It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they’re not without ...

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Most people treat Excel as a rigid calculator, completely missing its capacity for chaos. Excel's built-in randomization tools can generate numbers, shuffle existing lists, and build mock timelines in ...

Some facets of a trip to see an AI-generated movie mimic seeing a regular one. You’re seated in a theater, one thankfully with reclining chairs. Living, breathing human beings take up the seats ...

Most digital security relies today on random numbers to generate cryptographic keys. Think of a cryptographic key like a long, complex password. If that password is truly random, an attacker has to ...

Researchers in Switzerland claim to have built a perfect random number generator from two quantum superconducting chips, a 30-meter-long pipe, and some software. The resulting device could be used to ...

Downloading executable installer files from random websites is the best way to put malware on your Windows PC. Stop doing that! UniGetUI makes it easy to get all those apps from trusted sources.

Many of us are familiar with the numerous lists that infiltrate our lives: our “To-Do Lists" focused on tasks that need to be completed; our “New Year’s Resolutions Lists" focused on embracing new ...

You might be familiar with how Python and C can work together, by way of projects like Cython. The new PythoC project has a unique twist on working with both languages: it lets you write ...

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 ...