GoKawiil - Tech News

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Waymo is expanding to Singapore (engadget.com)

2026-09-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: waymo, singapore, jaguar i-pace

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Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can't break America's monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chipmaking components, but Spruce Pine still holds the crucible monopoly (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-10 | by Anton Shilov | get Chip War Chris Miller book → | tags: jiangsu pacific quartz, lam research, tokyo electron

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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-03 | by Joel J Miller | get Tokyo Express Seicho Matsumoto → | tags: seicho matsumoto, tokyo express, kyushu

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A PlayStation State of Play double bill is set for September 3 (engadget.com)

2026-08-31 | by Kris Holt | get PS5 DualSense wireless controller → | tags: playstation, state of play, final fantasy 7

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Tokyo's Sushi Bus combines conveyor belt dining with open-air sightseeing (engadget.com)

2026-08-21 | by Will Shanklin | tags: sushi bus, tokyo station, conveyor belt

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These Levi’s 501s aren’t just sold out everywhere. They’re a snapshot of apparel history (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: levis 501s, levi's, apparel history

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Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: parametron, eiichi goto, university of tokyo

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SoftBank jumps 13% as Asia tech stocks track Wall Street AI rally (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lee Ying Shan | tags: softbank, arm holdings, tokyo electron

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SoftBank jumps 10% as Asia tech stocks track Wall Street AI rally (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lee Ying Shan | tags: softbank, arm holdings, tokyo electron

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Extinct Media Museum Tokyo (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: media museum, video camera, pda

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Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Soumya Sagar | tags: university of tokyo, ethanol, polytetrafluoroethylene

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Shinjuku Station in 3D (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: shinjuku station, 3d modeling, japan

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Designing a 4D Digital Archive for Ikebana (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: ikebana, colmap, 3d gaussian splatting

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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: aloud, ambient, japanese

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Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: hardware, mini, nvidia

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Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-07 | get Yamanote Line Soundscape Audio → | tags: line, loop, melodies

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Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Casey Baseel | get Barley Tea Maker → | tags: barley tea, mugicha, ogawa sangyo

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Why does paper fold so well? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get Silky Paper Folding Kit → | tags: origami, frogmore paper mill, steven mann

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This Pixel stronghold is finally getting its first physical Google store (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-01 | get Google Pixel Phone Case → | tags: google pixel, google nest, google store

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Daily briefing: The known protein universe just got a lot bigger (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-27 | by Smith | get Protein Structure Puzzle Kit → | tags: protein universe, ai tool, masatoshi okauchi

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Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-26 | by Fieldhouse | get Robotic Laboratory Assistant → | tags: robotics, tokyo, stem-cell

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Hanging out in my favorite virtual coffee shop in Tokyo (theverge.com)

2026-05-23 | by Andrew Webster | get Virtual Reality Coffee Mug → | tags: coffee talk, tokyo, visual novels

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We tested the most popular VPNs in New York, London, and Tokyo - this one is the best for traveling (zdnet.com)

2026-05-20 | by Allison Murray | get ExpressVPN Subscription → | tags: nordvpn, raspberry pi, spectrum cable

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Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus (futurism.com)

2026-05-16 | by Frank Landymore | get Venus Cloud Monitoring Kit → | tags: akatsuki, university of tokyo, hydraulic jump

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Sony upgraded its wearable AC so it’s cooler and better at hugging your neck (theverge.com)

2026-05-12 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Sony WH-1000XM5 Headphones → | tags: sony, reon pocket, shark chillpill

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SoftBank shares surge over 18% as Japan tech-fueled rally lifts Nikkei 225 to record highs (cnbc.com)

2026-05-07 | by Lee Ying Shan | get SoftBank Robotics Pepper Robot → | tags: softbank, nikkei 225, arm holdings

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Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | get Cybersecurity Surveillance Kit → | tags: tsmc, trade secrets, nanometer process

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Japan Airlines begins humanoid robot trials at Tokyo's Haneda airport as labor shortages bite (cnbc.com)

2026-05-01 | by Matthew Chin Sydney Goh | get SoftBank Robotics Pepper Robot → | tags: japan airlines, haneda airport, humanoid robots

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Humanoid robots will work as baggage handlers at Tokyo airport (engadget.com)

2026-04-29 | by Will Shanklin | get Robotics Baggage Handling Kit → | tags: japan airlines, haneda airport, humanoid robots

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Humanoid Robots Start Sorting Luggage In Tokyo Airport Test Amid Labor Shortage (slashdot.org)

2026-04-29 | get RobotLuggage Sorting Assistant → | tags: humanoid robots, japan airlines, unitree robotics