An experiment in which people were asked to choose random numbers or boxes on a grid, then do the same a year later, has revealed that we each have our own unique approach to randomness - and we ...

These don’t seem like “random” choices to us, because they embody some quality: small, big, distinctive. Instead, we often pick numbers ending in 7, generally from the middle somewhere.

The result, a little less than seven minutes later, is 512 random bits of binary code – the equivalent of 2 (a number 155 digits long) possible random numbers.

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 ...

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.