SoftBank-backed DCM eyes China startups with $880 million fund
David Chao, a venture capitalist who has been on the ground floor of Asian companies worth a combined $206 billion, has raised money for a new fund with a China focus, a sign that rising U.S.-China tensions aren’t turning off foreign investors. DCM Ventures, which ...
Japan restaurateur looks to AI-based management to stay ahead of curve in virus-battered industry
Entrepreneur sees a chance for AI-based program to thrive if industry abandons its low-margin, high-turnover business model.
U.S. police brutality protests highlight concerns AI tech reinforces racial bias
A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition that critics say may reinforce racial bias. While the protests have focused on police misconduct, activists point out flaws that may lead to unfair applications of technologies ...
Pandemic offers solution to tech industry’s big Brexit problem
The pandemic taught Britain’s technology executives that business can still happen even if everyone’s working from home. That lesson is providing a source of relief as the nation’s year-end departure from the European Union looms. A range of senior members of the industry say that ...
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, world's fastest, narrows down COVID-19 drug candidates
Developed by Fujitsu and state-backed Riken, the machine spent 10 days sorting through 2,128 drugs and picked dozens that might work on the deadly virus.
Japan ministry issues infection codes for COVID-19 contact tracing app
The codes allow users to be warned by their smartphones if they spent 15 minutes within a meter of someone infected in the past 14 days.
Japan figuring out how to deliver goods untouched by people amid pandemic
Labor shortage and virus fears push robotics and logistics companies to explore ways to integrate technology into consumer deliveries.
NEC Corp. President Takashi Niino on Thursday voiced his resolve to expand the Japanese electronics giant's share in the global 5G infrastructure market. The firm wants to be a "game-changer through Japan-made" technologies in the market of base stations for next-generation 5G and later-generation networks, ...
India bans TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, citing security concerns
The move, announced days after border tensions in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, deals a blow to the most prominent names in Chinese technology.
Japan to aid firms working on next-gen 5G in bid to catch up with China
The 5G technology will enable the transmission of large amounts of data at extremely high speeds.
Apps and gadgets to survive the ‘new normal’
Whether you’re worried about a resurgence in cases or just surviving Japan’s miserable summer, here’s some handy tech that will be able to help.
Japanese startup creates 'connected' face mask for coronavirus new normal
As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected "smart mask" that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages. The white plastic c-mask fits over standard face masks and connects via Bluetooth ...
