All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...

Cities would need half as many taxis if human drivers were replaced with robots, according to new research coordinated by Carlo Ratti, director of MIT's Senseable City Lab.

In a new study, researchers have developed a new algorithm that increases the amount of certified randomness in a sequence of seemingly random numbers that has been generated experimentally.

Mathematicians have reportedly discovered a new way of multiplying two numbers together. The new technique is for really large numbers, and if it passes a peer-review, could be the fastest ...

Unlike the “pseudorandom” numbers thrown out by computer algorithms, this method utilizes the randomness of physical systems — in this instance a laser and some crystals, mirrors and other ...

Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources ...

Algorithms that integrate genome-wide copy number and gene expression data offer a promising way to uncover genes that drive the progression of cancers. The performance of ten software tools on ...

Taking apart numbers. In 1994, the mathematician Peter Shor devised an algorithm that would let quantum computers factor big numbers exponentially faster than classical machines.