Cyber-Physical Approach in the Automotive Industry: Stepping into the Future of Model-Based Development
Original article is hosted here. The world is becoming increasingly digitally connected. Take a minute to think about how many electronic communications are happening around you every day. Did you ask your smart speaker to read you the news this morning? Did you board public transport via a contactless payment? Or check to see how far […]
Toshiba to Present Cybersecurity Case Study for Critical Energy and Industrial Infrastructure in SANS ICS Asia Pacific Summit 2020
Singapore – Toshiba will be participating in SANS ICS APAC Summit 2020 to address the topic of ‘Protect Power Plant and Industrial Infrastructure from Cyber Attack! ICS Security case study in Japan’ on 13 November 2020. Takashi Amano, General Manager, Cyber Security Centre at Toshiba Corporation, and Technology Executive, CISO, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, will introduce the […]
Toshiba Honored with Five Accolades at GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2020
TOKYO — Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has clinched five*1 distinctions at the Japan’s Good Design Award 2020. This annual awards sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion, honors good design and quality of products. This year, the Quantum Key Distribution System, Toshiba’s latest product for secure communication; and Spot/Zone Air Conditioner [FLEXAIR Indoor Unit], a […]
Farewell to Data Leaks: Quantum Technology for Secure Data Future
by Ryuji Maruyama, Corporate Representative – Asia, Toshiba Corporation & Managing Director, Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd Today’s Data Security Backdrop Data security continues to be a hit topic these past few years, with breaches occurring across businesses and government networks. As businesses accelerate digital transformation and revamp operations to adapt to the pandemic-induced new […]
Toshiba launches Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) System Business
~ Establishing a global business to promote QKD system and network deployments ~ TOKYO―Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced it will start providing quantum key distribution (QKD) platforms and commence deployment of a system integration business in the fourth quarter of FY2020. In Japan, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation (hereinafter “TDSL”) has been awarded the contract from […]
Robots that could Sense, Think and Act (Part One: Technology)
Original article is hosted here. Hisashige Tanaka, one of Toshiba’s founders, was famously known as “karakuri giemon,” the genius of mechanical things. His automata, the forerunners of robots, performed complex movements—like the renowned “Yumihikidoji,” a boy archer who fits an arrow to his bow and fires it at a target. This inventiveness has long been the […]
World’s First Development and Demonstration of a Quantum Cryptographic Communication Technology Applied System for Genomic Medicine
Quantum cryptographic communication technology allows for completely secure real-time transmission of genome analysis data and transfer of online expert panel data Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) and Tohoku University Hospital have demonstrated that quantum cryptographic communications technology can provide genomic medicine with a safe, completely secure data management environment. […]
Welcome to the World’s First “Hydrogen Hotel”: Energy from Waste Plastics Recycling
Original article is hosted here. Plastic is destroying our oceans. Indeed, marine pollution is now a global issue, and was even taken up as one of the major issues for the G20 Summit in 2019. Maybe you’ve also noticed some of the more concrete changes happening around you, like stores getting rid of plastic straws, or […]
A Star is Born. What’s Happening on the Front Lines of Fusion, the “Dream” Energy Source
Original article is hosted here. Source: QST [https://www.qst.go.jp/site/naka-fusion-english/4779.html] What would it be like to create an artificial “sun” on Earth? What seems like a distant dream of the future, a project too fanciful to comprehend, is in fact already underway. It comes in the form of fusion power—a form of power that is being eyed as […]
Shinshu University and Toshiba Develop Tumor-Tropic Liposome Technology that Carries Therapeutic Genes into Cancer Cells
– Expression level of therapeutic genes found 400 times more in T-cell tumors than in normal T-cells TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502, hereinafter “Toshiba”) and a team led by Professor Yozo Nakazawa at the Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu University, (hereinafter “Shinshu University”), have together developed a “tumor-tropic liposome technology” for gene therapy*1. The technology uses unique, […]
