The MPAA is fond of throwing out numbers that show just how damaging copyright theft is to the US economy. Stealing content costs more than $58 billion annually, for instance, and robs 373,000 Continue reading…
TEDTalks, the popular 18-minute keynote presentations on a whole range of subjects from the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference, have come to Netflix. The format is a little different, Continue reading…
The non-profit foundation behind the enlightening TED conferences has launched a YouTube education channel called TED-Ed. Consisting of animated videos less than 10 minutes long, the channel is an Continue reading…
From luminaries like Bill Gates to little-known professors, speakers at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) conference have the opportunity to deliver an 18-minute message to both the Continue reading…
Google's just pulled the curtains off of its "Solve for X" website, and it appears that Google is nearing the creation of a TED-like think tank that will focus on talks about radical technological Continue reading…
The best way to communicate with someone is undoubtedly to speak in the same language, and that's exactly what a new prosthetic eye (which we saw last year) is designed to do in people with some Continue reading…
Ekso Bionics has been showing its powered exoskeletion (formerly called "eLEGS") for people normally bound to wheelchairs for a little while now, but at the TED MED 2011 conference this past October, Continue reading…
Some elementary school kids play video games or ride bikes with their friends. Sixth-grader Thomas Suarez builds iOS apps — and has started a club at his school to encourage others to do the same. Continue reading…
Some musicians may be working towards the ugliest piece of music without knowing it, but Scott Rickard set out with aural torture in mind from the get go — in the TED video below he discusses the Continue reading…
