Mushkin SSD Receives Editors Choice Award
We told you about the latest solid state drive, the Scorpion Deluxe PCIe, over the weekend. The impressive performance is already garnering awards with an Editor's Choice award from The SSD Review. Founder of The SSD Review Les Tokar said, "The Mushkin Scorpion Deluxe definitely showed its colors in Database and WorkStation analysis. We don't think that anything else is remotely close to giving you that performance for the value… WICKED 2GB/S PERFORMANCE AT A GREAT PRICE." You can find the full review at the press release link.
Source: Press Release
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Win a VIP Trip to the League of Legends World Championships, Courtesy of Logitech
Logitech is one of the names many people associate with gaming, especially the Logitech G series. Recently the company has launched a new contest to win a trip to the League of Legends World Championships with VIP Passes. All you have to do is tell Logitech (via Facebook) who your favorite LoL champion is and why, and do so in 140 characters or less. The winners will also get a tour of Riot's office, a brand new x51 PC from Alienware, and plenty of sweet Logitech G gear to keep you gaming long into the night. The contest requires Facebook and "liking" the Logitech page, as well as providing your name, email, and country, when providing your entry.
Logitech is running the League of Legends contest until September 19, so be sure to get your entries in by then!
Source: Press Release
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Verifying Cloud Computing with Zero Knowledge
Cloud computing is growing in popularity as it allows people and groups to reduce hardware expenses, while still having access to computer power. The catch with cloud computing is the cloud part, as it means data has to be transmitted and processed on a device that other people, possibly with ill-intent, have access to. Researchers at MIT though have developed a system to guard against that with a novel application of zero knowledge proofs.
There are some funky things you can do with mathematics, such as zero knowledge proofs. These are proofs that can allow an entity to prove they possess secret information, without sharing the information. What the MIT researchers have done is developed a way to use these to verify that a program being run in the cloud, is the intended program and has not been compromised by malicious code. It can also protect the information that is being processed in the cloud. A major part of how the researchers accomplished this is a variation of a 'probabilistically checkable proof' (PCP). Typically checking a proof requires going line by line, but with a PCP it is possible to sample only a portion of the proof, and still guarantee it is correct. The variation involved adding cryptographic encoding that limits what a malicious hacker can do to the code to just linear operations. With such a limitation, a PCP can be safely used.
Currently the system only works with programs written in C, as it has to convert the code to circuit diagrams. However, it should not be too difficult to apply it to other languages.
Source: MIT
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Sharing Secrets With a Touch
It is a classic scene in many movies and television, where to share a secret someone puts their mouth very near another's ear and whispers. Researchers at Disney Research though have a new way to secretly communicate by touching someone's earlobe.
Ishin-Den-Shin is a Japanese concept of communication through understanding instead of words, and is the name of this new technology. It utilizes a Shure microphone with a metal body, which the secret is whispered into. The sound is then processed by a computer to make it a high-amplitude, low-power signal, which is sent along a thin wire that wraps around the microphone. As the surface of our skin is conductive, the signal travels over the secret-holder's body, creating an electrostatic field. When that person touches the earlobe of another, fluctuations in the signal and field cause the earlobe and finger to act like a speaker, vibrating back and forth, recreating the sound. This sound can only be heard by the second person.
While this technology is a bit too obvious for sharing secrets, it could see use for turning almost any object into a sound device.
Source: Disney Research
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