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YOU'VE missed the boat, you've dropped the ball. Everyone is talking about that amazing episode of that amazing show, and you can't join in the conversation. There's no excuse any more. With the rush of streaming services into Australia, Foxtel's new ...

The Rocking 60th Anniversary of Teenage Rebellion

New York. 'Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets is routinely hailed as rock 'n' roll's first recording. But the distinction is unfair, since it assumes that the many R&B recordings that came first had little or nothing to do with rock's ...

How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry

He sought to build his own battery-powered crystal radios so he could pick up the radio shows he had grown fond of at his old house. . "While Godbout, Morrow, Cromemco, and a number of new S-100 machines and and cards can be seen in the latest issue ...

Mobile-Game Makers Try to Catch More 'Whales' Who Pay for Free Games

Allen Sokol enjoys playing “Candy Crush Saga” on a smartphone during his lunch break as assistant manager of a tire store in Grand Rapids, Mich., but often runs out of free turns. Rather than wait 20 minutes for one more free turn in the puzzle game, ...

Here's how Vladimir Putin consumes and controls the news

These pictures show all the crazy places the Berlin Wall ended up around. "We have special people working around the clock, preparing TV digests. "The limitations on the media have existed for the 15 years that Vladimir Vladimirovich has been ...

I Swear Im Not Running for President

Bush appeared onstage to answer questions from Fox News host Sean Hannity, who began by asking, as Murrow might have, “Are you mad at your mom?” In 2014, Barbara Bush made headlines when she expressed her distaste for political dynasties....

Spring 2016 Children's Sneak Previews

Arbordale watches the clock for Midnight Madness at the Zoo by Sherryn Craig, illus. by Karen Jones, spotlighting the games the animals play when the zookeepers leave the zoo; Cash Kat by Linda Joy Singleton, illus. by Christina Wald, a title featuring ...

Tampa team monitors highways around the clock

They're staring intently at a wall filled with large screens ... The whole thing is reminiscent of NASA's control room. The team's mission is simple: Its members serve as the unseen guardians of our interstate system. In 2006, the Florida Department ...

The 54th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall

Read the entire account on ADST.org LOCHNER: Ed Murrow's [famous American journalist ... minute past midnight that the East Berlin radio, which of course RIAS monitored, had started to announce, not the wall as such, but that communications within the ...

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New NIST time code to boost reception for radio-controlled clocks

Popular radio-controlled timekeepers, which range from wristwatches to wall clocks, are not really atomic clocks -- though that's often in their name -- but they do set themselves by listening to low-frequency AM time broadcasts from the NIST radio station ...

New time code to boost reception for radio-controlled clocks

Popular radio-controlled timekeepers, which range from wristwatches to wall clocks, are not really atomic clocks—though that's often in their name—but they do set themselves by listening to low-frequency AM time broadcasts from the NIST radio station ...