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• Qualcomm launches AI-fuelled assault on the PC market

  24-10-2023 21:00
  Intel and AMD’s PC party has just been gate-crashed by a late arrival that has the potential to radically alter the mood.
  US chip giant Qualcomm has used its annual showcase in Hawaii to formally unveil its hotly-anticipated Snapdragon X Elite, its first dedicated, high-end PC chipset. Based on custom Arm architecture, called Oryon, Qualcomm claims it offers a 2x improvement in processing speed compared to x86 – i.e. Intel and AMD – CPUs, and 2x the on-board graphics processing
  
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• London’s Day Travelcard saved from extinction: New deal secures its future

  24-10-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Day Travelcard, which offers visitors to the Capital unlimited travel on TfL services and National Rail services within London, won’t be scrapped after a deal was secured to keep it.
  However, the cost of the Travelcard will rise to help cover some of the cost of providing it.The Day Travelcard was planned to be scrapped as part of the cost-cutting measures imposed on Transport for London (TfL) by the government, although the government then left the exact mechanism to the Mayor of Lond
  
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• Ofcom mulls changes to regulation for signal boosters

  24-10-2023 16:11
  UK regulator Ofcom has proposed amending rules relating to signal boosters and is asking for some input.
  Ofcom describes indoor mobile repeaters – or signal boosters – as devices typically used in residential properties to amplify a mobile signal.
  As a brief history of its interests in the niche area, in 2018, it introduced regulations that allowed the use of a limited range of them without a licence and it extended the scope of this exemption in 2022.
  One of these regulations s
  
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• From protests to football to royalty: A century of news in pictures in this Canary Wharf exhibition

  24-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, then there’s a hefty book on display at the moment of breaking news photographs taken over the past century.The collection comes from the Daily Mirror, and to mark the newspaper’s 120th anniversary, they’ve printed large scale images of some of the most significant or agenda moving photos from their archive.
  A photo can convey so much more than words at times, and many of the photos here are key moments that tell us m
  
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• CityFibre calls for UK fibre market consolidation

  24-10-2023 13:55
  During a panel at Network X 2023, CityFibre’s Chief Strategy Officer said he thinks the UK would be better served by a larger challenger fibre network.
  The comments were made by Rob Hamlin during a panel at the Network X event in Paris, which focused mainly on the UK fibre market. Hamlin noted all the UK altnets combined cover a similar number of premises – around 12 million – to the dominant player Openreach.
  While he said CityFibre is well on the way to passing 4 million prem
  
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• Nvidia reportedly gearing up to produce Arm-based CPUs

  24-10-2023 13:54
  GPU specialist Nvidia intends to park its tanks on Intel’s lawn with its own Windows PC CPUs based on ARM architecture, according to a report.
  Nvidia has already begun designing such chips, two little birdies familiar with the matter told Reuters. And sources also claim that Intel’s rival in the x86 space AMD also plans to make chips for PCs with Arm technology.
  Nvidia and AMD could sell these new type of PC chips as soon as 2025, one of the sources added, and another – or poss
  
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• Emily and Anne get ready to dig HS2’s Northolt Tunnel under west London

  24-10-2023 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two more tunnel boring machines, Emily and Anne, have been lowered into the ground to dig tunnels under west London for the HS2 railway.
  Front shield of TBM Emily lifted at Victoria Road Crossover box site (c) HS2
  The two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will dig two tunnels from just outside the Old Oak Common station heading west, ending their dig next to Greenford station, where they will join up with the tunnel that’s currently being dug eastwards from West Ruislip.
  When the two tunnellin
  
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• TfL considering London Overground extension to London Bridge

  24-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is considering extending the London Overground to run into London Bridge station to replace capacity lost when Southern cut services in south London.
  Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash
  In a series of responses to Lewisham Council officials, TfL said that it is aware that there is overcrowding along the Sydenham corridor, particularly in the morning, which has been made more severe by the halving of the Southern service along the line to two trains per hour.
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• Nokia seeks to improve coverage with new 5G FWA devices

  24-10-2023 12:55
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has announced it is expanding its 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) portfolio by introducing two new kits for improved indoor and outdoor speeds and coverage.
  The expanded portfolio is called FastMile and will be available from early 2024. Outdoors, Nokia uses so-called high gain antennas with receivers that circumvent wall attenuation, i.e., how much radio frequency is lost by wall materials. The receivers will also assist improving coverage to the cell edge, while still a
  
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• BT’s networks boss fleshes out thinking behind EE’s consumer pivot

  24-10-2023 12:12
  Network X kicked off in Paris this morning, and the first set of keynote sessions yielded some detail from BT about its recent repositioning of EE, as well as some insight into the general ‘telco to techco’ concept.
  Howard Watson, Chief Networks and Security Officer at BT Group (pictured left), offered up some of the reasoning and ambitions behind its recently announced strategy to make EE more than just a telco during a fireside chat at conference.
  The announcement last week saw the
  
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• China quizzed over damage to Baltic telecoms cables

  24-10-2023 11:42
  Undersea cables linking Estonia to Finland and Sweden are suspected of being sabotaged at a time and place when only Chinese and Russian ships were present.
  The cables were damaged on 8 October but it has taken a while for the investigation to conclude they were probably not accidents. “It has been confirmed that the cable has been damaged through external force or tampering,” said an update from the Swedish government yesterday. “The damage did not affect the function of the c
  
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• Hidden section of Roman Wall near St. Paul’s Cathedral to open as a public museum

  24-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A little known section of Roman Wall near St Paul’s Cathedral is to become considerably easier to visit after approval was granted to refurbish the building that sits above it.
  (c) ianVisits
  An important scheduled monument, this section of the Roman Wall and a Medieval Bastion were discovered in the 1900s, and although they were saved from demolition, they were preserved in a locked basement. In the late 1990s, the building was redeveloped, and the monument was exposed again as part of the
  
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