Science Aug 18 Radio Frequency Identification Tags: Identity Theft Danger or Modern Aid? In a recent NewsHour report on cybersecurity, we showed security expert Chris Paget, shown above, climbing on a 29th floor hotel balcony in Las Vegas to demonstrate how he could read radio frequency identification tags at…
Science Aug 10 Black Hat and Defcon Founder Jeff Moss: What Is the ‘Hacker Mindset?’ More than 15,000 computer nerds - hackers, government officials, security company officials and who knows who else - spent a few days in Las Vegas recently for an unusual set of conventions. The subject on everyone's minds was cyber attacks…
Politics May 21 California Senate Race: Poll Shows Boxer Pulling Ahead of GOP Rivals With Republicans and the tea partiers getting most of the headlines these days, it's a little surprising that liberal Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California has opened up a small but significant lead over all the Republicans running against…
Politics Apr 30 Senate Primary Heats Up in Arkansas _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f05qe7c',482,304,""); One of the things U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln told me that irks her the most about Washington is the fact that she can't get a direct, non-stop flight from the capital to Little Rock. She's the senator from…
Science Apr 05 Silicon Valley Story: Applied Materials Executive Relocating to China SAN FRANCISCO | Silicon Valley is looking deeply inward and finding things are not as they were. The valley, where firms like Google, Apple, Intel and Applied Materials have their headquarters, is losing steam and perhaps the innovative spirit…
Politics Mar 23 California Republicans Vying for Chance to Replace Boxer in U.S. Senate Updated 8:12pm ET California Sen. Barbara Boxer appears to be in political trouble, but as she always reminds audiences and interviewers, she's been in trouble before, and has always emerged a winner. I remember her running for supervisor…
Education Feb 22 Khan Academy: How to Calculate the Unemployment Rate A 33-year-old math and science whiz kid -- working out of his house in California's Silicon Valley -- may be revolutionizing how people all over the world will learn math. He is Salman Khan, and until a few months…