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SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it has showcased non-fungible token (NFT) artworks on its next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs at an art exhibition in the United States. The firm has partnered with American sculptor Barry X Ball to exhibit his artworks, including a 39-second-long [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — When the latest version of ChatGPT 3.5 was launched by Open AI late last year, a new battle for artificial intelligence chatbots heated up across the world. While tech giants and startups alike are dreaming of forming the industry and reshaping what people want from search features, Microsoft Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Linguistic analysis through artificial intelligence (AI) technology may increase the accuracy of economic research, a central bank report said Thursday. The Bank of Korea (BOK) compiled big data from 128,000 business assessment reports published by securities analysts and implemented a natural language processing method to analyze the qualitative information [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to launch its first military surveillance satellite in November under a project to deploy a total of five such satellites by the mid-2020s, the state arms procurement said Friday. In a briefing to the National Assembly’s defense committee, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) unveiled the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — After President Yoon Seok-yeol on Wednesday underscored the need to expand mobile phone plan options as a way to ease the financial burden on households, the nation’s major telecom operators are facing increasing pressure to make extra efforts. On the same day, the nation’s big three mobile carriers — [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, on Thursday apologized for the recent data breaches and network attacks as it promised to invest 100 billion won (US$77.9 million) annually in the coming years to improve its network security capabilities. “I offer a sincere apology to our customers [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced on Wednesday that it had succeeded in demonstrating an ultra-high speed 5G mobile communications service on a normally operating bus, offering speeds about seven times faster than existing services. To upgrade the quality and speed of bus WiFi, the research team developed [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a South Korean telecom giant, said Wednesday that the positive effects of a welfare service using artificial intelligence (AI) technology had been proved for the first time in the country. A research team from Chonnam National University conducted a complete enumeration survey of 212 people using KT [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major wireless carriers said Wednesday they will grant free additional mobile data to all of their customers next month in a bid to join the government-led campaign to help people lighten burdens amid rising inflation. Industry leader SK Telecom Co. will give 30 gigabytes of data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday it has opened a massive computing data center for artificial intelligence studies as part of the country’s plan to build a world-class AI research network. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, located in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a [...]