South Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has developed a new testing program for automotive light-emitting diode components in partnership with TUV SUD, a global technical services provider of quality, safety and sustainability solutions. The two companies held a ceremony to unveil the testing program at the headquarters of TUV SUD Korea in Seoul. The Samsung-TUV SUD agreement marks the first time in the industry that an automotive LED component manufacturer has partnered w

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday the organic light-emitting diode technology is not suitable for use on television sets, apparently targeting its main rival LG Electronics Inc. while promoting its own QLED screens.The statement follows a YouTube video posted by the South Korean giant earlier, which also criticized LG Electronics' OLED displays. Samsung and LG have been promoting QLED and OLED as their next-generation TV technologies, respectively.The South Korean tech giant said OLED display

South Korea must swiftly work to build up a strong medical big data system as it will form the backbone of future medicine led by personalized and predictive health care, biohealth experts in Seoul said Monday.　Large-scale datasets collected from wearables and biomedical sensors will be combined with artificial intelligence computing technologies to enable early diagnosis of diseases and guide treatment planning.“The biggest priority for Korea’s biohealth industry is nurturing a strong big data

South Korea’s SK Telecom said Monday it has developed Wi-Fi technology that is capable of transmitting data at a maximum speed of 4.8 Gbps and an application processor. At the company’s office in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, SKT said it had succeeded in demonstrating the highest Wi-Fi speed that is about four times faster than the current Wi-Fi used on smartphones. SKT’s upcoming Wi-Fi technology will use four antennas and a 160 MHz frequency bandwidth, double the current Wi-Fi service, which wil

Memory chip giant Samsung Electronics has invested in a Chinese artificial intelligence technology developer as part of its efforts to catch up in the intensifying global race for AI platforms and devices, according to sources Sunday. In August, Samsung made a significant investment in DeePhi Tech, a Tsinghua-based startup with deep learning technologies, a source told The Korea Herald. “Samsung made quite a large investment in DeePhi Tech, which a group of Korean developers who met the startup’

Samsung Electronics Co. may pick a successor to its CEO and Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun, as early as this week, after the top executive announced plans to retire, corporate sources said Sunday.Insiders familiar with the world's largest computer chip and smartphone manufacturer said there could be a move to appoint a new chief to head the device salutation and display business area that Kwon is in charge of.The vice chairman announced on Oct. 13 that he plans to step down in early 2018. Kwon Oh-hy

Korean portal giant admits to accepting requests from K League, sparks concerns over transparency

ICT IN DISEASE CONTROL -- South Korean mobile carrier KT said Sunday that it has partnered with the World Economic Forum to leverage its internet and communication technologies to help the WEF’s project to fight the global spread of infectious diseases. World Economic Forum’s Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab (second from left) and KT Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu (second from right) shake hands after signing the partnership agreement at the WEF headquarters in Geneva on Friday. (KT)

The market of fifth-generation network services in South Korea will reach some 35 trillion won ($31 billion) in 2025, as the faster network technology is anticipated to be used in many areas from mobile phone networks to smart homes and connected cars, industry data showed Sunday.According to the data compiled by Digieco, a research center run by South Korea's mobile carrier KT Corp., the country's 5G network technology market is expected to hit 3.1 trillion won in 2020 but swell to 34.7 trillio

More than one in three smartphones in 2020 will be shipped with an artificial intelligence chipset capable of real-time translation and malware detection, giving health care advice and recognizing user behavior, a report said Friday.The ratio of AI chipset-equipped smartphones is expected to rise to 35 percent or more than 500 million units in the cited years from just three percent in 2017.Numbers are forecast to move up to 16 percent in 2018 and 26 percent in 2019, according to the report of C

The computer that stunned humanity by beating the best mortal players at a strategy board game requiring "intuition" has become even smarter, its makers said Wednesday.Even more startling, the updated version of AlphaGo is entirely self-taught -- a major step towards the rise of machines that achieve superhuman abilities "with no human input", they reported in the science journal Nature.  (DeepMind-Yonhap)Dubbed AlphaGo Zero, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) system learnt by itself, within days,

South Korean washers topped product reviews by major US consumer evaluators, industry watchers said Thursday, as Washington's trade commission moves to take protectionist steps.Earlier this month, the US International Trade Commission determined that products made by Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are exerting an adverse impact on the domestic industry. The announcement was made after a safeguard petition was proposed by US-based Whirlpool Corp. (Yonhap)Samsung and LG, along wit

Google Inc. is applying its artificial intelligence technology to not only prevent spam emails but also as an email reply tool for users, a company engineer said Wednesday. Google said its machine learning model can ferret out spam and phishing messages with 99.9 percent accuracy, even spam that are carefully crafted to deceive people, "Our goal is to make Gmail the most productive email in the world," said Paul Lambert, Google's product manager. Paul Lambert, an engineer from Google Inc., talks

South Korean internet giant Naver and YG Entertainment said Wednesday that they would begin preparations to jointly build a new global music service platform by pooling their technologies, resources and global influence.The move came seven months after Naver, Korea’s largest portal website operator, invested 100 billion won ($88.52 million) into YG Entertainment, which is home to big-name K-pop artists like Psy and Big Bang, seeking to tap YG’s strength in content. Under the partnership, Naver a

‘5G, IoT, autonomous driving still years away from impacting manufacturing’