Recent Examples on the WebIf anything, that fade better happen and that silence better be a microsecond before the next joint.—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2023 In terms of latency, the T700 showed a 13.9 percent improvement over the Samsung drive (31 versus 36 microseconds), according to PCMark 10 Storage results Tom's recorded.—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023 As Ars Science Editor John Timmer reported previously, FRBs involve a sudden blast of radio-frequency radiation that lasts just a few microseconds.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2023 The system can sync clocks down to microseconds, or a millionth of a second, Julian Onions, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, said in a 2022 YouTube video explaining NTP.—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024 By dramatically boosting the image, SRS can clearly identify and capture images of nanoparticles in microseconds rather than the hours needed by the older technique — and do so without harming the tissues being imaged.—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024 In a single microsecond, light can travel 300 meters (0.2 mile), so the 39-microsecond error from a mere day in orbit would mean confusing the position of an earthbound target by more than ten kilometers.—C. Renée James, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2014 Maintaining stability or lifespan of a qubit in a superposition state is challenging and may be limited to a few milliseconds or microseconds.—Jim McGregor, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 Sorting through it, his team discovered the shortest fast radio bursts ever detected, lasting only millionths of a second, or microseconds.—WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
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