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Following Newcastle City Council approval, the Stephenson Building, which was opened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 1951 and is named after engineering pioneer George Stephenson, will be partially demolished, extended and refurbished to provide facilities for engineering research and teaching.
Acting as a focal point for all elements of the University’s Engineering School, the £68.75m, four-storey building will house innovative teaching and social spaces, workshops, laboratories, offices, computer clusters and maker spaces.
Professor Chris Day, Vice-Chancellor and President, Newcastle University, said: “This approval has been the culmination of work carried out by many academic and professional services colleagues across the whole University.
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As 5G becomes a reality and the cultural shift toward social distancing lingers, we could see it enabling 4K/8K high-resolution video for telemedicine, personalized AI-based teachers in virtual classrooms, and lag-free Zoom meetings.
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Industry players are expecting the 5G launch to happen by the second half of 2021 and are well prepared for all the changes it will bring.
5G is the most awaited technology of 2021 in India. With Jio, Airtel, Vi working towards it, companies across the board are preparing for it. Reliance Jio has confirmed that its 5G Core network and 5G radio have a network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. With such speeds, data consumption is bound to increase dramatically and transform the way we do our daily talks at work and in our personal lives.