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It is 2pm Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) on Aug 18 and all over the world people are dialling in to a fortnightly "core developers" Zoom call, which is broadcast live on YouTube to anyone who wants to watch. None of the participants have their cameras on. Most appear as just black squares with names - including one labelled Vitalik, behind which lurks Vitalik Buterin, the inventor of Ethereum. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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CHANDLER, Ariz., May 19, 2022—The strength of a nation’s infrastructure is increasingly dependent on the accuracy of time. With pervasive cybersecurity threats to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), utilizing an alternative time system is a matter of national security. To address this need, Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announces its Precise Time Scale System, a world-class timing system…

NASA is launching a huge observatory into space early Christmas morning (Dec. 25), but you dont need to worry about it hitting Santa Claus.

Earth is no longer accelerating its rotation and is slowing down. Officials say that we may need to add a negative leap second.

Space scientists claimed that Earth's rotation is actually slowing down. Should Earthlings worry about it?

I was initially excited when our provincial government proposed to do away with the biannual clock changes. However, I was disappointed to see that the proposal was to move to permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Kaushik Patowary Jul 8, 2021 0 comments Some years seem longer than others, especially when you are passing through a bad phase in life such as being stuck at home because a pandemic is playing havoc around, but officially the longest year on record was 1972. It was longer than the average year by a whole two seconds. The two extra seconds were leap seconds added on June 30 and again on December 31 the same year. Photo: What are leap seconds? From time to time, leap seconds are added to clocks...

Mixed doubles curling comes home to Scotland Team Switzerland © WCF / Richard Gray Home / News / Mixed doubles curling comes home to Scotland International curling comes home to its birth nation when the World Curling Federation stages the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2021 in Curl Aberdeen, Scotland, next week. Due to take place between 17–23 May, this championship sees teams representing 20 international Member Associations, and is the fourth event to be staged by the World Curl...