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The universe now has an open, quantum-powered dice roll—free, provable, and ready for anyone to use. Credit: Shutterstock NIST’s CURBy beacon transforms quantum “spooky action” into certified random ...

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed the world’s truest random number generator based on quantum mechanics.