As Data Volumes Explode, Toshiba and Helium Help the Cloud Float to New Capacity Highs

Storing digisnaps of places visited and meals eaten, archiving documents, sharing conference materials with colleagues; these days it’s becoming second nature to store all sorts of data in the cloud, where it’s safe until needed—or until it’s forgotten. All this is driving a dramatic expansion in all kinds of data, and it all has to be stored somewhere. The “cloud”…

Next Stop is the Green City of the Future EV Bus Demonstration Project in Malaysia

The summer of 2017 marked the beginning of a demonstration project for EV buses in Putrajaya, the administrative capital of Malaysia, as part of an overarching project for the city’s transformation into a green city. The key to this project is the SCiB™, Toshiba’s rechargeable battery (*1). These batteries allow for Super Quick Charge, freeing buses from spending hours of…

Five Things Everybody Should Know About Hydrogen Energy

While thermal and nuclear power remain our main sources of baseload energy supply, there is increasing interest in renewables—most of us are familiar with the potential of hydro, and solar and wind power. However, there is another energy source that we need to add to that list, one that is attracting increasing attention as perhaps the most versatile energy source…

Over 50 years with AI : Toshiba’s future eyes

More than a manufacturer, an AI pioneer The 1960s saw the first manned space flight was launched. In the same decade, Toshiba invented the world’s first letter sorting machine in 1967. With the ability to read handwritten postal codes and to sort six letters a second, the machine dramatically speeded up letter sorting, until then done manually. The technology behind…

Shaping a Better Society with Clay Animation

What better way to strengthen a brand or sell a new product than a TV commercial? Even now in the age of the Internet, TV commercials are considered a surefire way to get your message to a wide range of demographics. For this reason, what you might consider just a thirty-second ad has had hundreds, if not thousands of hours…

What’s Next for a Japanese Rugby World Newly Armed with ICT?

Science and sport have long been allies—but achieving a really strong partnership is more difficult in some sports than others. That’s certainly true of rugby, where the number of players and the speed and flow of the game have all slowed adoption of video analytics. But all that is changing. Drones now hover above plays and AI analytics are evaluating…