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• Fashion and Frustration: Design Museum’s rebellious exhibition misses the mark

  10-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Thirty years ago, a small group of young fashion designers were given financial support in the middle of a recession to put on a show, and thus was born the British Fashion Council’s Newgen programme to assist young designers in getting started in their careers.
  To mark the funding scheme’s 30th anniversary, the Design Museum has put on a show looking at some of the breakthrough moments in fashion design nurtured by the Newgen scheme.It’s a display of outrageous fashion created
  
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• Huawei may be set for a smartphone comeback

  10-10-2023 17:40
  Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is aiming to double its smartphone shipments, having reportedly hoarded massive reserves of components despite US sanctions.
  So claims Nikkei Asia, which quoted a pair of unnamed industry executives saying that the Chinese kit maker is shooting for 60 million-70 million smartphone shipments in 2024.
  As well as stocking up on things like lenses, cameras, printed circuit boards and other smartphone parts over much of this year, the news outlet claims Huawei also asked
  
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• TfL rebrands its property division as Places for London

  10-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has renamed its property arm, which has been temporarily known as TTL Properties, to the easier to remember Places for London — which just happens to abbreviate to PfL.The holding company, TTL Properties, was set up back in 2014 as a legal entity to hold TfL’s shareholding in the Earl’s Court housing development and was only intended to be a back office name, not a public facing one. When TTLP became financially independent of TfL in April 2022, it wa
  
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• Malaysian PM’s Huawei comments cause a stir

  10-10-2023 13:24
  At a recent event hosted by the Chinese kit vendor, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim once again raised the prospect of Huawei’s involvement in a second 5G network.
  The event was a couple of weeks ago but a recent critique of Anwar’s comments by a former Malaysian government minister prompted an official response.
  At the Huawei Malaysia ICT Summit 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Anwar apparently conducted the official closing ceremony on 27 September. Reuters reported that he said the fol
  
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• Nokia Bell Labs makes submarine cables go blinkin’ fast

  10-10-2023 13:20
  Finnish vendor Nokia has broken some submarine speed records using technology that doesn’t require replacing the cables.
  Its Bell Labs unit, working out of its lab in Paris-Saclay, has developed a clever bit of kit that increases an optical network’s Baud (Bd) rate, which refers to the number of signalling events that are sent down the line every second. It differs slightly from bitrate, because with today’s modern networking gear, multiple bits can be transmitted during one si
  
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• There’s no quick fix to cutting mobile network energy usage

  10-10-2023 13:09
  The NGMN Alliance has published new recommendations to help the mobile industry reduce the amount of energy used by its networks, but most of the savings will not happen quickly.
  The industry body notes that it is possible to reduce energy consumption by up to 10% in the short term by optimally configuring networks using existing power saving features.
  That figure is not to be sneezed at; 10% is a fair amount when you consider the massive amount of energy consumer by the mobile industry, althoug
  
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• Frans Hals at the National Gallery: A deep dive into the world of moustaches, smiles, and lace

  10-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Big moustaches, big smiles, loads of white lace and an awful lot of black fabric dominate the National Gallery’s winter blockbuster exhibition devoted to Frans Hals.Frans Hals was a Dutch painter who specialised in portraits and is considered to be an important contributor to the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. His skills are in his often loose brushwork and how he often presented his subjects, focusing very much on their character rather than their grandeur.
  His focus on the
  
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• Vodafone and Arm announce new Open RAN chipset project

  10-10-2023 12:48
  Operator Vodafone has added to its recent salvo of Open RAN announcements, announcing a collaboration with Arm for a new chipset based on open architecture.
  New platforms loaded with Arm-based processors optimised for use in Open RAN base stations will be developed with enough compute power to support advanced 5G services and provide advances in energy efficiency, claims the announcement.
  Vodafone proclaims that through the collaboration with Arm it is committed to enabling the competitive lands
  
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• Shakespeare and War: Exhibition looks at how his plays were used for political propaganda

  10-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The man responsible for some of the most famous lines in the English language about war is the subject of an exhibition looking at his legacy.Shakespeare wrote about war a lot, understandably as frankly, battles between protagonists sell tickets, but what this exhibition looks at is less the plays he wrote than how they were coopted in later centuries to suit the politics of the times. Shakespeare’s plays have been used to support British propaganda at war, but also as a tool to criticise
  
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