An explainer on how pseudo-random number generators shape outcomes in online games and why digital chance is not truly random.

Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users' sensitive medical information.

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...

IBM’s Software and Chief Commercial Officer, Rob Thomas, wrote in a Monday blog post that translating COBOL code isn’t equivalent to modernizing enterprise syst ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

Math jokes are the topic of our blog post today! We’ve all been there, staring down a complex equation, scratching our heads over a tricky word problem, or just slogging through the academic ritual ...