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Dec 2019

These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots

If you thought the service at your local Starbucks was robotic and impersonal, you might want to give Softbank’s newest Tokyo cafe a miss. Working alongside the company’s meatbag workers are a s…

Nov 2019

We don't usually sugar-coat the news but... Alien sugars found in Earth-bound meteorites

Scientists have detected alien sugars in Earth-bound meteorites for the first time, providing further evidence that the ingredients needed to kick start life on our planet may have been delivere…

Oct 2019

Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots

Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view video footage from the devices. The Henn na Hotel i…

Sep 2019

Four arrested in Japan over dating site spam blizzard

Four men suspected of sending an internet-congesting 5.4 billion spam emails to promote a dating website have been arrested in Japan. Yoshimitsu Hirono, 47, president of Tokyo-based da…