The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) program is to provide warfighters with enhanced radio communications and jam-resistant navigation ...
There’s no doubt that smart displays are gaining popularity in the home. While most offer up a full-fledged Google Assistant (or Amazon Alexa) experience, there are places where you may want a smaller ...
Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a tiny atomic fountain ...
Ordinarily, the chamber of atoms at the heart of an optical clock might be a meter across. The new mini optical clock uses an atom chamber a mere 3 millimeters across mounted on a silicon chip. “I was ...
Google, Amazon, Facebook, and the like want to convince you that you need a smart display. But as we’ve explored in previous reviews, most smart displays are luxury versions of their screen-less ...
Nixie tubes, while built during the vacuum tube era of the mid-20th century, still exist in a niche among hackers. It’s quite the task to get them up and running due to a number of quirks, so getting ...
is an editor overseeing The Verge’s product reviews and service journalism programs. Dan has covered the technology world for over a decade at The Verge. Of all the various available smart displays ...
A device the size of a sugar cube may revolutionize military communications and sensor systems. The technology is a micro-scale atomic clock designed to help spectrum-hopping radios synchronize their ...
Maybe I'm in the minority here (based on the first few comments) but this seems to fill a valuable niche for me. I've been wanting something like this since before it was announced. I want a device ...