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When you walk into the San Francisco office of the cloud network and security firm Cloudflare, you’re greeted by a receptionist–and a giant wall of 100 lava lamps. It isn’t just a throwback to the ...

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Lava lamps may be fun reminders of the 1970s, but these days, some are being used to help keep data secure. Nick Sullivan with a tech firm called Cloudflare shows a wall of lava lamps that are part ...

The lava lamp usually gets a bum rap as some kind of lowbrow psychedelic entertainment system for people who are too strung out to enjoy any stimulation of real substance. But the lazy loafing sources ...

Regular lava lamps haven’t been unironically cool in decades, but technologists keep finding new and exciting ways to update them for the 21st century. Recently, we covered the way that Silicon Valley ...

Cloudflare wall of entropy and lava lamp encryption wall in headquarters. - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images As far as data encryption goes, you wouldn't expect a bunch of lights to help secure ...