The Wall of Entropy, as Cloudflare calls it, is situated in its headquarters in California and holds over a hundred individual lava lamps. A camera mounted across the wall snaps a picture and ...

(You can even, like cybersecurity giant Cloudflare does, use lava lamps.) Basically, it’s like shuffling a deck of cards by alternating them, over and over, until the results appear random to a ...

Get ready to turn up the glow! This year, National Lava® Lamp Day is extra special as it coincides with the 60th anniversary of the iconic LAVA brand. The mesmerizing, ever-shifting patterns of ...

Cloudflare, a company that provides cybersecurity services uses a wall of lava lamps in its headquarters to generate true randomness for secure encryption. The unpredictable motion of the lava inside ...

Even chaotic phenomena like the swirl of wax in a wall of lava lamps are – in theory – destined by thermodynamics. Even Cloudflare's 'Lavaland' number generator falls short of being truly random.

Cloudflare famously uses a wall of 100 lava lamps at its San Francisco headquarters in California as a source of randomness for encryption keys. A camera records the unique and unpredictable blobs ...

Lava lamps now start at 48 pounds ($62) and go up to £2,750. Mr. Craven Walker’s first lamp was named the Astro. In October, a variation debuted called the Astro Flame, powered by a small tea ...

Completely random codes are difficult, but when you look at the movement in a lava lamp, it's never quite the same between any two moments. Part of what makes them so appealing is how they morph and ...

Cloudflare is on a mission to build a better Internet. And part of how it achieves this is through a wall of lava lamps. Yes, truly. This wall helps generate random numbers for cryptographic keys ...

At Cloudflare's office in San Francisco, a camera on the ceiling is pointed down towards a wall of colourful lava lamps. "The motion of those lava lamps, the blobby, oily, waxy thing inside, is ...