Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll

http:www.ted.com Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, “…for the creation and distribution of news releases via email.” Along the way he shares some nutty statistics about the growing legal problem of frivolous patents.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

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Samsung Galaxy S3 – What To Expect

In this video I take a look at what to expect with the Samsung Galaxy S3 / Galaxy S III including the official announcement, release date and the specs including the 4.6″ to 4.8″ 1080p screen, 8 megapixel camera, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, quad core Samsung Exynos processor and 4G LTE.

How do we heal medicine? | Atul Gawande

Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine — with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

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Speed Up and Fix Your Internet with Google DNS

More info on Google Public DNS: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

In this video I give a tutorial on how to speed up your internet to make it faster and fix problems by switching to Google DNS. In the video I show you how to do this with Windows as well as Mac OS X and a Belkin router although you can do this with any internet router or modem. Google DNS is generally going to be faster at resolving DNS queries which can sometimes make web pages load a second or more faster and is also very helpful if your internet only works intermittently.

Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations … by banjo

http://www.ted.com TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer improving US-China relations — until she picked up a banjo. She tells a moving story of the remarkable connections she’s formed touring across the United States and China while playing that banjo and singing in Chinese.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

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Google Nexus Tablet – What To Expect

In this video I go over what to expect with the Google Nexus Tablet. The Nexus Tablet should be announced at Google I/O 2012 in June and likely go on sale in July for a price of $200. Based on the Asus Eee Pad Memo 370T it should have a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad core CPU, 7 inch screen, front and rear facing cameras and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.