Brian Molidor — Two Takes contributions

High-end specs, mid-range price. That’s part of what makes Xiaomi’s products so ridiculously successful, and so far, the company hasn’t had to sacrifice much in the way of power to keep its device’s affordable. Unfortunately, it looks like that might change with the

Pressure-sensitive displays are practically essential for new flagships nowadays, so it’s not at all surprising to hear that Samsung will be adding the technology to the Galaxy S7, but what is surprising is the rumor that the company might add an iris scanner to the smartphone as well. Iris sc

Even though the Nexus 6P only just recently hit the market, we’re already started to see rumors of the device’s successor. It’s still far too early to be seeing any real details, but a Chinese consumer electronics analyst has claimed that Huawei will be working with Google again ne

Unlike with most social networks, it’s actually really easy to use Twitter without an account, so much so that the company estimates that there are somewhere around 500 million Twitter users that aren’t accounted for in normal usage statistics because they don’t have an account. Us

The more developed a nation becomes, the more meat its citizens consume, and while Chinese families may not consume as much meat as their Western counterparts, their meat consumption is definitely on the rise. China’s economy has been growing at a ridiculous pace, and so has its middle class.

Gabe Newell is known to most as the co-founder and de facto leader of Valve, but did you know he also invests in cookery startups? Eater recently interviewed Newell over the phone, where he told a story about how a Seattle-based startup by the name of ChefSteps asked him if they could come to his ho

The ZUK Z1 was definitely one of the lesser-known additions to this year’s high power, low price smartphone lineup. The reasons for this being that it was released later in the year, comes from an unknown Lenovo-backed brand, and isn’t quite as powerful as the Moto X Style or OnePlus 2.

We’ve already seen plenty of tech companies trying to be watchmakers, but Fossil is one of the first watchmakers to do the reverse. Having been a major player in the traditional watch market for years, Fossil released its first smartwatch today, known as the Q Founder, which can be purchased d

Wearable gadgets are a great way to gather information on your fitness and health habits, but what do you do with that information once you’ve gathered it? Giving it to your doctor probably won’t help you, because there’s nothing of value that they can do with that information, and

I understand how frustrating it can be to have features that used to be free suddenly hidden behind a paywall, but without a way to make money, apps like Pushbullet simply can’t continue to operate. To be fair, Pushbullet’s decision to adopt a subscription model wasn’t the best ide

Microsoft dealt a massive blow to Sony when it announced that the Xbox One will be receiving backwards compatibility for many Xbox 360 games, and while Sony has made it clear that it won’t be doing the same with the PS4 and PS3, the company has confirmed that PS2 games will be coming to the PS

The rumor that Pepsi was working on its own smartphone was one of the strangest bits of news the tech world has seen this year, bu last month, the company confirmed that it is, in fact, working on its first smartphone, and now it needs some help to do so. The mid-range device will be […]

Pushbullet is one of the most useful mobile apps out there at the moment, to the point where I’d even say it’s essential for people who use both a computer and a smartphone regularly. Now that it has a large enough userbase, the service has decided to adopt a freemium model in order to s

Even though it was one of the first music streaming services in the world, and dominated the market for a while, Pandora has been losing a lot of ground to newer services like Spotify, mainly due to the fact that users can’t actually choose which songs they listen to on Pandora. Fortunately, a

Xiaomi has launched a bunch of smartphones this year, but time is running out for the company to release the flagship that people have waited more than a year for. Rumor has it that the company has been holding off on releasing the Mi5 because it wants to power the device with the next-generation Sn

Cyanogen has been working hard to deliver on its promise to take control of Android away from Google, and the results of those efforts will be seen in full next year. During the Big Android BBQ in Amsterdam this morning, Cyanogen revealed that it has numerous partners in the smartphone market at the

Gaming tablets are extremely niche, but Acer is willing to try anything at this point. First unveiled a few months ago, the new Predator 8 tablet is now available to pre-order, and Acer put enough power into the device to justify its $300 price tag, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s

With billions of dollars in funding and the single most extensive ride-sharing network on the planet, Uber is an absolute behemoth, and there’s no way a ride-sharing startup like Gett can compete by just copying what Uber does, it needs to do something different. Easily the biggest complaint p