Jeanne-Claude retrospective coming to the Saatchi Gallery

  28-09-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The largest retrospective of the building wrapping artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude ever held in the UK is coming to the Saatchi Gallery this autumn.
  Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Covered triumphal arch, Paris, 1961-2021, Photo: Wolfgang Volz / Saatchi Gallery
  The exhibition, which will open in November, will trace their artistic journey from experimental beginnings in Paris across six decades of collaboration. The exhibition will show off rarely-seen works and offers a glimpse into future proj
  
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• HPE tees up integrated wifi, private 5G for Ryder Cup

  28-09-2023 17:48
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has deployed a pop-up network at this year’s Ryder Cup golf competition that blends two flavours of connectivity.
  First and foremost, there is private 5G. This is significant because it uses solutions developed by Athonet, which HPE agreed to acquire in February this year as part of its expansion into the private cellular networking market.
  The deal closed in June, at which point Tom Craig, general manager of HPE’s communications technology group desc
  
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• From royalty to modern artistry: 400 years of gold and silver embroidery at the Guildhall Art Gallery

  28-09-2023 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the most precious pieces of historic fabric in the UK has been displayed for a few weeks in an exhibition that almost outshines even this most precious of materials.
  The fabric on display is a rare survivor from the court of Queen Elizabeth I, and is inlaid with precious silver thread so that the Queen would glow in the firelight when she wore it. Later handed down to courtiers, it somehow ended up in a village church where it became an altar cloth – the Bacton Altar Cloth — u
  
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• Iliad lays claim to Europe’s most powerful AI supercomputer

  28-09-2023 17:25
  Rarely one to play it coy, France-based Iliad has announced an eye-catching plan to capitalise on AI hype.
  Central to this strategy is the deployment of an AI supercomputer. Iliad has bought itself an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, which is the chip maker’s turnkey AI data centre solution. It has opted for the top-end version, which comes equipped with Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, designed to support the most demanding AI workloads, which includes training large language models (LLMs).
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• Eutelsat and OneWeb close merger

  28-09-2023 17:07
  Eutelsat and OneWeb have completed their merger transaction, creating a new Eutelsat Group.
  The closure of the deal feels like it has been a long time coming, but when the two satellite firms announced their plans in July last year they were shooting for the end of 2023, so clearly it has all gone like clockwork…or as the companies expected, at least.
  The all-stock merger effectively makes Eutelsat OneWeb’s new owner. The new Eutelsat Group will retain its Paris HQ, while London-bas
  
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• Severe disruption to train services on Sat and Wed due to train strikes

  28-09-2023 15:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be widespread disruption on England’s railways this coming Saturday and Wednesday due to a rail strike by the drivers union, ASLEF.Most of the 15 train companies affected are not going to have any services at all for the entire day of each strike, and the handful of train operators that can run trains will be very limited in what they can offer.
  There’s also an overtime ban on, so even on the days next week when there isn’t a strike, there’s still likely to be
  
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• TfL cycle hire network expands to South Clapham

  28-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s most southerly cycle hire docking station opened recently, when TfL expanded the network into South Clapham.
  The new docking station, close to Clapham South tube station, has the capacity for 26 hire bikes, and has replaced five car parking spaces that were relocated to a nearby location.David Eddington, TfL’s Head of Cycle Hire, said: “We are excited to bring Santander Cycles to even more people in southwest London, with the opening of a new docking station at Nightin
  
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• EU report casts doubt on 2030 digital targets

  28-09-2023 12:48
  The European Union this week published its first annual State of the Digital Decade report, which was more a wordy whinge on the lack of investment than a study on the current connectivity and digitalisation landscape.
  The overriding message of the report is that EU member states have a lot of work to do to hit the bloc’s various end-of-decade targets.
  Brussels describes the report as “a call to Member States for collective action to address the current investment gaps, accelerate di
  
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• Telefónica Germany taps Skylo for satellite IoT

  28-09-2023 12:36
  O2 Germany plans to launch a hybrid satellite and terrestrial Internet of Things service in Q1 2024.
  It has brought in US-based Skylo to help with the heavy lifting. Rather than operate its own satellite network, Skylo partners with them instead. Acting as a middleman, it offers what is essentially a hotspot that connects to devices over narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), and then provides a link from those devices to orbiting satellites.
  Telefónica’s hybrid service will be enabled by an inte
  
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• Nokia launches range of ruggedized 5G devices for industry

  28-09-2023 12:30
  Kit vendor Nokia is keeping its toe in the devices water with a set of new ruggedized 5G handhelds designed to connect over private networks in harsh and hazardous environments.
  Ports, mines, chemical plants and offshore oil platforms are the type of environments Nokia suggests its new series of devices will be useful in. They are manufactured in the US, have a long lifecycle, are IP 68-rated for operation in remote or harsh environments, have dual-SIM and eSIM capabilities, and exchangeable bat
  
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• UK delays mmWave spectrum sale due to Vodafone/Three merger

  28-09-2023 10:17
  Ofcom has firmed up its plans to sell off mmWave spectrum for mobile services, but it will hold off until the competition watchdog has made a call on the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK.
  It’s anyone’s guess exactly how long the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will take to decide on the potential impact of the Vodafone/Three tie-up, announced in June. No one’s expecting an uncharacteristically quick decision there; at present we’re looking at about an
  
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• St. Paul’s Bow Common – Discovering one of the UK’s best post-war churches

  28-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the UK’s best post-war buildings can be found in east London, although it might be fair to say that you might not realise how good it is if you only look at the outside.This is St Paul’s Bow Common, a Grade II* listed building that was built in 1958 on the site of a much older church that had been destroyed during WWII and was a fusion of ideas by both architect and vicar.
  The architects were Robert Maguire and Keith Murray. The Revd. Gresham Kirkby, a Christian anarchist, was
  
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