Technology
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Sweden Puts Women in Driver’s Seat with Female Crash Test Dummy
LINKOPING, Sweden (AFP-Jiji) — Her name is SET 50F and she’s the world’s first female crash test dum...
October 14, 2023
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U.S. Slaps TV Provider with 1st-ever Space Debris Fine
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. authorities said they have issued a “breakthrough” first-ever fine over...
October 13, 2023
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Japanese Technology Advances Toward Moon Base Goal; Airless, Low-Gravity Environment a Construction Challenge
Serious efforts are underway in Japan to build a moon base. Japan aims to bolster its international ...
October 12, 2023
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What Is USB-C, the Charging Socket That Replaced Apple’s Lightning Cable?
LONDON (AP) — Bye, Lightning cable. Hello, USB-C. Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging pl...
September 20, 2023
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Sony to Start ‘Foster Parent Program’ for Aibo Dog Robots
Sony Group Corp. has started a “foster parent program” for unwanted Aibo dog robots to transfer them...
September 18, 2023
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Study: Modern Cars Are a Data ‘Privacy Nightmare’
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The world’s most popular car brands are a data “privacy nightmare,” collecti...
September 14, 2023
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Japan Moon Lander Set for Launch Monday; JAXA Aims to Bring It Down Within 100 Meters of Target
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Monday will launch the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon...
August 28, 2023
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Self-healing Metal? It’s Not Just the Stuff of Science Fiction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — In the 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a malevolent time-traveling an...
August 18, 2023
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Japanese Team Develops ‘Origami’ Tech for Instant 3D Objects
A research team led by the University of Tokyo has developed a self-folding technique to quickly and...
August 9, 2023
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Japan’s Top Spokesman: Originator Profile Tech Effective Against Misinformation
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno indicated Thursday that he believes a new digital technolog...
August 4, 2023
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Gene Tech Spares Male Chicks from Cull by Preventing Them from Hatching
REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) — Every year, egg farmers kill 7 billion day-old male chicks because they ...
August 2, 2023
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Ruling Party Official Visits Japan’s Silicon Island to Urge Development of Semiconductor Workforce
Koichi Hagiuda, chairperson of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Policy Research Council, has st...
July 25, 2023
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NASA Celebrates 1 Yr of Webb Observations with Stellar-birth Pic
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust: NASA m...
July 21, 2023
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U.K.-Japan Team to Jointly Develop Nuclear Fuel for Next-gen Reactor
A team from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Britain’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) wi...
July 20, 2023
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Deep Space Orbit to Provide Resting Place
Gerry and Elizabeth Paulus love taking road trips across the United States, and soon they’ll be prep...
July 19, 2023
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Japan Institute to Use Domestic Commercial Optical Lattice Clock to Set Japan Standard Time
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Japan to Face Shortfall of 3.39 Million Workers in AI, Robotics in 2040; Clerical Workers Seen to Be in Surplus
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iPS Treatments Pass Key Milestone, but Broader Applications Far from Guaranteed
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iPS Cell Products for Parkinson’s, Heart Disease OK’d for Commercialization by Japan Health Ministry Panel
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