In my opinion, the last couple of days had some pretty big technology news. Here are a couple of interesting posts I noticed on my favorite sites:

Engadget

• Sun looses ‘world’s fastest chip’ — the 1.4GHz Niagara 2: A single chip with eight-cores and 64 threads
• Hacking a CoinStar machine to bypass transaction fees: Go to a CoinStar location, drop in your coins, tell the machine that you want an iTunes gift card, and pull the LAN cable.
• Latest iPods to be flash-based, only up to 16G: If this rumor is correct, there won’t be any hard drive based iPods anymore which means less storage space.
• Microsoft drops price on Xbox 360 line — we’re stunned: This was probably the worst kept secret of the century.
• NES emulator for the iPhone: Awesome! You can play the old version of Mario Brothers on your iPhone.
• Our pal Fake Steve revealed — Daniel Lyons of Forbes: I only read Fake Steve’s blog a couple of times and, while it seemed to be accurately written like Steve himself would have, some of the posts didn’t make any sense.
• California official gives OK to voting systems that failed security audit: This just SCREAMS another Florida voting problem like in 2000; but I’m not bitter.

Gizmodo

• Microsoft Xbox 360 Price Cuts Officially Official: This was probably the worst kept secret of the century.
• iPhone NES Emulator Third Party App: Awesome! You can play the old version of Mario Brothers on your iPhone.
• Nintendo Patent Hints at Wii Portable: I’m not really surprised at this. I’m sure the majority of the gaming world assumed Nintendo was working on a new portable game system.
• .Mac Scheduled Downtime During Apple Event Tomorrow: While I don’t have a .Mac account, I might be purchasing it after the Apple press conference that has been scheduled for today.
• The Next-Gen iMac Mock-up: I hope the next iMac looks as sweet as the one in this picture.
• The faux Apple CEO gets a real job at Forbes: I only read Fake Steve’s blog a couple of times and, while it seemed to be accurately written like Steve himself would have, some of the posts didn’t make any sense.
• 2010 Olympics, Now With Hydrogen Buses: This is a really smart and environmental system for the Olympics in Vancouver.

Tomorrow I will probably have a post that is completely based on the Apple Press Conference which is being held today at 1PM Eastern Time.

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