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   Tokyo's Tower of Babel: The 10-Kilometer-High Megastructure Japan Almost Built(tokyoweekender.com)

   4 points by techdar42 5mo ago|1 comments
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   by techdar42 5mo ago

   Born from bubble-era optimism, this visionary building would have housed 30 million people — and swallowed the entire Yamanote Line loop. The brainchild of Dr. Toshio Ojima, an architect, environmental engineer and urban scientist at Waseda
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   Loverse: Japan's New AI Dating App Where Every Match Is Virtual(tokyoweekender.com)

   3 points by techdar42 1y ago|2 comments
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   by techdar42 1y ago

   Dating apps have long promised to help people find love, but Japan’s newest entrant, Loverse, takes that concept a step further: Every potential match on the platform is powered entirely by generative AI. Unlike traditional apps that connec
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   by techdar42 1y ago

   completely relate to how panic attacks are often caused by simply overthinking about having one, which causes more symptoms to arise, which leads to more panic...feedback loop. Interesting read.
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   Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop(soranews24.com)

   92 points by techdar42 1y ago|102 comments