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We have a match! Japan taps AI to boost birth rate slump

Japan is seeking to boost its flagging birth rate by funding the use of artificial intelligence to help match lonely hearts, an official said Monday.

by Sarcasticat•December 10, 2020December 9, 2020•0•Artificial Intelligence, Japan, WTF?

Hayabusa2 capsule in ‘perfect condition’ as Japan team prepares for analysis

In this photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a member of JAXA retrieves a capsule dropped by Hayabusa2 in Woomera, southern Australia, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. A Japanese capsule carrying the first samples of asteroid subsurface shot across the night atmosphere early Sunday before successfully landing in the remote Australian Outback, completing a mission to provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth. (JAXA via AP)

If the mission was successful, the capsule will contain two samples from the Ryugu asteroid, including the first subsurface asteroid sample ever collected. Scientists believe that organic matter and water existed on the asteroid when the solar system was created around 4.6 billion years ago.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 7, 2020•0•Cool, Japan, Science

‘A Day That Will Live In Infamy’: Pearl Harbor Remembered In Silence 79 Years Later

What I did in 2019 to mark the 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor would be absolutely unthinkable today in 2020.

I joined a group of veterans — several of whom were veterans of the Pacific Theater in World War II — along with a few of their family members and my own fifteen-year-old daughter. We attended a special screening of the film “Midway.”

I watched these men, who were in their mid-nineties, stand tall and salute the “Missing Man” table that was set up at the front of the theater.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 7, 2020•0•history, Japan, USA, War