[INTERVIEW] Alaska Airlines eyes Asia expansion as Korea route gains traction
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines is looking to expand its presence in Asia as its Incheon-Seattle route gains traction, with Korea emerging as a key market in the U.S. carrier’s expanding international netwo...
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Hyundai Motor's tech bets face headwinds as core business loses steam
Hyundai Motor’s weakening auto profitability is raising questions about the sustainability of its costly investments in robotics and autonomous driving, as the technologies remain years away from gene...
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How Mediheal is evolving beyond sheet masks
Best known for turning sheet masks into a beauty routine staple, L&P Cosmetic’s Mediheal is building its next stage of growth around a broader portfolio of skin care solutions, ranging from toners to ...
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Korean microsatellite constellation captures first images within a day of launch
A constellation of five Korean microsatellites successfully captured and transmitted its first images to a ground station within a day of launch aboard the country's homegrown Nuri space rocket last w...
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POSCO, Hanwha Ocean team up on high-manganese steel LNG cargo tanks
Korean steelmaker POSCO and shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean are teaming up to build a demonstration liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier equipped with high-manganese steel cargo tanks, aiming to strengthen Ko...
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French fridge hack highlights need for connected equipment security in Korea
A recent hacking incident involving commercial refrigerators at supermarkets in France is highlighting the importance of cybersecurity for connected equipment among Korean businesses, as companies inc...
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Hanwha Systems' laser weapon intercepts all target drones in live demonstration
Hanwha Systems' laser air defense weapon Cheongwang successfully intercepted three out of three target drones in a live-fire demonstration, highlighting the company's efforts to expand its presence in...
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Shinhan's Lotte Insurance deal faces profitability, capital hurdles
Shinhan Financial Group is seeking to bolster its nonbank operations by acquiring Lotte Insurance, but analysts cautioned Thursday that a meaningful contribution to group earnings may take time, as th...
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FSC's relocation to Sejong stirs unease across financial industry
The Financial Services Commission’s (FSC) planned relocation to the administrative city of Sejong next year is raising concerns across the financial industry about potential disruptions to communicati...
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Hansae Mobility opens Uzbekistan plant to expand Central Asian business
QUVASOY, Uzbekistan — Hansae Mobility, a Korean automotive parts manufacturer supplying global carmakers, has expanded its overseas production capacity with the completion of a new plant in Quvasoy, i...
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SK, Samsung among Korean firms considering Westinghouse stake acquisition
Major Korean companies including Samsung, SK and Doosan are considering participating in the acquisition of a stake in U.S. nuclear power company Westinghouse, according to industry sources. If privat...
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Taihan Cable & Solution wins large US power grid turnkey project
Taihan Cable & Solution, a leading power cable and energy infrastructure manufacturer, said Thursday that its U.S. subsidiary has won a turnkey extra-high-voltage grid project in the United States, ca...
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CJ ONE launches global membership service for foreign visitors
CJ OliveNetworks, the digital and technology unit of CJ Group, is branching into the travel industry with a new global membership service that enables foreign visitors in Korea to earn rewards and red...
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FADU unveils world's 1st file-semantic SSD to power AI workloads
Korean data center chipmaker FADU has unveiled what it calls the world’s first file-semantic solid-state drive (SSD), a storage technology designed to help artificial intelligence (AI) systems access ...
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Korean, US biz leaders call for support to accelerate Korean investment projects in US
Korean and U.S. business leaders on Thursday called for faster regulatory approvals, tax and financial support, and visa reforms to ensure the successful implementation of major Korean investment proj...
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Filipinos rank among top 3 AI users on messaging platform
Filipinos rank among the top three markets worldwide for artificial intelligence feature usage on Rakuten Viber, according to the messaging platform, with young professionals among the most active use...
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MIDEA kicks off Xpress Hub tour with space and money saving appliances
Written by INQUIRER.net Tech Editor Jayvee Fernandez for Midea As a southie, I really make it a point to make my trips up north worth the drive. After discovering the MIDEA Xpress Hub was unveiling it...
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Alibaba sets sights on record-breaking Singles’ Day with 1 million brands joining festival
Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, with the company expecting a record one million global brands to take p...
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DeepSeek offers user refunds after suffering another major outage
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek apologised and promised compensation to users after its services suffered a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday. DeepSeek will issue users a full refund f...
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Tillis calls on Pentagon inspector general to investigate Ukraine’s Starshield loss
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) says he and his Senate colleagues will ask the Defense Department’s inspector general to investigate Ukraine’s sudden loss of access to the military version of Starlink, know...
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The GeForce RTX 5090 could be discontinued as NVIDIA reportedly plans to launch a 24GB RTX 5080
The card could replace the current 16GB RTX 5080 and be the new flagship RTX 50 series gaming GPU....
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Apple’s wall-mounted HomeView makes buyers pay more for less
The wall-mounted model costs $399, like the tabletop version, despite lacking its speaker base. Schneider Electric’s compatible mounts cost up to $179....
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Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 raises researcher fears the Chinese model can fake AI safety tests
Chinese artificial intelligence lab Z.ai’s latest flagship model, GLM-5.3, may be sophisticated enough to “fake” its way through safety tests, according to a new report published Thursday, sparking ne...
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TSMC confirms talks with Elon Musk over Texas ‘Terafab’ but insists on operational control
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is in discussions regarding a potential role in Elon Musk’s proposed Terafab project in Texas, according to company chairman and CEO C.C. Wei, although he ...
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Sea and Google open chapter two of their AI pact before chapter one ships
Google has been busy making friends in Singapore. On 7 October, its AI Futures Fund teamed up with Granite Asia to write cheques of up to US$2 million into Asian AI startups. Eight days later, the sam...
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Character.ai was worth US$2.7B to Google. Disney just offered US$20M
In August 2024, Google wrote Character.ai a cheque for roughly US$2.7 billion. On Monday, Disney offered US$20 million. Both were for a licence to the same company’s technology. Allowing for the fine ...
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MIDEA kicks off Xpress Hub tour with space and money saving appliances
As a southie, I really make it a point to make my trips up north worth the drive. After discovering the MIDEA Xpress Hub was unveiling its new product line at Waltermart in North EDSA, I had to see fo...
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Start-up unveils prototype ‘heart’ of EUV lithography amid China chipmaking push
A Chinese start-up has unveiled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light-source machine – a component often described as the “heart” of advanced lithography systems – marking an early but critical ...
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AI can increase productivity. It can’t increase human capacity
We may be using AI to save hours of work, only to fill those hours with more work. This is something I have been thinking about as organisations accelerate their investment in AI. The productivity opp...
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AI and inflation are driving Singapore’s workplace anxiety. Employers are spending on the wrong fix
Most Singapore office workers know the ritual. A message lands at 10.47pm. It is not urgent. You answer it within 90 seconds anyway, not because the work demands it, but because you want someone to no...
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