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[ad_1] The Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) overpaid some ¥81 million to outsourcing companies tasked with charging submarine batteries, because the batteries were not fully charged as they should have been, people familiar with an investigation by the Board of Audit said Monday. Twenty MSDF submarines use lead-acid storage batteries for power while they are submerged. The batteries are charged during regular inspections every three years, a task outsourced to submarine […]

[ad_1] After nearly 60 years, former professional boxer Iwao Hakamata has been exonerated.Ahead of a Thursday deadline to file an appeal against last month’s not-guilty verdict of the Shizuoka District Court, which heard a rare retrial of the 1966 murder case against the ex-boxer, prosecutors have decided not to do so, his lawyers' office told The Japan Times on Tuesday.“We are happy that it is finally over,” said Hideko Hakamata, […]

[ad_1] A pair of AI scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.John J. Hopfield, a professor at Princeton University, and Geoffrey E. Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto, used tools from physics to develop methods that became the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning, the Nobel Foundation said.“When we talk about artificial intelligence, […]