He’s a young man from Egypt who refused to give in to hard conditions that threatened his passion for science. Though the unprofessional educational system forced him to study something he d... Read more
A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining the news for the past 30 years the software indicates points at w... Read more
Google’s new initiative, Ebda2, means “Start” in Arabic DUBAI — A bus branded with the Google logo will be traveling across 10 governorates in Egypt starting this week, including stops at un... Read more
Savvy techies are finding ways to circumvent politically motivated shutdowns of the internet WITH a tin can, some copper wire and a few dollars’ worth of nuts, bolts and other hardware, a do... Read more
Some of the fizz, if not a great big bubble, seems to have returned to media, depending on how you define “media.” Epitaphs for the Mubarak government all note that the mobilizing power of t... Read more
The costs and practicalities of switching off the internet in Egypt and elsewhere THE timing was dire. On January 25th American senators reintroduced a bill granting the president emergency... Read more
If there is a face to the revolt that has sprouted in Egypt, it may be the face of Khaled Said. Mr. Said, a 28-year-old Egyptian businessman, was pulled from an Internet cafe in Alexandria l... Read more
With the unruly sounds of protests in the background, the Egyptian man declared there were 50,000 demonstrators in the streets of Cairo. “And the number is growing,” he said, raising his voi... Read more