Random Musing: The Designer of the Year Award goes to… Artificial Intelligence

In The Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus, after his ship the Nebuchadnezzar is sunk, makes a biblical reference: I have dreamed a ...
USA Today

Trump declared new federal holidays. He once said US has 'too many'

President Trump signed an executive order making Dec. 24 and Dec. 26 federal holidays for 2025. The order applies only to departments and agencies of the federal government. Private businesses, banks, ...
NPR

How a power outage in Colorado caused U.S. official time to be 4.8 microseconds off

The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the ...
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Trump’s 5-Day Christmas Weekend Won’t Extend to Most US Workers (1)

President Donald Trump’s executive order giving federal workers extra days off on Dec. 24 and Dec. 26 this year has prompted a question for bosses at private employers across the US: Do we get the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How to Keep Time on Mars: Clocks on the Red Planet Would Tick a Bit Differently Than Those on Earth

Time passes by faster on Mars than on Earth. ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA, 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The question “What time is it on Mars?” is far ...