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Samsung Electronics continued to sit on the throne of the world’s NAND flash market in the fourth quarter of 2015, data showed Sunday, expanding the gap …
The nation’s stock exchange operator said Friday it has launched a probe into suspicions that shares of Doosan Group and its affiliates were unfairly traded …
Banks and securities companies will face head-on when Korea introduces later this month individual savings accounts — a new, tax-effective tool for …
Fingerprint module maker CrucialTec has developed an optical computer mouse equipped with a fingerprint scanner, said the firm on Friday. Given that financial …
![[Weekender] The chips are down: Human-AI Go battle](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/20160304001101_01-320x213.jpg "[Weekender] The chips are down: Human-AI Go battle")
A showdown will take place next week in Seoul. Google’s artificial intelligence program AlphaGo will take on top Go player Lee Se-dol for a $1 million prize. …
![[Weekender] History of man-versus-machine matches](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/20160304001099_01-320x213.jpg "[Weekender] History of man-versus-machine matches")
Smart computers directing chessmen to slash through bishops and knights to capture a chess grandmaster’s king no longer raise exclamations of awe. …
![[Weekender] Deep learning paves way for new era of AI](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/20160304001095_01-320x213.jpg "[Weekender] Deep learning paves way for new era of AI")
Coupled with artificial intelligence, deep learning has been making headlines recently with tech giants such as Google and Facebook turning to the technology …
![[Weekender] Unconventional talent Lee Se-dol](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/20160304001094_01-320x213.jpg "[Weekender] Unconventional talent Lee Se-dol")
Go players Cho Hun-hyun, Lee Chang-ho and Lee Se-dol are familiar names even to Koreans who are not well-versed with the game. The three have dominated …
![[Weekender] AlphaGo’s win would mark AI watershed](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/20160304001093_01-320x213.jpg "[Weekender] AlphaGo’s win would mark AI watershed")
Expectations are running high in the technology sector with the upcoming battle between a human Go champion and a computer program. Go is a board game in which …
![[Weekender] Mixed outlook for human-versus-AI match](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/20160304001097_01-320x213.jpg "[Weekender] Mixed outlook for human-versus-AI match")
In the lead up to the historic match between the world’s top Go player Lee Se-dol and Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence computer AlphaGo, there are …