Brian Molidor — Two Takes contributions

Intel hasn’t found much success in the mobile industry, which is why the company has turned to emerging industries like drones and wearables in an effort to expand its business beyond personal computing, and those aren’t the only emerging industries that it’s interested in. Ac

NASA may be called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but the agency has been neglecting the aeronautics aspect of its research in favor of space-related projects. Charles Bolden, the agency’s administrator, thinks it’s about time that changed, which is why he&n

We all know that the PlayStation 4 is doing really well, but a recent report from DFC Intelligence claims that it’s actually doing so well that it’ll become Sony’s third console to exceed 100 million sales, the other two being the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2. T

Kanye West is in need of some serious cash to pay off his $53 million debt, and his newly released album, The Life of Pablo, is supposed to help him acquire that money, but he’s running into a problem that most artists are abundantly familiar with: online piracy. West’s decisio

Apple Music may have more than eleven million paying subscribers, but Spotify has nearly three times that amount. It reached ten million paying subscribers back in May of 2014, which then doubled to twenty million in June of 2015, and now The Financial Times is claiming that Spotify is close to

Whatever your opinion of Kanye West is, either as a performer or as a person, you can’t deny that his popularity is almost unparalleled at the moment. Such is his popularity that an exclusivity deal for his newest album was enough to breathe new life into Tidal, a music-streaming service that&

The general consensus seems to be that smartwatches are a great idea with a lot of potential, but current smartwatches are still pretty limited, and most people don’t find them enticing enough to actually purchase. In order for smartwatches to become more popular, the techn

Cyber attacks have grown to become one of the most-important issues in the United States, with both corporations and government agencies suffering from them in recent years, and President Obama wants Congress to start doing more to combat them. In his fiscal 2017 budget proposal, Obama asked&nb

Remember how Popcorn Time returned from the brink of death with a new website that allows users to stream pirated movies and television shows directly from their web browser? Well, the same technology that enables that steaming has been turned into a browser plug-in that allows you so stream co

If you thought that Kim Kardashian mobile game was popular, wait until the Taylor Swift mobile game comes out. Glu Mobile, the company behind the Kardashian game, announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a partnership with Taylor Swift, and that a Swift-themed mobile game will be released by

Marissa Mayer has already written a kill list for Yahoo’s employees, and now it’s time for the CEO to start killing off the people who’re unfortunate enough to work for one of the company’s less successful divisions. Yahoo has turned down a number of acquisition offers i

Steam is great and all, but there’s so much crap that Valve is allowed to get away with because it doesn’t have any serious competition. Aside from Origin, which doesn’t really count because it only sells EA titles, the only competition that Steam really has is GOG, and it’s

Google hasn’t done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that’s about to change. On Tuesday, Waze announced on its official blog that it’s launching its own SDK, known as Waze Transport SDK, and that it already has a numbe

The war on encryption continues, and as usual, the politicians trying to force companies like Apple and Google to stop encrypting their products are claiming that it’s all being done for the sake of national security and public safety. The latest such proposed legislation comes from Apple&#821

Nintendo is already an entertainment powerhouse, but it has the potential to be so much bigger, and it’s frustrating to see the company fail to meet that potential because of how slow it is to adapt to the changing market. This might be the year that Nintendo finally catches up, however, as pr

The fact that 70 million smartphone sales is considered lackluster for Xiaomi is a testament to how ridiculously successful the company has been over the past few years, but that doesn’t change the fact that the once burgeoning Chinese company wasn’t even able to reach the lowest sales g

Babylon Health, a London-based startup that allows users to set up video consultations with doctors, has raised $25 million in funding, which it claims will be used to develop an artificially intelligent medical assistant that will pre-screen users before they decide to set up a video consultation.

How many cancer-related deaths do you think would’ve been avoided if doctors had discovered the cancer sooner? Lots of them, I can assure you. But the problem is, most of the time, doctors only discover that someone has cancer after they start showing symptoms, at which point their c