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Group photo: TED Translators, TEDx hosts

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More than 3,000 people have volunteered to translate TEDTalks into (at last count) 77 languages. Above are some of those dedicated volunteers, on the plaza of the Ashmolean Museum after Session 9 for a breezy group portrait. The group below, clearly bursting with energy, are TEDx hosts — people who run independent TED-like events in []

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Announcing TEDWomen!

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From stage at TEDGlobal 2010, Pat Mitchell announces the next TED conference: TEDWomen, this December in Washington DC. TEDWomen will reveal: Who are the women leading change? What ideas are they championing? And how are they shaping the future? Over the past several years, our ideas on women have changed. A new lens reveals women []

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Thomas Dolby’s band at TEDGlobal

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This year at TEDGlobal, Thomas Dolby has assembled his own group of musicians to perform with him on stage: Matthew Seligman Bass In the late ’70s, bassist Matthew Seligman set the groove for British psychedelic guitar-pop group The Soft Boys. Then he rode the crest of the New Wave movement with the Thompson Twins in []

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Report from TEDGlobal Session 6: Different by Design

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Miwa Matreyek travels from waterscape to starscape to cityscape and back again, magically interacting with visually striking animations. Neil Gershenfeld is trying to re-implement biology with semiconductors, conductors, insulators — to literally grow technology. He says “If a program is a structure, it can become a thing.” Tan Le shows a next-gen gaming interface: the []

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When ideas have sex: Matt Ridley on TED.com

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At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It’s not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. []

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Announcing TED's Global Conversation Project

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This morning at TEDGlobal 2010, our executive producer of TED Media, June Cohen, gave a sneak peek of the Global Conversation Project. Sponsored by GE, this development will let our TED.com users start and find a conversation in any language, to develop a truly worldwide conversation surrounding TEDTalks. Even more, the upcoming project will allow []