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The funny quote of the day is brought to you by Steve Ballmer. Speaking to a group of financial analysts, Microsoft's CEO made this comment about iPad sales:
As for Apple and the iPad, Ballmer said, "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold."
Cases & Modding
Lian Li PC-7FNWX Case (German) @ Hardware-Mag
Cooling
Gelid Solutions Tranquillo @ Overclockers Club
ETC.
PCPer Podcast #115 PC Perspective
ZFS Benchmarking On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux @ Phoronix
Memory/ Storage
RunCore Pro-V 200GB SSD @ LanOC
Vantec NexStar SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter @ OCIA
I knew it! I knew it! Google is spying on us...in real time!
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events."
Room temperature ice? The next thing you are going to tell me is that sex boosts brain growth! Whatever.
Researchers at Spain's Centre d'Investigació en Nanocičncia i Nanotecnologia (CIN2) have studied the underlying mechanisms of water condensation in the troposphere and found a way to make artificial materials to control water condensation and trigger ice formation at room temperature.
Analyst firm, UBM TechInsights announced that Intel has won two of its top awards, including the Most Innovative Logic Process Award for the 32-nm Intel® Core™ processor and the Most Innovative Memory Process for the Intel-Micron Flash Technologies 25nm Manufacturing Process. The 25nm NAND flash memory was recognized as the most advanced process in terms of feature size and for breaking technology scaling barriers.
It looks like Amazon is rolling out a new $139 wireless Kindle. Aside from the smaller design and lower price, the new Kindle will feature also feature the company’s new e-ink technology.
Amazon on Thursday also introduced the third generation of the original Kindle, which has Wi-Fi and 3G wireless technologies. The latter makes it possible to buy digital books from Amazon and download them in less than a minute. Amazon kept the price for the device at $189.
This 125 piece puzzle is actually a muzzle loading .45 cal pistol. Seriously.
Long time HardForum user "SonicTron" is the winner of the MSI 460GTX 1G Cyclone! The other TWENTY winners of the full downloadable version of Metro 2033 have been notified via HardForum PM, so check your PM boxes now!
Great news! You can now upload 15 minute videos to YouTube. Time to start making director’s cut YouTube videos with added content you left out of your original 10 minute videos.
YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars, said in March that 24 hours worth of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute. YouTube has been gradually adding professional content such as full-length television shows and movies to its vast trove of amateur video offerings in a bid to attract advertisers.
Clash of the Titans @ Shacknews
Halo Reach Campaign Trailer Debuts @ Kotaku
Sony Hardware and Software Sales Increase @ Shacknews
Capcom Profits Plummet @ Blue’s News
It looks like Best Buy is offering a free invisibleSHIELD to all iPhone 4 owners, regardless whether you bought the phone there or not. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in.
It's hard to say for certain what exactly this flyer means, but it sure looks as if at least some iPhone 4 owners will be able to snatch a free invisibleSHIELD 4fix (valued at $9.99 or so) from their local Best Buy. Based on a number of tips that we've received, we're getting the impression that the yellow-tagged retailer could be handing out (and installing) completely free side coverings for any iPhone 4 owner that waltzes into a store.
(Kyle's note: Zagg invisibleSHIELD sucks on a touch screen device, at least that is my experience. I sent my two Zaggs back for a refund yesterday.)
You know Steve Jobs probably isn’t too thrilled about this. Not because it is the porn industry…it’s because someone beside Apple is making money off the iPhone. 
Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist.
