[Daily Focus News] Space #SpaceX has shown once again that subjecting rocket hardware to the real-world flight environment pays dividends. In its latest launch, the company achieved a key milestone in its Starship flight test campaign: returning the booster and the upper stage back to Earth in controlled ocean splashdowns. #space #flight #rocket #hardware #realworld #environment #dividends #launch #milestone #starship #test #campaign #booster #upperstage #earth #ocean #splashdowns #kotra #kotrasvitc
KOTRA IT Business Center
International Trade and Development
San Jose, CA 1,025 followers
South Korea's National Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (IT Business Center)
About us
The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency maintains a widespread presence with 128 offices dispersed across 85 nations globally. Meanwhile, the IT Business Center, functioning as a specialized team for tech company consulting and marketing research, operates in just three strategic hubs worldwide: Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Beijing. The IT Business Center functions as a subsidiary within the framework of KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency), a non-profit entity under the jurisdiction of the South Korean Government. Drawing upon Korea's remarkable IT capabilities and its cutting-edge IT infrastructure, we command a leading position on the worldwide IT stage. Our central mission revolves around empowering Korean IT SMEs, nurturing their growth in the US market. Through our extensive global network, we forge significant relationships and elevate the competitive standing of Korean businesses. **All material is distributed by KOTRA on behalf of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency. Additional Information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC.
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https://www.kotra.or.kr/english/index.do
External link for KOTRA IT Business Center
- Industry
- International Trade and Development
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- San Jose, CA
- Type
- Government Agency
Locations
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Primary
San Jose, CA 95134, US
Employees at KOTRA IT Business Center
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Rachel Ji-Young Yoo
NY Attorney, NY court Mediator and Arbitrator, NY Metro Super Lawyer (2018-2024)
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Salah Eldin Mohamed Ahmed (CMM , MSc. Int. Trade)
Ex. Marketing Manager at KOTRA Khartoum
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Dug Gyou Bok
ASEAN Specialist at KOTRA
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Eugene Seungho Park
Architect, AIA, Principal at STUDIO KYSH—
Updates
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[Daily Focus News] Hardware "It looks like #Samsung is planning a cheaper, FE version of its Galaxy Watch. A set of leaked renders shared by @Sudhanshu1414 on X shows what appears to be the 40mm device in blue, black, and pink. Along with the renders, the post also includes some leaked specs, including a 1.2-inch OLED display and a 30-hour battery life. The watch is rumored to feature the same Exynos W920 chip as the Galaxy Watch 4, in addition to 1.5GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It’s also expected to ship with Samsung’s One UI Watch 5 system. Samsung has yet to release a FE — or Fan Edition — version of its smartwatch. It has instead reserved the budget-friendly branding for its smartphones. But if Samsung really is working on a Galaxy Watch FE, it will be cheaper than the $299 Galaxy Watch 6. In a post on X, leaker @MysteryLupin claims the new device will cost €199, which could translate to a similar $199 price point in the US. Samsung is reportedly planning to launch three new smartwatches during its next Unpacked event that’s rumored to take place in July. The company could take the wraps off the Galaxy Watch 7, the Galaxy Watch FE, and a squircle-shaped Galaxy Watch Ultra — making its wearable lineup look a little more like Apple’s." #samsung #galaxywatch #fe #version #smartwatch #kotra #kotrasvitc
Samsung leak reveals a cheaper Galaxy Watch
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[Daily Focus News] AI "#Nvidia on Sunday unveiled its next generation of artificial intelligence chips to succeed the previous model, which was announced just months earlier in March. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the new AI chip architecture, dubbed “Rubin,” ahead of the COMPUTEX tech conference in Taipei. Rubin comes months after the March announcement of the upcoming “Blackwell” model, which is still in production and expected to ship to customers later in 2024. Huang’s announcement of Rubin appears to quicken the company’s already-accelerated pace of AI chip advancement. Nvidia has pledged to release new AI chip models on a “one-year rhythm,” as Huang put it on Sunday. The company had previously been operating on a slower two-year update timeline for chips. The turnaround from Blackwell to Rubin was a matter of less than three months, underscoring the competitive frenzy in the AI chip market and Nvidia’s sprint to preserve its dominant spot." #nvidia #rubin #nextgeneration #aichip #architecture #blackwell #artificialintelligence #kotra #kotrasvitc
Nvidia announces new AI chips months after latest launch as market competition heats up
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[Daily Focus News] Big Tech "French beauty and cosmetics giant #L’Oreal is working on a form of synthetically produced skin that it says will one day be able to “feel” like we do. At the Viva Technology conference in Paris last week, L’Oreal showed off demonstrations of “bioprinting,” technology that can 3D print humanlike skin, in action." #loreal #beauty #cosmetics #syntheticskin #bioprinting #technology #innovation #3dprinting #paris #vivatech #future #skincare #research #science #demonstration #kotra #kotrasvitc
L’Oreal says it's working on a form of bioprinted skin that can actually ‘feel’
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[Daily Focus News] Big Tech "#Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly its delivery drones longer distances, the company announced on Thursday. Amazon says it can now expand its Prime Air service, which uses delivery drones to fly individual packages, to more customers. The FAA requires that operators maintain a line of sight to their drones until it approves technology that can safely monitor and control them without visuals. Amazon says it spent years developing Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) technology for its drones to ensure they can detect and avoid obstacles in the air." #amazon #drones #approval #faa #delivery #primeair #technology #bvlos #aerial #innovation #logistics #expansion #customers #aerospace #automation #future #kotra #kotrasvitc
Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries | TechCrunch
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[Daily Focus News] AI "Jan Leike, a leading AI researcher who earlier this month resigned from OpenAI before publicly criticizing the company’s approach to AI safety, has joined OpenAI rival #Anthropic to lead a new “superalignment” team. In a post on X, Leike said that his team at Anthropic will focus on various aspects of AI safety and security, specifically “scalable oversight,” “weak-to-strong generalization” and automated alignment research. A source familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch that Leike will report directly to Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief science officer, and that Anthropic researchers currently working on scalable oversight — techniques to control large-scale AI’s behavior in predictable and desirable ways — will move to report to Leike as Leike’s team spins up." #anthropic #openai #new #team #superalignment #ai #safety #security #kotra #kotrasvitc
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com
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[Daily Focus News] Space "#SpaceX on Wednesday launched an inaugural batch of operational spy satellites it built as part of a new U.S. intelligence network designed to significantly upgrade the country's space-based surveillance powers, the first deployment of several more planned this year. The spy network was revealed in a pair of Reuters reports earlier this year showing SpaceX is building hundreds of satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, an intelligence agency, for a vast system in orbit capable of rapidly spotting ground targets almost anywhere in the world." #spacex #launch #satellites #intelligence #surveillance #deployment #network #reuters #nro #orbit #targets #kotra #kotrasvitc
SpaceX launches first satellites for new US spy constellation
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[Daily Focus News] AI "#Nvidia just made $14 billion worth of profit in a single quarter thanks to AI chips, and it’s hitting the gas from here on out: Nvidia will now design new chips every year instead of once every two years, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “I can announce that after Blackwell, there’s another chip. We’re on a one-year rhythm,” Huang just said on the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call. Until now, Nvidia’s produced a new architecture roughly once every two years — revealing Ampere in 2020, Hopper in 2022, and Blackwell in 2024, for example. (The industry darling H100 AI chip was Hopper, and the B200 is Blackwell, though those same architectures are used in gaming and creator GPUs as well.) But analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported earlier this month that the next architecture “Rubin” is coming in 2025, giving us an R100 AI GPU as soon as next year, and Huang’s comments suggest that report might be on the money. Huang says Nvidia will accelerate every other kind of chip it makes to match that cadence, too." #nvidia #new #ai #chips #every #year #kotra #kotrasvitc
Nvidia will now make new AI chips every year
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[Daily Focus News] AI "#Microsoft on Monday debuted a new category of personal computers with AI features as it rushes to build the emerging technology into products across its business and compete with Alphabet and Apple. At an event on its campus in Redmond, Washington, Chief Executive Satya Nadella introduced what Microsoft calls "Copilot+" PCs, saying that it and a range of manufacturers would sell them, including Acer and Asustek Computer. Microsoft launched the laptops as its shares trade near record highs following a Wall Street rally driven by expectations that AI will fuel strong profit growth for the company and its Big Tech rivals. Able to handle more artificial-intelligence tasks without calling on cloud data centers, the new computers will start at $1,000 and begin shipping on June 18." #microsoft #copilot+ #new #ai #features #pc #kotra #kotrasvitc
Microsoft debuts 'Copilot+' PCs with AI features
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[Daily Focus News] Biotech "#Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue the Elon Musk company has known about for years, according to five people familiar with the matter. The company knew from animal testing it had conducted ahead of its U.S. approval last year that the wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals, three of the sources said. Neuralink deemed the risk low enough for a redesign not to be merited, the sources added." #neuralink #disclosure #tiny #wires #brain #patient #position #issue #elonmusk #company #animaltesting #approval #sensitive #electrodes #decode #signals #risk #redesign #kotra #kotrasvitc
Exclusive: Musk's Neuralink has faced issues with its tiny wires for years, sources say
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