Nintendo resurrects Brain Age on Switch
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day was a major success on the Nintendo DS in 2005 and beyond. The original Brain Age and its sequels used the DS’s touch functionality, microphone, and …
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Sensor Tower: Mario Kart Tour’s first day laps Dr. Mario World’s
Mario Kart Tour is having a strong first day, according to mobile market analyst Sensor Tower. The last entry in the series for consoles, Super Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Switch, has sold over 17.8…
Nintendo Switch Lite has Japan’s second-best launch for a console revision
Famitsu’s data has the Switch Lite launch ahead of the New Nintendo 3DS XL, PlayStation 4 Pro, and Game Boy Advance SP. That makes the Switch Lite launch the best week for console sales in Japan…
NTT Docomo moves up Japan-wide 5G to June 2020, offers early access
Shortly after smaller rival Softbank said it is accelerating its Japanese 5G network deployment by two years, targeting 60% population coverage by 2023, top carrier NTT Docomo confirmed that it’s als…
SoftBank reportedly accelerates Japan’s 5G network plans by 2 years
Korean carriers have already signed up well over a million 5G customers, and top vendor Samsung alone has sold over 2 million 5G handsets worldwide, with plans to sell 4 million by the end of 2019.…
What Japanese American history can teach us about diversity and immigrants in the workplace
They were held against their will in one of the greatest constitutional failings of American history. Kitani recently wrote a post about what the legacy of Japanese American internment means to …
Genvid and NTT Docomo demo 5G LAN party at Tokyo Game Show
Genvid Technologies and Japan’s NTT Docomo are hosting an interactive streaming event at this week’s Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2019. Genvid adviser and former Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada is giving a…
Panasonic’s modular Toughbook 55 lasts up to 20 hours on a charge
But today the Kadoma, Japan-based company really shook things up with a new flagship — the Toughbook 55, successor to the Toughbook 54 — that’s almost entirely modular. That’s standard stuf…
Empath’s AI detects emotion from your voice
A relatively new entrant in the emotion detection segment is Empath, a Toyko-based startup founded in 2017. A range of products fill out Empath’s suite, including My Mood forecast, an app e…
Sony’s Xperia 5 boasts wireless support for Dualshock 4 controllers
DisplayThe Xperia 5’s HDR-compatible display has an ultra-wide 21:9 aspect ratio, the same designed to show films shot in CinemaScope and the modern anamorphic format 2.29:1. An abunda…