The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

The Vartis Space Clock represents an early but critical milestone in establishing a new temporal infrastructure for deep-space missions. By providing a method to align “zero-time points” that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

New York (CNN) — The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: ...

Doubling the transistor count every two years and therefore cutting the price of a transistor in half because you can cram twice as many on a given area transformed computing and drove it during the ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Ensuring that different clocks are giving the same time is crucial to enable electronic systems to talk to each other. But what is the cost of this synchronisation at the thermodynamic level? To ...

Abstract: This paper describes the analysis, implementation and performance of a new clock synchronization algorithm, which utilizes the physical properties of synthetic quartz crystals. Thus a very ...

A researcher has conducted an experimental demonstration of intricate and previously theorized behaviors in the fundamental patterns that govern oscillatory systems in nature and technology. An Aston ...

This weekend, Daylight Saving Time begins. Some clocks require special care. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at how the spring-forward time change this weekend happens with ...