Will Apple pull the old chip switcheroo again, and embrace ARM CPUs on its Macs instead of Intel silicon? You bet it might, say new rumors , because it could mean your MacBook lasts pretty much all day on a charge. Only a handful of years ago, Apple abandoned its long relationship with IBM and the PowerPC line of processors for shiny new Intel silicon.
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Feed SubscriptionDismissed Oprah Network Chief Christina Norman Was Ambivalent From The Start [Video]
Christina Norman told the audience at our Innovation Uncensored event last week how she was visibly unsure about joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as its CEO. Even a star-powered, deeply funded network is a lot like a small startup, full of twists and turns. In the latest twist a week later, Norman herself has been let go.
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Thomas Aiken shot a 4-under 69 to Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the Spanish Open, overshadowed by news about Spanish great Seve Ballesteros' worsening health.
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IBM has announced the 50 recipients of its “Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Awards” and $10,000 grants for designing classes geared toward the technologies, markets, and applications in which IBM has a vested interest. Including one particularly gnarly Chicago transit hub. On Thursday, technology giant IBM announced the 50 recipients of its inaugural “ Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Awards ,” in essence a $10,000 grant for designing classes geared toward the technologies, markets, and applications in which IBM has a vested interest--urban transportation and health care apps, for example.
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The PGA has selected Bellerive Country Club of St. Louis to serve as the site of the 2013 Senior PGA Championship and the 2018 PGA Championship.
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Despite the ongoing rush of alternative-fuel tech, the gasoline engine's having a moment thanks to advances from Jaguar and the Department of Energy. Jaguar CX75 million-dollar hybrid Last year Jaguar teased an incredible concept car, the CX75, that had an electric engine in each wheel and a pair of high-performance gas turbines in its truck to provide the electrical power
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Add more -ing to your business plan, to build your business faster and smarter.
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Main ingredient benzocaine linked to rare, serious disease
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Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff think adopting social and environmental change is the best path to maintaining America's global hegemony.
Read More »How Steve Weindel Redesigned Air Travel
Photographs Jason Madara Eight Sparks of Inspiration. .green{ color:rgb(120,180,26); font-weight:bold; } AS A GLOBE-TROTTING principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel
Read More »This Week In Bots: Ship-Climbing Spies, Tiny Quadrocopters, Open-Source Androids, Teacher Bot, And NASA’s Robothespian
If you're into technology that can stroll convincingly like a human, or creep, roll, climb, spy, and even deliver drinks with uncanny mechanical smoothness, then you've come to the right place. In our second installment of This Week In Bots we share tiny flying drones, amazing magnetic climbing spy machines...and a friendly NASA thespian robot
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In which nations do moms enjoy the greatest well-being? The answer might surprise you
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Simply seeing an overweight person seems to make people want to eat more, new study shows
Read More »Haas leads Mickelson by 1 shot at Quail Hollow
Phil Mickelson's adventures at Quail Hollow were not so wild Friday, and now he's only one shot out of the lead in the Wells Fargo Championship.
Read More »Facebook Pays For Ad Views, Video Games Are Officially Art, Bendable Phones, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Facebook Pays Users To Watch Ads Facebook
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