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Align the official world time calculated by atomic clocks to the actual rotation of the earth. well, the change takes effect at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. it won't affect anyone's daily lives but the tiny delay may cause issues for computer server servers but iphones and dvr clocks all going to be good today with one extra second thomas. >> what about the coffee timers? >> that's the most important thing, exactly. >> thank you. apple joins the heated streaming service with an update. apple music now in the competition mode with google play, spotify and pandora. after an initial free three-month...

One second. >> that vibration is sort of the smallest unit of time that we can actually measure. >> reporter: their goal is to make the most precise clock in the world. currently the source for precision time is gps satellite which contain atomic clocks used to synchronize clocks on the ground. but the pentagon worries the satellites could be jammed. so they want an even more accurate alternative. your wrist watch loses a second every 30 days. clocks on gps satellites lose a second every 30,000 years. this program is aimed at building a clock that wouldn't lose a second for a billion years. >>...

Every month? ppg correspondent barbara starr tells us about it. ♪ >> reporter: chicago asks the age old question and pentagon is looking for the answer. this high-tech lab of lasers and mirrors measures the movement of atoms, 429 trillion atomic vibrations add up to just one second. >> that vibration is sort of the smallest unit of time we can actually measure. >> reporter: their goal is to make the most precise clock in the world. currently the source for precision time is gps satellites which contain atomic clocks used to synchronize clocks on the ground. but the pentagon worries the satel...

Mirrors measures the movement of atoms, 429 trillion atomic vibrations add up to just one second. >> that vibration is sort of the smallest unit of time we can actually measure. >> reporter: they're goal is to make the most precise clock in the world. currently the source for precision time is gps satellite, which contain atomic clocks used to synchronize clocks on the ground, but the pentagon worries the satellites could be jammed, so they want an even more accurate alternative. your wristwatch loses a second every 30 days. clocks on gps satellites lose a second every 30,000 years. this progr...

He's invested in rockets, atomic clocks. he thinks it's cool and he wants to be cool to it and talk about it. and if there's a financial return there, great. i don't think he's trying to throw money away. but i just think he wants to be involved in a lot of very colonel things and that was definitely an appeal here, i hope. >> you wrote a blockbuster about what you think he might do at "the post" he said if you ever have a question, just look at amazon. what do you mean by that? >> lots of different ways. but the main way amazon is so different from the rest of corporate america and the reason...