The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has assured the country that "time is not broken", after a power outage in Boulder, Colorado, caused official US time to drift by around 4.8 ...

Ars Technica's Chris Lee has spent a good portion of his adult life playing with lasers, so he's a big fan of photon-based quantum computing. Even as various forms of physical hardware like ...

Forget Greenwich Mean Time or Eastern Daylight Time, scientists say we need a brand new time zone – for Mars. That's because clocks on the Red Planet will tick 477 microseconds faster than those on ...

This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld‘s print edition. In the machine-vs.- machine world of financial trading, where IT is constantly trying to increase performance, ...