Innholdsfortegnelse for 09/28/2018 i Newsweek International

1981  The biggest drama on TV was General Hospital, a daytime soap opera grabbing 14 million viewers every weekday afternoon. That’s 4 million more than watched HBO’s biggest hit, Game of Thrones, once a week for six weeks in 2017. “Sociologists analyze it; college students rhapsodize over it,” Newsweek declared of the soap’s success, driven by “super couple” Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis)—a relationship that began, disturbingly, with a drunken rape scene. (According to the story, women sometimes greeted Geary with cries of “Rape me, Luke!”) Later that year, 30 million would watch their wedding. 1949 The divinely inspired Elsa Schiaparellifamous for, among other things, designing a hat in the shape of an upturned shoe—was Coco Chanel’s chief rival in Paris when Newsweek celebrated her first U.S, collection.…

“With the rise of IoT and big data, everything will be network-related. The Fourth Industrial Revolution presents a massive opportunity for us”Yasuo Ishii, President, Sanwa Denki Kogyo The power of the internet has transformed business, society and our daily lives and will continue to do so as increasingly faster fiber-optic broadband enables the expansion of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as the Internet of Things, Cloud and Big Data. Back in 1983 during the early days of the internet, a Japanese company called Sanwa Denki Kogyo developed fiber-optic connectors that remain essential to the functioning of telecommunications networks to this day. The rapid progress in broadband and mobile technologies continues to advance the optical communications industry and how the world communicates at a staggering rate. As one of the pioneers…

“Since our inception in 1949, our objective has been to provide unrivalled technology to our clients. As we strive to expand internationally, we invite all automotive shops to try our products and to test the unrivalled Bishamon quality ”Mr. Yasutoshi Sugiura, Chief Operating Officer, Sugiyasu Corporation. The current backdrop of the global automotive market, it’s fair to say, is an overwhelmingly positive one. Such is the high volume of growth in vehicle sales that, in coming decades, we could witness the number of automobiles on our roads surpass global population estimates. Within this environment of staggering growth, pressure is building on automakers, garages and vendors to keep pace with uncontrollable demand. As a result, to serve the crucial purpose of space optimization as factories and workshops fill to capacity, almost…

THERE USED TO BE A BAR IN DOWNTOWN Moscow called Sanctions, featuring caricatures of Western politicians and serving only Russian booze—a one-stop summation of President Vladimir Putin’s attitude toward the efforts of the U.S. and Europe to economically kneecap his country. Putin and his Kremlin-controlled propaganda machine have a history of shrugging off sanctions, despite a 55 percent crash in the value of the ruble, a collapse in foreign investment and rising inflation. Russia, Putin boasts, will always survive the West’s efforts to destroy it. That narrative will be aggressively tested in the coming months should the U.S. government make good on the harshest economic sanctions ever imposed on Russia. There are three separate efforts to inflict economic pain. On September 12, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that…

WE CAME OF AGE AT THE HEIGHT OF A DYSTOPIAN trend. Our young adult best-sellers— The Hunger Games, Divergent and The 100— showed us a world in which children’s lives were used as currency to be traded and passed around until a strong teenage heroine came along to stand up to the powers that be. Having been raised to admire these characters, is it any surprise we’ve become them? When Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez cried BS, when Los Angeles student Edna Chavez chanted “Ricardo” to help us feel the loss of her brother, when Sarah Chadwick sends mocking tweets to pro-gun politicians like Marco Rubio, they are doing what they were taught. The parallels between the current U.S. government and the themes of the most popular dystopian novels of Generation…

THE FIRST SEASON OF NBC’S THE Good Place, the sci-fi comedy from Parks and Recreation creator Mike Schur, ended with a shocking twist: Our self-centered heroine, Eleanor (Kristen Bell), was not sent to nondenominational heaven by mistake when she died; she was sent to the Bad Place. It turns out, she and her supposed soul mate for eternity, philosophy and ethics professor Chidi (William Jackson Harper), were test subjects for a new form of torture invented by a demon named Michael (Ted Danson). Michael has a thing for screwing with people, and for temporal switcheroos. In one Groundhog Day–esque episode in Season 2, he erases and reboots the memories of Eleanor, Chidi and their friends Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) 802 times. The intention: tricking Eleanor into thinking…

ON A BLAZING HOT AUGUST DAY on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, a few hundred tourists skip the beach to visit the “Fascination Offshore Wind” exhibition, held in the port of Mukran at the Arkona wind park. They stand facing the sea, gawking at white fiberglass blades, which at 250 feet are longer than the wingspan of a 747 aircraft. Those blades, they’re told, will soon be spinning atop 60 wind-turbine towers bolted to concrete pilings driven deep into the seabed 20 miles offshore. By early 2019, Arkona is expected to generate 385 megawatts, enough electricity to power 400,000 homes. “We really would like to give the public an idea of what we are going to do here,” says Silke Steen, a manager at Arkona. “To let them say, ‘Wow, impressive!’”…

One of the pillar technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to radically improve business, living environments, and global health. But like any disruptive technology, AI harnesses potential risks that cannot be ignored – the most talked about, of course, is the impact it will have on jobs. Another issue to be addressed with AI, which is much less talked about, is related to energy consumption. In order to fully harness the potential of AI technologies in daily life and business, experts say that the current amount of electricity consumption needs to be reduced 1,000-fold. This has led companies to develop technologies – both hardware and software – that can reduce the amount of energy used by AI applications. One company that is focusing on…

They rank among the most effective public health measures of all time, reducing or eliminating deaths from smallpox, polio, measles and many other diseases. When a vaccine for whooping cough was developed in the 1940s, deaths from the illness nearly disappeared. But while vaccination rates have risen in the United States in recent years, so has the number of parents opting out—usually because of missed follow-up appointments with doctors. This is largely due to a mistaken belief that the shots cause autism (they do not). As a result, the country is seeing a resurgence in whooping cough and measles. 42,000 Lives estimated to be saved by vaccines every year in the U.S. alone. Seat belts save 14,000 each year. 47 → States in the U.S. that allow religious exemptions from…

“With the Walking Bicycle we want to promote a healthy and active lifestyle. Automatic driving solutions and technology are an alternative for us to use less energy. The Walking Bicycle is an alternative to that perspective”Masayuki Katayama, President, Katayama Kogyo Behind all of Japan’s world-leading carmakers are the chukenkigyo – strong medium sized firms that produce and supply them with high-quality components. One of these firms is Katayama Kogyo, which provides automotive parts, and construction machinery and agricultural machinery parts worldwide. The company was established in 1947 and in the U.S. has a production base in Shelbyville, Kentucky, which pro- vides parts to automotive manufac- turers in Alabama, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. While the majority of the company’s business is through Tier 1 relationships with these manu- facturers, it also…