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All networks, communications, and power grids require a common time standard.

As NVIDIA and Facebook noted in a blog post, better timing gives outsize performance improvement: “making the timekeeping 80x more precise

the importance of synchronized clocks.

GPS, like Sutro Tower, was also built in the 1970s and provides a free* signal. And it is also obsolete.

China has taken a different tack. Like Russia, they have their own anti-satellite and a GPS alternative called BeiDou.

The need for accurate timing cuts across multiple sectors, but there seems to be a common thread: the trend towards distributed architecture

Two weeks ago the Russians launched an extremely destructive and unnecessary anti-satellite missile.

the lack of a GPS alternative invites attack.

a recent demonstration by an IBM hacker showed that you don't need a missile to hobble our timing-based infrastructure