90 Years of Turbines: The Heart of Power Generation

Electricity is an essential part of our daily lives, providing comfort and security for us all. While electricity can be produced in a number of ways, thermal power generation has consistently supplied stable and consistent power to the world for over 90 years. However, it is maybe the least understood form of energy production. In Japan, demand for electricity increased…

Keep calm with quantum-resistant cryptography

Here’s an astonishing fact: over 90 per cent of all data ever was created within the past two years. What’s more, the rate of proliferation has now reached the point where 2.5 quintillion bytes are generated every single day. Fuelled by greater mobility and emerging technologies such as 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), this data explosion will only…

Introducing Quantum Cryptography: The What, When and How

At a time when technological advances have created an almost constant state of data proliferation, the need for the secure transmission of sensitive information has never been more significant. In fact, Cisco predicts mobile data traffic to increase sevenfold between 2016 and 2021(*1). IT decision-makers evidently recognise this challenge, with the latest research from Toshiba revealing that, for over half…

From Japan to the World: The Story of Toshiba’s Electric Locomotives

Our modern world relies on complex, ultimately global logistics—a jigsaw puzzle of all kinds of transportation systems. But there is one mode of transport that stands out for its unrivaled ability to deliver larger volumes of all kinds of goods and merchandise over long distance at low cost. The train. Even as advances are made in other areas of logistics—from…

Toshiba’s CTO Shares His Vision: The Cyber and the Physical–Part 2

In today’s world, everything is connected through the internet. We have reached a point where using AI technology in cyber space can create value, and where major business opportunities can be found not only in analyzing data on consumption and other human behavior, but also from objects found in the real world, such as the operational status of all kinds…

Toshiba’s CTO Shares His Vision: The Cyber and the Physical–Part 1

Internet search, SNS communications, cloud-based storage of photos and movies, e-commerce and other on-line services, most of them developed by Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (the GAFA companies), have become indispensable to daily life. However, our lives do not move forward simply through cyberspace activities that exist solely on servers and networks, because real life is analog. Only when connected…