Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...

The domain name registration market has a serious but solvable problem: An estimated one in five sales currently benefit criminal actors. New research puts that reality in sharp focus, and new tools ...

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. The new technology hinges on a “quasi-random ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have struggled for the better part of the last month. The lineup that features MVPs and All-Stars hasn't quite found its rhythm. Wednesday's 4-0 win over the San Francisco ...

A problem so hard even Google relies on random chance Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a dataset. It does this ...

Online sexism is often dismissed as random — just a few bad comments or offensive jokes. But what appears scattered and spontaneous is increasingly structured, repeated and amplified in ways that make ...

Android Auto sometimes breaks down all of a sudden, and that's what is reportedly happening for some users who installed a March update. A discussion thread on Google's forums highlights a glitch that ...

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...

Abstract: Approaching mixed-integer black box optimization (MI-BBO) problems requires algorithms that can handle both the continuous as well as the discrete variables. Recent work in this area has ...