Today’s Tech Sightings: Leap second Causes Internet Hiccup Overnight Don’t say you weren’t warned. The infamous leap second – that extra second added to sync world clocks with the Earth’s rotation – crashed about 2,000 networks just after midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), half of them in Brazil. Most networks recovered after rebooting their routers. […]
Leap Second; India’s Digital Age; Zuckerberg on Telepathy
Posted July 1st, 2015 at 3:01 pm (UTC-5)
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Leap Second; 3-D-Printed Building; VPN Leaks; Apple Price Fixing
Posted June 30th, 2015 at 3:20 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: The Leap Second Is Coming to Confuse the Internet Today It’s June 30; and that could be a problem. Just before midnight in London tomorrow, the world’s atomic clocks will gain a second before reverting back to 00:00:00. The extra leap second is needed to keep the clocks synced with the Earth’s […]
Internet’s Missing Second; Skeleton Key; Android Exploits; iPhone Addiction
Posted January 13th, 2015 at 2:18 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: ‘Leap Second’ Threatens to Break the Internet According to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced, the Earth’s rotation has slowed by a second. That means the planet — and its computer systems that will have to grapple with this issue – need an extra second to catch up. This is […]