Random number generators are hugely significant in the modern age, and yet most of us don’t even realize they’re present or notice their impact on our everyday lives. The role of RNG is so ...

Life is unpredictable, and random things happen to us all the time. You might say the universe itself is random. Yet somehow, large numbers of random events can generate large-scale patterns that ...

Question: What is the role of provable randomness in cybersecurity? Duncan Jones, Head of Cybersecurity, Quantinuum: Provable randomness serves three critical roles in cybersecurity: It eliminates a ...

How do these two aspects of our lives interact? When is a random act not entirely random? If intentionality is a dominating principle of action, who creates that intention? Who decides? Religions ...

We have all grown up to believe the Emerson quote "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." If we are intrinsically better at something, we will find success in that area ...

In last month’s Insights column, we explored randomness in mundane objects such as a combination bicycle lock and a hexagonal jigsaw puzzle, before debating the philosophical underpinnings of ...