Today the FTC announced that Lifelock and the Commission settled claims related to the company's advertising. The action may sound serious and of course the press loves to sensationalize these types of stories. The truth, however, is far different than what the newspapers report. Obviously I'm bia ... Read more

<-- Friday Afternoon Nathalie and I were really glad we had decided to stay to the end. Saturday was a great day. Benoit Mandelbrot Score: 4 balloons I had so looked forward to hearing the inventor of fractals. Unfortunately, he did not deliver. He sat back and reflected on all his ... Read more

<-- Friday Morning Saturday Morning--> Friday afternoon and evening were packed with official TED talks, TED member talks (3 minutes on stage), and entertainment. I'll cover the major stuff here but there were too many short format talks to cover them all. Raghava KK Score: 10 bal ... Read more

<-- Thursday Afternoon Friday Afternoon --> John Underkoffler Score: 7 balloons Fun demo of the hand-gesture UI developed at MIT Media Labs that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report. Blaise Aguera y Arcas Score: 8 balloons Very cool demo of Microsoft technology t ... Read the ... Read more

<--Thursday Morning Friday Morning --> David Byrne Score: 5 balloons David Byrne of Talking Heads fame gave an interesting talk about the impact of spaces on music -- how the elements of different musical genres can be traced back to the spaces in which that music was perfo ... Re ... Read more

<-- Wednesday Afternoon Thursday morning was a celebration of reason -- my favorite part of the program. Michael Specter 8 (out of 10) balloons Michael Specter is a New Yorker journalist who lambasted the anti-science movement. He wrote the book Denialism: How Irrational ... Read t ... Read more

<-- Previous TED post Carter Emmart 5 (out of 10) balloons Carter is Director of Astrovisualization at Hayden Planetarium. He shared some cool renderings of the universe. Phil Kaplan then had 3 minutes to pitch Blippy - -a Twitter for shopping, where you can follow what your friends a ... Read more

Strong sessions today, and I enjoyed a string of great encounters with Bill Gross, Mark Zynga, Daniel Kahneman, Michael Shermer and Scott Kurnit. Daniel Kahneman Score: 9 Balloons The opening session, Mindshift, started with Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman , founder of behaviora ... Read ... Read more

I'm here in Long Beach, CA blogging my fourth TED conference. My objective is to once again provide a road map of the TED talks so that, as the TED talks are published, you can be sure to catch the best ones. In past years I've done this for TED '07 , TED '08 and TED '09 with increasing deta ... Read more

I present a guest post today on the emerging dangers of buggy automotive circuitry, contributed by an expert in both law and physics -- my father Martin Cowan... Do you have a Toyota or other car manufactured by Toyota (e.g., Lexus or Prius)? If not, do you have a car manufactured by anyone else ... Read more