I enjoy a good TED talk on YouTube every once in a while, but they can be pompous and nonsensical. Leave it to The Onion to illustrate this brilliantly.

Warner Brothers just passed on developing Ron Howard's 'The Dark Tower' movie trilogy and TV show, but this gunslinger ain't dead yet.

Yesterday, Vijay Kumar from the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab presented some of their research at the TED2012 conference.

"I invite you all to take the 'pull my finger' challenge.

Short answer: we don't know yet, but Gabe Zichermann posed the hypothesis while giving a TED talk on the benefits of letting kids play certain video games (and incorporating fun and co-operative gaming principles into classroom learning).

It's a given that Old Media loves hating on video games.

Not you.

Neill Blomkamp (District 9) was invited to TEDxVancouver to give a talk about science fiction.

Every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.