👁How aerosols brighten clouds — and cool the planet
🧠Sarah J. Doherty
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Here's a conundrum: the same aerosol pollutants that harm human health also help cool the climate, says atmospheric scientist Sarah J. Doherty. Is there a way to clean up the air without warming the planet? Exploring the unintended consequences of reducing air pollution, she makes the case for a better understanding of marine cloud brightening — or intentionally adding sea salt aerosols to clouds over the ocean, which could reflect sunlight back into space and potentially reduce global warming.
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#science #tech #technology #pollution #health #environment #climate_change

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👁Would you use a machine that predicts your future?
🧠Thomas Hofweber
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣A couple has been considering getting engaged, but they’re worried about divorce statistics. An AI-based model was just released that can predict your likelihood of divorce with 95% accuracy. The only catch is the model doesn’t offer any reasons for its results. So, should they decide whether or not to get married based on this AI’s prediction? Thomas Hofweber explores AI’s transparency problem. [Directed by Hannah Lau-Walker, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Phil Brookes].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #AI #technology #machine_learning #relationships #ethics

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👁With AI, anyone can be a coder now
🧠Thomas Dohmke
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if you could code just by talking out loud? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shows how, thanks to AI, the barrier to entry to coding is rapidly disappearing — and creating software is becoming as simple (and joyful) as building LEGO. In a mind-blowing live demo, he introduces Copilot Workspace: an AI assistant that helps you create code when you speak to it, in any language.
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#technology #code #tech #innovation #AI #future #education #software #computers

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👁Could AI predict the future?
🧠Thomas Hofweber
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣A couple has been considering getting engaged, but they’re worried about divorce statistics. An AI-based model was just released that can predict your likelihood of divorce with 95% accuracy. The only catch is the model doesn’t offer any reasons for its results. So, should they decide whether or not to get married based on this AI’s prediction? Thomas Hofweber explores AI’s transparency problem. [Directed by Hannah Lau-Walker, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Phil Brookes].
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👁The tech that seems to break the laws of physics
🧠Anna Rothschild
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Typically, with any piece of technology, you pump one unit of energy in and you get about one out. That’s just the first law of thermodynamics: energy has to be conserved. But there’s a piece of technology called a heat pump, where for every bit of energy you put in, you get three to five times as much heat out. What wizardry is this? Anna Rothschild investigates the science of heat pumps. [Directed by Kevin Herrmann, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by André Aires].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #technology #energy #renewable_energy #electricity #physics #science

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👁12 predictions for the future of technology
🧠Vinod Khosla
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Techno-optimist Vinod Khosla believes in the world-changing power of "foolish ideas." He offers 12 bold predictions for the future of technology — from preventative medicine to car-free cities to planes that get us from New York to London in 90 minutes — and shows why a world of abundance awaits.
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👁Why AI needs a "nutrition label"
🧠Kasia Chmielinski
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What do sandwiches have to do with AI? Data reformist Kasia Chmielinski helps us think about artificial intelligence with a useful food metaphor — and breaks down why AI systems should have "nutrition labels" to ensure the development of fairer, more transparent algorithms.
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👁Could we build a miniature sun on Earth?
🧠George Zaidan
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Stars have cores hot and dense enough to force atomic nuclei together, forming larger, heavier nuclei in a process known as fusion. In this process, the mass of the end products is slightly less than the mass of the initial atoms. But that “lost” mass doesn’t disappear — it’s converted to energy ... a lot of energy. So, can we harness this energy to power the world? George Zaidan investigates. [Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio, narrated by George Zaidan, music by Cem Misirlioglu, Brooks Ball].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #science #nuclear_energy #Sun #energy #renewable_energy #technology

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👁Next up for AI? Dancing robots
🧠Catie Cuan
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Would you tango with a robot? Inviting us into the fascinating world of dancing machines, robot choreographer Catie Cuan highlights why teaching robots to move with grace, intention and emotion is essential to creating AI-powered machines we will want to welcome into our daily lives.
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👁Magic and wonder in the age of AI
🧠David Kwong
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣With AI everywhere you look, you may think you've seen it all. Magician David Kwong suggests otherwise, proposing advancements in technology actually increase opportunities for wonder. In an entertaining performance, he invites an audience member on stage to exhibit the mind-reading magic of ChatGPT — and explores how tech elevates our capacity for awe.
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#magic #AI #technology #performance #storytelling

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👁The satellite helping slow climate change — right now
🧠Millie Chu Baird
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Meet MethaneSAT: the satellite circling Earth right now to track global emissions from methane: a highly potent, short-term greenhouse gas. Environmental advocate Millie Chu Baird details the heat-trapping side effects of a planet full of methane — and explains why understanding where it comes from and taking steps to reduce it is the single most important thing we can do to affect climate change in our lifetimes. (MethaneSAT is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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#technology #space #climate_change #environment #science

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👁The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers
🧠Tammy Ma
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In 2022, physicist Tammy Ma and her team achieved a scientific breakthrough decades in the making: fusion ignition, or the combining of two atoms to generate more energy out of a reaction than was put in — recreating on Earth the same process that powers the Sun. She explains how they used a giant laser (way, way bigger than you're thinking) to catalyze this reaction and shares a vision for how this technology could change the world by creating limitless clean energy.
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👁A firework ladder to the sky — and the magic of explosive art
🧠Cai Guo-Qiang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣From a boy setting off small explosions in his living room to the creator of world-famous pyrotechnic events, multidisciplinary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has always been drawn to gunpowder. He gives a stunning tour of his work — including his fireworks spectacle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his "sky ladder" of fire reaching to the clouds and new work created with AI — and shows how his art probes the line between destruction and construction, control and freedom, violence and beauty. (This talk was delivered in Mandarin and translated live into English. The translation was put through a custom AI model of Cai Guo-Qiang's voice, powered by technology from Metaphysic. You'll hear how Cai would sound if he were speaking English.)
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👁Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler
🧠Hartmut Neven
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Quantum computers obtain superpowers by tapping into parallel universes, says Hartmut Neven, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI. He explains how this emerging tech can far surpass traditional computers by relying on quantum physics rather than binary logic, and shares a roadmap to build the ultimate quantum computer. Learn how this fascinating and powerful tech can help humanity take on seemingly unsolvable problems in medicine, sustainable energy, AI, neuroscience and more.
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👁A mouse with two dads — and a new frontier for biology
🧠Katsuhiko Hayashi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣You're familiar with the story: a sperm and an egg meet to create an embryo, which has the potential to give rise to new life. But what if you could create a sperm or egg from any cell, even a single skin cell? Biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi discusses the science of in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) — an experimental technique for creating lab-made sperm or eggs out of just about any type of cell — and explores its implications for endangered species, human reproduction and more.
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#biology #science #animals #medical_research #DNA #human_body #genetics #health #technology

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👁Floating farms, sponge cities and the climate solutions already working
🧠Harjeet Singh
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if every dollar you spend today could save you 10 dollars tomorrow? Development expert Harjeet Singh reveals how climate solutions like floating farms and “sponge cities” that absorb floodwater aren’t just clever adaptations — they’re smart economics. He explains why wealthy nations must fund the adaptation efforts of developing countries and shows how anybody can build resilience to climate change no matter where they are.
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#climate_change #agriculture #farming #adaptation #sustainability #environment #technology #science #Countdown

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👁How video games can power up your parenting
🧠Hannah Boquet
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Parenting an eye-rolling teenager glued to a gaming system is not a simple feat, but what if you could turn screen time into an opportunity for connection? Hannah Boquet shares how she decided to play video games with her kids and discovered the power of esports to foster trust, communication and essential life skills. Dive deeper into how you can strengthen family bonds, support your child’s development — and maybe even be considered “cool” by your kid.
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#gaming #sports #family #kids #entertainment #relationships #parenting #personal_growth #technology

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👁How nearly dying helped me discover my own cure (and many more)
🧠David Fajgenbaum
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Physician-scientist David Fajgenbaum was dying from a rare disease that didn't have a cure — until he discovered a lifesaving drug that wasn't originally intended for his condition. In an astonishing talk, he shares how his near-death experience led him to cofound the nonprofit Every Cure, which is using AI to uncover hidden treatments in existing medicines in order to save lives. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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👁Sitting all day is killing you — here's what to do about it
🧠Manoush Zomorodi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣You've heard that too much time online is bad for your mental health, but what is it doing to your body? In this energizing talk, journalist and author Manoush Zomorodi explains how tech habits (including sitting all day) affect your physical health, from making you feel exhausted to raising rates of chronic illness. With early results from a 20,000-person experiment, she shares a practical solution to go from "wired and tired" to feeling healthier and more productive.
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👁What ancestral intelligence can teach us about AI
🧠Nanjira Sambuli
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today's AI evolution, asking: When tech giants battle for dominance, who gets trampled in the process? She introduces a new ethical compass for AI, showing how people across the continent are charting a different path for the future of tech.
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#AI #technology #Africa #innovation #humanity #community #software

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