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• Five Eyes alliance warns of ‘unprecedented threat’ from China

  18-10-2023 18:28
  The top spooks of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have all called for greater vigilance in the face of Chinese espionage.
  They all got together on stage for apparently the first time ever to warn of the threat posed by Chinese industrial espionage, especially in key parts of the tech sector, which was compared to the 9/11 attacks in its severity. “We’re dealing with another unprecedented threat and there is no greater threat to innovation than the Chinese government,&r
  
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• Orange and EXA hook up new transatlantic subsea cables

  18-10-2023 15:31
  Telco group Orange has switched on a new subsea cable connecting the US, UK and France called AMITIE, while EXA has laid down a fifth transatlantic route to its portfolio.
  Orange’s new transatlantic route on the impressive sounding mega submarine telecommunications cable is now ready for service, after almost four years of presumably quite damp installation work.
  It has a length of 6,800 km, has 16 fiber pairs, and a maximum capacity of 400 Tbps. AMITIE will connect Lynn near Boston in the
  
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• EE dips toe in adjacent markets with snazzy relaunch

  18-10-2023 15:30
  BT-owned EE has hatched an ambitious plan to reposition itself as the hub around which customers organise their online lives.
  It has also become the principle destination for BT’s consumer broadband and TV offerings, which will use the EE brand going forward, sitting alongside EE’s mobile services.
  Central to this new strategy is the EE ID, which is pitched as the gateway to a portfolio of services, some of which are familiar fare from a telco, others not so much.
  Once signed up and
  
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• London Underground celebrates a decade of labyrinths with two new additions to the tube network

  18-10-2023 15:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A decade after every London Underground station gained a Labyrinth, the two newest stations that didn’t exist at the time have joined the rest.
  Mark Wallinger at Battersea Power Station (c) ianVisits
  Earlier this morning, Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms stations both unveiled new custom designed Labyrinths with local references in their designs.
  The original commission, by the artist Mark Wallinger, was in part to mark the London Underground’s 150th anniversary, and these two n
  
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• Vodafone/Three insist they will create jobs but union warns of losses

  18-10-2023 13:48
  Vodafone and Three believe their proposed merger in the UK could create as many as 12,000 jobs, but one of the country’s biggest trade unions heartily disagrees.
  Representatives from both telcos and Unite the Union were among those present at a Business and Trade select committee hearing this week designed to examine the implications for competition in the UK telecoms market should the tie-up go ahead. The telcos were naturally bullish on the benefits of the deal, but the union naturally h
  
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• Qualcomm and Google RISC it all for a shot at wearable redemption

  18-10-2023 13:48
  Chip maker Qualcomm has ramped up its RISC-V efforts by agreeing with Google to co-develop processors for wearables running on the latter’s Wear OS.
  There’s nothing in the announcement about specific products or launch dates. Qualcomm instead has pitched it as an “expanded framework” that will help “pave the way for more products within the ecosystem to take advantage of custom CPUs that are low power and high performance.”
  What makes this development signific
  
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• Digital Green Optical Network for All Service Development

  18-10-2023 13:35
  [Dubai, UAE, Oct. 12, 2023] During UBBF 2023, Fatima AIDaghar, director of the transport network of du UAE, delivered a keynote speech at the Green All-Optical Network Summit on “Digital Green Optical Network”. As the leading telecom operator in the UAE, du has consistently introduced new innovative technologies, and built digital green optical networks with ultra-large capacity, full coverage, as well as green and digitalization features to meet digital service requirements.Ms. Fati
  
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• Bright lights meet dark arches: South Korean digital art illuminates Bankside railway arches

  18-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The bright lights of South Korea have come to the dark brick arches under the railway in Bankside, with the opening of an exhibition of digital art by Korean artists.Seoul-based artist Gyoungtae Hong and director Younsook Im present have created a multimedia exhibition exploring the bustling city of Seoul that ranges from the ancient to the very modern. Drawing on Seoul’s history, such as the Gwanghwamun gate, the shopping district of Myeongdong and Korean deities, each installation in the
  
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• BT to start selling fridges and coffee machines

  18-10-2023 12:59
  UK telecoms group seeks to boost profile of consumer division EE
  
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• DNB, TM and ZTE deliver Malaysia’s first standalone 5G core

  18-10-2023 12:07
  Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB), Telekom Malaysia and ZTE have formed a pact which they say will yield ‘the world’s fastest 5G live trial’ and deliver Malaysia’s first standalone 5G core.
  The firms claim the 5G live trial will deliver speeds up to 28Gbps based on adaptable mmWave AAU technology, which ‘will reshape Malaysia’s digital landscape and establish a new global standard in wireless communication.’
  The project used TM’s network infrastructure
  
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• London Transport Museum’s new exhibition unveils poster art’s hidden history

  18-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  From the iconic Fly the Tube poster to designs by women at a time when few women worked, a new exhibition celebrating the art of poster design is opening at the London Transport Museum.For over a century, London’s transport body has been commissioning artists to design posters to encourage people to travel by tube, train and bus, to go shopping, to go partying, to visit London’s cultural venues.
  The new permanent exhibition shows off not just the posters themselves but also the many
  
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