Across Europe, Ice Age cave sites contain just 32 recurring geometric symbols. These signs date from roughly 10,000 to 40,000 years ago, long before writing systems emerged. Their repetition across ...

A majority-American board now owns and operates a separate entity that controls TikTok in the United States. TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is governed by seven board directors, including TikTok chief ...

Lots of artificial intelligence tools can make images. But which is the best? We challenged five leading AI image generators to edit photos, convey emotion and make art. Tap through our tests and see ...

Abstract: Random number generation is essential for applications in simulation, numerical analysis, and data encryption. The ubiquitous presence of system-on-chip (SoC) field-programmable gate array ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

From a post Ultra Fast Pseudorandom number generator for 8-bit by EternityForest (Dec 31, 2011) with additional edits by jeblad (Nov 20, 2025). This is a small pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), ...

Do you know what'll always save you from awkward silences at a work function? Or make you the shining star at any dinner party? A funny, interesting, and slightly niche fun fact. As it turns out, ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

Researchers have developed a chip-based quantum random number generator that provides high-speed, high-quality operation on a miniaturized platform. This advance could help move quantum random number ...

Abstract: This letter presents a fully digital true random number generator (TRNG) and noise generator (NG) based on a chaos system. We design the chaos random number generator (CRNG) using the ...