China has begun mass production of the world's first non-binary AI chips, integrating them into key sectors like aviation and industrial systems.

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.

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

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Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and ...

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians ...

Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

Open-source clones of ChatGPT can be fine-tuned at scale and with limited or no expertise, facilitating ‘private' language ...

A good columnist is never unintentionally tedious, but this week’s effort is about obsolete telephone directories, binary counter overflow, and the alternating current waveform. The boredom is the ...

The company says it has cracked the code for error correction and is building a modular machine in New York state.