• BFG Tech's PhysX PPU - Examined and Tested - Currently there's no reason to spend the £200+ to acquire one. The current effects in the supported games aren't worth the price and potential performance drop. Cell Factor and awesome UE3.0 games, where art thou? Without those the PhysX hardware is a curiosity for the gamer.
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Hard Drive - Seagate really does have the Steve Austin of hard drives on their hands with the Barracuda 7200.10, as it really is better, stronger, faster.
• Corsair TWIN2X1024-8500 - Need DDR2 that is guaranteed to run at 1000MHz?
• Toshiba Laptops at less than half the price -  If England wins the World cup you get 66 % cash back!
• Blu-ray DVDs Delayed - It looks like Blu-ray DVDs will be delayed until June 20th. In other news, here's HD vs DVD comparison (thanks NeoNSX)
• MPAA study of piracy reveals damage far worse than expected - The study, by LEK Consulting LLC, was completed last year, and people familiar with it say it reached a startling conclusion: U.S. movie studios are losing about $6.1 billion annually in global wholesale revenue to piracy. IMHO, MPAA's calculations are a joke!
• 3G-enabled LG U900 TV phone makes debut - The handset boasts a 2.2-inch swiveling display for watching TV for up to three hours in landscape mode.
• Star Wars Trilogy Non-Special Edition Coming To DVD - The non-special-edition Star Wars trilogy will be released on DVD this September.
• Colbert's Bush-Burning Viewed 500,000 Times on YouTube - Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert is one of the Internet's hottest acts this week after video of the comedian skewering President Bush spread rapidly on the web.
• Bill Gates Doesn't Want to Be Richest Man - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an online advertising conference Wednesday that he'd prefer not to be the richest person in the world. Hey, Bill I'll take a few of those dollars off your hands! ;)

• Asus to ship PhysX cards with a game - The cards should be available by the end of the month.
• S3's MultiChrome dual-GPU technology - Seems like the S3 products are always on par with year-old ATI and Nvidia stuff.
• ASUS P5WD2-E Premium mobo - The integrated feature list of the P5WD2-E Premium is impressive and it certainly puts the competition to shame.
• Eizo FlexScan S2410W 24inch widescreen monitor - The 14-bit colour processing ASIC gave excellent 256 greyscales and colour scales - smooth as they come, with no signs of banding.
• LG 32LX2R 32in LCD TV - A search for features on the 32LX2R quickly uncovers a disappointment: there's only a built-in analogue tuner, not a digital one.
• Samsung's 19-inch CX919B boasts 2000:1 contrast ratio -It features 2000:1 contrast ratio, the highest so far in its industry, and 2m response time.
• Asus EN7600GT Silent - The EN7600GT is the perfect card for silent PC junkies.
• USB Flash Drive Roundup - May 2006 - Geil developed a USB flash drive faster than OCZ's Rally.
• Space Cube - Linux-running, pocket sized computer - The unbelievably minuscule cube (2 x 2 x 2.2 inch case) packs 300 MHz CPU and 64 MB of SDRAM.
• MacBook owners plan mass whine about whining laptops - What's the problem? The noise is a high-pitched whine or hiss the machine emits during operation.
• Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars - It was only a matter of time before thieves got smart to the whole "keyless entry" thing and found a way around it.
• 'Cloaking device' idea proposed - Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton propose that placing certain objects close to a material called a superlens could make them appear to vanish.
• How to hold your breath for nine minutes - Illusionist David Blaine is attempting to break the world record for holding breath under water.

• AGEIA PhysX PPU Hands On - In Ghost Recon, the differences between having a PhysX card and not having one are not as dramatic as I had first hoped they would be.
• Intel ViiV vs. AMD Live! - They define the minimum hardware and software requirements that a digital entertainment computer must have. Both platforms are based on dual-core processors supporting SSE3 multimedia instructions.
• Intel Pentium D 960 hits shelves in Japan - The chip runs at 3.6GHz, has 2MB of L2 cache per core, and seems to be based on the same 65nm Presler core as the rest of Intel's 9xx line.
• O'clocked 7600GT reaches 715MHz - After having modded it expertly, the maximum speed they could reach was 715MHz and 830MHz for the core and clock respectively!
• Dell XPS M1210 gaming laptop specs - check it out
• Lenovo 3000 C100 Notebook - Even during DVD playback it lasted 200 minutes which is well over three hours!
• Samsung Q1 UMPC launched -  The device is scheduled to appear in Best Buy and "other retail outlets" for $1,099 on May 7.
• The Creative X-Fi Scandal? - After Creative released their new X-Fi lineup many users complained about the following issues - Popping and crackling noises, Incompatibilities with nForce3/4 based motherboards, BSODs, hard lockups and strange behavior.
• Bitboys bought out by ATI - A proof that being a demoscener/Finnish is profitable ;)
• [!] Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 - The latest version fixes that DoS vulnerability found last week.
• Microsoft may delay Windows Vista, again - The Gartner research group is claiming that Microsoft is likely to delay Windows Vista from its announced January 2007 release date to some time between April and June 2007.
• The Complete Steve Ballmer 'Don't Panic' Memo - CEO Steve Ballmer issued a memo to employees to provide "some context" for the increased spending forecast that caused the negative response on Wall Street.
• Hackers control bot client over P2P - Nugache-A is also spreading (albeit modestly) as an infected email that uses a variety of well-known Windows exploits to infect vulnerable Windows PCs.
• Google's €30,000 European Programming Competition - Registration is now open for the competition, and closes on the 23rd May, the first round will take place on the 23rd and 24th whittling down the entries to only 500 people.
• Japanese researchers invent completely transparent material - Mass-produced versions of the new material could improve fiber optic communications, contribute to better telescopes and cameras, or lead to the development of completely new optical equipment.
• A jet-powered Beetle? Now that's HOT! - The result is one hell of a horsepower boost!
• Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford - The West Ford copper needles were each 1.8 cm long and 0.0018 cm in diameter and weighed only 40 micrograms. They were designed to be exactly half of the wavelength of 8000 MHz microwaves.

• Ageia PhysX 128MB vs. 256MB - Ageia's PR rep revealed that both companies will ship only 128MB cards for now.
• Intel Core versus AMD's K8 architecture - The Core CPU is simply a wider, more efficient and more out of order CPU
• 90% of Intel mobile chips to be dual-core by 2007 - Intel expects to ship more dual-core than single-core mobile chips this quarter.
• CPU Heatsink Round-Up - If you want a silent, yet speedy PC with enough CPU power, you'll have to invest in third party cooling.
• MacBook Pros overheating due to thermal grease? - The new paste application supposedly makes the MacBook cool enough to comfortably run on the user's lap and has the side-effect of lowering fan noise, as well. I can't believe that a company that has made such great notebooks over the past few years can fuck up something as elementary as the proper amount of paste.
• Laser Mouse Roundup - 5 different laser mice tested
• DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming - The potential for it all sounds great on paper. Since DirectX 10 is tied to Windows Vista, this means if you want to experience DirectX 10-powered 3D games you are going to need Windows Vista, a DirectX 10 video card, and a DirectX 10 game at the least.
• Google unhappy with IE7 search field - Doh! Everyone loves Google but I think they are becoming more and more like a 5 years old child.
• Google Launches Free 3D Modeling Software - Google SketchUp is free for personal use.
• Napster offers free music once again? Sort of - The free service only allows tracks to be played up to five times, however, and can only be used via a Macromedia Flash-based music player on the Napster website.
• NTL Speed Upgrades Next Month - From the 1st June NTL will be upgrading 2Mb subscribers to a 4Mb connection for free and will be removing any bandwidth caps on all packages.
• Howto watch ABC TV Streams outside the USA - Describes a way to view ABC TV streams from outside the USA.
• Scientists use a weed to cure skin cancer in 2 days - Early clinical trials of a new gel based on a common garden weed have cleared up the most common type of skin cancer in 2 days
• Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch (video) - check it out
• Top 10 Most Fuel-Efficient Cars for 2006 - Hybrid vehicles take top 3 spots but are not the only option!

• Intel Rushing To Release Core CPUs - Woodcrest shipments will start in June, followed by Conroe in July and Merom in August.
• AMD Replacing Faulty Opteron Chips - The potential problem affects a number of single-core Opteron 152, 154, 252, 254, 852 and 854 processors manufactured in late 2005 or early 2006.
• Dual Core Pentium D 930 - The results, a 1GHz overclock on air cooling, is impressive no matter how you slice it.
• Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard available - This awesome gadget uses a rechargeable battery that lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing.
• Sennheiser MX500, PX200, and PXC250 Headphones - The MX-500 is very light weight and features a 3.5mm stereo plug, 1 meter cable, and 32 Ohm dynamic drivers which have 119 dB Sound Pressure Level, 1% total harmonic distortion, and a frequency range of 18-22,000Hz.
• TDK cracks 200GB Blu-ray Disc problem - The company abandoned its plans to produce an eight-layer disc and instead used a new recording medium in order to achieve the 200GB capacity with just six 33GB layers
• LG KG 320 the 9mm thick camera phone - This candybar phone has a 1000 entry phonebook and a 1.77" 176 x 220 display capable of showing 256k colors.
• Steve Ballmer about Apple - Steve Ballmer was interviewed by German newspaper "Die WELT" and answered questions about Apple and his thoughts about running Windows on a Mac.
• New Windows Live Shopping Site now LIVE - What is it? It is the beta launch of Microsoft's Web 2.0 shopping experience, featuring one of the world's largest product catalogs, user-created content and an easier-to-use interface built on 100% AJAX technology. It uses a unified shopping engine to search or browse almost 40 million products from 7,000 stores ranging from many of the country's leading retailers to eBay.
• Mozilla to Issue Firefox Security Fix - The Mozilla Corporation plans to rush out a minor update to Firefox, numbered 1.5.0.3, in order to address a denial-of-service vulnerability.
• Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It - You can test how web pages look in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 without upgrading Internet Explorer 6.
• Simple hack to disable USB drives in Windows XP - There is a simple registry change that will keep the USB storage drivers from starting when the system boots. Keeps people from walking up to a PC and copying data off with a USB key, but allows you to keep your scanner, keyboard, and mouse working.
• Sony sued by artists for royalties due on digital downloads - Sony is only paying artists 4.5 cents for each song.
• Pictures from the set of Spiderman 3 - Close ups of the stunt spidermans costume. Very cool looking!
• X-Men: The Last Stand Clip - You can watch the clip at YouTube in Flash format! A much better-quality AVI version is also available at MEGAUPLOAD.com, but you'll need the XviD codec for that one. The action-packed clip gives you a first look at a Sentinel in the film, opening May 26th.
• Hammerhead, the CD thrower (LEGO) - check it out
• Last ninja: 'Be able to kill your students' - Chilling words from a shockingly fit 76-year-old man who bills himself as the world's last ninja

• Leadtek WinFast 7600 GS vs HIS X1600 XT IceQ Turbo - Call of Duty 2 is barely playable on either of these cards, but at 1,280 x 1,024 with no FSAA and AF the 7600 GS takes a lead significant enough to almost brand it playable with 27.39 frames per second. Anything above 1,280 x 1,024 ran at speeds a milk float would consider slow.
• Diamond XtremeSound 7.1 DDL soundcard review - Performance is reasonable and Dolby Digital Live support functions as well as you would expect it to, offering a higher quality alternative to analog output (depending on the decoder you connect it to, of course) while 7.1 Analog output is also welcome
  Mobile ATA hard drives compared - Anyone with a 4,200-RPM laptop hard drive with 2 MB of cache could use an upgrade.
• Voodoo PC OMEN a121x CrossFire Extreme Gamer PC - check it out!
• Asus W5F 12-inch Core Duo Notebook - Weighing under 5 lbs, you will want to bring it everywhere with you, and with strong battery saving modes that can stretch your lifeline to 3 hours.
• Pioneer unveils Blu-ray PC burner - The BDR-101A features writing speeds of 2x for BD-R (recordable or write once) and BD-RE (rewritable).
• Casio Exilim EX-Z1000, 10MP In Your Pocket - Casio presents a pocket digital camera with one of the highest resolutions available for this type of cameras. They pack a 10.1MP sensor in a 92x22.4x58.4mm and 139g box, and other than this high resolution you also get a 2.8" screen and 3x optical zoom.
• Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? - BitLocker will make dual booting other OSs difficult - you will no longer be able to share data between the two.
• Microsoft takes down barrier in Vista firewall - Window's release of Vista early next year will have an updated firewall that looks at incoming and outgoing traffic
• Rat on your pirate boss, win $36,000 - Anti-software piracy group the BSA is offering a $36,000 reward to anyone who informs on employers who use illegal or unlicensed software
• I was just hunting UFOs, says Pentagon's UK hacker - The unemployed computer programmer is now battling extradition to the United States, where, if found guilty, he faces up to 70 years in jail and fines of up to $1.75 million. He is going to Trial May 10, 2006.
• Chrysler, GM, BMW announce new hybrid system - The technology is said to be ready for production beginning next year. As a result of its low- and high-speed electric continuously variable transmission (ECVT) modes, the system is commonly referred to as the 2-mode hybrid.
• Top 25 Towns for Clean Air, Dirty Air - The ALA lists the 25 U.S. metropolitan areas most polluted by year-round particle pollution (soot).
• Chinese make a fake Ferrari -  Finally you can get your dream car for $ 10k or so

• GeForce 7950 GX2 pictured - The card features 512MB of GDDR3 RAM per GPU, and has respective core and memory clock speeds of 500MHz and 1.2GHz.
• Budget Intel Overclocking - Pentium D 805 and Celeron D 356 - check it out
• XFX 7900GTX XXX Edition - The graphics core is running at a sweet 700 MHz (650 normally) and the memory is running at 2x900 MHz (normally 2x850 MHz). Not bad eh?
• Seagate goes to 750GB with new desktop drive - Two resellers are already listing 750GB 7200.10s for between $497 and $540, but other capacities don't appear to be available online just yet.
• 16 GB storage on a credit card - Wallet sized credit card adapter that's 3 mm thin but stores a whole 16 GB of data
• Lite-ON SHM-165H6S Super AllWrite 16x DVD1RW - The drive is capable of 16x DVD+R, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+R DL, 4x DVD-R DL, 5x DVD-RAM writing speeds and a maximum DVD read speed of 16x.
• New CRT screen from Samsung - the SyncMaster 745MS -  It's the thinnest in the world CRT as this 17" screen is 385mm thin
• Invention: Apple's all-seeing screen - The clever idea is to insert thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but software stitches these together to create a single, larger picture
• Software Round-Up (April 27) - Nero 7 Premium 7.2.0.3, Microsoft Repatched Patch, Azureus 2.4.0.3 beta 16 and more.
• Mazda RX-9 with Mighty Morphin' tire tech and energy absorbant skin - The Mazda RX-9 is a hybrid featuring a 2.5L V6 and wafer-thin electric motor, but features a couple of technologies not seen before in the race for higher fuel mileage: tires that can change tread pattern and depth and sheetmetal that absorbs electricity from dry ambient air.
• The $60,000 iPod Ad - A Tekserve advertisement that took over $60,000 in iPod players to make a Rube Goldbergian domino effect.
  

• Intel G965 chipset to have DirectX 10 support? - The leaked slide lists both Shader Model 3.0 and 4.0 compatibility under the G965's specs, along with hardware Transform & Lighting, hardware clipping, 32-bit floating point precision, and anisotropic filtering up to 16 samples.
• VGA Cooler Roundup - The Accelero X1 offered the best performance/noise ratio on the 7800GT.
• Six New AMD Coolers: Cold Enough For You? - The Zalman CNPS9500 LED is the clear winner.
• Radeon X1800 GTO price to drop US $50 - The price of X1800 GTO boards is set to drop by US $50, taking it down to the same price point as NVIDIA's rival GeForce 7600 GT parts.
• Waterproof Core Duo Laptop - The Letsnote CF-Y5 notebook offers a 1.5 GHz Intel L2300 Core Duo processor, a 14.1-inch 1,400 by 1,050 pixel display, up to 1 GB of RAM, 802.11a/b/g wireless networking, up to 60 GB hard disk storage.
• Lite-On SLW-831SX DVD-Writer Mini-Review - This baby supports 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD+RW and 2.4x DVD+R DL writing technology, allowing Double Layer discs of 8.5GB to be written.
• Dell 2005FPW 20.1inch Widescreen LCD - For general usage such as browsing the internet and using office programs, this remains a great choice.
• Microsoft Is Taking WGA To The Next Level -  Up until now if you didn't validate your copy of Windows nothing happened, but now with the WGA Notification, every time you reboot your computer, log-in and periodically (every hour or so) Windows will display a nag screen reminding you to validate your copy.
• How to go from Windows XP to Mac OSX - Really, this "Switch" article seems a lot less condescending than most of the others I've read in the past - and let's be honest, there have been quite a few of those.
• Microsoft To Ship Longhorn Server In Second Half Of 2007 - The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007.
• LG launches two new DMB phones with 170-viewing angle - LG has used it's propreitery "IPS" method for the first time on mobile phones, traditionally used only on Digital TV's this revolutionary technology gives you a clear view of the display even if you look from the side.
• Gamers lament top tournament loss - In 2005 the World Tour organised by the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) gave away $1m in prizes to pro-gamers at 10 events held around the globe. But the tour has been cancelled for 2006, leaving many pro-gamers wondering how to make their lifestyle pay.

• Apple rolls out 17-inch MacBook Pro - The top-of-the-line laptop packs an Intel CoreDuo processor running at 2.16GHz, 1GB (single SODIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, and a display that is said to be 36 percent brighter than its predecessor.
• HyperTransport Group Announces Version 3.0 - The new spec bumps clock speeds up to 2.6GHz, yielding a maximum 20.8GB/s of full-duplex bandwidth with a 16-bit link.
• Intel Chipset Shootout! 945GM vs. 915GM - The 945GM chipset delivers noticeably higher performance compared to its predecessor.
• Asus P5WD2-E review - One of the best LGA775-based mobos for overclockers!
• ABIT AN8 32X nForce4 SLI X16 - The board does feature silent cooling which is a big plus for anyone worried about noise and the heat pipe technology also kept the components cool.
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 Announced - The new FX 4500 X2 features 512MB of memory per GPU, a 256-bit memory bus, and 33.6GB/s of memory bandwidth.
• 2,760 drives, 500GB each, one huge storage array = 1.3 Petabytes! - Wow! :)
• Linksys jumps on faster Wi-Fi bandwagon - Linksys introducing three products based on a draft of the IEEE 802.11n standard.
• Nokia N73, N93 officially announced - The new models feature large 2.4" QVGA displays, 3 Megapixel cameras with Carl Zeiss lenses and powerful flashes, and a new Xpress Share client that makes sending pictures as mms, email and even to Flickr accounts easy.
• Playstation 3 Cell Processor Security Architecture - IBM Developerworks just released a document detailing the Playstation 3's security architecture.
• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 for Windows XP SP2 - download
• 195 Free Online Programming Books - A very nice list...
• The Bill the Hollywood cartels don't want you to see - The Members of Congress in the pockets of the Hollywood cartels want to divert $20 million a year and FBI agents from fighting real criminals so they can go after people without computers. Now is the time to fight back and prevent this from passing.
• Airbus A350 Business class gets 60GB PMP - An interesting addition will be the digEplayer XT which has a 8-inch TFT which offers true DVD-quality video and crisp, clear text and graphics.  In related news, Boeing is preparing a 1000 passenger jet that could reshape the Air travel industry for the next 100 years.
• 'Massive Yet Tiny' engine promises big things - It "has the potential to replace all the existing internal combustion engines and jet engines," according to the inventor. It reportedly has a power to weight ratio 40 times higher than a regular internal combustion engine.
• New German Car 157mpg - Only $11,000 Euros - The 20 PS (15 kw) two-cylinder turbo-diesel motor powers the 450 kg (204 lb) light Loremo LS to up to 160 km/h (100 mph). It accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (63 mph) in 20 s and its aerodynamic form achieves a Cw value of 0.20. Fuel consumption: tiny 1.5 liters for 100 km (157 mpg)!
• U.S. Army Survival Manual - With info on how to build shelters, find water and food, and even signaling techniques, this guide will help you stay alive just about anywhere.
• God of War 2 Hi-Res Trailer (PS2) - check it out

• Microsoft to re-issue buggy security patch - The new update is presently being tested, and is expected to be released next Tuesday.
• Intel Duo Core clocked at 3.4Ghz beats P4 overclock to 7.2Ghz! - Using a modified subzero cooling he was able to push the CPU to 3.4Ghz and run a CPU intensive SuperPi 1Mb calculation in 17.75 seconds!!
• XpertVision GeForce 7600GT Sonic - The XpertVision is overclocked to 575MHz for the core, a measly gain of 15MHz over the reference design
• Asus PW191 LCD Monitor - It's probably the best-looking monitor available on the market today.
• HP Compaq nx6125 biometric laptop - The processor in the review model is a Turion ML-40 clocked at no less than 2.2GHz.
• Panasonic announces three Blu-ray Disc burners - The SW-5582 is a half-height burner with support for burning and reading BD-R/RE single layer (SL) and dual layer (DL) discs at 2x speed (72 Mbps) as well as writing and reading all DVD and CD formats.
• Nokia N90 review - Equipped with an f/2.9-5.5mm Carl Zeiss lens and a 24-bit, 16.7-million CMOS color imaging chip, the N90 shoots 1600 x 1200 pixel 2-megapixel stills, lower resolution 800 x 600 (.5 MP) and VGA 640 x 480 (.3 MP) JPEGs, and 30-second to one-hour, 15-frames-per-second, 352 x 288 pixel MPEG-4 video clips.
• Windows Live Mail with 2GB storage launch expected in June - The webbased email service has a Outllook look and feel. The email can also be read offline using the Desktop Live Mail client, this client will also be able to access IMAP and POP account.
• CureROM 2.0 - Final BETA - This new version improves Anti-Blacklist Measures, add support for "Game Jackal" and DAEMON-Tools "Secure Mode", fixes CureROM Blacklist by SecuROM.
• Windows Vista Interim Build, Beta 2 Update - Build 5365 will include major changes to the User Account Protection (UAP) feature, my sources tell me. It is now linked to something called "Secure Desktop," which is what the CTRL+ALT+DEL keyboard shortcut will now trigger as well.
• Run Windows Application Natively in OS X? - IMHO, there's no way in hell Microsoft would document their API to the level necessary to allow Apple to duplicate it. Anyway, fairly interesting article :)
• The pros and cons of Windows Firewall - I dont agree with this article, yes windows firewall is "only half a firewall" in essence but its definetly better than no firewall at all.
• Google Cheat Sheets (Version 1.04) - This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information.
• Screenshots Of Google’s New Search Results Screen - It appears that search engines are all doing some redesigns: Yahoo is working on a new homepage, Microsoft is working on Windows Live, and now Google is redesigning their search layout.
• Towards the magnetic fridge - When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers think that their material could help to usher in a new type of refrigerator that is up to 40 percent more energy-efficient than conventional models.
• Teeny Reactor Pumps Out Biodiesel - A tiny chemical reactor that can convert vegetable oil directly into biodiesel could help farmers turn some of their crops into homegrown fuel to operate agricultural equipment instead of relying on costly imported oil.
• FBI Top 11 Deaths of the Year - Every year the FBI is asked to investigate over 36,000 Serious Crimes including Suspicious Deaths and Homicides. And the Homicide Investigations Unit puts out its Top 11 Homicides of that year
• Universal Pictures Summer 2006 Preview - Universal Pictures has released its summer 2006 preview which features three comedies - one starring Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon, another with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, and a third with Justin Long. Also, there's the big screen adaptation of a popular '80s TV series, a third "Fast and the Furious" installment and a musical from André Benjamin and Antwan Andre Patton (aka OutKast).

• Seagate gets perpendicular with 750GB desktop HDD - Seagate documents have leaked out the two 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda hard drives. The drives are the first desktop hard drives to use perpendicular recording, feature a 16MB cache and 7200RPM spindle.
• MiniITX goes PCI Express x16 - However, the LV-677's unique attributes don't come cheap - retailers in Japan are selling the board for close to $450!
• World's First Water Cooled PPU - Surprisingly, the mounting holes follow the good old GF4 standard so no problem to find a suitable block
• Is Bensley Better Than AMD's Hypertransport Platform? - These benchmarks also indicate how the platform will fare against AMD's Opteron 280
• Dell 3007WFP 30-inch LCD reviewed - This thing is a behemoth. Thirty inches of pure pleasure-or pain, if you are a gamer-will be delivered at a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution with a 700:1 contrast ratio and 11ms response time.
• Dual Monitors Increase Productivity by up to 30% - Speed is one reason computer game players use multiple monitors!
• E-TEN G500 Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone with GPS - In addition to GSM phone and GPS functions, the device also serves as a high-specification PDA running Windows Mobile 5.0.
• The Nexus Wicked Laser - This is no ordinary Laser pointer, with an output of 95mW (Standard Laser pointers top at 5mW) this baby has a range of 38 miles.
• Download and Burn Your Porno - Los Angeles-based Vivid will start selling burnable movies May 8 through online movie service CinemaNow.
• Volkswagen develops prototype for 1.0-litre per 100 kilometres - The 1-litre car is powered by a one-cylinder diesel engine, centrally positioned in front of the rear axle and combined with an automated direct shift gearbox. In related news, VW launches new "Crash" shock ads!
• 100 Interesting science facts - check it out
• Angelina Jolie Returns For Third Lara Croft Film - Dark Horizons is reporting via a story in the UK newspaper Daily Express that actress Angelina Jolie will indeed be coming back to play Lara Croft in the third film in the action-adventure series back on the Eidos game franchise. According to the story, Jolie will begin training for the third film after the birth of her child with actor Brad Pitt.

• AMD speaks out on 45nm, Conroe - The interview covers a lot of ground, from AMD's 65nm and 45nm plans to Intel's new architecture, DDR3, and the upcoming dual-core Turion X2s
• ATI vs. NVIDIA Gameplay in Oblivion & WoW - Yeah, NVIDIA versus ATI! Again ;)
• Apple's flagship MacBook Pro to arrive at NAB - According to the report, the 17-inch MBP would include a faster processor than the 2.16GHz version currently available in the 15-incher's top configuration.
• OCZ Technology DDR2 PC2-8000 Platinum XTC Extreme Edition - It's quick RAM, need I say any more? Oh, go on then...
• Corsair Nautilus500 vs Zalman's Reserator 1 Plus - Even at the lowest fan speed setting, which still delivers stellar cooling performance, the Nautilus is loud enough that I wouldn't want it in my living room.
• MSI RX1800GTO-VT2D Overclocking Test - Handy for those of you looing into getting one of these cards and trying to OC the hell out of it.
• Samsung develops 2GByte Memory Card for Mobile Phones - With 2GB memory it can store upto 12 hours of mobile video and is fast enough to download three hours of it in under two minutes.
• Kodak Gold CD DVD media- safe storage for up to 300 years - The gold Preservation CD-R can safely store digital data for up to 300 years.
• Windows Vista 2006 CTP (Build 5308/5342) review - Pretty good article, check it out!
• Software Round-Up (April 20) - DivX 6.2.1, DVDFab Decrypter 2.9.7.6, Azureus 2.4.0.3 beta 10 and more.
• Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5.0.2 released - download!
• Free Visual Studio 2005 Express - Microsoft has decided to extend its free Visual Studio Express downloads indefinitely
• Circumvent PDF DRM with Gmail/FireFox - check it out! (I haven't tested it yet! Please let me know if the plugin works)
• Microsoft Plans Gdrive Competitor - The MSN team is working on a new Windows Live service, code-named Live Drive, that will provide users with a virtual hard drive for storing hosted personal data.
• Patent lawyers tell free software developer to pay $203,000 - It is a tactic that they are using - if you pay any money what so every against their claim, that will show evidence that you admit fault. If you can show conclusively that your software existed before their patent, their patent becomes invalid, and they don't want that...
• How Evil Are You? - Machiavellianism is the term psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to deceive and manipulate others for gain. So how evil are you? Take this Machiavelli personality test and find out...

• NVIDIA launches GeForce Go 7900 GTX, GS - The GS features 375MHz core and 1GHz effective memory clock speeds, as well as 20 pixel shader processors and 7 vertex shader units
• Sapphire Blizzard RADEON X1900 XTX 512MB - The cooling system is highly efficient!
• HIS Overclocked Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo - Radeon X800 GTO was up to 139.37% faster than the overclocked Radeon X1600 Pro from HIS.
• Why ATI and Nvidia don't release hardware documentation - But are staying secret because of fear of being sued by the other for infringement.
• AMD AM2 In May? - It looks like the release date of AMD's AM2 will now be May 23rd instead of the originally reported date of June 6th.
• Intel's Core Duo and the AOpen i975Xa-YDG - It looks like that the Core Duo is a more attractive processor as a whole compared to the FX-60.
• AMD Athlon FX-60 review - Two surprises right here, first, the FX60 does not draw more power than the X2-4800+.
• Intel Demos 2GHz Quad-Core Server Chips - The prototype of the code-named Clovertown server processor utilizes two physical dice on a substrate, each of the units sport two processing engines and 4MB of unified cache, thus providing four executing cores and 8MB of cache in total.
• Seagate 500GB and Western Digital 400GB drives reviewed - These drives, while not spectacular, are nothing to be disappointed by.
• Seagate Releases Perpendicular Drives - With a transfer rate of 73mb/s to 125mb/s, the Cheetah 15K.5 transfers data about 30 percent faster than the Cheetah 15K.4, which does not use perpendicular technology.
• Plextor Introduces 'Shock Proof' Portable Hard Drives - These are designed to include a silicone jacket that can absorb most of the shock from bumps and drops.
• 1080p HDTV Explained - Sony's claim that 1080p is "true high definition" is ridiculous when you consider the fact that their PlayStation 3 will be able to output a 1080p signal through its two HDMI outputs, yet none of their high-definition televisions, not even the KDS-R60XBR1, can actually accept such a signal.  Pretty good/valuable article, check it out!
• The DVD Walkman by Sony, the D-VE7000S and DVP-FX810 - No DivX or Xvid support. Hello? The only reason why Sony sells anything these days is due to its SONY on the front of their devices!
• Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing - If a new idea from Philips catches on, the company may not be very popular with TV viewers.
• Linksys SPA-941 Business IP Phone - The Linksys SPA-941 certainly shows its lineage to the older 841 phone but also has had major influence from the Cisco side of the house.
• T-Mobile grabs BlackBerry 8700g - The phone is available for a price tag of $299 after rebates.
• Official Images of 2007 BMW 3-Series Coupe - The new 335i model will have 306 horsepower, 295 lb-ft, 3.0-liter bi-turbo engine.
• High Def Digest reviews The Last Samurai HD-DVD - check it out

• Core Duo on the desktop - That thing did pretty well against some Athlon FX's, which cost a few hundred dollars more. It didn't tie them, but in many of the test, it wasn't too far off either. Intel, enough teasers, give us a cheap overclockable Conroe! ;)
• GeForce 7900 GT, 7600 GT to show up for AGP? - If the information is correct, end-users who still own previous-generation system with AGP 8x graphics slot will be able to update their computers to the latest graphics technology at $200 or $300 price-points depending on their demands.
• BFG GeForce 7900 GTX OC - The BFG 7900 GTX OC maintains a small, but consistent performance lead over the reference scores.
• XFX GeForce 7300 GS video card - Don't buy this card for games!
• Microsoft warns of HP patch problem on Windows - The problems, which concern a Windows operating system patch numbered MS06-015, can cause some applications to crash, Microsoft warned Saturday.
• Windows Media Player 11 In June - The software, which will be built into Vista, is designed to offer better synching with portable devices.
• Gmail Storage Space Plotted - Last year, Gmail started increasing user's storage capacity at a constant rate. But in late 2005 the rate slowed. This graph shows when Gmail is expected to reach the 3 GB mark, which is sometime in April 2008!
• Symantec Owes Nearly $1 Billion in Back Taxes - Symantec also said the IRS is seeking approximately $100 million, excluding penalties and interest, from an unrelated audit of the vendor for fiscal years 2003 and 2004.
• Panasonic Offers $100 DVD Player With Upconversion/HDMI - The DVD-S52 is just a regular DVD player with upconversion.
• Top 10 Low Cost Digital Cameras - Olympus's $230 FE-120 surpassed more expensive models in image quality
• Man Ticketed For Changing Red Lights To Green - A Longmont man has been ticketed $50 for suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.
• Caparo T1: Zero to 60 in 2.5 Seconds! - Ex-McLaren engineers will soon unveil the street-legal F1 car.
• Mission: Impossible III Clip - Here's a new clip from Paramount Pictures' Mission: Impossible III, directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias) and starring Tom Cruise. The action-packed sequence features Special Agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) leaning out of side of a car in fast-paced car chase
• Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush - Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran "gravely irresponsible" and warning that such action would have "disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world."

• BitTorrent battles over bandwidth - Recent estimates say that around a third of all internet traffic is based around BitTorrent.
• Triple Boot Camp - OSX, XP, Linux -  How about a triple boot using OSX, XP and Linux?
• Illegal prime - The first illegal prime number was generated on March 2001 by Phil Carmody. Its binary representation corresponds to a compressed version of the C source code of a computer program implementing the DeCSS decryption scheme.
• Intel Pentium D 805 overclocked by 46% - The reviewer was able to overclock the Pentium D 805 by a formidable 46%!
• More 802.11n Routers Revealed - The key difference with the 802.11n standard is its increased speed, roughly 540-Mbits/s.
• Advantages of RAID6 Over RAID0 and RAID5 - Hardware Secrets take a look at the advantages of RAID6 over RAID0 and RAID5. In related news, Puget Systems published a general article on RAID.
• Firefox Flicks Closes - The competition, worth $5000 to the winner, involved creating a short video showing off the benefits of Firefox over other browsers.
• Samsung's SGH-P300 Credit Card Phone review -  Battery life in two separate tests both resulted in over 7 hours of talk time when used with a 1900MHz GSM signal.
• Sony adds 'live color creation' to Bravia LCD TV's - The upper-grade V2000 series comprises 32", 40", and 46-inch models will be equipped with Sony's new "live color creation" technology, which uses a wide spectrum backlight (Wide Colour Gamut Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) which used phosphors developed for the company's Trinitron CRTs.
• 2007 Infiniti G35 the first to get Hard Drive for storing Music - Infiniti has unveiled the next generation of its G35 performance sedan, which will woo drivers when it goes to sale this November by it's 300HP engine, paddle shifters, push-button ignition, touch-screen navigation and a rear-view monitor.
• Exxon Chief Made $144,573 Per Day - Raymond, who retired from Exxon in December, received more than $686 million from 1993 to 2005. 
• Will you marry me? - There's a "Will U Marry Me" written on one of the roofs there!
• Second ice chunk falls in SF area - from a cloudless sky - First ice chunk created a 2-foot crater in an Oakland park, latest one busted a hole in a gym roof. On a cloudless day!

• NVidia Forceware 84.43 BETA Drivers - NVIDIA added a SLI profile for Tomb Raider: Legend.
• Software Round-Up (April 13) - Windows Defender Beta 2, Azureus for Windows 2.4.0.3 Beta 9, DivX 6.2 and more
• A Windows expert tries out Apple's Boot Camp... - A Microsoft guy who likes Windows on a Mac... Shocking! :-D
• Windows Live Academic Search; Google Calendar - The new search service is designed to help students, researchers and university faculty conduct research across a spectrum of academic journals // Google Calendar uses an asynchronous XML and JavaScript interface with a layout and color scheme quite similar to Gmail's.
• Vista Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates - Vita will run a check to ensure the copy was legally purchased. If it comes up short, the shiniest part of the OS will not be available.
• Asus EN7800GT TOP Silent 2DHTV/256M Videocard - The ASUS SilentCool heatpipe cooler works wonders and keepings the Geforce 7800GT graphics core within acceptable temperature limits.
• Kate Moss to model for new Nikon  -  Nikon began a major ad campaign for its stylish new Coolpix S6 digital camera.
• BMW Announces New Interface for iPod - The new BMW Interface for iPod will be available for owners of the new BMW 3 Series Sedans and Sports Wagons as well as the 5, 6, and 7 Series. It will also be available for the new M5 Sedan and M6 Coupe.
• US tax people to get PayPal data - Under the court ruling, the IRS will be allowed to ask PayPal for account information for American taxpayers.
• Hackers Scared Of Jail? - The BBC is reporting that Gary McKinnon, a British man accused of breaking into the U.S. government computer networks, could end up at Guantanamo Bay.
• Girl's heart restarted after ten years - British doctors have revived a 12-year-old girl's dormant heart and removed a donor heart which she had started to reject, hospital officials said late today.

TECH... 

• AMD Athlon FX-60 vs. X2 3800+ - Game Performance Compared - FX-60 results we're not exactly mind blowing when compared to the cheaper X2 3800+.
• NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Lockup Issue Resolved - The issues were present on cards clocked as low as 20MHz above stock speeds
• ATI Radeon X1900 GT Leaked - ATI will release a single-slot Radeon X1900 GT with 36 pixel shaders.
• ASUS Extreme N7600GT - Legion Hardware has a twelve page review of the ASUS Extreme N7600GT.
• Interactive VGA Charts 2006 Kickoff - Care about 3D graphics performance? THG has all-new Interactive VGA Charts 2006, now including benchmarks for dual graphics setups and multiple visual settings.
• Eli Home Broadband Security Appliance - The router not only has an integral ADSL2+ modem but also sports an Ethernet port as well.
• Philips 230WP7NS 23inch WUXGA LCD Widescreen Monitor - This baby has a display resolution of 1920W1200 pixels with a 16:10 screen aspect ratio.
• Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1310G notebook - The badge says Intel Celeron M inside, rather than Pentium M. The difference between the two is that the former has half the Level 2 cache, 1MB, and does not feature SpeedStep power saving technology, which powers down parts of the processor when it detects that it's not required
• Lite-On to take over BenQ's optical drive division - The takeover is expected to be completed "on or about" June 1.
• IBM Unveils Security For Chips - SecureBlue is supposed to bring encryption to just about anything from cell phones to PDAs and laptops.
• Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh - The price of Intel Core Duo chips is set to plummet on the 28th of May, and there's faster chips coming along anyroadmap.
• 14 Movies On One CD? - Euclid Discoveries says a full-length movie that requires 700 megabytes of storage when compressed using MPEG-4 would use just 50 megabytes when compressed with EuclidVision
• TDK ships 25GB recordable and re-writable Blu-ray media - TDK Corporation announced that it has begun shipping Blu-ray recordable media to retailers across the United States.
• Cell Phone Industry Steps Closer to VoIP - The cell phone conversation is not dropped when the switch between cellular network and WiFi hotspot takes place.
• HTC STAR100 Windows Mobile Smartphone - Nothing special so far - no WiFi or anything else that would place it on top of other Windows Mobile Smartphones. Except for one thing: It's style!
• Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'? - You can search the Web without a net connection of any kind, they claim.
• Google exploring new search technique - Search giant works with Australian student on project designed to let people view more info per search result.
• ForceWare 87.45 for Windows Vista -NVIDIA released new alpha drivers.
• US Military Web Site Exposes Air Force One Defenses - Much to the shock of the US Air Force, the San Francisco Chronicle informed the Air Force about an Air Force base web site that gave sensitive information about Air Force One. Information included the following: Interior maps of the planes, information about the anti-missle defenses on the Air Force one, and locations where terrorists could potentially "detonate the tanks that supply oxygen to Air Force One's medical facility."
• Ex-Gizmondo Exec Arrested For 'Grand Theft Auto'-  Sheriff's deputies have arrested the Swedish video game executive who crashed in a rare Ferrari in Malibu in February, alleging that he didn't own that car and others in his $3.5-million exotic car collection, authorities said Sunday. Stefan Eriksson faces grand theft charges after detectives raided his gated Bel-Air estate Friday night, spent six hours searching it and then took him into custody Saturday night.
• Disney Releasing ABC Shows Free Online - Disney has decided that, starting in May, they will make several ABC TV shows available for free on the net.
• 72 More Hours for Jack Bauer - 24 star Kiefer Sutherland has signed a deal to stay with the Fox show for three more years, through May 2009.

GAMING... 

• SiN Steam FAQ - Ritualistic has posted a FAQ for SiN 1 on Steam, offering a couple of tips on things like automatically logging in a player, Soundblaster soundcard and multiplayer issues, and the game hardlocking.
• Crysis to be PC Exclusive - In an interview with C&VG, Crytek CEO, and President Cevat Yerli claims that Crytek and its fancy new engine will not be showing up on any next gen consoles in the near future.
• Project Gotham Racing 3 Expansion Dated - The long-awaited expansion pack for Project Gotham Racing 3 racing on the Xbox360 has a date. April 17 will be the day that new tracks and cars will be available for download over XBox Live
• BF2142: High-Res Trailer - BF2S.com now has a high quality copy of this clip, running at a cool 800x600 pixels.
• FlatOut 2 video - Tiscali has new FlatOut 2 video (35MB Xvid)
• Brothers In Arms 3 Images - Playeron has posted scans from their own magazine of Brother in Arms 3.
• Brickfield BF2 Modlauncher v3.0 - The team behind the Brickfield mod have released the latest version of their Brickfield Modlauncher.
• Burnout Revenge Xbox 360 Update - The update allows people to use new cars which means people who went to their local Xbox 360 retail kiosk to get that special Xbox 360 branded Burnout Revenge car via their memory card can finally use it in the game.
• Revolution to Feature 20 Launch Titles - Gamesindustry.biz has an article up with quotes from Nintendo of America senior VP George Harrison. Apparently two-thirds of the 20 Revolution launch titles will come from 3rd parties.
• PlayStation 3 not playable to public at E3? - It looks as though the PS3 will be tightly restricted this year, leaving many punters frustrated.
• Shockwave Quake III - Well, there is another Shockwave game that you guys have got to check out as well, Shockwave Quake III for your browser. There is also Half-Life, DOOM, Quake and others.

TECH... 

• ATI brings HDR+AA to Oblivion with new patch - ATI has released a beta driver specifically for the game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
• VM Workstation 2.1 for OS X (Beta) - Free 45 Day trial!
• Internet Explorer 0day Unofficial Metaslpoit Module - Here's an unoffical Metasploit module for the yet unpatched Internet Explorer createTextRange() vulnerability.
• Nvidia has finally shipped Quad SLI cards - XFX is the first company to release the 1GB XFX 7900GTX Mem Clock GPU 24 Pipes.
• Conroe Benchmarks - Intel Showing Big Strength - One can only imagine what a 3GHz Extreme Edition Conroe could do!
• Intel Dothan 780 Overclocking with Liquid Nitrogen - They were able to increase CPU speed to 3868MHz.
• X1800 GTO unlocked to 16 pipelines - Chinese website HKEPC has discovered an interesting fact about ATI's Radeon X1800 GTO graphics card: while advertised as a 12 pipeline part, it's possible to unlock some cards to 16 pixel pipelines by flashing them with a Radeon X1800 XL BIOS
• VoodooPC posts Apple benchmarks - VoodooPC's Rahul Sood updated his blog with benchmarks from the Intel-based Mac. He notes that performance "seems to struggle a bit in games with the level of detail increased, but it’s certainly not terrible, it’s about as good as a mid range notebook system."
• Corsair TWIN2X1024-8500 Memory - Remember when RAM was "EDO" and "FPM" and would clock at about 66MHz? Ah, those were the days... Now, we have RAM that's a hell of a lot faster!
• ASUS N4L-VM DH Core Duo Motherboard -  It comes in a mini-ATX package and several key features make it a board many would consider when building a Home Theatre PC.
• NVIDIA announces DualTV tuner - Having two tuners enables users to record one show while watching another, or to record two shows simultaneously.
• Lite-on's EZ Dub external DVD/CD burner - The over-all burning ability of the drive is outstanding, and features clean, fast burns.
• Alienware Aurora 7500 - So what's special about this PC. Well, definitely the most special thing about this PC is that it costs L3,992.05. Yes, this PC costs almost as much as a brand new small car!
• Acer AL1732 Prestige 17inch LCD monitor - Among the many features for this 17" monitor are DVI and VGA input, rear-cable management, integrated speakers, metal stand, stylish looks, high-brightness LCD, anti-reflective coating.
• New Nokia 6126, 2365i, 2865 and 6175i - The highlight is the Nokia 6126, which is a slim fold-style handset. The phone is about 17mm thin and features a 2.2 inch QVGA color screen. Other features include a 1.3MP camera, 8x digital zoom, music player, microSD card slot and Bluetooth.
• Nikon Coolpix S5 camera -  The S5 has a 6.0 megapixelssensor, a high resolution 2.5in LCD monitor, and a strong metal body. It measures 93 x 59 x 20mm and weighs 165g including battery and card ­ it may be neither the slimmest nor the lightest camera on the market.
• Scientists Discover Blue Ring Around Uranus - The recently discovered outermost ring of gas giant Uranus is a bright blue, scientists said today.
• 'The Science Guy' is entertaining and provocative at MCC lecture - Bill Nye made some statements about Genesis during a lecture, causing some creationists in the audience to get up and leave, exclaiming "I believe in God!".
• U.S. Rolls Out Plan to Build 125 Nukes per Year - The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation's massive system of laboratories and factories for nuclear bombs since the end of the Cold War. Discuss!
• Terminator 4 Update - Will Arnold Schwarzenegger return?

GAMING... 

• Frater Q&A - RPGDot has posted a Q&A with Rebelmind's Krzysztof Krawczyk talking about their upcoming action/RPG.
• Red Orchestra Patch Soon - The Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 website has word on plans to release a beta patch today for the World War II FPS. The patch will be released over the Steam service. Does anyone play this game?
• Baseball Mogul 2007 ships - Enlight Interactive announced today that Baseball Mogul 2007 will ship during the opening week of the MLB season.
• The Top Ten Gore Effects in Games? - IGN takes takes a look at the Top Ten Gore Effects from video games throughout the ages. What was your favourite?
• Project Gotham Racing 3 Tournament - The tournament begins on April 17 with regional matches. The top 12 racers get to go to the worldwide finals that will be held at the Lamborghini factory in Italy in August.
• Xbox Live Diamond Cards are now hitting mailboxes! -  I think it's very funny that they mispelled "THRU" with "TRHU" but yeah, :D enjoy!

• R580+ aims for 750MHz clock - It looks like ATI is aiming for a 750MHz core clock speed on its upcoming R580+ part
• Updated Pentium, Conroe Pricing - The 2.67GHz Conroe CPU featured in the IDF benchmarks last month will have an official MSRP of $530 at launch.
• Hitachi and WD release 500GB hard drives - 500GB RE2 drives are already shipping in volume and available at Western Digital's online store for $349.99.
• Is a New Graphics Card a Worthwhile Upgrade for an Older Computer? - check it out
• Microsoft goes 'HD' with Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 - The Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse works at 1,000 dpi, captures 6,000 frames per second, uses a low-powered chip to conserve battery power, and offers smoother tracking on any surface.
• Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible - Well, just install the basic Operation System with drivers and necessary apps, ghost it to a DVD/Network Drive or something...
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Tweak Guide - If Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is bringing your system to its knees, this handy tweak guide might help you
• Samsung confirms delays for BD-P1000 Blu-ray player - Blue-ray and HD-DVD = too $$$$$ for average joe and too niche for at a least five years.
• Gadgets round-up (April 4) - Hitachi's 1TB HD recorder, portable DVD player, Pioneer PDP-5000EX 50-inch 1080p plasma display and more
• The Sony Reader - You dont have to worry about the batteries once you start reading as it will last an equivalent of 7,500 pages turns
• Mitsubishi Laser TV Coming 2007 - Instead of white-light mercury lamps a Laser TV uses a red, blue and green laser to generate images. The advantages are bright and deep images on large, thin, lightweight screens.
• Smart Glasses: Dynamically Changing Lenses to Replace Bifocals - Sure, this prototype is rather odd-looking, but its developers say future versions will be indistinguishable from conventional eyeglasses.
• BloodRayne 2 PC Game Included With Movie DVD - The May 23 release contains both Visual Entertainment's BloodRayne and Majesco Entertainment's game BloodRayne 2 on separate discs
• Illegal music file-sharers targeted by fresh wave of legal action -  2,000 new cases against those accused of illegally sharing music - A Finnish carpenter, a British postman, a Czech IT manager?
• How The Richest Man In The World Works - Gates said he receives one hundred emails a day from colleagues and companies in the computer industry, which are strictly filtered by his secretary.

• AMD Socket AM2 Pricing Information - You should be able to purchase the new AM2 processor starting on May 15th.
• ATI FireGL V7350 - the first 1GB card - The V7350 is already outclassing the Quadro FX 3450 and 4400 in the Unigraphics (UGS-04), SolidWorks (SW-01) and 3dsmax (3dsmax-03) tests
• Asus EN7600GT graphics card - Nvidia intends that the 7600 GT should take on and comprehensively demolish the Radeon X1600,
• Dell begins sale of 2007WFP, 2007FP  - Dell's UltraSharp 2007WFP 20.1" monitor has finally been made available for sale.
• Freecom DVB-T USB Stick -  It is about the same size as a USB memory pen, making it the world's smallest digital TV and radio receiver.
• Sony DCR-DVD105e camcorder - Focus is very accurate and has fast reaction on distance change.
• PCs to have Vista Capable Stickers - According to sources, a PC can get the sticker only if it has a "modern" CPU; is able to run - to competently run Windows XP, 512MB of RAM, a DirectX 9-class graphics processor, and optionally support Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) so as to take advantage of Vista' s improved graphics.
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for Free - What are you waiting for! Download!
• Get Enigma - An apparently genuine enigma machine from World War II is being auctioned on eBay, ending today. The one of a kind unit is currently priced at 40,000 euros, or about $48,000. The seller claims the unit was handed down from a grand-father, presuming serving in the German army.
• Google Earth Gets 3inch Resolution In Las Vegas - The images have high enough quality where users will be able to see ads on the sides of buildings, car reflections in mirrors, car types, and the types of planes at the McCarran International Airport.