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An illustration shows a satellite orbiting Earth and a clock off to the side.
TelecommunicationsNews

Facebook Switches to New Timekeeping Service

The upgrade should help millions of the company’s servers keep more accurate time

4 min read
Illustration of an open lock with light beams bursting out of it.
ComputingNewsJournal Watch

It’s Surprisingly Easy to Hack the Precision Time Protocol

A simple attack can knock off a system’s timing by 48 years

3 min read
Photo of NIST radio station WWVB. The transmitters are in the building. In the background are WWVB's four north towers supporting the antenna in the center.
TelecommunicationsNews

Long-Running U.S. Federal Radio Stations, Beloved by Hams, in Danger of Shutdown

Several public radio stations that have broadcast the time of day continuously for nearly 100 years are on the chopping block

2 min read
Measuring time at one point can alter the flow of time in the surrounding space
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Can Ultraprecise Time Measurements Warp Space?

Einstein and Heisenberg suggest that exact time measurements can produce tiny gravitational fields

2 min read

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