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Products with a story, tech with connection: The talks in Session 1 of TEDWomen 2015

on May 28, 2015

Before there can be momentum, you need a spark to set it off. In the first session of TEDWomen, we hear from speakers with crackling ideas — from re-imagining an irksome weed as something useful, to helping technology sense and react to our emotions. Short recaps of these talks… A weed, transformed. The water hyacinth looks like a beautiful flower. […]

Toward tech that can understand how we’re feeling: Rana el Kaliouby speaks at TEDWomen 2015

By Kate Torgovnick May

on May 28, 2015

Most human beings can tell the difference between a smirk and a smile. Our computers and devices, however? Not so much. Fifteen years ago, Rana el Kaliouby left her home in Egypt to study computer science at Cambridge. With her husband at home, she found herself homesick. “I realized I was spending more hours with my laptop than any other human,” she […]