In the Swiss experiment, the camera was used to create a 1.25 Gbit/s stream of random numbers. One worry about any random-number generator is that the numbers could be influenced in a predictable way ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

Quick! Think of a number between 1 and 10…was it 7? If it was, don't feel too bad, as human brains are notoriously bad at both true randomness and understanding probability. Even if you're too ...

These could have useful applications, such as encryption technology on mobile phones. This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on March 2 2021.

This includes something called a quantum random number generator (QRNG) chip. This generates tons of . ... Samsung’s new phone has a 2.5 mm quantum random number generator for improved security ...

Quantum random number generation on a mobile phone was authored by Bruno Sanguinetti, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden and Nicolas Gisin and submitted to the arxiv.org online journal. The authors used a ...