Facebook Inc. said on Tuesday that it has 2 billion regular users, another milestone in its growth from a college curiosity to the world’s largest social media network. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg disclosed the number to his followers in a Facebook post. “It’s an honor to be on this journey ...
A recent outbreak of ransomware attacks, from the WannaCry worm in May to Tuesday’s infection of thousands of computer systems ...
Nintendo Co. has finally unveiled its long-rumored Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom gaming console — to be released in Japan ...
Hitachi Ltd. says its artificial intelligence system has helped improve business performance by advising workers on how to increase their happiness. “In running organizations, we’ve relied on experience and gut feelings until now,” Kazuo Yano, corporate chief scientist at Hitachi’s Research & Development Group, ...
A Tokyo-based venture firm has started accepting orders for a laundry-folding robot to be priced at around ¥2 million. Seven Dreamers Laboratories Inc. said the refrigerator-size robot named “Laundroid” uses image analysis and artificial intelligence to recognizes the shape and type of clothing and ...
Self-driving vehicles were put through road tests Monday in Okinawa, with officials from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry saying they hope the technology will be adopted soon. The tests overseen by METI saw two four-seater electric carts navigate roads fitted with the ...
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyberattacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found. ...
Tokyoites now have another way to escape their day-to-day lives with the opening Saturday of an indoor amusement center featuring virtual reality technology in the Shibuya district. Shibuya VR Land, in the Shibuya Modi shopping complex, offers an hour’s worth of virtual entertainment for ...
Google is going to stop reading people’s Gmail in search of opportunities to sell ads. The change, announced Friday, will end a practice that Google has embraced since it introduced Gmail in 2004. The practice has raised concerns among privacy watchdogs and creeped out ...
Artificial intelligence is finding its way into the world of music, literature and art, raising never-before-considered questions about a creator’s role. A team led by Shigeki Sagayama, professor of mathematical engineering and information physics at Tokyo’s Meiji University, has created software that can compose ...
Intel Corp. will sponsor the Olympics through 2024 in the company’s latest bid to show off its technology through high-profile sports events. The chipmaker said it will partner with the International Olympic Committee to use Intel’s technology, such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, artificial ...
In-flight internet access, a nascent market still hobbled by slow speeds, is set to take off, as dedicated satellites make surfing in the skies a reality, experts say. Even bans imposed by Britain and the United States on bringing laptops and tablets on board ...
Sharp Corp. plans to develop large organic electroluminescence display panels — a thin, bendable light-emitting technology — for television sets The electronics firm plans to spend about ¥57.4 billion to build production lines for OLEDs at its plants in the city of Sakai, Osaka ...
The government is looking to double the market size in the space industry to ¥1.74 trillion in the early 2030s using information and communication technology, sources said. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will include the target in a comprehensive strategy for promoting information ...
For digital-marketing agency Cooperatize.com, taking bitcoin for payment was easy enough. All co-founder Roger Wu had to do was obtain a digital wallet. To promote the move in 2014, he even penned a blog post for Forbes explaining the decision. The number of transactions ...
