Keeping time, and ensuring that it's kept accurately, is a common function on computer systems. It occurs under the hood of your system and is a given when establishing servers. It's the system ...

In spread-spectrum and direct-sequence receivers, it’s often necessary to change the frequency of the clock oscillator, and thus the spreading-code clock, to lock the receiver’s reference pseudorandom ...

Hardware design in high-performance applications such as communications systems, wireless infrastructure, servers, broadcast video, and test and measurement equipment is becoming increasingly complex ...

Over the years, Windows has evolved considerably, transforming from a pure operating system to a feature-rich platform. Microsoft has put a lot of work into refining the underlying code and optimizing ...

Ian Morris writes on Forbes that Windows users who prefer Google's Chrome web browser are inadvertently ruining their computer batteries. The problem lies in what's called a "system clock tick rate." ...

The first actionable clock that highlights the critical role of the immune system in the aging process [James O'Brien for the Buck Institute] Investigators at Stanford University School of Medicine ...

david.ray@ocdem.ox.ac.uk receives funding from The Wellcome Trust, and Medical Research Council, UK. Gareth Kitchen was funded by the Medical Research Council for the duration of his PhD. He is ...