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The recent uprising in Egypt that toppled the country's long-sitting president, had no leader and no single hero, according to Wael Ghonim, a Google marketing manager in Egypt and one of the revolution's galvanizing forces who spoke at the TED conference this week.

LONG BEACH, California -- It's a problem shared by Google, Facebook and just about any organization that begins from a relatively intimate core: When success comes, how do you scale to more ambitious heights without losing the intimacy and passion that was a hallmark of your original offering? Judging from this year's program, which ranged from quantum physics to paper-cutting, TED has smoothly made the pivot.

Facebook unleashed a new commenting system this week that promises to help online publications clean up their commenting cesspools while simultaneously extending Facebook's tentacles further into the web outside its walls. Unfortunately for those with visions of a non-Facebook dominated web, this initiative has the potential to dramatically expand the ginormous social network's already imperial reach.

This week's Gadget Lab podcast covers the iPad 2, Microsoft Kinect hacks, Zibits robots and zombie ants.

A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz' website from January of 2009 to the present.

Of all the videogame industry's tremendous success stories, Minecraft might very well be the most remarkable. Now a Kickstarter-fueled movie project is digging a little deeper into the indie sensation created by Markus "Notch" Persson.

What will videogames look like in the near future? Epic Games offered a glimpse at the future of graphics in the form of a real-time animation demo that showed off the eye-popping capabilities of the upgraded Unreal Engine 3.

Man has managed to fly for more than a century now, but it is only during the past decade of wingsuit development that we have been able to shed most of the mechanical aids and begin to glide with a minimum of help.

Ford wants you to keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road as you drive a car far more efficient than what you drive now.

New images from two Mars-orbiting satellites capture times when the planet was pummeled by at least two meteorites at once.

On Feb. 16, many of those who solved the Underworld issue puzzles gathered at a discreet speakeasy in San Francisco. After giving the password, they entered to discover an exclusive launch party for Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen's book, Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground.

Here's a comforting thought: Secret interdimensional forces armed with higher intelligence guide human behavior toward predetermined destinies. No wait, that sounds more like a sinister conspiracy. In the latest movie to be based (loosely) on a Philip K. Dick story, Matt Damon plays a politician manipulated by celestial overseers that look a lot like Fringe's Observers. It's a far cry from Blade Runner, but as a sci-fi date movie, it's not bad.

Volvo's 2011 S60, a 300-HP turbo six, is a technological marvel equally adept at hauling kids and hauling ass.

This week’s prescription consists of a second dose of Tapa, a cell-shading puzzle with an almost perfect mix of local and global constraints.

You know the scene in Jurassic Park. Sam Neil's character Dr. Alan Grant and a group of naïve visitors enter the dinosaur island's birthing lab just at the moment a large egg begins to wobble and crack. The determined creature inside pecks its way out of the shell, and suddenly a velociraptor is born – more than 70 million years after its species was supposed to have become extinct. Only in the movies, right? Not if you're paleontologist Jack Horner.

New data gathered by an instrument onboard a Russian spacecraft challenge the theory that most cosmic rays are fueled by supernovas, the explosions created by dying stars.

Samsung’s mobile VP Lee Don-Joo took a look at the iPad 2 and decided his own Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn’t up to scratch. ’We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate,' he says, bravely spinning the sort of candor that either makes you a company icon or puts you on the unemployment line.

The internet has encased us in personalization bubbles where increasingly the only people and ideas we encounter are the ones we already know rather than expanding our worldview, political activist Eli Pariser tells TED.

A stealth investigation brings our intrepid reporter face to face with the horrors that lie inside Content Barn 23.

The United States fires up the first — and only — nuclear reactor in Antarctica.