SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, announced Tuesday that it will work with its affiliate SK Planet Co. and Hwashin Co. on an artificial intelligence (AI)-based Smart Factory Project. Hwashin is the country’s major chassis producer and primary supplier for Hyundai Motor Co. SK Telecom plans to [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Map users will now be able to receive recommendations of nearby restaurants through artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, announced Monday that it will introduce ‘Smart Around’, a new AI-based location recommendation service, for Naver Map. Smart Around, first developed in 2018, [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Going forward, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology will be used in South Korea to select individuals subject to tax audits, the tax agency said Thursday. The National Tax Service (NTS) announced that it will trial a big data analysis system for sorting out borrowed-name bank accounts this [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it plans to hire a record number of postgraduate researchers this year to secure future technologies in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors. The South Korean tech giant said it will hire 1,000 postgraduate engineers by the end of this year. Samsung already [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Water Authority announced Thursday its plans to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-based water quality management system supported by the Seoul Digital Foundation’s data consulting services. The authority aims to set up a preemptive water quality management system by incorporating big data and AI technology into the monitoring [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has named a renowned artificial intelligence (AI) expert as chief of its research and development (R&D) hub. The South Korean tech giant said Sebastian Seung, professor at Princeton University’s Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science, will lead Samsung Research, the R&D hub [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled on Tuesday a solution that uses drones and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to optimize the performance of 5G networks by analyzing the installation state of base stations and antennas. As part of the solution, drones take videos of 5G base stations and antenna systems and [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Co. announced on Friday that it had upgraded its artificial intelligence (AI) cleanbot further to protect its users from being exposed to malicious comments. Naver’s AI cleanbot, thus far, has automatically detected and hid comments with abusive language and slang. Since April 2019, [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean unit of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. on Friday signed a partnership deal to support South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) businesses as it tries to expand its presence here. Under the deal with the Korean Artificial Intelligence Association, which represents some 300 startups in the AI [...]
DURHAM, N.C., June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — TeraRecon, a leader in advanced visualization and enterprise-level artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, today announced the rebranding of its AI solutions to introduce customers to SymphonyAI portfolio synergies. In leveraging the shared Eureka AI technology brand of its parent, TeraRecon opens the door to new collaborative offerings including unsupervised [...]