Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of two sizable earthquakes that claimed the lives of 276 people. Five years since a magnitude 6.5 quake shook the southwestern ... ( read original story ...)
DNA Explainer: Japan plans to release 1.25 million tons of radioactive water in Pacific – what it means
Remember, in 2011 how a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant? Back then three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant suffered ... ( read original story ...)
NTT Launches First ‘Earthquake Resistant’ Data Center In U.S.
NTT’s new data center in Silicon Valley is earthquake resistant as NTT Global Data Centers Americas expands its footprint in the U.S. ( read original story ...)
Bad weather dims Tokyo illuminations
Illuminations on Tokyo's tallest building the Skytree Tower were dampened by bad weather on Wednesday (April 14) as the Japanese capital marked 100 days until the Olympic Games are due to begin. Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
Ralph Lauren unveils Team USA closing ceremony uniform for Tokyo Olympics
As the coronavirus pandemic threatened to cancel the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, David Lauren couldn't help but wonder what would happen if indeed the Summer Games never took place. The opening and closing ... ( read original story ...)
On troubled road to Tokyo, the Olympic Games must now face moment of truth
The conviction being that the rewards entailed in bringing more than ten thousand athletes from more than 200 countries together in Tokyo outweigh the risks involved in that enterprise. The ... ( read original story ...)
Russia joins China and South Korea in expressing ‘serious concern’ at Japan’s plan to release waste water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Russia wants more information from Japan, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday, including an assessment of environmental risks in the Pacific. ( read original story ...)
Show me the medals: Ireland drops one place in Tokyo Olympic predictions
Predicting Olympic medal winners can be a futile business at the best at times; during pandemic times, when there’s still no predicting how exactly the Tokyo Olympics will unfold, it may even be ... ( read original story ...)
Coinbase’s blockbuster debut is ‘watershed’ for crypto — but there are risks ahead
Coinbase’s public market debut is “potentially a watershed event for the crypto industry and will be something the Street will be laser focused on to gauge investor appetite,” said Dan Ives, a tech ... ( read original story ...)
Coinbase CEO says regulation is one of the biggest threats to crypto
Coinbase is set to become the first major crypto company to go public in the U.S. after it hits the markets through a direct listing Wednesday. Regulation is one of the biggest risks when it comes to ... ( read original story ...)
CEO of Biggest Crypto Asset Manager on What’s Behind Bitcoin’s Appeal
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein discusses the reasons for bitcoin’s meteoric rise over the last year, and the prospects for a bitcoin ETF. ( read original story ...)
Coinbase Is Going Public – Will This Create Further Crypto Differentiation?
The twin forces of the Coinbase direct listing, coupled with the continuing bullish run in the crypto market at large, are clear indicators that crypto is situated to continue its breakout year. It ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto platform Coinbase is on its way to be bigger than Goldman Sachs
And he reckons Coinbase, the crypto currency platform joining Nasdaq this afternoon, will leap to be more valuable than Goldman Sachs. Is he right? Probably. Many fortunes in the City have been missed ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto market overtakes world’s most valuable company
The cryptocurrency market is now worth more than the world’s most valuable company. The combined value of all cryptocurrencies overtook the market cap of Apple on Wednesday morning, amid ... ( read original story ...)
What Time Will Coinbase Start Trading? Where To Buy Stock As Crypto Exchange Goes Public
Coinbase shares will be listed publicly on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker COIN, and available to purchase via trading apps including Robinhood and WeBull. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Miners Are Competing With Gamers for Nvidia Chips
Nvidia Corp. is on a winning streak. The red-hot maker of graphics chips used for video games, artificial intelligence and cloud computing surpassed Intel Corp. last year to become the most valuable U ... ( read original story ...)