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At TED, using tech innovations for good

At the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, scientists, politicians and celebrities focus on innovation for a better future.

CNET News staff
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At the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, an exclusive group of scientists, technologists, politicians and celebrities focus on innovation for a better future.

This is your brain on TED

A neurologist explains synesthesia--a cross-wiring of the senses of hearing, vision and touch. Is this how poetry is born?
March 12, 2007

TED: Branson's Virgin Galactic up in 2009

blog Even though executives have said they expect the company to take the first tourists into space in 2008, it looks like 2009 is a better bet.
March 12, 2007

At TED, changing the future of the world is entertainment

Sims creator, Lost writer and former eBay president discuss how technology and entertainment can change the world.
March 10, 2006

AMD unveils computer-lab design challenge

The Open Architecture Prize ties in to the chipmaker's efforts to bring computing and the Internet to more of the world's people.
March 9, 2007

Tapping TED to get tech to help others

A gathering of the rich, famous and geeky hears ambitious wishes from Bill Clinton and biologist E.O. Wilson.
March 9, 2007

Photos: Bill Clinton tops TED trio

Clinton was one of three winners of the annual TED Prize, which funds wishes to change the world.
March 9, 2007

In search of scientific inspiration at TED

At the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, Nobel prize winners, politicians, athletes and celebrities rub elbows in the name of science.
March 8, 2007

TED: An argument for legal digital remixing

blog One high point for the artists and designers at TED was a talk from Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University law professor and chair of the Creative Commons project.
March 8, 2007

TED: Bumping up desktop design

blog Software developer Anand Agarawala demonstrated his new desktop-interface software, BumpTop, which lets people push and pull icons on the desktop, rather than point and click them.
March 8, 2007