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Autodesk software behind ā€˜Best Visual Effects’ Academy Award Nominees

The five movies nominated for the ā€œBest Visual Effectsā€ Oscar havea something fairly obvious in common: They all relied on special software to create the effects. Check out the various 3D tools from Autodesk that were used for each film […]

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Living in China: southern city drafts ‘Good Samaritan’ law

Shenzhen, a city in southern China, is considering passing a law to protect people who help strangers from being sued, after a case in which an injured toddler was ignored by 18 passers-by, a report said recently […]

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Autodesk 2011 Animation Show Reel Call for Submissions

Submit your latest short animation, game cinematic, film, feature film, commercial, broadcast, music video and episodic projects created using Autodesk software, such as AutodeskĀ® MayaĀ®, AutodeskĀ® 3ds MaxĀ®, AutodeskĀ® SoftimageĀ®, AutodeskĀ® MotionBuilderĀ®, and AutodeskĀ® Mudboxā„¢ software […]

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Shanghai World Expo: WALKING TOUR

The site of the Shanghai World Expo covers an area of 5.28 km2 in the Nanpu Bridge–Lupu Bridge region in the center of Shanghai along both sides of the Huangpu River […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Wealthy Chinese moving to the West

Growing numbers of rich Chinese are applying for permanent residency in Western countries under programmes that allow investors with a high net worth to “buy” citizenship […]

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China Economics Trend Watching

Education in China: Students shop for university courses abroad

More than 20,000 Chinese Students packed the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall during an annual education fair by overseas schools […]

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Design Innovation

Watch Moshe Safdie’s “What makes a Building unique?” talk at TED

Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users […]

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Design Innovation Software

Watch Camille Moussette’s “Sketching Multimodal and Haptic Interfaces” talk at IxDA | Interaction ’09 Conference

In this presentation, Camille Moussette explores the opportunities and challenges related to developing new multimodal interfaces specifically based on the touch sense. It will present various methods, techniques, tools and processes that interaction designers can use to assess, sketch, create and evaluate dynamic haptic and multimodal interfaces […]

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China Consumer Behavior Economics

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: the world’s biggest automobile maker and market

In 2009, driven by the stimulus package for auto consumption by Chinese government, China’s auto sales increased by 18 percent and China became the world’s largest auto producer with the world’s largest auto market […]

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Intellectual Property: Copyright challenges are “being addressed” by China

The world’s largest online community is grappling with challenges it faces in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), says an expert. The US Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus on held recently listed China as one of the world’s five-worst offenders in violating copyright […]