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Chinese search engine Baidu creates new OS for smartphones

09/07/201109/07/2011 John Montgallo

Baidu has announced that it will be taking another step that can be compared to Google in that it is getting set to launch its very own operating system for smartphones. Baidu is a Chinese company that is commonly referred to as the “Google of China”, as it runs the biggest search engine that country. Its smartphone operating system will be called Baidu Yi. Currently, the foundation of Baidu Yi is Google Android software, on top of which the entire OS experience has been constructed. However, in the future it…

China’s Terracotta Army comes to life in Singapore

06/18/2011 Stephen Vagus

China’s Terracotta Army Augmented Reality

The famed Terracotta Warriors have stood as silent sentries in China’s Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor for hundreds of years. The army of statues, numbering in the thousands, is testament of the forces the first emperor of China had at his command. They have been the subject of intrigue from scholars all over the world and countless visitors to China have been cowed by the stoicism of the stone army. Now the soldiers are coming to life with the help of mobile technology. The Asian Civilizations Museum (ACM) of…