Of all the things we expected to come out of the rise of Oculus and the still-burgeoning era of consumer virtual reality, a new fundamental unit of time was not one of them. But that’s just what ...

Facebook has introduced a new unit of time that’s intended to make it easier for developers to sync up video and audio frames. It’s called the flick, which is a portmanteau that condenses the phrase ...

Not content with conquering all social media, acquiring the likes of Instagram and Oculus VR, expanding into local news and consumer tech, and maybe setting the stage for founder Mark Zuckerberg’s ...

Let me give you an example of time maximization. Randy Boll, like most people, didn’t have enough time in the day to get it all done. Randy was already one of the top 10 producers at his firm, and he ...

Facebook launched a new product today: Flicks, a new unit of time. Yes, that’s right. A unit of time, like seconds or minutes or hours. After all, why limit asserting your corporate dominance to ...

(A billionth of a billionth of a second.) The most fleeting events that scientists can clock are measured in attoseconds. Researchers have created light pulses lasting just 53 attoseconds using ...

If you take a bite into an apple and let it sit, over time, the bite mark will begin to brown. That browning is a lot like "depreciation." Depreciation in accounting means to spread the cost of buying ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Unit of account is the thing that measures the value of goods and services. It’s an essential function for something to be [or become?] money. In simple terms, it is a standard measure of value, a ...