Clock repairer that started in his garage is one of the few left in the Midlands

What started as a hobby became a full-blown business for Harold MacVittie more than a decade ago. His Chapin clock shop is ...

A New Side of the Black Forest—From Designer Cuckoo Clocks to Revitalized Bathhouses

Tangled up in myth and tradition, Germany's Black Forest once had a reputation for being as antiquated as its cuckoo clocks.
IEEE

Have Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) Really Learned to Tell the Time on Analog Clocks?

Multimodal Large Language Models which can answer complex questions on an image struggle to tell the time on analog clocks. Reading the time on an analog clock requires identifying the hands, their ...
Science Daily

The deep ocean has a missing link and scientists finally found it

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...
The Slovak Spectator

When the cuckoo finishes, the folk musicians begin in rural Slovakia

In central Slovakia, the country’s largest cuckoo clock now marks the hour with folk musicians, blending superstition, music and craft.