Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

If you’ve ventured online today then you might have found images from the Syrian Electronic Army appearing where advertising should be. The activist group, which supports the Assad regime in Syria, has claimed responsibility for an advertising network hack that has been timed to coincide with Thanks

Amazon is dropping the price of the Fire Phone again, at least for a limited time. The online retailer is now selling its debut smartphone for just $199, unlocked and contract free. As before, Amazon also includes a free, one-year Prime membership with every purchase. The latest sale follows a price

Intrinsyc has started selling the reference smartphone and tablet hardware kits for developers which is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 SoC. Do not be confused, this is not the product that would be available for consumers at the moment but rather a reference to the flagship devices which w

I misplace my phone. A lot. I often put it down in my apartment and five minutes later forget where it is. That leads to a lot of panicked situations with me turning my living room inside out. A new gadget from Motorola hopes to prevent these incidents, and put forgetful people like me at […]

No one likes phones that comes with buggy software, especially not after you’ve spent a couple of hundred to get your hands on one. Well unfortunately it looks like there are some Nexus 6 owners who have bought the phone from AT&T who are currently experiencing software issues. For those hearing

Travel sites could be about to have a very unhappy new year. Amazon is set to enter the travel business. It says Amazon has been working with independent hotels and resorts in and around major cities to prepare its new Amazon Travel service. The site claims Amazon Travel could launch as early as Jan

Netflix now accounts for more than a third of all downstream Internet traffic during peak evening hours in North America, according to research firm Sandvine. Netflix’s share of traffic during the second half of 2014 rose to 34.89%, up from 34.21% in the first half of the year, Sandvine found in its

Mobile ride hailing startup Uber is expected to hit an annual revenue run rate of $10 billion by the end of 2015, sources told Business Insider’s Henry Blodget. Uber keeps 20 percent of every transaction, which means Uber will be netting about $2 billion on $10 billion gross revenue. What’s more, mo

Yahoo is acquiring the video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million, in a move that could help to offset declines in its traditional display ad business. The deal was announced Tuesday and is one of Yahoo’s largest acquisitions since it bought Tumblr last year for just over $1 billio

Quirky is making a huge leap beyond cute, but not-so-useful smart home gadgets, like its infamous intelligent egg tray, into connected gadgets that could actually make your life better. At a press event today, the company unveiled seven new smart home gadgets produced together with its partner GE, r

Big stores of data and the intelligent algorithms that underpin them can inform everything from your Netflix recommendations to your Facebook news feed, and now a new system being developed by software firm Workday can bring the same kind of data-crunching approach to the office. The company says it

DARPA, the military’s mad science division, is also a master of PR, we all cheer them on, even though they may be building a robot army that one day hunts us down. But the robots have become a cliche, of course. DARPA was actually founded to “prevent technological surprises” of any

Lytro and their light field photo technology is an interesting combination to say the least. Well, what good is there if you were to keep all the good stuff just to yourself? Lytro intends the other companies to make use of its light field photo technology so that they will be able to introduce impr

Sharp has introduced a new night vision CCTV camera that can record colors even in total darkness! You no longer have to rely on the scary green videos captured by the traditional night vision cameras. Sharp claims that it’s industry’s first ever Infrared color night-vision camera that d

It wasn’t very long ago that airlines offered a dozen or so pre-programmed radio stations you could shuffle through during your flight. Fast forward to 2014 and things have really changed. Starting today, Southwest Airlines is teaming up with Apple and Beats Music to offer the music streaming servic

When it comes to drones as well as other devices which are remotely piloted, one would more often than not be limited by their controls. In other words, you will need to switch controllers whenever you decide to fly a different drone or control a different RC car, and this more or less rules out [&h

One of the most important considerations in emergency medical treatment is response time. Now, an engineering graduate at Delft University of Technology has created a rapid response drone to do what a regular ambulance can’t. The drone, created by Alec Momont, is able to fly at speeds of up to

With thin being the new must have in any new tablet or smartphone launched these days, it’s no surprise that manufacturers have been pushing their devices to the limit these days. With devices like Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra and Samsung’s Galaxy Alpha already pushing the thickness limits to 6.5 mm and 6.