Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the pieces of equipment for the quantum random number generator in the NIST Boulder laboratories. Very little in this life ...

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There will be an app for that: making random numbers on a mobile phone. (Courtesy: Marketa Michalkova) Do you feel nervous when you make a credit-card transaction using your mobile phone? Your worries ...

RANDOMNESS IS A valuable commodity. Computer models of complex systems ranging from the weather to the stockmarket are voracious consumers of random numbers. Cryptography, too, relies heavily on ...