Issue #23 - Quantum PCs by 2023 💻, mysterious back-rooms 🤖, pay with your face in Osaka 😷
This month, Japan’s Foreign Ministry announced plans to build an artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis system for overseas developments, and Tokyo proposed the first domestic quantum computer use by March 2023.
Also, Telecom giant NTT said it will discontinue business with Kaspersky, and Osaka Metro is currently testing stores where you can pay with your face, even with a mask.
Finally, Tokyu Railways announced all its trains are now powered only by renewable energy, and their colleagues at JR West have built a giant Gundam-style robot to fix power lines.
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The Good
Shinkansen lines to resume services April 14 after quake - Kyodo
Kyoto University fuses 8 precious metals into single alloy - Japan Today
Inside Japan’s first fully automated warehouse - Business Wire
Panel backs new regulations on smartphone OS devs - Japan Times
Nissan to install new collision avoidance technology by 2030 - Kyodo
The Bad
Telecom giant NTT to discontinue business with Kaspersky - NHK
Faked footage of robot in abandoned building is blowing up - Insider
Foreign Ministry to build AI-based analysis system - The Japan News
Firm develops AI system to catch shrine box donations thieves - Kyodo
Cameras used to search sunken tour boat off Hokkaido - NHK
The Quirky
Robots in the Home (video) - BBC Select
Osaka Metro test stores where you can pay with your face - Sora News
Railroad firm builds Gundam-style robot to fix power lines - Futurism
Film written by Japan AI bot takes movie-making to next phase - Kyodo
Robot ‘child’ in Japan helps train paediatric dentists - SCMP
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