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• Tickets Alert: Pewterers’ Hall open day

  05-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the City of London’s grand Livery Halls will be open to the public for one day later this month.
  Pewterers’ Hall – Google Street View
  It’s actually open for an exhibition being organised by the Worshipful Company of Turners to show off award-winning examples of contemporary woodturning, but undeniably, it’s also a chance to go inside a Livery Hall that’s not often open to the public.
  The Worshipful Company of Pewterers is one of the older Livery Compani
  
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• Charles Henry Driver’s decorative London Bridge railway arches to be restored

  05-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two disused railway arches next to London Bridge station with some unusual decorative features are being restored to bring them back into use.
  Crucifix Lane arches (c) The Arch Company
  In recent years, the arches had been used as a nightclub, going by the name of Happy Jacks and later Jacks, but were closed in 2015 for the London Bridge Station expansion, and the arches have remained dormant until now.
  They are architecturally significant though, as they were designed by Charles Henry Driver, a
  
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• US-China spat spills over into Nepal, hits 5G rollout

  05-10-2023 13:43
  Nepal’s telecoms market has become the latest to be affected by the ongoing tensions between the US and China, with the rollout of 5G mobile networks in the country now apparently under threat.
  5G trials in a number of Nepalese provinces have been called off because state-owned incumbent Nepal Telecom has been unable to secure a permit to import equipment from China, The Kathmandu Post reported on Wednesday. The telco aims to use equipment supplied by Huawei and ZTE for 5G.
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• UK probes cloud market competition

  05-10-2023 13:27
  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has formally launched an investigation into the UK cloud market, based on concerns flagged by telco regulator Ofcom.
  The watchdog didn’t reel off the names of all the companies in its sights, but that isn’t necessary because everyone already knows the biggest fish in this pond are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. That alone suggests the market merits an investigation.
  The three biggest areas of concern identifie
  
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• Google’s personal assistant app gets a dose of generative AI

  05-10-2023 13:16
  Google Assistant with Bard is a generative AI powered version of Google’s voice activated personal assistant software, announced alongside its new slate of Pixel phones.
  ‘A more intuitive, intelligent, personalized digital assistant’ is what’s being promised by infusing Google Assistant’s voice help functions with generative and reasoning capabilities from its Bard generative AI platform.
  Assistant with Bard can be interacted with through text, voice or images, as o
  
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• Book Review: London Railway Atlas – 6th Edition

  05-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An incredibly detailed map of London’s railways, past and present, has been updated and will be the proverbial catnip to any train or map geek.Many of you will be familiar with the Carto Metro website, which shows what already seems to be an impressively detailed map of London’s railways, and as useful a tool it is, it pales compared to what TfL employee Joe Brown has managed to produce.
  The London Railway Atlas is now in its 6th edition, in part as what was a hobby morphed into a se
  
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• EU moves to protect key technologies from, presumably, China

  05-10-2023 11:10
  The European Union has highlighted four key technology areas that it intends to work to keep out of the wrong hands.
  The European Commission this week recommended that member states work with it on risk assessments covering advanced semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and biotechnologies. The risks are technology security and technology leakage, and the four areas highlighted are just the first of ten to come under the microscope, because they are considered highly lik
  
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• From Decay to Display: Atmospheric Christo exhibition inside a derelict Spitalfields house

  05-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A derelict building in Spitalfields has opened its doors for a rare chance to peer beyond the locked doors, thanks to an art exhibition which is taking place inside.The derelict building is 4 Princelet Street, often said to have a frontage that’s the most photographed building in Spitalfields thanks to its decoratively decaying pinkish plasterwork. Going through those usually locked doors, you step into a 300-year old Huguenot weaver’s house that Gagosian has taken over to show off e
  
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