Samsung Electronics Co. ranked No. 4 among 2,500 major global companies in terms of expenditures on research and development projects over the 2016-2017 period, data showed Monday.According to the 2017 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard released by the European Commission, the South Korean tech giant spent 12.2 billion euros ($14.3 billion) in R&D projects over the period, down two notches from the previous year.The report said the findings are based on the 2016 calendar year, but added sig

Foodie, the mobile camera app created by Snow Corp., a subsidiary of Naver, was awarded Best App of the Year by Google Play in South Korea, Google Korea said. Foodie is a camera app equipped with more than 30 filters designed for taking better pictures of food. Since its launch in February 2016, the app has racked up more than 10 million downloads on the Google Play app store.Best Game of the Year went to “Lineage II: Revolution,” the hit mobile role-playing game developed by Seoul-based Netmarb

South Korea’s media regulator has set out to strengthen its watch on US-based microblogging website Tumblr which has been criticized for its passive attitude in stopping the circulation of profane and inappropriate content on its platform.　The Korea Communications Commission on Wednesday announced a new set of policies to curb the prolfieration of profane content on the web, citing plans to amend current communications law to ensure they can be applied equally to both Korean and foreign internet

South Korea unveiled a long-term plan Wednesday to develop unmanned vehicles, such as first passenger drones, with an aim of emerging as a global leader in the sector by 2030, the science ministry said Thursday.Under the road map crafted and announced by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Seoul will concentrate efforts to boost the development of future-oriented drones, self-driving cars, unmanned ships and agricultural machines.The ministry earlier designated the sector as one of the key strategi

South Korean tech giants maintained their strong dominance over the global market for dynamic random-access memory chips in the third quarter, data showed Thursday.According to the data compiled by IHS Markit and other industrial sources, Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for 44.5 percent of the market in the third quarter in terms of revenue, followed by SK hynix Inc. with 27.9 percent. The combined revenue of the sector around the globe is estimated at $19.7 billion for the July-September peri

Samsung Electronics is expected to unveil its new flagship smartphone Galaxy S9 early next year with similar yet upgraded features to its predecessor Galaxy S8. The Korean tech giant is likely to unveil Galaxy S9 during the Mobile World Congress in February or its own launch event in March, according to industry watchers. Samsung took the wraps off Galaxy S5, S6 and S7 at MWC and Galaxy S8 at its own launch events in New York and London in March. Some media outlets have reported Samsung may show

Naver CEO Han Seong-sook pledged Tuesday to improve understanding and communication between the internet technology sector and the South Korean government in 2018, reflecting on the hardships that have hit the local IT industry this year. 　“The year 2017 was a difficult one filled with many hardships and regulatory issues that impacted the general IT industry, including internet companies, startups and game companies alike,” Han said during the 2017 Startup x Internet Corporations Night event in

The PyeongChang Winter Games will assign various kinds of robots to stadiums, airports and event venues to assist athletes and showcase the latest technology, the commerce ministry said Wednesday.A total of 85 robots will be placed in venues to provide information on schedules, transportation and tourist attractions during the Olympics, which runs from Feb. 9-25, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said. The ministry said 11 kinds of robots will be used.A walking humanoid robot developed

IBM Inc.'s artificial intelligence-based Watson for Oncology was concordant with more than 50 percent of doctors' recommendations, a South Korean medical center said Tuesday.Watson for Oncology is designed to assist doctors in making more informed treatment decisions by analyzing a patient's medical information against a vast array of data and expertise to provide evidence-based treatment options.Gachon University Gil Medical Center in Incheon, a port city just west of Seoul, employed Watson las

The Korea Herald is publishing a series of articles highlighting South Korea’s promising startups in the emerging sectors of digital health care and next-generation medical devices. This is the 14th installment. — Ed.For those new to parenting, an infant with a high fever can be extremely startling. 　Not knowing what to do, many turn to the web to seek advice on how to manage their child’s fever. An online search can yield long lists of medical advice, tips and opinions -- some credible and some

Mastering the human language remains a challenge for computers, but artificial intelligence technology is forecast to make it possible for people to converse with machines in five years, Google Inc. said Tuesday."We are applying Natural Language Processing technology to allow machines to have conversations with humans," Hadar Shemtov, an engineer at Google's search quality team, told reporters in Seoul through a video conference.NLP is a field of computer science, AI and computational linguistic

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced that it has begun the mass production of the industry’s first 512-gigabyte embedded Universal Flash Storage solution for use in next-generation mobile devices, using the firm’s latest 64-layer 512-gigabit V-NAND chips. Consisting of eight 64-layer 512-gigabit V-NAND chips and a controller chip all stacked together, the new 512-gigabyte eUFS doubles the density of Samsung’s previous 48-layer V-NAND-based 256-gigabyte eUFS, in the same amount of space as th

South Korea's top financial regulator said Tuesday it will use artificial intelligence technology to automate some of the nation's probe systems against money laundering. Kim Yong-beom, vice chairman of the Financial Services Commission, said it will start building the anti-money laundering compliance system using AI next year. "We will build an information analysis system using AI, starting in 2018," Kim told a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering in Seoul. "That would help us

South Korea ranked seventh in the world in terms of per capita mobile data usage last year among 41 major economies checked, a report said Tuesday.The average South Korean used 4.6 gigabytes per month in 2016, according to the Digital Fuel Monitor report by Rewheel, a Finnish management consulting firm, based on a survey of 187 carriers.Finland topped the list with 16.1 GB, followed by Latvia at 6.4 GB, Austria at 5.5 GB, Denmark and Sweden at 5.4 GB each, and Estonia at 5.1 GB. Japan came in ei

Fierce 5G network rivalry turns ugly amid preparations for PyeongChang Winter Olympics