Vijay Kumar builds small, agile robots that fly, swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams.
The adoptive father of three young children in Troy, Ohio, was charged Thursday with raping three of his adopted sons and prostituting his 10-year-old son out to two other men.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is pleased with his company's massive growth, but he fears that getting too large will start "an Armageddon" with cable networks.
One month before Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by authorities in his country, he made a powerful case for free expression in a film shown at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach, California.
TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation.
Online video has gotten a bum rap. YouTube is often thought of as a home for juvenile idiocy, mindless narcissism and not much more. The collective 80 million hours we spend watching it every day seems to some like a terrible waste of human attention.
A surprise appearance by WikiLeaks.org founder Julian Assange at the TED Global conference in Oxford, England, has cast new light on the activities of the site and its mysterious leader.
It doesn't seem like comedian Sarah Silverman would be offended by much.
The no-holds-barred comedian, interviewed after her controversial TED Talk, says she doesn?t approve of fat jokes about women.
Moments after marine explorer Sylvia Earle finished her passionate plea to preserve vast stretches of the world's oceans at last year's TED conference, a foundation executive walked up to her and pledged a million dollars for the cause.
Meet TED
updated: Wed Oct 28 2009 18:31:00
TED curtaor Chris Anderson explains how the organization has become a source of education and inspiration for millions.
The Internet age's philosopher-king, Lessig argues in favor of abolishing the anti-piracy laws corporations have pushed so hard to install
Whenever someone tells you that fundamental laws of economics have changed, it's usually smart to walk away. There was a lot of such talk in the late '90s, with hucksters claiming that the Internet had altered the rules for everything from productivity to inflation. You'd think that the market bust of 2000 and the lean years thereafter eliminated all notions that the business cycle was an anachronism.
Quick: Name the biggest star in prime-time television.
It started life two years ago as a seminal magazine article, then became a blog, a topic of discussion at every Silicon Valley party, and now, finally, a book. The Long Tail, by Wired editor-in-chi...
In 1903, an Eastern European immigrant and one-time street peddler named William Fox built a 149-seat movie theater in a penny arcade in Brooklyn.
The future is slippery prey, but it's easier to track when you remember Amara's Law. Roy Amara, founding member of the Institute for the Future, was one of the first people to think seriously about...
A couple weeks ago, my wife and I caught a lengthy but entertaining promo for the Winter Olympics on NBC. It consisted of ice skaters skating, plus a song that combined hip-hop and arena rock by a group we didn't know.
Business 2.0: Growing for the Goldupdated: Sat Oct 01 2005 00:01:00
Forget California--the next gold rush could have prospectors running for the cornfields. At least that's the hope of Chris Anderson, founder of the world's first gold-farming company, Tiaki Interna...
Australia's World Cup-winning rugby league coach Chris Anderson is the new coach of Welsh rugby union side Newport-Gwent, the Welsh regional team said on Wednesday.
Australia's richest man Kerry Packer has reshuffled management at his listed media company Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) after its chief executive quit suddenly.
Chris Anderson, chief executive of SingTel's Australian arm Optus, is stepping down after seven years running the No. 2 Australian carrier.
Sitting in his Amsterdam office at European broadband provider Chello in December, Michael Braun, a 31-year-old vice president--of what he's not quite sure--surfs the Web and counts down the days u...
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