Japan's pop culture is dominated by two inextricably linked industries – video games and animation. The twin forces even form part of the country's Cool Japan ambassadorial project, pushing Japanese creativity to a global market. Yet in the west, although anime fandom has grown significantly, we still tend to see the fields as separate, aficionados of one medium only occasionally crossing over to the other. Anime is a powerful storytelling platform in its own right though, and with increased home video releases and a cavalcade of titles available on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Crunchyroll, it's never been easier for players to explore a medium that has inspired thousands of video games over the last 40 years. Here are 10 titles absolutely rooted in gaming culture.

SYS-CON Events announced today that Taica will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Pavilion at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. TAZMO technology and development capabilities in the semiconductor and LCD-related manufacturing fields are among the best worldwide. JETRO and prefectures of Japan (Nagano, Shizuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Oita) will present more than twenty cutting-edge technology companies for partnership opportunity with U.S. businesses. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy.

LG U announced on September 28 that, Pepper, the world's first social humanoid robot that can understand and react to human emotions, is going to be equipped with its artificial intelligence (AI) platform and meet customers at six different locations starting from October 11. Specifically, the locations are the flagship store of LG U, Woori Bank, Kyobo Bookstore, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Lotte Department Store, and e-mart. Pepper is scheduled to provide weather information and search the Web for customers, say hello to them and recommend products and so on based on the AI platform developed by LG U . Earlier, the other two major South Korean mobile carriers, that is, SK Telecom and KT, entered the AI service market by launching AI speakers. LG U adopted the robot to compete with them. "We decided to approach AI from a different direction in view of profit expectations and users' actual needs and our AI platform is expected to be utilized in an increasing number of fields with the companies representing six different fields of industry participating in the utilization of it," said Song Dae-won, who is leading AI device development at LG U as a managing director.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike carried out by an unidentified warplane killed seven Hezbollah fighters in eastern Syria, three sources familiar with the incident told Reuters on Monday. The identity of the warplane was not confirmed, but the sources did not rule out the possibility that it was Russian "friendly fire". The sources did not say when the air strike happened. The air strike struck a Hezbollah position in eastern Homs province, where the Iran-backed Lebanese group is fighting Islamic State alongside the Syrian and Russian militaries. Asked about a report that a U.S. drone carried out the strike, the spokesman of the U.S.-led Coalition said the location was outside its area of operations.

Scrolling through dating websites a year ago, Indonesian app developer Lindu Pranayama realised there were a lot of married men looking for another wife - but few online services to meet their needs. "When they go to regular dating sites, they don't see options for polygamy. They don't see options for finding second, third or fourth wives," he said. Enter "AyoPoligami" - a new smartphone app developed by Pranayama, which aims to "bring together male users with women who are willing to make'big families'." Loosely translated as "Let's do polygamy", the Tinder-style dating app has already stirred up controversy since its April launch in Indonesia, where over 80 percent of the 250 million population are Muslim and polygamy is legal.

The car manufacturing industry is undergoing a huge transformation after having been free of significant disruptions for about 100 years, since the first mass-manufactured car was marketed by Ford Corp. in 1903. The first change is the replacement of the internal combustion engine, the workhorse that has powered cars since the early twentieth century, with an electric engine. A continuous increase in the production and purchase of electric vehicles is to be expected over coming years, a 2017 report by Israel's Innovation Authority published on Monday said. Get The Start-Up Israel's Daily Start-Up by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up The second change is the autonomous vehicle revolution, which will push the world to transfer the driving of cars from humans to machines and bring a "dawn of a new transportation age," the report said. Most car manufacturers have set the early 2020s as the target for entering the market with cars that will drive autonomously 90-95 percent of the time.

Niki.ai, a Ratan Tata-backed artificial intelligence start-up, has lined up 10 new services including in banking, insurance, stockbroking, healthcare and e-tailing to get ahead of its Indian competitors like Arya.ai and Snapshopr, Nitin Babel, director and co-founder said. "We are already providing 15 services for sectors such as aviation, entertainment and ride industry," Mr. Babel said in an interview. "The 10 new services will be rolled out during next year." Its product, named Niki, is a bot that lets users order anything through a chat interface. The start-up leverages natural language processing and machine learning technologies to converse with customers over a chat interface and places their orders.

Dell Technologies chairman and CEO said he firmly believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be more helpful than harmful to humans. "In the future, it must be human plus machine, not machine minus human," Michael Dell told Xinhua in a recent interview during his visit to Beijing. Over the past years, AI has increasingly become a hot topic globally. Some people, however, view the evolution of AI as a risk that could cut jobs dramatically, or even bring devastation to human civilization. Dell believes there is no need to fear the coming AI revolution, saying "We should not be afraid of new tools."

There has been a lot of hullabaloo over artificial intelligence and how it would change the world in the course of the next few years. People Matters and Microsoft India organized a round table which discussed key ideas on artificial intelligence and how it is impacting workplaces today. This article attempts to capture some of those key ideas and present to you in a simplified format. Despite all the discussions that have been undertaken in many of the public spheres, there is still a lot of confusion about what exactly can artificial intelligence do for you. First, for any system to become intelligent, it will capture data, analyze it, learn from the frequent interactions with the user, and then intelligently respond to the situation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) research in Singapore is focused on accelerating the country's development into a smart nation. Specifically, AI has been employed extensively in either augmenting the intelligence of humans or in developing automated methods and systems to improve quality of life in Singapore. In this column we summarize Singapore's Our focus in this column is primarily limited to the efforts of Singapore to become a smart nation. The key areas of AI research summarized here include mobility, security, manufacturing, and health care. In addition, there are also translational domain has taken a number of interesting directions.