The festival, set for April 26-27 at Memorial Park, celebrates the sister city relationship between Cupertino and Toyokawa, Japan. Outdoor entertainment includes Taiko drum groups, Japanese dancers, ...

Step into a traditional workshop where the soul-stirring craftsmanship of shogi pieces is brought to life. Using centuries-old techniques, skilled artisans carefully shape and carve each piece by hand ...

Not long ago, Tomohiro Endo, 45, a company employee who makes guitars for a living, started crafting pieces for shogi — a Japanese board game similar to chess — as a hobby. And in just 18 months, he ...

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Google DeepMind's developers have previously boasted that their AI systems have mastered Chess and Shogi, and may master other tasks as proficiently in the next 10 years. Either way, Google and ...