Instant payment apps like Venmo and Apple Cash make it easy to send money to friends or family. But they've also given scammers another way to defraud unsuspecting users. Here's how the latest scam ...

A Michigan woman won big in her local Powerball drawing after asking AI to pick her numbers. Tammy Carvey, 45, won $100,000 in September’s $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot after having ChatGPT ...

We investigate how current noisy quantum computers can be leveraged for generating secure random numbers certified by Quantum Mechanics. While random numbers can be generated and certified in a device ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random number ...

Hi, I’m Jonathan Clarke, a 38-year-old data analyst and lifelong numbers enthusiast. I’ve always been fascinated by lottery systems—how they work, how people try to beat them, and whether there’s any ...

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 ...

A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. Dubbed CURBy, ...

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 ...