SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Gas, a key energy affiliate of energy and telecom conglomerate SK Group, said Wednesday it had developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based system that anticipates and simulates the yield of chemical processing, and introduced it to its subsidiary SK Advanced Co. The company is the first to use [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to minimize damage from heavy rains using digital twin technology that enables researchers to analyze and forecast expected weather conditions through a simulation of a virtual world. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Monday it will provide the Ministry of Environment with 3D spatial [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it will provide real-time information on the status and time of traffic lights at major downtown crossroads for free through a public portal starting from Wednesday. Any citizen can check this information for 788 major crossroads within the city on a real-time basis [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, on Monday introduced a virtual human model to promote its artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistance platform. The female virtual model, named Sua, developed by 3D graphics development company Onmind Inc., will make its debut as an SK Telecom model in commercials [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s No. 1 wireless carrier, said Sunday it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostics platform to assist veterinarians in treating injured pet dogs. The web-based service, named X Caliber, was developed using big data and diagnostics videos in cooperation with five universities, including Kangwon [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Koreas No. 2 wireless carrier, said Friday it has signed a partnership agreement with the Vector Institute, a Canadian nonprofit artificial intelligence (AI) research institution, for joint AI-related research and projects. Under the agreement, KT and the institute will work together in pursuing joint AI research, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc.’s Pixel 1 smartphone, released back in 2016, is regaining market attention thanks to its free unlimited Google Photos storage function. It’s now easy to find a used Pixel 1 online at secondhand marketplace platforms like Joonggonara or Danggeun Market. Most of the phones put up for sale [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gangbuk District Office in Seoul said Thursday it was introducing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based book recommendation service using big data. This service is designed to raise the revisiting rate for the libraries within the district by recommending less-known good books rather than best-selling or new books. The district [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of the mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp., said Tuesday it had joined hands with Kangbuk Samsung Hospital to jointly develop a medical examination-assisting guide bot based on its AI chatbot Kakao i Connect Talk. The development of a medical examination-assisting chatbot [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical equipment startups are establishing solid track records, playing a leading role in the digital healthcare market. A medical AI solution firm VUNO Inc., for instance, recently acquired licenses from the health authorities of Saudi Arabia and Thailand for its AI-based chest X-ray image [...]