North Carolina is auditing its municipal elections by manually tallying votes to ensure the credibility of the results.

Abstract: The entropy source structure with embedded XOR gates in a ring oscillator (RO) as a true random number generator (TRNG) can improve the speed of accumulating jitter in the oscillator.

IIT Madras has licensed its silicon photonics-based Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) to Indrarka Quantum Technologies in a ₹1 crore deal. This agreement is a significant milestone in India’s ...

In September 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that American and British intelligence agencies had successfully cracked much of the online encryption internet users used to keep their ...

Iowa State Cyclones quarterback Rocco Becht during the football team’s media day at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, on Friday, July 25, 2025. Becht, a redshirt junior, threw for 3,505 yards and 25 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists have created the first random number generator that uses quantum entanglement, providing traceable and certifiable confirmation that ...

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

If your name gets picked for jury duty, it’s because a computer used a random number generator to select it. The same goes for tax audits or when you opt for a quick pick lottery ticket. But how can ...

Summary: Random numbers help us secure everything from bank accounts to classified servers. And yet, that essential layer of security can be spoofed. New research from the Oak Ridge National ...

Gaming Laptops The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I've been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a ...

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers—and fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because it’s not “solvable” by hackers. Classical computers can’t be ...