Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

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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 ...

Quantum computing has long promised to crack problems that defeat even the fastest supercomputers, but the hardware has ...

In today’s world, quantum technology is no longer a far-off concept that is just a theoretical physics concept. In the not-too-distant future, it will become a disruptive force that has the capacity ...