South Korean internet giant Naver said Monday that it will make its first investment in a new audio content archival project via the joint fund that it formed with local venture investment firm KTB Network earlier this year.In May, the two companies created the 30 billion won ($27.53 million) Naver-KTB Audio Content Investment Fund to invest in promising audio content technologies that form the basis of artificial intelligence-powered products such as voice-activated smart speakers and connected

South Korea has become one of the first countries to start questioning Google over recent reports confirming the firm has been collecting location data from Android phones even when GPS services were disabled. But will it be able to investigate with effective consequences?Experts here say that it is unclear whether Korean regulators can properly interrogate Google, as well as take punitive measures if needed, given the difficulties of investigating a foreign IT company whose servers and key exec

South Korea’s leading science and technology research university KAIST said Wednesday that it will host an “AI World Cup” in which teams of artificially intelligent robots compete in a miniature soccer tournament.　The AI soccer tournament, which the university says will be the first of its kind to take place internationally, will be held Friday at the KI Building in Daejeon. Teams of five bots employing AI-based machine learning algorithms including Q-Learning -- a reinforcement learning techniq

Tech giant takes lead in machine learning as it eyes ‘AI-first world’

Arm Korea CEO hopes to become focal point in standardizing IoT solutions and platforms

Google Inc. aims to make artificial intelligence technology more available so it can benefit everyone, the company's engineers said Tuesday."Our goals are to make Google products more useful, help businesses and developers innovate, and provide researchers with tools to tackle humanity's big challenges," Jeff Dean, head of the Google Brain Team, told reporters.The remarks were made during an annual conference held in Tokyo for the Asia-Pacific region to publicize the team's outcome and to give a

Samsung Electronics Co. narrowed the gap with US tech giant Apple Inc. in terms of smartphone sales in the third quarter, data showed Tuesday, with the South Korean player maintaining a lead in shipments.According to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, Apple accounted for 32 percent of the industry's combined revenue in the July-September period, compared with Samsung's share of 23.1 percent. The 8.9 percentage-point gap marks a drop from 15.5 percentage points posted in the third quarter o

The ICT ministry said Monday that it will construct models to predict how the fourth industrial revolution would change software jobs in the future.   The Ministry of Science and ICT said the revolution is radically shifting the economic landscape and changing the nature of jobs that require policymakers to face challenges in human resources development and job creation in the software sector.     "It is necessary to provide the right job training and education by predicting future jobs in order

South Korean medical technology startup Ybrain said Monday that its depression-targeting headband wearable, Mindd, has obtained quality certification and marketing approval in Europe.Developed exclusively by Ybrain, Mindd is a headband that sends weak electric currents to the frontal lobe, stimulating the region of the brain whose decreased activity is associated with depression. As a portable device, it allows patients to treat depression outside the hospital, including at home and other places

Samsung Electronics is likely to adopt liquid-crystal display panels manufactured by LG Display in its TVs that are slated for launch early next year, according to news reports and industry sources Monday. If the two South Korean tech giants reach an agreement in the ongoing negotiations, it will be the first case of Samsung using panels manufactured by a rival. According to a news report, the two sides are expected to reach an agreement in the near future, with the aim of unveiling the first “c

Seoul City to reduce by one-third the number of alerts delivered to a driver through the Kakao Taxi app

Samsung Electronics announced Sunday that it will start supplying Long Term Evolution smartphones and related accessories to the UK’s new emergency services network for police, fire, ambulance and other public safety users across the country.The company’s LTE smartphones won an exclusive contract from the UK’s Home Office for their water resistance and emergency functions including voice services, according to company officials.The emergency services network is to replace the current airwave sys

Jo Seong-jin, vice chairman and CEO of LG Electronics pledged to expand the company’s efforts to automate production facilities and to consequently enhance manufacturing competitiveness in the global market, according to officials Sunday.“Capabilities at the production lines will determine the fate of the competition in the fourth industrial revolution era,” Jo said Friday at a workshop that invited officials from the company’s contractors, in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province. LG Elec. Vice C

Chinese expert says China’s booming integrated circuit industry is new normal, not threat to global market