Journalism

Experts Warn RFID Risks Outweigh Benefits

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
By Phil Elmore
Experts Warn RFID Risks Outweigh Benefits

The growth of the now billion-dollar RFID business is prompting industry experts, from consumer advocates to company figures specializing in RFID protection, to question whether the technology can ever be made adequately secure. Walt Augustinowicz, CEO of the RFID-protection company Identity Stronghold, distills concerns over Radio Frequency Identification to a simple tradeoff. Many retailers,... »

The Civil Rights Movement You’ve Never Heard Of

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
By Phil Elmore

A burgeoning civil rights movement, focused on eliminating what its members see as broadening social and legal disparities between men and women, is using social media and the Internet to spread its message demanding parity. Active in North America but also evident in increasingly visible efforts abroad, the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM) is fighting... »

Report: Neutrinos Faster Than Light

Saturday, October 1, 2011
By Phil Elmore

Scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, have announced they have observed neutrinos traveling at speeds faster than light. This has prompted many to debate whether the results challenge Einstein’s Theory of Relativity or simply point to a more complex, quantified model of space-time. The experiments... »

Logan/Smyth and the Mystery of the Ring Knife

Saturday, September 10, 2011
By Phil Elmore
Logan/Smyth and the Mystery of the Ring Knife

It all started when a friend of mine gave me a curious little knife he found at a flea market. Shaped like a ring, it was, he was told, a “paperboy knife,” used decades ago by newspapermen to cut the twine on bales of newspapers. A little searching on eBay revealed that knives of... »