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Ahmed Maher: 5 Facts on the Facebook Activist Allegedly Arrested in Cairo

Sources have told Wired.com that Ahmed Maher, a young activist who helped organize the uprising in Egypt, has been arrested. Wired's David Wolman reports receiving the news after violence broke out in Cairo, but it has yet to be confirmed. Surge Desk has five facts on Maher, whose Facebook activism helped bring protests...

When It Comes to Being Green, Browne Is No Pretender

"It's my favorite guitar, and I'm not just saying that." Legendary singer/songwriter Jackson Browne is cradling the beautiful new Jackson Browne Signature acoustic guitar, hand-crafted for him by Gibson, backstage after unveiling it at the recent NAMM music trade show in Anaheim, Calif. "And in the same way Gibson makes...

In Syria, Web Provides Small Window of Media Freedom

(Sept. 30) -- Digital freedom in Damascus? Don't count on it. During the times I've visited Syria, as a tourist not a journalist, I never encountered the same degree of state control that existed in North Korea or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But most of the media is state owned, the rest is state friendly and public dissent is...

Evangelist Bill Keller: Glenn Beck and Gandhi 'Going to Hell'

NEW YORK (Sept. 5) -- During the the inaugural worship service of a proposed "9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" on Sunday, evangelist minister Bill Keller slammed Islam and Mormonism as "lies from Satan." At the same time, Keller maintained that his project was not in opposition to the proposed construction of an...