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Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution.

Kevin Systrom launched popular photo-sharing app Instagram in October--and already it boasts around 5 million users. By comparison, it took years for startups such as Facebook and Twitter to reach that growth

Mimicking the highly efficient power-generation process of photosynthesis, an artificial leaf could change how the world gets energy. And new developments at MIT mean it could happen in the next few years. Earlier this year, MIT professor Daniel Nocera made a discovery : By dipping a cobalt-and phosphate-coated artificial silicon leaf into a jar of water, he could effectively mimic photosynthesis and create power at an efficiency greater than today's solar panels

A survey of developers at Apple's WWDC shows they all love the platform.

Developing countries lack both clean water and clean energy sources. By converting soiled water into energy and clean water, a new project could wipe away both problems. Waste to fuel facilities are nothing new--in the past few years, we've seen chicken poop-powered fuel cell plants , a scheme to use astronaut poop for fuel in space, and a town that's converting wastewater sludge into thermal energy.

"I'm smack in the middle of all of this, and it's hard to imagine legislation right now that we would know how to implement, or know what to do with," says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation.

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Juntos Finanzas, a budget-by-text program started at Stanford with a group of janitorial workers, is part Mint.com, part Weight Watchers. Now it's making real changes in the lives of lower-income workers. Saving money is hard for most people

Biofuel-powered aircraft have finally been approved, and could cut airlines' fuel costs in half. When's the maiden flight? Biofuel-powered aircraft have finally moved into the real world now that the U.S.-based Air Transport Association has approved a fuel blend of up to 50% organic waste and non-food material (i.e

Steel's a done deal, right? A material we know all about, just as we move on to cooler composites? Nope.

Spain has pulled off a Net security coup and arrested three men suspected of the attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network among others. Those arrested are local Anonymous hacktivists. So cops have essentially whacked a hornet's nest

A new study from MIT says that natural gas is the key to keeping emissions down while we transfer to renewables.

Nintendo's Wii U device promises to truly reinvent the console-gaming scene. But rivals Apple and Sony are hot on its heels, promising similar, if not better, touchscreen innovations that will be on the market sooner. A look at the contenders for consoles of the future

Have a business near a concert or sports venue? Wouldn't you like a way to reach that local, hungry, primed-to-spend crowd just as their tummies start to grumble? Here's a site and an app for you.

Imagine a cloud of rescue helicopters descending on a burning building. New artificial intelligence models teach semi-autonomous devices how to coordinate their actions to solve our problems. Like human intelligence, artificial intelligence is on a spectrum