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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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Microsoft is slinging some mud to stick up for its Office franchise. Tom Rizzo, senior director of Microsoft Online Services, wrote in a blog post that Google apps come with an expensive hidden tax , like the bulk of an iceberg hidden beneath a serene ocean surface, and Windows netbooks are better than MacBook Airs. He even posted this handy, pithy infographic.

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. Longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer was asked at a conference on Wednesday what had changed, now that Larry Page has moved into the CEO spot.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Wall Street Journal Opens Wikileaks Competitor Conservative media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, is out to give Wikileaks competition with the Wall Street Journal SafeHouse, an anonymous data dump and tip site

Fossil makes wristwatches, a risky business in a world where everyone carries a time-telling phone. Hence the MetaWatch--a digitally connected, wrist-mounted life companion. Oh, and yeah, it tells time, too.

Though Apple's taken a pretty conservative line with the hardware refresh for its iMac desktop PCs, it turns out that the guts of the machines harbor some juicy secrets. Apple's brand new iMacs, while having the expected spec bump in terms of raw processor power and graphics capabilities, were about as conservative as you can get in terms of adjusting the actual look and feel.

In a new story for tablet app The Atavist, writer David Wolman explores just how important social media really was to the Egyptian uprising. Here's an early look. In March 2008, a young would-be civil engineer named Ahmed Maher created a Facebook page called April 6 Youth with a woman named Issra Abdel-Fattah

Even Jerry Seinfeld, stubbornly analog anti-Twitterer, has joined the Internet Age. Did you hear the one about the Internet? Comedy is dominating Net buzz in big ways this week, with several announcements that will make denizens of the web smile--and laugh

No. But Chinese scientists think new nanotech filters could do a better job at blocking out badness. Conventional cigarette filters are made of cellulose--low-tech, old, but effective.

AT&T expands its forays into the daily deals space, this time through yellowpages.com. Why a telecommunications company may have a natural advantage in daily deals.

Removing subsidies for both dirty and clean energy would force everyone to compete on their own merits. The federal government should get rid of permanent energy subsidies for all energy sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, biofuels.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Bad News For AOL And Microsoft Beleaguered former dial-up king AOL continues to suffer, posting a $551 million revenue drop from a year ago--a whopping 17% decrease.

There's growing social and legal momentum behind the "do not track" initiative to protect online privacy, but now some of the biggest names in tech are opposing the legislation, hinting that job losses and profit cuts could be the result. Are they being totally honest

1. According to an AT&T insider , Apple has officially notified the huge U.S. cell phone carrier that there will be no iPhone update in June or July.