(PhysOrg.com) -- Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers have brought these scanners up to ...

The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. Chip makers have developed multiple techniques that have helped drive the ...

Thanks to a new numerical simulation model validated by innovative experimental techniques, a team of scientists has been able to study the initial phase of coalescence, that is, the fusion, of a ...

Ars Technica’s Chris Lee has spent a good portion of his adult life playing with lasers, so he’s a big fan of photon-based quantum computing. Even as various forms of physical hardware like ...

What does "immediate" mean to you? Does a fraction of a second count? Usually such a precise definition isn't critical, but in the world of high-speed trading, microseconds—or millionths of a ...

Computer systems, hardware and networking technologies have improved so much that two of the world’s largest trading exchanges say they have begun measuring transaction times in microseconds. What is ...

It’s 9:29 in the morning, and the financial world is waiting. The New York Stock Exchange is about to ring its storied opening bell. At this moment, a flood of market data will hit Bloomberg’s Ticker ...

Time is that one constant we all share across the world; it's the same everywhere on Earth, ticking forward at the exact same pace no matter where you stand. No matter if you're sipping coffee in New ...

Chinese scientists have sent the world’s most powerful wireless communication protocol into space, slashing transmission delays from milliseconds to microseconds. A space version of China’s NearLink ...