Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. Hackaday Alum [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that, tasty random bytes delivered fresh over MQTT. [Sean] tells ...

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers—and fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because it’s not “solvable” by hackers. Classical computers can’t be ...

An Australian dad of a young family has revealed he can buy his first home after scooping a Lotto fortune. The father, from Epping in Sydney's north-west, won $2.4million in the weekend's Saturday ...

A woman from Massachusetts won a $25,000 a year for life lottery prize with random numbers she’s been repeatedly playing for just the past six months, the Massachusetts State Lottery said. Sonia Firme ...

Generating a random number might seem like an easy task, but it can be surprisingly difficult — especially if the probability distribution from which the number is drawn is complex. This is often the ...

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