Computer scientists at the University of Glasgow have borrowed from the world of geology and crystals to help machines better generate random numbers. While computers whip up "random" numbers ...

The program then translates the measurements into 512 random bits of binary code that can then be parsed by anyone. But utilizing CURBy is much simpler than the dizzying quantum computations ...

According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that V8 Javascript uses in Math.random() is horribly flawed and getting replaced with something … ...

NIST has developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics. The method generates digital bits (1s and 0s) with photons, or particles of light.