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 ...

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a highly scalable internet protocol that helps determine the most accurate time information and synchronizes the time settings on a computer system. In order to ...

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADVA (FSE: ADV) today announced a new software release that extends its Oscilloquartz timing assurance technology to synchronization networks using Network Time ...

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 ...

David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his ...

Ars Technica reported last week that he had peacefully passed away on January 17th. Mills was responsible for the profoundly important creation of Network Time Protocol (NTP), the protocol that ...

I’ll take the karma hit for this one: This isn’t Reddit. You don’t score points for typing the first dumb pun that comes into your head here. Anyway, RIP to a legend. Timekeeping is incredibly hard. I ...

ADVA has released new software that extends its Oscilloquartz timing assurance technology to synchronization networks using Network Time Protocol (NTP). ADVA’s Ensemble Sync Director management system ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

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 ...

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 ...