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Kevin Roose: The value of your humanity in an automated future

To futureproof your job against robots and AI, you should learn how to code, brush up on your math skills and crack open an engineering textbook, right? Wrong. In this surprisingly comforting talk, tech journalist Kevin Roose makes the case that rather than trying to compete with the machines, we should instead focus on what makes us uniquely hu...

Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu: What your smart devices know (and share) about you

Once your smart devices can talk to you, who else are they talking to? Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu wanted to find out -- so they outfitted Hill's apartment with 18 different internet-connected devices and built a special router to track how often they contacted their servers and see what they were reporting back. The results were surprising -- ...

Stacey Abrams' State of the Union response and more updates from TED speakers

The TED community is brimming with new projects and updates. Below, a few highlights. Stacey Abrams responds to the US State of the Union. Politician Stacey Abrams spoke from Atlanta on behalf of the Democratic party following the State of the Union address. In her speech, she focused on the fight against bigotry, bipartisanship in a tur...

Posted February 11, 2019

Death, resurrection and survival in today's must-read stories

Game on. In the name of science "Does someone riding a flying griffin react the same as a kid riding a city bus when infected with a deadly illness?" Such is the world in which we live that such a question is actually deadly serious. This fantastic, fascinating Nautilus piece looks at how the game World of Warcraft was infected by a design bug ...

Posted May 9, 2014

How a warm embrace is saving the lives of infants

When Jane Chen and her team arrived in India in 2008, it was with a bold idea. They wanted to develop a simple, affordable solution to a terrible problem: infant mortality. They went to the right place. According to a recent Child Mortality report, produced by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, India accounts for more t...

Posted December 18, 2013

Megan Smith named Chief Technology Officer of the US, the politics of Hello Kitty and book selections for dark times

Members of the TED community have lots of news to share this week. Some highlights: Megan Smith, a longtime TEDster who boldly stepped onto the TEDWomen 2013 stage to fill in when a speaker lost her voice, has been named the Chief Technology Officer of the United States. "Megan has spent her career leading talented teams and taking cutting-...

Posted September 9, 2014

Forecasting crime in Rio de Janeiro, a new Marvel comic, and an Airbnb to rejuvenate a rural community

The TED community has been very busy over the past few weeks. Below, some newsy highlights. Crime forecasting in Rio. Before the 2016 Olympic Games, worries ran high that crime in Rio might affect the mega-event; one reported attack at the Games (which actually might not have happened) grabbed headlines around the world during the Games. ...

Posted August 19, 2016

Joy Buolamwini: How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures. Now she's on a mission to fight bias in machine learning, a phenomenon she calls th...

TED News in Brief: Olafur Eliasson puts sunshine in your pocket, Thomas Dolby launching a center for technology + arts

This week, so much TED-related news hit the transom. Below, some of the highlights. Artist Olafur Eliasson (watch his TED Talk) muses on his latest work -- "Little Sun," a miniature solar-powered lamp that puts five hours of sunlight in your pocket -- in this awesome video from our friends at The Creators Project. The best part: the video b...

Posted March 5, 2014

Meet 3 people who might just save the world

It can be easy to feel hopeless when it comes to the global climate. Meet three leaders who are actually making a difference. What does "making a real difference about climate change" mean, when clearly everything we've done so far hasn't been enough? Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 400 parts per million and rising. The Arctic ice cap hit...

Posted May 2, 2014

TEDxSCUT - an independently organized event

About this event: Let there be light 要有光 2013年10月13日，我们在华南理工大学南校区的学术报告厅举办了"要有光"分享会。来自建筑，设计，艺术，传媒等不同领域的6位杰出人士共同与我们分享他们生命中的光芒。 "Let there be light"TED event was held at academic report hall in south campus of SCUT on Oct 13th, 2013. Six stunning talkers from different feilds including architecture, design, art and media shared with us the light of their live...

Event details: Guangzhou, China · October 12, 2013

How can we save more lives during a refugee crisis? See it coming before it hits.

Refugee advocate Rana Novack is using AI to help predict new waves of migration -- so the world can help before disaster strikes. Mass migrations are part of our modern reality: The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes, by war or persecution, ballooned to 68.5 million people in 2017, according to the UN. Many of these people sta...

Posted June 19, 2018

Jeanne Gang: Buildings that blend nature and city

A skyscraper that channels the breeze ... a building that creates community around a hearth ... Jeanne Gang uses architecture to build relationships. In this engaging tour of her work, Gang invites us into buildings large and small, from a surprising local community center to a landmark Chicago skyscraper. "Through architecture, we can do much m...

Break the mold: The talks of TED@BCG 2017

Complex times require a bold embrace of diversity and difference -- and an ability to turn the unknown into an advantage. How can we tap into the unexpected? For a fifth year, BCG has partnered with TED to bring experts in education, diversity, AI, biology and more to the stage to share ideas from the forefront of innovation. At this year...

Posted October 5, 2017

Things we think we know: Notes from Session 2 of TEDSummit

In Session 2, our speakers debunked received wisdom, looked critically at common knowledge -- and restarted conversations we thought were closed. Here, our report: Antique lamps, new sound. Brothers Ryan and Hays Holladay opened Session 2 completely unseen. In near pitch-black darkness, broken antique lamps lit up one by one -- each perfectl...

Posted June 27, 2016

Our robotic overlords: The talks of Session 2 of TED2017

Are machines going to save or destroy us? It's a question we've been grappling with since we first put 1s and 0s together to create computer code. And it feels like we're no closer to answering it; machines are growing smarter by the day, and while they're taking us to places we've never imagined, we seem to be losing turf as the supreme thinkin...

Posted April 25, 2017

Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class

India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a re-think of all human services.

What will we eat on Mars?

The past, present and future of food in space -- from astronaut ice cream to "Enchilasagna" on Mars. John Glenn was the first American to eat in space. Aboard Friendship 7 in 1962, he squeezed applesauce and puréed beef with vegetables from metal tubes down a straw and into his mouth through a port in his helmet. The world was captivat...

Posted November 21, 2014

Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government

What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society" ...

The TED Interview: Sir Ken Robinson (still) wants an education revolution

Do schools kill creativity? Back in 2006, Sir Ken Robinson posed this question to the TED audience -- and boy, did it touch a nerve. More than fifty million views and a decade later, head of TED Chris Anderson sits down with Sir Ken to dig into the changes and progress that have been made, and to see if the answer now is any different. How are e...

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government

Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments -- and their neighbors.

Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet's immune system

The beauty of hackers, says cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari, is that they force us to evolve and improve. Yes, some hackers are bad guys, but many are working to fight government corruption and advocate for our rights. By exposing vulnerabilities, they push the Internet to become stronger and healthier, wielding their power to create a better...

Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul"

What kind of robots does an animator / jazz musician / roboticist make? Playful, reactive, curious ones. Guy Hoffman shows demo film of his family of unusual robots -- including two musical bots that like to jam with humans.