REDWOOD CITY, CA, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) - Nominum™, the DNS innovation leader and first company to leverage DNS to create an extensible platform and suite of integrated applications that accelerate digital transformation for communication service providers (CSPs), announced today that Kevin Lo, former General Manager of Google Fiber, has joined the company’s board of directors. [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced Thursday it would spend 1 trillion won (US$840 million) by 2020 to boost the artificial intelligence industry. It also plans to support the civilian-led establishment of a high-profile research center tasked with serving as a “pivot” of the nation’s research and development in the field. [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – There was no mercy from the machine. Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat South Korean Go champ Lee Se-dol in their final Go match on Tuesday, taking the five-round Go tournament with a score of 4-1. At the fifth man-versus-computer showdown in Seoul, AlphaGo, the AI designed by Google’s London-based firm [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The first victory of pro Go player Lee Se-dol (33) over Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo was celebrated by internet users all over the world. According to a report by Hankyoreh, a Korean daily journal, internet users created ‘memes’, funny images accompanied with even funnier captions and parody images to celebrate the victory [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol admitted to feeling “surprised” after losing the first match of the five-game showdown against computer on Wednesday. “I didn’t think I’d lose, and I was quite surprised,” Lee told a press conference in Seoul after succumbing to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo. Lee [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Se-dol, a top-class South Korean Go player, said Tuesday he may not have his way with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo, after all. A day before taking on the advanced human-like algorithm in the ancient board game Go, also known as “baduk” here, Lee said he now [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a movie premise but actually realizable technology, it has been pointed out that Korean companies need to buckle down as they are lagging behind global IT giants. According to a report issued by the Institute for Information and Communications [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., a latecomer to the virtual-reality (VR) segment, said Thursday its new smartphone camera that rotates 360-degrees officially connects to Google Inc.’s Street View service, announcing its full-fledged debut in the industry. South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant said it marked the first time for a smartphone [...]
SEOUL, Feb.23 (Korea Bizwire) – Young Korean job seekers selected Google as the foreign company that they would like to work at the most. Job portals Job Korea and Albamon conducted a survey on 2,007 university students and job seekers, asking them what foreign company they would like to work at. Google Korea ranked first [...]
SEOUL, Jan.29 (Korea Bizwire) – Two leading tech giants, Apple and Facebook, seem to be in different leagues given their recent performance. With demand for smartphones on the wane, industry watchers even predicted a quarter of negative growth for Apple. On the other hand, Facebook is performing far better than market expectations. On January 27, [...]