The technical feat was part of NTT’s laboratory experiments. NTT conducted transmission experiments at a distance of 10 meters using a system operating in the 28GHz frequency band.

In total, NTT simultaneously generated 11 data signals, each at a bitrate of 7.2 to 10.8Gbps, achieving large-capacity wireless transmission at 100Gbps — a world first.

This level of wireless capacity reaches a level around 100 times that of LTE and WiFi, and about five times that of 5G, launching in 2020.

In the short-to-medium term, this technology could be used to help boost 5G performances for new domestic uses requiring higher transmission capacities (autonomous and connected vehicles, VR, high-definition video transmission, etc.).

NTT will present the results at Wireless Technology Park 2018 in Tokyo, Japan, May 23-25. Although the concept is still relatively new, the successful experiment paves the way for a host of exceptional possibilities.

This year’s edition of Viva Technology will by far be the most international to date, with more than half of the 1,800 startups attending hailing from outside of France. Startups from some 20 countries — including Israel, Japan and South Korea — will be showing off their latest technology at the event, which this year also focuses on AfricaTech in particular. Young entrepreneurs and tech industry figures from the continent will be heading to the Paris event, along with Rwandan president Paul Kagamé.

Some incredible innovations will be on show at Viva Tech 2018, including IBM’s quantum computer, Airbus’s flying car mock-up, a life-sized spatial module and a host of domestic robots, including live demos.

Former executive chairman of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt — now a company technical advisor and board member — has been a Viva Technology attendee since the show’s first edition. He will return in 2018, joined by an impressive lineup of speakers from around the world, to discuss the latest innovations, breakthroughs and new technologies. These include Facebook CEO and chairman Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM chairman, president and CEO Ginni Rometty, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

While the first two days of Viva Technology are reserved for professional attendees, the show opens to the public Saturday, May 26, giving everyone a chance to check out the 150 innovations presented in world premieres at the event. This year’s three major themes are latest-generation robots (watch out for robot battles held during the event), the future of mobility (with self-driving, electric and even flying vehicles) and virtual reality (with virtual group visits of Egypt’s famous pyramids).

The event also has a host of fun events and attractions celebrating technology, including an eSports tournament featuring “Fortnite” experts and a virtual artwork by artist Miguel Chevalier. Young visitors can try their hand at an initiatory hackathon (for 6-to-12-year-olds) or take part in workshops exploring the future of mobility.

Google chief Sundar Pichai, who unveiled the updated Google News earlier this month, said the app now “surfaces the news you care about from trusted sources while still giving you a full range of perspectives on events.”

It marks Google’s latest effort to be at the centre of online news and includes a new push to help publishers get paid subscribers through the tech giant’s platform.

According to product chief Trystan Upstill, the news app “uses the best of artificial intelligence to find the best of human intelligence — the great reporting done by journalists around the globe.”

While the app will enable users to get “personalized” news, it will also include top stories for all readers, aiming to break the so-called filter bubble of information designed to reinforce people’s biases.

“Having a productive conversation or debate requires everyone to have access to the same information,” Upstill said.

He said the “full coverage” feed would be the same for everyone — “an unpersonalized view of events from a range of trusted news sources.”

Some journalism industry veterans were sceptical about the effort to replace human editors with machine curators.

“There’s been a fantasy of (algorithmic) personalized news for a long time,” said New York University journalism professor Meredith Broussard.

“Nobody has ever gotten it right. I think that news designers and homepage editors do a good job of curating already.”

Google and Facebook have also been criticized for scooping up most online ad revenues and for enabling false information to spread.

Recently, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson called for an “algorithm review board” that would “oversee these historically influential digital platforms and ensure that there is no algorithmic abuse or censorship.”

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In the new app, Google’s “news stand” addresses some concerns by allowing users to sign up for subscriptions using their Google accounts, and will enable publishers to connect with readers directly.

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor, said the revamped news app appears to be positive for the news ecosystem.

“For many years, Google refused to share ad revenues with news organizations on the grounds that Google was driving traffic to them, and that it was up to those organizations to figure out how to monetize that traffic,” Kennedy said.

“Now, with more than 90 percent of all new digital ad revenues going to Google and Facebook, Google is finally acknowledging that it’s time to try something else.”

Nicholas Diakopoulos, a Northwestern University professor specializing in computational and data journalism, said the impact of Google’s changes remain to be seen.

Diakopoulos said algorithmic and personalized news can be positive for “engagement” but may only benefit a handful of news organizations.

His research found that “Google concentrates its attention on a relatively small number of publishers, it’s quite concentrated.”

Google’s effort to identify and prioritize “trusted” news sources may also be problematic, according to Diakopoulos.

“Maybe it’s good for the big guys, or the (publishers) who have figured out how to game the algorithm,” he said. “But what about the local news sites, what about the new news sites that don’t have a long track record?”

Diakopoulos said that while AI can offer some advantages in news curation, “you still need people involved in many different ways. you need to reflect human values, editorial values… you can’t quantify every aspect that might be important to an editorial decision.”

The growing importance of the platforms raise the questions of whether Google and Facebook are “media” companies and not simply technology firms, a moniker both have resisted.

Diakopoulos said Google “is becoming more and more like a media company,” although that is sometimes difficult to define.

“Yahoo started as a tech company and became a media company, and maybe Google is headed in that direction,” he said.