In 2025, Waymo will start testing autonomous vehicles in Tokyo, its first international experiment in driverless technology.
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The world's first wooden satellite developed by Japan, heads to space to test the durability of the material.
Japan has finally pulled the plug on floppy disks and scrapped all use of the legacy tech in government procedures. This comes more than two decades after floppy disks started to decline.
This Week in Rocket Launches we will see launches from SpaceX, Japan, and China. Be sure to check the recap to see China return lunar samples back to Earth and the Falcon Heavy launch.
Apple has launched its spatial computing headset Vision Pro in more countries. The headset is now available to try out and purchase in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
The Japanese government has passed a law that will require Apple and Google to provide access to third party app stores and payment providers on their platforms, in a move similar to the EU's DMA.
After expanding its availability in India, Southeast Asia, and last year in Japan, the popular India-based Android lockscreen platform Glance, is reportedly commencing its pilot program in the US.
The Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is adding more games to its library, including the MMO title The Elder Scrolls Online. It is also launching its Ultimate plan for gamers in Japan.
This Week in Rocket Launches we have a fair few missions coming up. Japan will be doing the second test flight of its H3 rocket while SpaceX will be launching another company's lunar lander.
TrendForce has reported that several semiconductor-related companies in Japan have factories in the earthquake zone. Luckily, the first batch of investigations reported no significant damage.
A new report claims that the government of Japan is planning to submit a proposal for a law that would ban mobile operating systems from barring third-party app stores and payment systems
40 years ago this month, the first PC that used the MSX platform launched. It was very popular in many markets outside the US, and Microsoft even had a small but important role in its development.
Google is bringing its Search Generative Experience to India and Japan as the company further expands this experimental search feature that was first announced at I/O 2023 earlier this year.
Japan has announced a 75 billion yen subsidy for silicon wafer producer Sumco. This is part of a wider 2 trillion yen earmarked for semiconductor subsidies over the next couple of years.
The European Union and Japan are set to begin cooperating on semiconductors and cybersecurity. A deal would facilitate the transfer of researchers and engineers to develop technology faster.
After announcing that it will not be participating in the popular gaming event E3, Nintendo has introduced its very own in-person event for US residents that is scheduled to September this year.
China's cyberspace regulator is going to review Micron's products amid tensions between the U.S. and China over the semiconductor industry. The move is meant to safeguard China's national security.
Japan has become the latest country to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion. It seems like the tides are finally turning in Microsoft's favor.
China is planning to invest $1.9 billion in its biggest maker of memory chips, Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., to renew the influx of capital into the industry that affected by US sanctions.
Japan joins US and Netherlands in restricting chip exports to China. New regulation comes amid US efforts to boost domestic chip production, including subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing.
The prices for Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S consoles will be going up on February 17 in Japan by around $40. This could be a prelude to future price increases in other parts of the world.
We have a busy schedule in rocket launches ahead. Due to Hurricane Ian, a couple of launches were pushed into this week. On Wednesday, SpaceX will fly four astronauts from three countries to the ISS.
Following its massive success in western markets, and with supply chain issues finally being resolved, the Steam Deck portable gaming PC by Valve is soon officially coming to parts of Asia.
Japan's second largest carrier KDDI faced its worst ever outage that left 40 million customers without data and voice call options. Some areas are still affected with added limits on data transfer.
According to Twitter's transparency report for January-June 2021, the platform faced a record number of account and content takedown requests from governments, with Japan leading the pack.
This week we have a handful of launches to look forward to. The most notable is the Crew-3 Dragon which will take four astronauts up to the International Space Station following a delay.
Microsoft today announced Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available across 26 countries as Australia, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico join the mix. All that's required is an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
For players in Japan and across Asia, Xbox will be holding a virtual stream during this year's Tokyo Game Show. The stream is slated to begin on Thursday, September 30 at 6 pm JST.
Apple has announced that it will soon allow reader apps to link to their websites and make purchases. The change follows the ruling from a recently closed Japan Fair Trade Commission investigation.
A 27-year-old has been arrested for selling altered save data for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The item had a price tag of $32 and included any perks and stats desired by the buyer.
The Japanese mobile operator, KDDI, is trialling Nokia's Liquid Cooling AirScale Baseband solution to help reduce its energy costs and, by extension, its climate change impact compared to air-cooling.
Given increasing interest in Japanese pop culture around the globe, Google has introduced 3D AR models of 14 Japanese characters to Search, including Hello Kitty, Gundam, and Pac-Man, among others.
Google has corrected rumours that stated the Pixel 5a 5G would be entirely scrapped due to chip shortages. Instead, the firm is going to bring the phone to the Japanese and U.S. markets alone.
Japan will develop components for the Lunar Gateway's International Habitation (I-Hab) module. The I-Hab module is currently slated to be sent to space in 2026, two years after Gateway's launch.
Japan's Hayabusa-2 has dropped off a capsule containing samples from the asteroid Ryugu. The mission launched at the end of 2014 and arrived at Ryugu in 2018. It began returning in November 2019.
Japanese software development firm OKI IDS will be combining its expertise with Mipsology's field-programmable gate arrays to bring high-quality machine learning applications to Japan.
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Sony has launched Airpeak, a project with which the Japanese giant will be bringing its imaging and sensing technology to the drone space to help photographers, videographers, and content creators.
Japan's coronavirus contact-tracing app, named COCOA, has been downloaded 7.69 million times since its launch. However, only 27 positive cases have been registered through the app.
Japan has ranked first place of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. It came ahead of two U.S.-based systems and two Chinese-built systems. Japan's Fugaku system also ranked ninth for energy efficiency.
Under the partnership, NEC has made an investment worth $10 million in D-wave to focus on the development of hybrid quantum software for industries like transportation, marketing, and finance.
