Neowin News Feed for: Ted

Check out Alex Kipman's mesmerizing HoloLens TED talk

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:40:01 +0000

Alex Kipman, the head of the Hololens project at Microsoft, gave a talk on the TED stage where he showed off some fantastic new Hololens demos and talked about the future of the technology. Read more...

XPRIZE challenges you to show the friendly face of AI, $5 million bounty for the winner

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:10:01 +0000

A new XPRIZE has been launched with the sole aim for spinning AI in a positive light via inspirational projects. Winners of the competition will be decided at TED2020 and receive $5m prize money. Read more...

The bizarre science of copyright math

Tyler Holman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:05:49 +0000

Listen.com co-founder Rob Reid takes a look at the entertainment industry's bizarre claims about the economic damage of piracy. Who knew your iPod contained $8 billion worth of stolen content? Read more...

Take a ride in Google's self-driving car [Video]

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:13:19 +0000

We’ve been hearing about Google’s self-driving car for quite some time now. They’ve caused their controversies, they’ve been the butt of their share of Skynet jabs, but at TED this year, people are getting to... Read more...

Amazon unveils Kindle Singles

Mike Brown — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:27:43 +0000

Lengthwise, writers have typically needed to decide whether to write short enough for a magazine article or long enough for a book, with hardly any middle ground, but a new product launched by Amazon today... Read more...