Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can ...

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From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

Research scientists at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have reported the fastest quantum random ...

Write "=INT(RAND()(b-a)+a ... to randomize the order of the spreadsheet's rows once again. Some random number algorithms create more truly random data than others. Microsoft has said that ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

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That message kicked off a three-year odyssey of red tape and “retraumatizing” that continues to this day. Slavin, Ken, and Co ...

Ambient listening software is part of a buzzy new technology being marketed as AI “scribes,” or assistants, to help doctors ...

The good news: Numerous hardware and software vendors (as well as professional services firms) have been ramping up R&D to provide the quantum-safe, or QS, post-quantum cryptography, PQC for short, ...

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