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The value of artificial intelligence companies has skyrocketed, fueling talk of a possible AI bubble.
BUSINESS / Tech
AI bubble or 'revolution'? OpenAI's big payday fuels debate
To critics, buyers don't really understand the technology, and the market needed for it to thrive is not mature yet.
BUSINESS / Tech
Japan considers new 060 mobile number prefix as 070 runs low
Numbers starting with 060 could be available as early as December, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
BUSINESS / Tech
SBI to end plant construction tie-up with Taiwanese chipmaker
The Japanese online financial group has vowed to carry out the semiconductor plant project by finding new partners.
Intel, once the world’s largest chipmaker, has become the target of takeover speculation since a rapid deterioration of its business this year.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 28, 2024
Arm is rebuffed by Intel after inquiring about buying product unit
By Ian King
Intel, once the world’s largest chipmaker, has become the target of takeover speculation since a rapid deterioration of its business this year.
The Three Mile Island plant made global headlines in 1979 with a partial meltdown at its Unit 2 reactor, the worst nuclear incident in U.S. history.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Sep 25, 2024
U.S. nuclear plants won't power up Big Tech's AI ambitions right away
By Laila Kearney and Timothy Gardner
Plans may be delayed by high regulatory hurdles, potential fuel supply obstacles, and sometimes stiff local and environmental opposition.
EV cars are pictured inside BYD's first electric vehicle (EV) factory in Southeast Asia, a fast-growing regional EV market where it has become the dominant player, in Rayong, Thailand, on July 4.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 25, 2024
Biden's car-tech ban is a powerful new weapon against Chinese EVs
By David Shepardson and Abhirup Roy
The ban on Chinese hardware and software, announced by the U.S. Commerce Department, is the Biden administration's latest salvo.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 24, 2024
Telegram CEO Durov says app to provide more data to governments
By Jeff Stone
The messaging app will provide users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.
Intel has been working on an expensive plan to remake itself and bring in new products, technology and outside customers under Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2024
Apollo to offer multibillion-dollar investment in Intel
By Liana Baker, Ryan Gould and Ian King
The development comes as San Diego-based Qualcomm floats a friendly takeover of Intel, raising the prospect of one of the biggest-ever M&A deals.
A semiconductor wafer at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) Museum of Innovation in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2022
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2024
TSMC and Samsung weigh adding chip factories in UAE, WSJ says
By Ian King
Projects of the scale under consideration could cost more than $100 billion to complete and may not come to fruition, the paper reported.
Birds rest on the banks of the Susquehanna River near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant south of Middletown, Pennsylvania, in March 2019.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 21, 2024
Microsoft AI needs so much power it's tapping site of U.S. nuclear meltdown
The decision is the latest sign of surging interest in the nuclear industry as power demand for AI soars.

South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Don’t worry about global population collapse
Most projections show the world will hit peak humanity in the 21st century as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction.
Tokyo issues warning as rare but deadly STSS bacterial infections rise
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of group A streptococcus bacteria
Sure, Tokyo’s trains are amazing. But are they ruining your trip?
Walking through Tokyo's varied neighborhoods and the sub-communities within them can be the best way for a tourist, even one with limited time, to take the city in.
Japan’s biggest Louise Bourgeois exhibit yet leans into ambivalence
Bourgeois is perhaps best known among the general public for her giant steel spider sculptures, particularly in Tokyo, where a nearly 10-meter tall bronze cast of the original spider has loomed over the walkway in Roppongi Hills since 2003.
Japan great Ayami Sato helps shine light on women's baseball in new documentary
Ayami Sato is one of the best female players in baseball history.
Tokyo passes nation's first customer harassment ordinance
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to a reporter on Sept. 27. Aggressive acts toward front-line workers, dubbed "customer harassment," have become a growing problem.
Ishiba omits divisive proposals in first policy speech as PM
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his inaugural policy address to parliament in Tokyo on Friday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Wozme, founded by dancer and choreographer Wakaba Kohei, is composed of Kana Kitty, Ami Ishii, Akane Watanabe and Natsuki. Its aim is to inject elegance and beauty, traits traditionally associated with femininity, into the sometimes grotesque art form of butoh dance.
Wozme, an all-women dance troupe, wants to move the needle in butoh
By Zoria Petkoska

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