Life Earthling Mushroom Farm grows premium fungi in a lab-like city warehouse Founded by American brothers Alex and Sam Turner, Bangkok’s Earthling Mushroom Farm grows gourmet fungi for some of the city’s top chefs. (Courtesy of Earthling Mushroom Farm) BANGKOK — “Mushrooms sit at this really interesting intersection of food, agriculture and science,” says Alex Turner, co-founder […]

Sony Group President and CEO Hiroki Totoki at the strategy briefing May 8. (Screenshot of Sony Group’s online briefing) TOKYO — Artificial intelligence can drive the continuing evolution needed in gaming content, said Sony Group President and CEO Hiroki Totoki, adding the technology can help reinvigorate the industry.

Technology Researchers seek higher-density, longer-lasting storage solutions A DNA cassette tape developed by Chinese researchers could theoretically store 3 billion songs. (Southern University of Science and Technology) TOKYO — As artificial intelligence and social media leave the world awash in far too much data to store on current media such as hard drives, scientists are […]

Vacant houses are demolished in Hanoi’s central downtown area, May 6. The city’s ambitious “100-Year Master Plan” aims to transform the capital into a multi-centered metropolitan region, part of Vietnam’s goal of achieving developed-nation status by 2045. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi) Big in Asia $2.5tn ‘Master Plan’ to address population boom comes with demolitions, relocations YUJI NITTA and […]

Iran was Prolonged blockade squeezes global supply, sends Asian spot prices 60% higher An LNG tanker docks at Futtsu, Japan, in February. A tanker that recently passed through the Strait of Hormuz is due to land at the port city. (Photo by Rie Ishii) TOKYO –Two liquefied natural gas tankers have passed through the Strait […]

Retail 2nd Street aims to have 50 stores by 2035 in Southeast Asian nation 2nd Street’s 10th Thailand shop opened in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, in April. (Photo by Keigo Iwamoto) KEIGO IWAMOTO and TOMOKA KODAMA BANGKOK/TOKYO — As secondhand fashion grows popular in Thailand, the operator of a Japanese retailer aims to increase its presence there fivefold within […]

Anthropic’s Claude agents have soared in popularity, putting pressure on the company’s compute capacity. (Nikkei Montage/Source photos by Reuters and AP) TOKYO — Anthropic is struggling to find the computing infrastructure it needs to expand use of its high-performance AI models, resorting to signing deals with competitors to lease their data centers.

Disclosure / APS The Santos Port Authority (APS) created a technical committee to discuss the best options for routing access to the Santos-Guarujá tunnel on the Left Bank of the Port, in the District of Vicente de Carvalho. The proposal was announced by the president of APS, Anderson Pomini, and approved during a […]

Electric vehicles Japanese officials, automakers like Toyota urge revisions to guard market access European Union legislation aims to promote decarbonization in the bloc’s industry, partly by adding “Made in Europe” content requirements for subsidy eligibility. © Reuters TAKASHI TSUJI and TAKAKO FUJIU BRUSSELS/LONDON — The European Union is considering a policy that would require electric vehicles […]

Denis Rocha/Brazilian Navy In order to reduce the cost of cargo transportation and, consequently, reduce food prices, the Ministry of Ports and Airports (MPor) announced that it has started studies for the reactivation of the São Francisco River Waterway. The project is developed together with Codeba (Companhia das Docas do Estado da Bahia). […]