science and technology

Korea's two major tech giants ― Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. ― suffered a service malfunction on Saturday due to a fire at a data center, officials said.

The Etisalat telecommunication company launched 4G in the northwestern Afghan province of Herat enabling its customers to benefit from internet services of up to 10 times the speed.

Moral dilemmas—balancing one right action against another—are a ubiquitous feature of 21st-century life. However unavoidable, though, they are not unique to our modern age. The challenge of accommodating conflicting needs figured as prominently in the lives of our human ancestors as it does for us today.

Adjusting to new technologies is often difficult, leading otherwise thoughtful people to overreact to these developments with over-the-top condemnations and ill-considered prohibitions. A recent example of this phenomenon is Christine Rosen’s National Review article entitled “Ban Kids from Social Media,” which indulges in the kind of techno-panic we have seen before with the advent of television and video games—and even books when they became widely available in the 1800s.

Machine learning-based computational models have been successfully applied to a broad range of complex information processing tasks, including those that involve retrieving specific data items from large archives. Researchers at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) in France have been trying to develop machine learning techniques that could help music producers to easily identify and retrieve specific audio samples from a database.

Although export licenses are denied to Chinese companies in principle, multinational companies in China, including Korean ones there, can receive approvals on a case-by-case basis, it said.

A new paper in the Journal of the European Economic Association, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that the extension of voting rights can reduce political violence. The researcher finds this by looking at the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

South Korean memory chip manufacturer SK hynix on Wednesday pledged to achieve a 100 percent procurement of domestically produced neon gas, a critical material for chip production, by 2024.

LG Energy Solution said Wednesday it has launched two in-house ventures, called KooRoo and AVEL, allowing its employees more independence and flexibility to spur innovation in its battery business ecosystem.

American physicist John Clauser won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics—a fundamental theory governing the subatomic world that is today the foundation for an emerging class of ultra-powerful computers.