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We installed and tested out a very early build of Windows 8 so you don't have to. Here's what's notable and productive in this version.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys A Thousand IBM Patents .

Want to plan your day, your meetings, and your commute better? Factor in how your body and brain may make bad decisions after being worn down from making the right moves earlier in the day. Did you read that weighty, informative article on "decision fatigue" in The New York Times magazine last weekend

Want to wake up to something besides murderous rage at a blaring klaxon? These alarms use people, podcasts, and science to help you rise without raising your ire. If you own a smartphone, it's easy to gaze at an old-fashioned, single-purpose alarm clocks and conclude it doesn't do nearly enough.

Packed with personal data, and taken with you everywhere, your smartphone is an ideal target for hackers. And both iOS and Android have vulnerabilities.

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.

Scientific research has proven that Google and the easy access to information that it provides can be detrimental to memory. Practice these four tricks to reverse the brain drain

I've been playing with HP's new TouchPad for a week, but it only took a few minutes to notice the tablet's similarities to the iPad. I'm not just talking about the TouchPad's WebOS--all players in the tablet space have undoubtedly taken cues from Apple's software (see: apps, gestures, etc.). But even HP's hardware design is iPad-like, from the placement of the (single) home button to the webcam to the auto-lock key to the volume seesaw switch.

The latest on Jack Dorsey's disruptive Square, RIM's tablet failings and Rockmelt's surprising venture cash. More to come throughout the day, as Fast Company's editors keep you on top of the news. Square Raises $100M, Now Worth A Billion

Jason Baptiste is nothing if not confident . "We're sitting between two huge shifts," he told the audience at TechStars's Demo Day on April 11. "The shift in the media industry from print to digital, and the shift in the entire computing industry from point-and-click to touch-enabled devices

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Google Takes On Skype With Chrome Addition Google wants to add open-source video and telephony technology to the Chrome browser, meaning that anyone could use the code to integrate free (or reduced) calling into a browser interface. So far, Google's previous attempt at VoIP inside Gmail, Google Voice , hasn't dethroned Skype, its closest competitor

Senators Al Franken and Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill yesterday that takes direct aim at online privacy.

Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price. But here's the catch: URLs themselves may not be long for this virtual world. Web URL Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price

These add-ons to manage bookmarking and surfing could make your online time more productive. Most Web browsers include bare-bones tools for managing bookmarks and surfing the Web. These browser plug-ins can help you get more out of your online time.

A short discussion with the man behind Hotspot Shield about web anonymizers, the Arab Spring, and why expats in Dubai aren't happy with firewalls. Fast Company recently had the opportunity to speak with David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree , on the use of his company's popular Hotspot Shield software during the Arab Spring. Although Hotspot Shield is best known as a product used to access services such as Hulu and the BBC iPlayer across national borders, it also played a crucial role in organizing uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.