TECH... 

• Apple Mac mini Dual Core 1.66GHz review - The Mac Mini is the Bruce Lee of the computing world - small frame, incredibly fit, lightning fast and able to take on any sized opponent with unflinching confidence.
• Evesham FX-60 notebook - Looking for a desktop replacement gaming system?
• Matrox Triplehead2Go - Well, Matrox is revising triple-screen gaming - but this time, it runs off your NVIDIA SLI setup. Prepare to own your mates at Counter-Strike!
• Ars analyzes AMD's Socket AM2 plans - AMD's new Socket AM2: it's no Conroe-killer, but it's not supposed to be
• TDK Working on Quad and Octal Layer Blu-Ray Media - TDK plans to bring to the market not only 4-layer 100GB media, but also media with 8 layers at 25GB/layer totalling 200GB of Blu-ray capacity.
• Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations - check it out!
• Yahoo maps to finally offer satellite images - Yahoo has finally adding satellite imagery to the Yahoo Maps beta
• Google, eBay And Amazon To AT&T: We'll Build Our Own Network - This would mean that consumers would have a choice, which they don't now.
• University Bans P2P Traffic - UConn (University of Connecticut) Information Technology Services says it's going to in effect ban all p2p file sharing programs, except DC++.
• Samsung SPH-B3200 first DMB phone to support 3D Gaming - The SPH-B3200 has a 3D Accelerator chip which is capable of processing 3 million polygons per second.
• Nokia N 80 - multimedia phone - This is the first mobile device with 3M camera with 2048W1536 pixels.
• Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? - The Air Force plans to conduct a first, fully loaded test flight of its Airborne Laser
• Millionaires24.com - Email service for Millionaires - As not everyone can afford the US$ 399.00 per month for an email address.
• Google make 12 cents for every search you perform - That may not sound like much but it all adds up when you realise that Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006, according to figures gathered by Nielsen/NetRatings.
• Software Engineer Named 'Best Job in America' by Money Magazine - MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors
• Japanese Idols: Kaho - Oh yeah :)

GAMING... 

• CGM Previews Duke Nukem Forever - The May 2006 issue of Computer Games Magazine, which includes a cover feature previewing 3D Realms and Human Head Studios' long-awaited FPS Prey, has also included fresh information on 3D Realms's epochally long in development Duke Nukem Forever. The title, in its current state is described as: "mainly just pieces of the game in progress and tech demos", including "an early level, a vehicle sequence, a few test rooms", among others. Another item of note in the Gamasutra article includes the observation that Take-Two has already paid out 4.25 million of the promised 6 million due to 3D Realms upon completion of the title.
• Crysis Q&A - Over at C&VG you can find a Crysis Q&A, offering more information on the upcoming FPS. The Q&A features questions about the game's multiplayer modes, gameplay style, game engine, AI, weapons, and release plans.
• Huxley Q&A - GameSpot has posted a Q&A with producer Kijong Kang. He talks about inspiration, races, character professions, combat, the Unreal Engine 3, and Xbox 360 plans.
• Stranger trailer - Fireglow Games has released a new movie trailer for Stranger, showing off their fantasy 3D real-time strategy game in development.
• X3: REUNION patches v1.4.02 - A new round of retail patches for X3: REUNION is now online to upgrade the European editions of the space-combat exploration sequel by EgoSoft to version 1.4.02. The new update improves widescreen monitor support while fixing several crash issues.
• Counter-Strike: Source Update - There's a new update available through Steam, updating Counter-Strike: Source and Earth 2160
• Hitman: Blood Money Dated - Agent 47 sets his sights on May 30 in North America.
• Neverwinter Nights 2 Release Date - Looks like Bioware has officially announced the month that NWN2 will be released. The official worldwide release date for NWN2 is September 2006.
• Take Command 2nd Manassas - Paradox Interactive sent us a press  release announcing that Take Command 2nd Manassas is gold, and Madminute's Civil War sequel will begin shipping to North American and Scandinavian stores in under a week, with German and UK releases to follow shortly thereafter
• PS2 price drop by month's end? - According to the latest Game Over column on CNN, $129 looks to be the magic number, but it might go lower, depending on Microsoft's response. A Sony spokesperson declined to comment on the report
• Official Red Steel website - Keeping alive the stream of Red Steel news, the Revolution FPS being developed by Ubisoft, now has an official website.
• More Bans In World Of Wacraft - Blizzard banned over 5400 accounts and suspended 10700 more for participating in activities that violate the game’s Terms of Use, including using third-party programs to farm gold and items.
• The most addictive free game: Battle for Wesnoth - check it out