SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based service offered by a major web portal is now embroiled in controversy over fairness. The Fair Trade Commission recently ordered Naver Corp., the nation’s biggest search engine, to pay a 26.7 billion won (US$22.9 million) fine for manipulating search algorithms for shopping and videos to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered phone calling application, as it seeks to bolster its presence in AI technology. The mobile carrier said it integrated its NUGU AI platform, currently used in smart home devices, with its T Phone [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will supply its digital signage products for McDonald’s drive-thru restaurants in South Korea as it tries to ride the digital transformation wave in retail stores. Samsung said it has been commissioned to supply its SMART outdoor signage for McDonald’s Goyang Samsong drive-thru store [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A government-funded research institute announced on Wednesday that it had decided to fully disclose all of its wind and solar power-related public data. The data that the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) will open to the general public is a new and renewable energy resource atlas that provides [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will hold an artificial intelligence (AI) forum online next month to share experts’ insights on future technologies related to human-like algorithms amid the pandemic. The South Korean tech giant said the Samsung AI Forum 2020 will take place online via its YouTube channel [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to extend coverage of a high-precision road map, critical to the development of self-driving vehicles, up to 20,000 kilometers by 2022. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Sunday that it will develop a high-precision road map covering about 14,000 kilometers of [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top-ranked science and technology university has unveiled a plan to set up a public database aimed at developing emotional intelligence technology-based artificial intelligence (AI) services. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Thursday that it will launch an AI big data center to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Smart devices and digital services gained popularity in line with growing demand for new tech services amid the contactless trend spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the science ministry said Thursday. In a report, the science ministry said new tech services continued to rack up fast growth this year thanks [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Wednesday that it has developed a virtual reality (VR) fire extinguishing training simulator that allows firefighters to be trained in real-like fire environments. The VR training simulator was developed to enable fire extinguishing training using real fire extinguishing equipment. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its exoskeleton has met the International Organization for Standardization’s safety requirements as the South Korean tech firm spurs to release home bots in the market. Samsung said the GEMS (Gait Enhancing and Motivating System) Hip exoskeleton received the ISO 13482 certification from the Korea [...]