Jamie Kripke designed an analog clock that he said won’t “scare you awake.” Instead, it plays one of seven melodies specifically composed to arouse you gently. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

Clocks come in many styles and sizes, with perhaps the most visually pleasing ones involving marbles. Watching these little spheres obey gravity and form clearly readable numbers on a clock has ...

He and the other two hundred and ten passengers on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 had been in the air for more than ten hours. Their flight had taken off the night before from the United Kingdom, ...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. ( CDNS) Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 March 4, 2026 5:35 PM EST Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to San Francisco. We're on the stage ...

It’s not so much a traditional clock as it is a measuring tool, but it’s all that’s needed to do some basic, interplanetary calculations As an example, the team suggests a scenario in which a ...

Time crystals are an oddity of quantum physics, but new calculations show that these bizarre materials could be useful for building very accurate clocks. All crystals are defined by repetition – ...

It’s one thing to create your own relay-based computer; that’s already impressive enough, but what really makes [DiPDoT]’s ...

In a few weeks, it will be time to set clocks ahead one hour for the start of daylight saving time. Daylight saving time has been observed throughout most of the United States since 1966, but now some ...

Using a single GPIO port on a microcontroller to control N bits of arbitrary parallel binary outputs, e.g., a multi-digital display.

RANT to the overly patient drivers at four-way stops in Edmonds. It’s the darndest thing that I’ve only seen in Edmonds. I’ll get to an intersection after another car, and it’s clearly not my turn to ...

It's easier to repurpose old phones into security cameras and more. But smartwatches feel almost useless when they're off the wrist. Most of their value revolves around step tracking, heart rate ...

Gen Zers are trying to get over their phone addiction with the help of products that make it harder to impulsively doomscroll, while also allowing them to not throw their phone away entirely. Among ...