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AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI

AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI

An image recognition LSI indispensable for cars that don’t crash Figures from WHO* show that almost 1.25 million people die in car accidents every year. As more cars come onto the world’s roads, it’s …

2018/11/14
Non-Destructive Inspection Gets the Inside Story

Non-Destructive Inspection Gets the Inside Story

Hideyuki Tomisawa knows that a picture is worth at least a thousand words. He picks up a nautilus shell, almost as large as his hand, a curve of creamy white and light brown lines, and places it insid…

2018/10/24
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Ozonation in Drinking Water Treatment

Ozonation in Drinking Water Treatment

Food and water are our most fundamental needs, and as the global population grows from 7 to 8-billion, and more and more people flock to cities, ensuring a reliable supply of good and safe quality wat…

2018/09/12
AI Tackles Video Analytics of Rugby Games

AI Tackles Video Analytics of Rugby Games

When Toshiba’s rugby team, the Brave Lupus aren’t busy taking on other teams, they are tackling a new project—one that involves high-level ICT technology. The goal is to combine audio-visual recogniti…

2018/08/22
Out of the Lab: No More Disappearing Balls in Baseball Night Games

Out of the Lab: No More Disappearing Balls in Baseball Night Games

When baseballs vanish in stadiums, blame the LED lights Sport stadiums everywhere are replacing high-intensity discharge (HID) floodlights with light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It’s the obvious way to go…

2018/07/25
Clean Water at a Lower Cost: Promoting Innovation in Wastewater Treatment

Clean Water at a Lower Cost: Promoting Innovation in Wastewater Treatment

Water, water everywhere—but not enough of it, and most of it going to waste. It covers about 70% of the planet’s surface, but only about 1% is usable to us as fresh water. That scant volume is the re…

2018/06/27
Find in the Blink of an Eye: Ultra-Fast Data-Matching Technology

Find in the Blink of an Eye: Ultra-Fast Data-Matching Technology

Security cameras are everywhere: building entrances, convenience stores, the streets of our towns and cities; always vigilant, always on the look-out for crime. No one can doubt that they play a signi…

2018/06/13
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  • Technology
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ROV Investigates Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3

ROV Investigates Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3

Purpose-built ROV explores interior of Unit 3 primary containment vessel It may be a midget but this remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) is an intrepid explorer. Weighing in at 2 kilos, measuri…

2018/05/30
The Renaissance of Direct Current Power Transmission: Why Now and What Makes It Special?

The Renaissance of Direct Current Power Transmission: Why Now and What Makes It Special?

Your flashlight runs on electricity, and so does a lamp plugged into a power outlet—but did you know that they rely on different types of electric current? Direct current and alternating current, to b…

2018/05/16
As Data Volumes Explode, Toshiba and Helium Help the Cloud Float to New Capacity Highs

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, …

2018/04/25