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• Tickets Alert: Underground (1928 film) with live music

  17-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there’s a chance to watch a 1928 film set on the London Underground that examines the lives of Londoners and the romance between them.
  Underground (1928)
  Anthony Asquith’s 1928 drama Underground, starring Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi and Cyril McLaglen is based around a trio of ordinary Londoners caught up in a love triangle, set on and around the London Underground.
  It’s notable for being set at a time when the Underground was breaking down social barriers in a way t
  
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• Nvidia hit by latest round of US chip sanction whack-a-mole

  17-10-2023 18:06
  The US government has announced another raft of export controls on chips to China, which seems to be especially bad news for Nvidia.
  The new restrictions were characterised by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) as an attempt to close some of the loopholes in the sanctions it introduced a year ago. While the announcement spoke generally about ‘advanced chips’, many of the headlines have focused on Nvidia, which is doing especially well out of
  
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• Ofcom fibre data points to intensifying wholesale competition

  17-10-2023 17:56
  The UK is on course for 91% full fibre coverage by May 2026, according to new forecasts from Ofcom.
  The telco regulator said in its latest Connected Nations report that by then – as long as all network builders follow through with their current build plans – the number of houses passed by fibre will reach 27 million, up from 15.4 million in May this year.
  Coverage of 91% would – according to the FTTH Council Europe’s most recent figures – bring the UK broadly in lin
  
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• Orange planning on widescale deployment of DZS fiber access kit

  17-10-2023 16:33
  After running a pilot installation of DZS’ Velocity fibre access portfolio, the operator is planning a wider deployment.
  Telco group Orange completed the first phases of the live pilot solution deployment of the Velocity fibre access portfolio from DZS – an access, optical and cloud-controlled software specialist – within its production network in Poland.
  DZS Velocity Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) are, we’re told, environmentally hardened and range from one rack unit
  
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• Illusionaries fills rooms with AI generated video animals

  17-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Illusionaries, a newish video arts venue in Canary Wharf, has opened its second exhibition of computer generated art presented in four rooms.Created by the artist, Markos Kay, it’s essentially a collection of short video clips of fantastical AI-generated creatures that pulse on the screen in a manner not unlike a video of the Mandelbrot set.
  Video art is one of those formats that either leaves you stunned in amazement or leaves you cold, and candidly, this display veers towards the cold, a
  
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• How confident are you in the security of your Open RAN software?

  17-10-2023 13:27
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Nimal Gunarathna, Head of Cybersecurity Services at Fujitsu Network Communications, explores the importance of Software Bill of Materials in securing Open RAN networks.
  In recent times, the landscape of telecommunications has undergone a transformational shift with the emergence of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture. Its promise of greater flexi
  
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• T-Mobile network speeds still way ahead of Verizon, AT&T

  17-10-2023 13:25
  Verizon and AT&T have closed the gap on T-Mobile a little when it comes to mobile performance, but there is a lot of ground still to make up.
  According to Ookla’s latest quarterly market report, T-Mobile’s median download speed weighed in at 163.59 Mbps at the end of Q3, down ever so slightly from the second quarter, when it was 164.76 Mbps.
  During that same period, Verizon’s improved to 75.68 Mbps from 72.61 Mbps. AT&T made the biggest gain, its median download speed w
  
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• BT launches multi-cloud network-as-a-service product

  17-10-2023 13:15
  UK incumbent BT has launched Global Fabric, which is supposed to connect up multiple cloud environments and offer on array of benefits in the process.
  Global Fabric is based on a network-as-a service model and is ‘designed to be flexible, scalable and resilient both in the quality of connectivity and the convenience of pay-as-you-use’. It is also supposed to help customers use digital automation and AI.
  The pitch is that customers will be able to choose what type of connectivity they
  
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• Ericsson insists strategy is still on track after another difficult quarter

  17-10-2023 13:12
  Shares in Swedish kit vendor took another tumble after it lamented ongoing market uncertainty with no end in sight.
  Overall sales were down 10% year-on-year and gross margin was within the historical range. But once you factor in the massive goodwill write-down on the Vonage acquisition, Ericsson had to report a loss of over SEK 30 billion for the quarter. Furthermore the EBITA margin, which Ericsson has long pledged to hit at least 15% by 2024, declined significantly year-on-year. This led the
  
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• Inclusive Innovation: Chiltern Railways tests interactive BSL screens for deaf travellers

  17-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Chiltern Railways has installed British Sign Language (BSL) screens at four of its busiest stations to help improve how they provide information to people with hearing disabilities. The trial consists of BSL totems at London Marylebone, Birmingham Moor Street, Banbury and Leamington Spa stations.
  BSL totem (c) Chiltern Railways
  Figures from the Royal National Institute of Deaf People (RNID) estimate that over 150,000 BSL users are currently in the UK, and for 87,000 people, BSL is their first or
  
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• Yue Wei, Huawei: A-PRIME, Pioneering the Next Era of Premium Home Broadband

  17-10-2023 11:31
  The Ultra-Broadband Forum 2023 (UBBF 2023) was recently held in Dubai, UAE, with the theme of “UBB5.5G, Connecting Intelligence for New Growth”. Yue Wei, President of Huawei’s NCE Optical Network Domain, delivered a keynote speech at the Autonomous Networks Summit, showcasing the Premium Broadband solution. Yue Wei emphasized that the innovative solution, with “A-PRIME” as the banner, marks the beginning of the next era in providing exceptional home broadband (HBB)
  
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• Dish joins in with the 5G carrier aggregation brag-a-thon

  17-10-2023 10:53
  US mobile newcomer Dish is keen to show it is just the same as its more seasoned competitors, by getting involved with some boasting about carrier aggregation (CA).
  Together with Samsung and Qualcomm, Dish said it has successfully – and simultaneously – combined two 5G uplink carriers and four downlink carriers using its FDD spectrum, claiming it is the first operator in the world to manage it.
  In terms of speeds, it achieved 200 Mbps on the uplink using 35 MHz of spectrum, while dow
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: The Tannery, SE1

  17-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new pocket park has appeared in Bermondsey recently, hidden within a housing estate that’s also open to the public, most of the time.A former industrial estate – once home to the tannery trade, which flourished in Bermondsey in the 19th century, as well as a factory where Crosse & Blackwell manufactured pickle for over 60 years — has recently been redeveloped into housing, using a mix of modern and restored older buildings.
  At the heart are two public facilities, a pocket
  
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