Business Jul 20, 2022
Japan to focus on tech from 20 fields as part of economic security drive
The sectors include artificial intelligence, hypersonic transport, semiconductors, space, public health and cybersecurity.
World Jul 13, 2022
Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps players can tell at a glimpse.
by Kellen Browning
In GeoGuessr, competitors can tell you what road in the Philippines a music video was filmed on and distinguish Latvia from Lithuania while blindfolded.
World Jul 12, 2022
For climate researchers, tiny sounds of melting glaciers haunting music to the ears
by Laura Millan Lombrana
While young, the study of global warming through sound has boomed in recent years — and is advancing what scientists know about our rapidly changing world.
Business Jul 5, 2022
KDDI says services fully restored after three-day disruption
by Kazuaki Nagata
The problem experienced by the mobile phone carrier, Japan’s second-largest by number of subscribers, mushroomed into one of the country’s worst-ever network outages.
Business / Tech Jul 5, 2022
Minister slams KDDI after outage takes almost 40 million mobile links offline
Some customers were still unable to make voice calls after KDDI said it had ended restoration work on Sunday.
Business Jun 29, 2022
China’s tech giants lost their swagger and may never get it back
by Coco Liu, Zheping Huang and Sarah Zheng
Insiders describe an ongoing sense of paranoia and paralysis, along with an unsettling realization that the sky-high growth rates of the past two decades are likely never coming back.
Commentary / World Jun 29, 2022
AI’s next big thing is ‘fake’ data
by Parmy Olson
Strange as it may sound, the growth of fake data is a step in the right direction, and not just because it avoids using people’s personal data.
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jun 27, 2022
‘An invisible cage’: How China is policing the future
by Paul Mozur, Muyi Xiao and John Liu
The latest generation of technology digs through vast amounts of data to find patterns and aberrations, promising to predict crimes or protests before they happen.
Business / Corporate Jun 23, 2022
SoftBank’s Son faces shareholders shaken by ¥4.6 trillion loss
by Ming Jeong Lee and Takahiko Hyuga
With SoftBank’s own financial health on the line, shareholder confidence is near a breaking point, some analysts have said.
Business Jun 23, 2022
The goal is to "make the memories last" after "so many of us have lost someone we love" during the pandemic, said Rohit Prasad, an Amazon senior vice president.
Business / Tech Jun 20, 2022
Ukraine’s highly mobile tech workforce hits the road
by David Segal
Until late February, Inha Kushnir worked in Odesa. Then Russia invaded and she and her husband decided that it would be safer for her and the couple’s young daughter to leave.
Business / Corporate Jun 17, 2022
Sony and Honda agree to joint venture to sell electric cars by 2025
Honda, like bigger rival Toyota Motor, has been slower to shift to electric vehicles than global automakers and is under pressure from investors to make cars that are carbon-free.