If you want to pick a winner in a drawing, take samples for statistical purposes, or any of hundreds of other technical tasks you are going to need a source of random numbers. If you have ever looked ...

Random numbers are commonly used for data encryption, selecting random samples for research, and of course, for lotteries and gambling. Mads Haahr, moderator and operator of random.org, a random ...

As it turns out, there are many uses for randomness in scientific analyses (as well as everyday applications). For example, scientists often use random number generators to create mock data ...

MADS Haahr is in no doubt. “Generating randomness is not a task that should be left to humans,” he says. You might expect him to say that. A computer scientist at Trinity College Dublin, he is the ...

Random number generation is a key part of cybersecurity and encryption, and it is applied to many apps used in everyday life, both for business and leisure. These numbers help create unique keys, ...

Cloudflare is one of those Internet companies you use all the time, but don’t usually know it. Big websites you visit use Cloudflare to shore up their defenses against denial of service attacks. The ...

Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find? The friends did their best to explain what they ...

Computers have trouble generating truly random numbers - but a new method could help A new method for computer-generating random numbers is being called "remarkable", and could help improve computer ...