Your mobile number may feel permanent, but those 10 digits are part of a constantly shifting system that is shaped by telecom policies, digital platforms, fraud trends, and more. Phone numbers are ...

Facepalm: It's almost 2026 and the world's population has never been so tech-savvy. When it comes to passwords, however, a lot of people are stuck in the 1990s. Another study examining the most common ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

Want to snag a really cool X handle that was previously being used by an inactive account? Now you can—with a ton of catches. This past weekend, a new X account called “Handle Marketplace” posted the ...

Once a century, a very special day comes along. That day is today — 9/16/25. Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.

Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme. But the particular string of numbers in today’s date may be especially ...

At first glance, seeing a string of numbers like "34-42-42-96" on RAM packaging might be puzzling — but they carry important technical meaning. They refer to memory timings, with the first indicating ...

There’s no shortage of Z-based nomenclature when it comes to GM’s most iconic performance models – for example Z71, Z28, and ZL1, to name just a few. However, while the uninitiated may see a simple ...

Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

Historically, producers and guitarists have often enjoyed and endured a love/hate relationship. After all, it’s a producer’s role to challenge musicians and question their decision making and that can ...

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...