Google is reportedly in talks to acquire mobile payment system Softcard. PayPal is also bidding on the company, for a chance to create an Apple Pay's worthy competitor.

Apple has the potential to make ARM chips powerful enough for Macs, but will it? Apple has made incredible strides in securing ownership of much of its hardware technology. Replacing Intel chips with Apple’s own design of ARM, would not only lower the cost of production, making future devices either more affordable, or more feature-packed, so what’s the hold-up?

In the wake of a recent reorganization of Project Glass, former Google Glass project manager Ivy Ross will now be reporting to Tony Fadell, in what seems to be a move towards the graduation of Google Glass from an experimental project, to an industry-ready development division, with a likely focus on enterprise, services and government applications.

Here are a few ways you can have your Macbook running like new.