Scammers are using publicly available information to steal your money — while spotty regulations and industry pushback have limited your ability to recover it. It’s easy to get robbed these days. All ...

At the heart of Netflix's "Stranger Things" is a girl with a "011" tattoo on her wrist. Her name is Jane, but she is almost always called Eleven. Though unusual, it's not out of the question for ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

Thinking about buying a Powerball ticket? Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot. But for $2 a drawing, maybe it's worth a try. You might have your ...

A Michigan woman won big in her local Powerball drawing after asking AI to pick her numbers. Tammy Carvey, 45, won $100,000 in September’s $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot after having ChatGPT ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

We investigate how current noisy quantum computers can be leveraged for generating secure random numbers certified by Quantum Mechanics. While random numbers can be generated and certified in a device ...

It’s hard to imagine a modern person without a phone. We use our smartphones for everything — work, family, appointments, even shopping. However, traditional phone lines are no longer the most ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Our phones are a direct line to us, but sometimes we don’t want to give our numbers out to just anyone. They have more information attached to them than we might realize. Instead of giving your real ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...