In today’s SiliconANGLE news roundup, Intel gets a new CEO and fresh architecture, Yahoo acquires Astrid, Coindesk launches for virtual investors, iPad market share hits new low, YouTube faces ad competition, Skype gets slapped with patent suit, Microsoft considers pay-per-use software, Google Plus adds up to world’s second-biggest social network, Google Glass security loophole discovered in camera, and IBM advances atomic-scale memory.

Intel’s new CEO

Brian Krazanich will take the helm at Intel on May 16th, when current CEO Paul Otellini retires. The chipmaker had been looking for Otellini’s replacement since his announcement in November that he would be ending his 38 year tenure at Intel. Krazanich has also been with the company for 31 years.

In other Intel news, its latest architecture aims to increase their video quality exponentially. Code-named Haswell, the fourth version of Intel’s i-series processor is designed to offer triple the performance of its predecessor, particularly in terms of graphics rendering. Despite these gains, the top end of the Haswell chips will still run hot, and will require too much cooling for the thinnest laptops, so you won’t be able to play the latest game on your ultrabook just yet.

Yahoo acquires Astrid

Yahoo just acquired the to-do list app, Astrid, which enables users to outsource the tasks they didn’t want to complete themselves. Statements made by Astrid suggest that the takeover isn’t about the app itself. It appears to be a strategic move by Yahoo to obtain Astrid’s technology and incorporate it throughout Yahoo products.

Coindesk launches for virtual investors

Shakil Khan, an angel investor and Spotify advisor, has launched a Bitcoin resource and news site for mainstream audiences. CoinDesk is a one stop shop for virtual currency information. Khan’s team of writers publishes all the latest news about the Bitcoin ecosystem. The goal of educating people about Bitcoin isn’t necessarily altruistic. Khan is one of the investors who contributed over half a million dollars in an investment round for Bitpay, the PayPal for Bitcoin.

iPad market share hits new low

In Q1 of 2013, for the first time ever, Apple’s share of the tablet market fell under the forty percent mark. With year-over-year growth of 65%, it’s clear people haven’t stopped buying iPads, but compared to the triple-digit growth for companies like Samsung and Amazon, Apple’s growth is quite modest. Even though they outperformed the IDC’s quarterly projections, Apple’s domination over the tablet market is simply being diluted by more competition and a greater selection of alternatives.

YouTube faces ad competition

Yesterday, in an ad-sales event to monetize YouTube, Google made a pitch to advertisers – telling them to “follow the audience.” Reluctance to pay for ads recently caused YouTube to lower the price it charges to place ads in videos. Increased competition from Yahoo, Hulu and several others also caused ad prices to drop. Despite the dip in ad price, YouTube’s viewerships and earnings are both up from last year, which is a clear sign that people are continuing to go online for their media. Basically, Google wants ads to follow their audience sooner, rather than later.

Skype gets slapped with patent suit

CopyTele, a company that specializes in patent monetization and assertion, alleges that Skype violates two patents owned by its subsidiary, Secure Web Conference Corporation. The suit claims that services offered by Skype, and other web conferencing software, falls within its Method and apparatus for securing email attachments, and Portable telecommunication security device patents.

Microsoft Mohoro who?

Microsoft could be making a move toward what they call a Pay-Per-Use Windows Desktop Service. The desktop virtualization service, codenamed Mohoro, would look and feel exactly like a normal Windows desktop, the only difference being that it is hosted on a server owned by Microsoft. As for now, Microsoft is being quiet about the details for this product, but analysts believe we could see the first versions of Mo-horo as early as the second half of 2014.

Google Plus adds up to world’s second-biggest social network

Google Plus may not be growing as fast as Twitter, but it retained its title as the world’s second largest social network. Analysts are attributing the growth to the efforts by Google to better connect its broad suite of products and services with Google Plus. Twitter actually had a more impressive rate of growth, as it increased 44 percent since last june.

Google Glass security loophole discovered in camera

Well known Android and iOS hacker Jay Freeman made quick work of Google Glass’ security. Google Glass provides an indication that the wearer is recording video. Jailbroken devices can do away with that warning. It makes completely discrete video recording possible. The explorer edition is considered by Google to be a beta version, so they’ll likely close these security holes before the official product is released.

IBM advances atomic-scale memory

A team of researchers at IBM have developed the ability to move single atoms as part of their research in atomic-scale memory, and just recently, the research scientists decided to have a little fun with the technology. Using a fancy needle with a microscopic tip, the researchers were able to drag individual atoms across a surface and arrange them into images, enabling them to make a stop-motion animation using nothing but atoms. Using this method, the people at IBM actually made a 90 second movie out of nothing but atoms titled “A Boy And His Atom,” which is now officially verified by the Guinness World Records as The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.