In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people ...

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

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

Experts say quantum randomness beats algorithm myths in NS&I’s November 2025 prize frenzy. Pixabay/Gerd Altmann Experts in quantum computing and cryptography insist ERNIE 5's light-powered wizardry ...

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...

In this video, we explore why Spotify's shuffle feature isn't truly random and operates based on an algorithm. We discuss the reasons behind our preferences for non-random shuffle, the results of an ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Classical randomness plays a pivotal role in the design of quantum protocols and algorithms. In the near-term, randomized benchmarking 1 is central to calibrating and assessing the quality of quantum ...