This week, Facebook ruffled some feathers with the invention of a new unit of time – the ‘flick’. Facebook’s ‘Flicks’ are designed to sync with the screen refresh rate of devices, to help programmers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A time lapse image of a clock's hands and face. Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating ...

Scientists have been able to measure the ultrashort time delay in electron photoemission without using a clock. The discovery has important implications for fundamental research and cutting-edge ...

The atomic clock comes in many varieties. Some are chip-sized electronics, developed for the military but available commercially now, while bigger and more accurate atomic clocks keep track of time on ...

We live in a world where time is all important. Nanoseconds mark the difference between success or failure to make an electronic transaction and where we are continuously reminded of “the time”: of ...

Everyone, from developers to software corporate marketing departments to even consumers, seems to have a slightly different answer. So let’s explore the question “What does ‘real-time’ really mean?” ...