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SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s capital has opened a major anchor facility meant to serve as a control tower and nexus for its artificial intelligence industry, Seoul Metropolitan Government officials announced on May 29. The newly unveiled facility is located in the Umyeon-dong neighborhood of Seoul’s Seocho district. It will act as a [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics said Thursday its new artificial intelligence-powered laptop will be available globally next month as part of its plans to lead the AI era. Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, a next-generation processor, the Galaxy Book 4 Edge features both on-device and cloud AI capabilities. These include real-time [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics is embarking on a worldwide “Life’s Good” brand campaign aimed at disseminating an optimistic outlook to future generations through partnerships with renowned social media influencers. Beginning May 29, the company will harness social media algorithms to proliferate uplifting content online in an initiative called “Filling Social Media With [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it has officially launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-based veterinary care assistance service X Caliber in Australia and Indonesia. It marks the first official launch of X Caliber outside of South Korea, SK Telecom said, adding the company will work [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics has announced its commitment to fostering sustainable ecosystems worldwide, putting into practice its ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) vision of “A Better Life for All.” In Spain and Portugal, LG’s Spanish subsidiary is spearheading the ‘Smart Green Tree’ reforestation campaign, planting seed bombs – a mixture of soil, [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it has agreed to set up a joint venture (JV) with a leading provider of climate solutions for a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC) business in the United States and Canada. According to Samsung, the newly established JV, named Samsung Lennox [...]
SUWON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) –A former Chinese employee of SK Hynix has been arrested and indicted on charges of illegally transferring the company’s core technology for reducing semiconductor defects to Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, prosecutors said on May 28. The 30-year-old woman, identified only by her last name A, worked at SK Hynix’s [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Tuesday it will create a joint artificial intelligence (AI) research lab with New York University (NYU). The Global AI Frontier Lab will be co-led by two distinguished computer scientists — Cho Kyung-hyun and Yann LeCun — who are both professors at NYU, according to [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics orchestrated a large-scale picnic on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on May 26 to celebrate the local launch of its MoodUP InstaView refrigerator. Coinciding with the city’s monthly car-free day that closes the iconic avenue to traffic, LG took the opportunity to organize its own promotional festivities. The company [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Dyson launched its WashG1 floor cleaning appliance in South Korea on May 27, introducing a suction-free device capable of wet cleaning and removing debris using water. At a launch event held at the Boffi showroom in Seoul’s Gangnam District, Dyson’s wireless vacuum cleaner engineering lead, Asaph Ooi, provided a live [...]