SEATTLE -- We're foolish. We live our lives on the internet and we take it for granted. We don't realize that the internet is fragile as a Chihuly glass sculpture. As 2014 OpenSSL Heartbleed security ...

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Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...

We’ve gotten used to the fact that the clocks on our internet-connected computers and smartphones are always telling the right time. Time servers, provided by a variety of government agencies as well ...

Network time protocol (NTP) is a mechanism used to synchronize the date and time over IP based networks. Cisco Unified Communications platforms have a built in NTP client to ensure the proper date and ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an internet-based protocol that synchronizes the clocks of all devices to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) through the use of a public-facing time server. By using a ...

For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

In 1977, David Mills, an eccentric engineer and computer scientist, took a job at COMSAT, a satellite corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C. Mills was an inveterate tinkerer: he’d once built a ...