Osaka Reaches for the Skies
Osaka Prefecture has launched a new organization with the objective of establishing commercial flying car services by 2023. Launched in an event held on the 17th, the new group goes by an unwiel…
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This AI-Algorithm Generated 3,000 New Pokémon
Becoming a Pokémon trainer takes on a new meaning in this project for generating new pocket monsters using a machine learning algorithm. Matthew Rayfield, a programmer who makes mobile and web…
AI Generated Pokemon Sprites with GPT-2
Training GPT-2 with a bunch of text is super easy. The trickiest part was writing code to manage those results into something usable. My "generation" code does this. In this way it…
Honda Has Beaten Everyone To Level 3 Autonomy
Autonomous driving technology has proven to be a lot more difficult to bring to market than any of the major automakers seemed to have planned for. Mercedes-Benz is no longer pursuing the tech, …
Sega Cuts Salaries, Asks Over 600 Employees to Retire
Sega Sammy is having a difficult year, and as a result have announced some major changes to its investors. Sega stated that these changes, including transferring shares, cutting salaries, and request…
Sega Sells Its Arcade Business
Not too long ago, Sega was forced to shut down its Akihabara arcade, one of the most famous gaming establishments in the district, most likely due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. That was alread…
Sega to close all its arcades in Akihabara
It is important, however, to mention that Sega is closing its arcades, but has not announced that it will do the same with the production of arcade games, that is to say, of arcade machines. This, of…
Japan property funds feel pinch as Tokyo population drops amid pandemic
Although Japan’s total population has been dropping since 2009, capital Tokyo has defied the trend, attracting young workers from all over the country. But data from the Tokyo metropolitan gover…
Is Japan Crowded? | Comparing Tokyo, New York, and more
Are there too many people in Japan? | Population Density | Japan, USA, and many other countries
Ambitious but controversial: Japan's new hydrogen project
The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain is an experiment to see whether Japan can establish a durable supply of liquid hydrogen from Australia, to be burned to generate electricity. The hydrogen will b…