Commercial smart alarm clocks run $50 to $150 for a device that does exactly what the manufacturer decided it should do. You can't expand it or change it, and what you bought is what you get. Mine, on ...

It’s fall in the northern hemisphere, so [Mike Rankin]’s kids are back in school and have returned to consulting him every morning about the weather and what they should wear. Since he’s no ...

These days, everything’s got a clock in it, and a good proportion of those clocks are automatically syncronized to high-accuracy Internet time servers. Back in the past, things weren’t so easy. Often, ...