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Governments have voted to abolish the leap second immediately and replace it with a leap hour. Metrologists retire the leap second immediately, instead of by 2035. Credit: Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via GettyTime discrepancies that used to be adjusted by a jump of a second around once every 1.5 years will now wait until an hour needs correcting instead. Leap seconds serve to align time given by the sun’s position in the sky, which is based on Earth’s unsteady natural rotation, with the more stable ticking of atomic clocks, known as Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). But the rogue seconds have been a thorn in timekeepers' sides, disrupting computing systems and causing misalignment between clocks on the day they are implemented. Their replacement — a shift of an hour once Earth time and atomic time drift apart by 3,600 seconds — likely won’t be needed for thousands of years, effectively pushing the issue onto future generations. The leap second is dead. Long live the leap hour? Member states of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) voted to pass the resolution at their 28th meeting, outside Paris, on 15 October.

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Eighteen months ago, in an off-the-cuff remark during a discussion on disability benefit cuts, Wes Streeting said mental health conditions were being “overdiagnosed”, riding headlong into another culture war. He later apologised for the comment, but at the time it seemed the then health secretary had endorsed a populist view that ordinary stresses and disappointments had become too often medicalised, resulting in a surge of bogus clinical diagnoses and creating a “snowflake generation” of fragile, avoidant and workshy young people. Prof Peter Fonagy’s mammoth review of mental health conditions, autism and ADHD in England, commissioned by Streeting nine months ago, has no truck with the snowflake generation caricature: the steep rise in the prevalence of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression is real, he says, and so is the distress and difficulties they can cause. double quotation markI am in awe of their courage. Young people are contending with more powerful forces than I ever faced

Nadia Verjee, Executive Director, Expo City Dubai. Image courtesy of Expo City Dubai. Expo City Dubai is building technology into its city infrastructure. In an interview with Frontier Enterprise, Nadia Verjee, its Executive Director, says deployment is only the starting point. The harder test is whether the city can use the resulting information to address real problems and make accountable decisions.