Channel: Quartz

Category: News & Politics

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Description: The global economy needs true randomness to encrypt messages and make sure elections are honest. But not all randomness is random enough, and humans and computers alike are really bad at generating it. So we turn to natural sources like seismic waves, radioactive decay, and lava lamps (yes, lava lamps) to generate it for us. Featuring Kira Bindrim is the host of the Quartz Obsession podcast. She is an executive editor who works on global newsroom coverage and email products. She is obsessed with reality TV. Amanda Shendruk is a visual journalist who explores narrative at the intersections of code, data, and design. She is obsessed with creepy books and forest walks along tiny streams. Show notes Amanda Shendruk’s article about Cloudflare’s wall of entropy qz.com/1642628/cloudflare-uses-lava-lamps-to-generate-a-crucial-resource League of Entropy cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy About Quartz Quartz is a digital news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at qz.com to read more.