Bitnine has revisualized the database industry with its hybrid database solution AgensGraph, maximizing the advantages of relational and graph databases, the company said this week. South Korea’s only graph database research company, Bitnine said it attended the graph database specialized conference “Graph Day SF 2017,” hosted by Global Data Geeks, held at Mission Bay Center in San Francisco, US, on June 17 to promote its new service AgensGraph.(Photo courtesy of Bitnine)At the event, Bitnine’s

LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will supply its advanced driver-assistance system cameras to a premium German carmaker, tapping deeper into the vehicle components business.Through the deal, the South Korean company will supply camera modules and software to its German counterpart. LG did not reveal the name of the partner, citing business confidentiality.LG said the camera will help users drive safely by detecting various objects surrounding cars and maintaining optimal distance with other

Samsung Electronics officially announced Wednesday that the company will build a home appliance factory with $380 million worth of investment in South Carolina, marking the company’s first major investment in the US since it relocated production facilities for US exports to Mexico in the early 1990s. The announcement was made during South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Washington for his first summit with US President Donald Trump. Yoon Boo-keun, president of the consumer electronics di

South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK is on the path to becoming the second-biggest memory chip provider in the world, taking one step closer to acquiring a slice of Toshiba’s chipmaking unit. SK’s semiconductor business SK hynix and its three strategic partners -- US private equity firm Bain Capital, Development Bank of Japan and Innovation Network of Japan -- were picked by Toshiba as the preferred bidder in the sale of its lucrative memory chip business on June 21. SK hynix is set to pr

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics is preparing for the “fourth industrial revolution” by mass producing faster and more efficient chips for smart and connected devices with always-on displays, cementing its leadership in the global memory market. 　As part of its latest move, the Korean chipmaker made around $1 billion worth of investments in its production facilities in Austin, Texas, as of this month. The facilities are operated for advanced system-on-chip products, which are supplie

Samsung Electronics’ new flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 Plus topped Consumer Reports’ latest ranking on smartphone battery life. It is welcome news for the Korean tech giant, which suffered a setback due to its fire-prone smartphone Note 7, which was discontinued last year. The US magazine Consumer Reports said in a June 17 report that it had reviewed the batteries of smartphones available in the market in terms of talk time, Wi-Fi, long-term evolution data, wireless charging and battery capacity

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are betting on lucrative premium and large televisions to maximize profits in the second half of this year. Last month, Samsung launched 75-inch QLED TVs in Korea, a larger version of existing 55-inch and 65-inch QLED models. The tech firm also plans to roll out larger lineups, 82-inch and 88-inch models, this month and in August respectively. LG, Samsung’s archrival in home appliances, also unveiled 86-inch and 75-inch super ultra-high definition televisio

Samsung Electronics on Monday embarked on two-day biannual meetings to set global strategies for the first time in the absence of its heir apparent arrested in a presidential bribery scandal. Since it is also the first time for the electronic titan to hold the strategic meetings after Samsung Group was disbanded in March, attention was focused on how each division of the tech giant came up with strategies in a competition to become a major business division representing South Korea’s largest bra

Global tech giants Google and Facebook are under increasing pressure from South Korean authorities and lawmakers to be “transparent and fairer” in running their businesses here.  Kim Sang-jo, head of the nation’s antitrust watchdog, said Sunday he is “reviewing” how to regulate Google and Facebook’s alleged abuses of market dominance. “(Google and Facebook are) sweeping information without paying a dime here on the network set up by taxpayers’ money,” said Kim, who is known as a “chaebol sniper,

South Korea’s mobile carriers on Thursday expressed concerns over an expected fall in revenue due to the Moon Jae-in government’s plan to reduce the burden of mobile costs on low-income households and the elderly. “Telecom companies are already suffering revenue falls,” said an official at one of the three mobile carriers here, who declined to be named. “The government’s plan poses a serious threat to not just a single company, but the whole industry.” The official said the government’s plan was

The chief of a South Korean online game developer is facing a legal battle against his partner over a joint venture they set up in China, according to legal and industry sources on Thursday. Kwon Hyuk-bin, chief executive and founder of Smilegate Holdings Inc., was called in for questioning by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office earlier in the day.  This file photo, taken on Oct. 8, 2013, shows Kwon Hyuk-bin, chief executive and founder of online game developer Smilegate Holdings Inc.

SAN DIEGO — The recent explosion in data generation combined with fast-improving analytic technologies are beginning to revolutionize the field of medicine and health care, bringing closer the era of precision medicine.　Precision medicine, also referred to as personalized or individualized medicine, is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person,” according to the US National Institu

LG Display has developed the world’s largest flexible and transparent display, the company said on Thursday. The company said it developed a 77-inch flexible and transparent display with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, a penetration ratio of 40 percent and a radius of curvature of 80 millimeters. LG said the display can be used for various areas, including digital signage, smart desk, infotainment system for automobiles, augmented reality and aquarium but did not unveil when to commerciali

Google Inc. is teaching an artificial intelligence algorithm to generate music and art as part of its efforts to expand the limits of computer creativity to the level of human beings going forward, the company's senior engineer said Thursday.The ambitious yet experimental "Magenta" project is one of many projects from Google Brain, which is responsible for many AI products like Google Translate and Google Photos. The team is dedicated to experimenting with new and different forms of machine lear