Sep 08 Will Open Health Data Save Your Life? After one of health administrator Jim Traficant's two liver transplants, a doctor told him, "The surgery is a science. The medication is an art." Over the next few months of recovery, Traficant's body fought with his new liver. The organ… Continue reading
Sep 08 Gov2.0: D.C. Helps Other Governments Learn to Open Up By Chris Amico Among Gov2.0 advocates, Washington, D.C., is one of the major cities to watch for its efforts to provide open data to citizens and software developers as part of its civic services. It was one of the first cities… Continue reading
Sep 07 Gov2.0: Challenge.Gov Aims to Make Government More User-Friendly By Chris Amico Two of the most consistent themes at this week's Gov2.0 Summit is that government is bad at making the things it needs and it spends far too much on bad technology. "Think about on a daily basis whether you're… Continue reading
Sep 07 At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the Watchword The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners. Gov2.0 is a catch-all… Continue reading
Sep 06 Africa Hopes to Close Broadband Gap Men surf the Internet at a cyber cafe in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. File photo by Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images. According to recent studies by the International Telecommunications Union, only 10.9 percent of Africa's population uses the Internet. By contrast,… Continue reading
Sep 01 Text Messages Study Shows Fear Turned to Anger on 9/11 By analyzing a database of 500,000 text messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001, researchers at the University of Mainz in Germany have created an hour-by-hour psychological profile of texting Americans on that day. The pager text messages,… Continue reading
Aug 27 Conversation: Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," which looks through the lens of neuroscience to see how the Internet shapes our brains. Continue reading
Aug 18 Radio Frequency Identification Tags: Identity Theft Danger or Modern Aid? By Spencer Michels 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… Continue reading
Aug 16 Monday on the NewsHour: William Powers By Tom LeGro Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past. Continue reading
Aug 12 Online Fraudsters Increasingly Skilled at Hacking Bank Accounts By Joanne Jennings All this week, we've been looking at the complexities of cybersecurity, including the potential for attacks on government computers and the views of former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on the scope of the "cyber conflict." On… Continue reading