Over the last 78 years, the clock’s time has changed according to how close scientists believe the human race is to total destruction. Some years the time changes, and some years it doesn’t.

On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the "Poem/1" that tells the current time using AI and rhyming poetry.

The time on the symbolic clock is the same as last year when the Doomsday Clock was first set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the clock has ever been. The Doomsday Clock is a ...