Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper

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http://www.ted.com With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.

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.

Browser Test: Chrome 15 vs Firefox 7 vs Internet Explorer 9 vs Opera 11.52 vs Safari 5.1

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Download Google Chrome 15.0.874.102: http://www.google.com/chrome/

Download Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

Download Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home

Download Opera 11.52: http://www.opera.com/browser/

Download Apple Safari 5.1.1: http://www.apple.com/safari/

In this video I compare Chrome 15 vs Firefox 7 vs Internet Explorer 9 vs Opera 11.52 vs Safari 5.1.1 to see which is fastest at Javascript, general web browsing, HTML5 compliance, memory usage and GPU hardware acceleration. Each browser has their own pros and cons as well as special features however here I just look at the raw benchmarks to determine the winner.

The benchmarks I use are Peacekeeper, Dromaeo, memory usage, HTML5 Fishbowl and the HTML5 Test. Each is run multiple times on the same Windows 7 computer to ensure a fair fight.

Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

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http://www.ted.com How does cancer know it’s cancer? At Jay Bradner’s lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 — and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research.

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.

Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

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http://www.ted.com Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.

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.

Nokia Lumia 710 & Lumia 800 First Look

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In this video I give a first look at the brand new Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 710 and Nokia Lumia 800. The Lumia 710 sports a 1.4GHz single core Qualcomm CPU, 3.7 inch 480×800 WVGA display and 5 megapixel rear facing camera with LED flash. Launching at some point before the end of the year it will sport the latest Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release at a fairly reasonable price of €270 or $375.

The new Nokia flagship, the Nokia Lumia 800 features a similar design to the Nokia N9 with a polycarbonate finish. It also sports a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapgragon processor, 3.7 inch 480×800 ClearBlack AMOLED screen and 8 megapixel rear facing camera with an aperture of F/2.2 and dual LED flash. The Lumia 800 is available for preorder now and will be on sale in November for €420 or about $585.

Steve Jobs Biography

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In this video I review the official Steve Jobs biography written by author Walter Isaacson. In the book Steve Jobs goes over his life, starting with creating Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak all the way up to the release of the iPad, iPhone, iPod and iCloud.