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TED is an amazing conference where world renowned scientists, designers, and entertainers have 18 minutes to speak about their passion. You can't help be inspired by their desire to make the world a better place for everyone. There are so many great talks on the TED.com site - and they're all free! Go to TED.com and get ready to be inspired. The full talks I mentioned in today's episode can be found below.

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TED is an amazing conference where world renowned scientists, designers, and entertainers have 18 minutes to speak about their passion. You can't help be inspired by their desire to make the world a better place for everyone. There are so many great talks on the TED.com site - and they're all free! Go to TED.com and get ready to be inspired. The full talks I mentioned in today's episode can be found below.

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TED is an amazing conference where world renowned scientists, designers, and entertainers have 18 minutes to speak about their passion. You can't help be inspired by their desire to make the world a better place for everyone. There are so many great talks on the TED.com site - and they're all free! Go to TED.com and get ready to be inspired. The full talks I mentioned in today's episode can be found below.

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With higher music royalty rates closer than ever, will Apple be forced to shut down its iTunes music store?

Apple drops its non-discolure agreement with iPhone developers.

First, RealNetworks preemptively sues the MPAA over its own DVD copying software, and then the MPAA sues Real over the same software. What's going on here?

Want to search Google circa 2001 and see how bloated the Internet has become over the past seven years? You'll find some pretty hilarious stuff if you do.

Facebook is already the world champion of social networks, but soon it could be the U.S. champ as well.

Microsoft wants to give you gifts for using its Live Search engine. Who do you want to bribe today?

A new piece of software lets users hack into e-passport security chips. You shouldn't worry too much about the major security threats it poses though, because most countries seem fine with the whole thing.

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Reuters reveals a security exploit in Adobe's Flash player that let sneaky users copy streaming videos off of Amazon's Video on Demand service. Sorry, but Amazon has since fixed the problem.

After facing certain doom, Internet radio services have won a major victory in the battle for lower royalty rates. Now they just have to figure out how to make money from advertisers, and they'll be set.

MTV's upcoming Rock Band expansion pack, AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack, will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart.

For anyone who may have felt creatively stymied by YouTube's 100MB file limit, rejoice! Thanks to the site's new uploading service, users now have an entire gigabyte to fill up with stuff no one wants to see.

How many times have you asked your friends, "When will I be able to have TiVo on my computer?" Hopefully, at least once, or else you probably won't care that much about this LiquidTV.

SpaceX successfully launched its own rocket into orbit over the weekend, paving the way for cheaper space travel in the future. Because nothing says "relaxed passengers" like "cheap space travel."

Tech companies, including Apple and Google, saw their stocks bounce back slightly yesterday after Wall Street's nosedive on Monday. However, some funny things happened to Google just before the markets closed and have left a few people scratching their heads.

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One of my favorite things about the Internet is that it allows a potentially large audience for the work of currently obscure artists, students, or just anyone with a good idea and a typepad account. Like this curtain that isn't even in production yet, but is already the darling of design blogs. It's embedded with magnets so it holds whatever shape you put it in.

A group of employees of the Takashimaya Department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district have turned old Tokyo Metro tickets into a portrait of the classic anime character "Astro Boy."

Over in Dubai, architects are working to design the world's first building in motion. The eighty story skyscraper will be the first building made out of pre-fabricated units, and each floor will be able to rotate independently of the others. So when you look at this building, it will ripple and change shapes, and never be the same at any given time. Dramamine not included in the price of a unit.

How about a fully operational qwerty keyboard with beautiful designs splashed across their 86 keys? How can you resist something that is described as "The perfect keyboard to feel happy and witty?" It's expensive - but not as bad as other designs...

One place on the web you can always go to find wonderful design is Web Urbanist. Every day you'll find carefully curated posts that bring together topical images from disparate sources, like this extensive collection of three-D graffiti art found on sidewalks, walls, and galleries throughout the world. Or these amazing tree houses. You can also check out some amazing abandoned cities, without accidentally making a visit to Silent Hill.

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The music industry's royalty agreement with online music services may have excluded internet radio, but it could pave the way for a similar deal in the future.

It's hard out there for a third-party iPhone/iPod developer, especially when Apple wants total control over distribution ofapplications and Google is promising "radical openness."

eBay wants to try something in the U.S. that's already failed miserably in Australia:no more paying by checks or money orders.

Google In Quotes lets you compare what various politicians have said about important issues. Great tool for political education or diabolical smear tactic by the liberal media?

A new security technology analyzes your body temperature and heart rate to tell if you're a terrorist. At least now you can stop being nevous about flying and start being nervous about being booked as a terrorist.

Want to see the adorable robotphone that will soon enslave us all?

If you love viral marketing as much as you love Wario Land: Shake It, then your head might just explode after you watch this.

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T-Mobile's G1 is officially revealed, and aside from a few disappointing surprises, it's pretty much exactly what we were expecting.

AmazonMP3 will be G1's featured music provider. Can you say, 'iWho?'

There are these things called 'blogs,' and it turns out they're kind of a big deal.

The New York Times' new TimesPeople taps into everyone's two favorite things: news and social networking.

A new study shows that college students can't tell the difference between safe and dangerous pop-up windows. Better yet, they don't care either. Ah, college.

Netflix teams up with CBS and Disney to stream popular television shows. It's nice to see pre-teens and octogenarians finally finding common/non-creepy ground.

GE may or may not have chosen Zoho over Google to join its corporate networking program.

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You know how we always joked about people being able to watch us through our webcams without us knowing it? Turns out, it's not a joke anymore.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider malfunctioned and now we have to wait at least two months to see if the world ends. At least no one has overreacted yet.

The Japanese are planning to build a space elevator. No word yet on who will supply the music.

Microsoft announces it will buy $40 billion worth of stock in a company it can't get enough of...itself. Could this be the beginning of a self-love trend in the tech industry?

Are flash memory cards the future of digital music? Probably not, but they could lead to cheaper flash disks and other unexpected bonuses.

CBS puts an entire television news studio in your hand (sort of), and asks you to be an unpaid, unaccountable and untrained member of the digitized fourth estate. Will you answer the call?

Apple recalls faulty iPhone 3G power adapters and offers free replacements.

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First Sarah Palin's email getshacked, and now "hacktivists" have exposed hundreds of user accounts on Bill O'Reilly's website? Is nothing sacred?

EBay wants to sell off its multi-million dollar misstep, StumbleUpon, before it costs them any more money. At least, they won't lose as much as they did with Skype. Ouch.

If you Google "impressively personal and compelling," chances are you'll come across Sergey Brin's new blog. It has nothing to do with him co-founding Google either.

Independent developers are hitting their creative strides and finding fistfuls of cash thanks to Apple's massively successful application store.

Microsoft's new ad campaign shifts into its post-Seinfeld phase and takes aim at Apple in earnest. "I'm a PC, and I'm starting to make sense."

By the time you're done reading this paragraph, someone cooler than you will be eating a pizza they bought from a vending machine. You're right to feel jealous. I know I am.

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A new Pew survey examines video game habits of kids. The results may surprise you (in a good way).

Activision Blizzard is planing to tap into the rarely talked about club-scene-gamer demographic with DJ Hero.

A lot of Facebook users are so upset over the site's new design they've been forced to do something drastic: become Facebook developers?

Google's Android phone now has an even more official-yet-not-official release date of October 17. Then what are we going to talk about?

Want to find all of your bogus articles that were deleted from Wikipedia? You might want to clear your schedule first.

Canon puts pressure on Nikon by introducing its first HD-video DSLR digital camera.

If Google had actually bought Valve yesterday, it would have been huge news. Good thing we didn't get swept up in the rumor storm.

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Apple is expected to release new MacBooks next month. Could this finally be the start of a single MacBook line?

Google's Android-powered phone is now one step closer to an official announcement.

IMDB now lets you stream thousands of movies and TV shows for free.

All sorts of information gets leaked about the new BlackBerry touchscreen phone.

A study has found that social networks are doing some interesting things to Internet porn. And it doesn't involve anything "amateur."

Little known fact: Terrorists are huge World of Warcraft fans. Or they might not be. The government's looking into it.

Yahoo's new bizarre ad campaign puts Microsoft's new bizarre ad campaign to shame.

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Best Buy gets best buy on Napster. Will the two companies finally be able to take a bite out of Apple?

Electronic Arts officially withdraws its bid for Take-Two Interactive for thirtieth and final time.

If you enjoy watching porn while flying, you should know that it's creeping out a lot of people.

A growing number of employers are using social networks to do background checks on job applicants.

World Wide Web creator wants the internet to be truly be accesible worldwide and to contain more credible material. Even if it's possible, is it necessary?

The Wall Street Journal redesigned its homepage and added social networking components to make business news fun again.

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Thanks to some key partners, Amazon will bring wine to your door like never before. (Feel free to use that as your slogan, Amazon.)

User reviews of Will Wright's game Spore vanish then reappear on Amazon.

Yahoo gets its first redesign in two years and also courts third-party developers for the first time.

MySpace is set to roll out its new music service that will give you access to iTunes-rivaling amounts of content for free.

Seth McFarlane's YouTube channel shoots to number one in just a week. The high profile deal between McFarlane and Google seems to be paying off.

Microsoft rolls out its second Seinfeld/Bill Gates ad, and everyone is still just as confused about the whole 'icebreaker' strategy.

HP rumored to be working on its own operating system to replace Windows Vista on its computers. Could HP be the next Apple?

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