Paul Boutin blogs the new NIST optical atomic clock featured on the back page of December's WIRED: "The photo Joe Toreno took for us is a must-see; I'm not just hawking magazines here."

Back in December 1997 on Stating the Obvious, all Carl Steadman wanted for Christmas was things to work: "This Christmas, it all comes down to my watch."
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Indepth article on the Future of Storage at ExtremeTech: "Surely one of the biggest success stories in technology has been the hard disk drive. Invented in the 1950s, and an absolute requirement for PCs since the mid-1980s, hard disk drives have an impressive record of increasing capacity and speed, shrinking physical size and cost, and finding new ways to shatter barriers to continued progress."

(seen on Web Voice)
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