World’s Fastest Electric Car akihabaranews.com

Osaka-based Aspark Co. has developed what it calls the “the fastest accelerating car in the world,” which can go from from 0 to 60 mph in 1.69 seconds.

The Aspark Owl, which the company also declares…

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Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach in Japanese Forest dornob.com

While music and design may not seem to go hand in hand at first glance, a giant mile-long xylophone certainly fits the bill for both. After all, it’s likely the only instrument on the planet that can…

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Super Nintendo World va se dévoiler ce soir dans un direct www.journaldugeek.com

Vidéo du nouveau parc Super Nintendo World

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Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry vgdensetsu.tumblr.com

An Amiga, Deluxe Paint and a mouse. From the late 80s to the early 90s, these 3 tools were at the core of numerous graphic designers’ workstations in the West. It took years for the Japanese industry…

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This Japanese Shop Is 1,020 Years Old. It Knows a Bit About Surviving Crises. www.nytimes.com

Japan is an old-business superpower. The country is home to more than 33,000 with at least 100 years of history — over 40 percent of the world’s total, according to a study by the Tokyo-based Researc…

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Osaka Reaches for the Skies akihabaranews.com

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 unwieldy na…

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AI Generated Pokemon Sprites with GPT-2 matthewrayfield.com

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's not at all gener…

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Honda Has Beaten Everyone To Level 3 Autonomy carbuzz.com

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, a sel…

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Sega Cuts Salaries, Asks Over 600 Employees to Retire gamerant.com

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…

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Sega Sells Its Arcade Business gamerant.com

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…

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