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Now, grab what you see on your video screen

  Bloomberg Forget 3D, soon you could be able to reach out and grab the things you see on the screen. Researchers from the US state of Massachusetts’ MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) say that they’ve developed a way of being able to “touch” objects that appear on the screen. Called Interactive Dynamic Video (IDV), what makes ...

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Tech startups target in-home care market for elderly

  Bloomberg Olga Mos was living with her extended family until last year when the 93-year-old found bathing, dressing and cooking too tough to handle solo. Her daughter-in-law Rhoda Wilkinson Domingo looked at assisted living homes. She didn’t like what she saw. “It was just sad,” Domingo said. “Everyone was clean and taken care of, but they looked very dull ...

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Malay kite art in peril

  Pantai Cahaya Bulan / AFP Shafie Jusoh loves traditional Malaysian kites so much that he can’t get a good night’s rest unless he’s been working on them daily. “I need to make kites everyday, if not I can’t sleep,” the 69-year-old said. He began making them when he was a young boy, skipping classes to entertain his flights of ...

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