Wacom, the company behind the Cintiq, Intuos and Bamboo graphics tablets, has just unveiled a new stylus aimed at the smartphone and tablet market.

The Bamboo Stylus Mini is part of the company's portable touch-pen lineup and joins the ranks of the Stylus Feel, Solo, Pocket and Duo. The difference is that the Bamboo Stylus Mini is more like a stubby fat crayon than an agile and sleek precision pen.

Coming in at just under two inches, the brass plated metal body is covered in a soft touch rubber coating, and the tip is replaceable with firm or soft touch replacements. The Bamboo Stylus Mini is available now from Wacom at a price point of $19.

Rockstar Games has released the cover art for the fifth title in the Grand Theft Auto series this morning. In true GTA fashion the cover is very comicbook-esque with block scenes portraying characters and events from the game.

Grand Theft Auto V has been long anticipated by GTA fans since the release of GTA IV. GTA V takes us back to the mean streets of San Andreas (as featured in GTA San Andreas) in a present day setting. Last week we posted several in-game screenshots of the upcoming title.

Grand Theft Auto V will be released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 September 17, 2013 after a four month delay, with developers deciding to exclude PC gamers from the new title. Their reasoning for the exclusion is still unknown and I for one would like an answer.

Google is facing fines this morning after six European Union data protection regulators started enforcement measures over the company's failure to fix flaws in one of its new privacy policies.

France's National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties started follow-up measures in line with French laws after a meeting with Google brought forth no changes. UK, German, Spanish and Dutch authorities are also considering enacting similar follow up procedures.

The CNIL notified Google's Chief Executive Officer Larry Page in October, saying Google "empowers itself to collect vast amounts of personal data about Internet users without demonstrating that this collection was proportionate," and asked the company to align its policy with EU rules.

The follow-up measures could result in heavy fines for Google, but if you look at the scale of things, CNIL's heaviest fine to date was 100,000 euros ($128,340) against Google and that is but a mere drop in the bucket for such a large company.

This morning ADATA announced its first offering to the enterprise market. The two new solid state drives are part of the SX1000L SSD line and are being offered in 100GB and 200GB capacities.

The SX1000L line takes advantage of ADATA's expertise in NAND flash memory technology which lends an unprecedented level of performance and reliability to thew new modules. The line employs static wear-leveling technology that raises the mean time between failures to 1,500,000 hours.

The SX1000L utilizes advanced controller technology to enhance read/write performance with sequential read speeds reaching 560MB/s and sequential write speeds approaching 340MB/s, with IOPS of 73,000 and 45,000 (maximum 4K random read and write, respectively). The use of multi-level cell NAND flash memory combined with advanced chip sorting lends to outstanding sustained performance lower latency and superior endurance.

A while back I reported on Apple posting a Siri based job that expressly required OSX development, which I thought might lead to integration of Siri into OSX. Over the weekend, Apple listed 12 new Siri based jobs that lend further credit to my prediction that Siri is coming to Mac devices.

The list consist of mostly software engineers who will be charged with "helping invent new techniques for conversational interaction, and building practices, processes, and standards that will become a foundation for design and innovation far into the future."

Other Siri job listings include Runtime Engineer, Hadoop Engineer, Monitoring Architect, Integration Engineer, Build / Release engineer and a pair of Data related Software Engineering positions. Of course Apple is keeping silent on if Siri will make an appearance on OSX. Another safe bet is that the company is working hard on integrating Siri with the less powerful hardware of the cheaper iPhone expected to release later this year.

If you thought Dell were going to be moving away from the consumer space in the midst of their effort to go private, don't worry - Michael Dell has your back. The company founder said there's no reason to worry in a company memo that Dell published through the SEC.

Dell has said to his employees that the company will "significantly increase investment" in PCs and tablets once they go private. He hasn't exactly laid out the company plans on the table, but he has said that there will be a shift away from valuing gross margins, which is a great thing. This means that the company won't take in as much profits, but they'll want to drive sales of their products in other ways - experimentation, marketing, pushes into developing markets, and more.

While Apple and Samsung enjoy their millions upon millions of units sold across the world, LG's 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro has been on sale in South Korea for a little over a month now, where it has sold a nice 500,000 units.

LG are already claiming a sales record, where they saw 10,000 orders at launch, bumping this up to 500,000 sold just 40 days after it went on sale. The LG Optimus G Pro sports the new Qualcomm 600 quad-core processor and that gorgeous 5.5-inch display. There's still no word on when this will jump across the pond, but with this news, it might be sooner rather than later.

Our Ask the Experts section has a new question, where we have Duarte from Portugal wanting to know what he has to do to his system to run all games maxed out at 1080p at 45 frames per second.

Q: I would like to upgrade my system, I have an MSI N670 PE/OC and an Intel Core i7 2600k OC to 4.6ghz. I want to run all recent games at 1080p with all graphics settings set to maximum (for example Crysis 3).

Also I don't want anything below 45 fps. Should i get another GTX 670? Or sell this one and buy lets say two AMD Radeon HD 7970s (more vram)?

I would appreciate your opinion, thanks.

A: You can view the answer to Duarte's question right here.

Activision took some time during the Game Developers Conference last week in San Francisco to show off some of their impressive 3D face rendering technology. You can check out the video below.

Activision seem to have produced some very realistic faces, but those lips and mouth movements aren't perfect yet. Everything else looks damn impressive, even more so that it was all driven from a PC with a single GeForce GTX 680 GPU inside. Activision have said that the technology demo is running at 180fps on the GTX 680 - a somewhat useless number - because if this tech was built into a game with another 20 characters with this tech, and entire world at this level of graphics, those frame rates would plummet.

It's nice to look through a window into next-gen facial rendering, and I can't wait until this becomes the norm. You can read more on it here.

AT&T have announced that they'll be selling Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE tablet online, and in retail stores later this week. The US telco will be selling the tablet for $399 and will allow customers to add the slate to their existing Mobile Share plans for $10 a month.

AT&T have said that they will slash $150 from the price of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE is customers sign a two-year service agreement, bringing that price down to $249. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 features an 8.9-inch 1920x1200-pixel display, a 1.5GHz dual-core TI OMAP4 processor and 1GB of RAM. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE will be available online and in AT&T retail stores on April 5.

We've already heard the rumors that South Korean electronics giant Samsung would release their Galaxy S4 mini shortly after its bigger brother, the Galaxy S4. Now there's fresh rumors that Samsung will announce this smaller smartphone, as soon as this week.

The Galaxy S4 mini would be made available in black and white, as well as a dual-SIM model being put up on the table. The dual-SIM Galaxy S4 mini would sport a 4.3-inch qHD display, a 1.6GHz dual-core Exynos 5210 processor, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and come to the party dressed in Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.

The single-SIM variant would bump the processor up to a quad-core variant, giving users with the single SIM card some boosted CPU performance.

A game from the 90s is coming back as a next-gen title, which we heard about a little while ago now but now we have the official trailer to Thief from Square Enix. Check it out below.

The trailer doesn't show off any in-game footage, which I don't think we'll see until the game is polished up to really sell itself to customers for next-gen platforms and PC. It does make me want to play it again with all of the technology we have at our disposal these days, oh boy.

We already know that Game of Thrones, the uber-popular HBO TV show was the most pirated show of 2012, but the show's season three premiere episode had some stellar numbers, too.

It aired last night, and saw 6.7 million US fans tuning in, but how were those download numbers considering it was the most pirated show of last year? Well, according to Torrent Freak, a single torrent of the season three premiere saw 160,000 simultaneous connections - but adding all of the releases together in one big pile of downloads would see well over one million downloads.

HBO even allowed viewers to watch the season premiere in more ways than usual, where the network allowed customers to stream Game of Thrones through HBO Go at the same time that cable subscribers watched it live.

Google's privacy director has announced internally that she is stepping down from her post with intentions to retire. Alma Whitten became Google's first director of privacy in 2010 after being an engineer with the company. Her job was to oversee future products and prevent the release of products that invaded privacy too much.

Whitten will remain with the privacy team for a few more months as Lawrence You transitions to her position. You is based in Mountain View, California and has been a Google engineer for eight years.

Google said in a statement:

During her 10 years at Google, Alma has done so much to improve our products and protect our users. The privacy and security teams, and everyone else at Google, will continue this hard work to ensure that our users' data is kept safe and secure.

AT&T has said that it will support the iPhone 5's HD Voice technology sometime later this year. The technology will roll out along with AT&T's switching over to routing voice over LTE. "HD Voice is part of our voice over LTE strategy," AT&T senior VP Kris Rinne said.

T-Mobile, on the other hand, will support the iPhone 5's HD Voice technology right from the start. When the device launches, T-Mobile users will be able to experience the higher quality audio that some have called a noticeable improvement. Sprint is also considering implementing HD Voice technology.

Apple has announced that its Q2 2013 financial results call will take place on April 23. On that day, Apple's second quarter results will be detailed and investors will be scrutinizing the company's performance. Will Apple's stock price increase or decrease after the announcement? Let us know in the comments.

The call will take place at 2PM Pacific and 5PM Eastern and will be available via the Internet.

Users on the Intel HD4000 GPU boat are about to get more performance. While at GDC, Intel announced a new version of their driver that will bring with it an up to 10 percent improvement in graphics performance. Also included in the new driver is support for OpenCL 1.2.

The new driver is said to have been built for Haswell processors, though the driver will also be compatible with Ivy Bridge. Different sources are reporting that it will be compatible with HD2500, though others are reporting that it won't be. The new driver will be released as early as this week.

Users can download the latest drivers from Intel's website.

T-Mobile has already announced that the HTC one will be coming to its network for $50 down and monthly payments. AT&T will reportedly opening pre-sales on April 4 online and April 5 in stores. The device will set customers back $249.99 for the 32GB version in either black or silver.

The 64GB AT&T exclusive will be available at a later date and will come in at $299.99. Of course, both devices come with a two-year contract at the listed prices. Meanwhile, a leaked RadioShack ad suggests that Sprint will have the HTC One available for $199.99 and that it will come with a $50 Google Play credit. This could be a RadioShack-only price and Sprint could use the same pricing as AT&T. The Google Play credit is likely a RadioShack-only promotion.

Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system continues to be somewhat of a flop. Usage data from Net Applications show Windows 8 usage is still behind that of Microsoft's last flop, Windows Vista. Windows XP and Windows 7 continue to be top contenders, even though XP was initially released over 11 years ago.

Windows 8 is used on 3.17 percent of computers, up from 2.67 percent in February. Vista, on the other hand, is found on 4.99 percent of systems. Windows XP is still found on 38.73 percent of systems and Windows 7 is the largest used operating system, found on 44.73 percent of systems.

Mac OS X 10.6-10.8 combined is found on below 7 percent of systems. Windows 8 uptake is likely to increase and is predicted to eclipse that of Vista within the year.

One of YouTube's three co-founders has debuted a new video sharing site. MixBit, introduced today on the heels of YouTube's "closing announcement", will allow the sharing of videos, much like YouTube, as well as the ability for content creators to collaborate and work together on projects.

Since @YouTube is ending, we're launching a new video site... Welcome to http://MixBit.com ! @MixBitApp This time it's not a contest!

MixBit.com isn't available just yet, though they note that "the future of video is launching soon!" The site was first teased during an interview at SXSW during which he said MixBit would provide "flexibility for people to work together and create content."

Details of the new site are still a bit scarce, but they will surely be forthcoming in the coming weeks.