Bill Gates says pandemic could get ‘worse than I would have expected’ — and calls for leadership Tech leaders typically use their TED talks to sketch out an optimistic vision of the future, but today Bill Gates… Read More
Institute for Protein Design wins $45M in funding from TED’s Audacious Project The era of engineering proteins for medical applications just got a lot closer, thanks to a five-year, $45 million grant… Read More
The talk of TED? Paul Allen’s Holodome brings immersive reality to conference in Vancouver Holodome, the immersive virtual reality experience from the late Paul Allen, is all about transporting visitors to other worlds. And… Read More
Elon Musk digs into his fixation with boring transit tunnels in a non-boring TED talk When billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a 40-minute TED talk last week in Vancouver, B.C., he could have started… Read More
Is AI evil? No, and that question distracts us from the real concerns, says AI2’s Oren Etzioni At times, modern artificial intelligence still feels like science fiction. A few decades ago, the kind of AI programs of… Read More
Microsoft shows off HoloLens-enabled ‘holographic teleportation’ and predicts the demise of 2D technology Microsoft’s Alex Kipman showed off the most detailed demo of the HoloLens yet during a TED talk in Vancover, B.C., on… Read More
Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses $1M TED Prize for crowdsourced quest Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak says she’ll use this year’s $1 million TED Prize to create a game that gives players… Read More
App of the Week: TED app gets us ready for BC in 2014 We were excited to see the news last week that the main TED conference is moving to Vancouver, B.C., in… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Digital tipping point for Post Office How many of you still send or receive letters and bills in the mail on a regular basis? This week… Read More
TEDx Rainier: Live online from the University of Washington TEDx Rainier is being held today at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, the latest in… Read More
TED for kids: 25 incredible speakers on tap this weekend An event in Redmond on Saturday will feature an incredible lineup of speakers with unique insights into social issues, global… Read More
