Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

After a controversy surrounding his past donations caused Brendan Eich to resign from his position as the CEO of Mozilla back in 2014, he decided to launch a new startup that aims to fix what he considers to be one of the biggest problems on the Internet: advertisements. His startup is developing a

It baffles my mind that most people in developed nations have tons of experience with the Internet at this point, and yet many of them still don’t take online security seriously. According to SplashData’s annual ranking of the worst passwords in North America and Western Europe, the most commo

I’m sure many of us would agree that autonomous vehicle technology is progressing at a rapid pace, but the government seems to think that it’s not progressing fast enough. According to Reuters, the Obama administration plans to announce a new autonomous vehicle initiative later today, wh

Virtual reality has the potential to revolutionize a number of fields and industries, not the least of which is education, and part of Matt Cook’s job is exploring how this revolution can be brought about. In a recent interview with Inverse, Cook went into detail about how he and his colleague

It seems like nothing is safe from smartification these days, not even guns. President Obama renewed everyone’s interest in smart guns on Monday with a memorandum titled Promoting Smart Gun Technology, which goes into detail about the new measures his administration wants to take in order to c

Most of the PC gaming enthusiasts I’ve met in my life would never even consider getting an all-in-one for a number of reasons, the primary one being that it has almost as many limitations as a laptop, but without the benefit of portability. Gaming laptops make sense for a gamer that’s al

Believe it or not, there was a time when people thought Foursquare was going to become the next Facebook, but the company has faded into relative obscurity over the last couple of years, and now it’s worth less than half of what it was just two years ago. Though it doesn’t look like

It might seem like electric vehicles are quickly taking over the automotive industry, but as the Vienna-based Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) claims, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. In its annual World Oil Outlook report, the organization claims that

It’s kind of funny how one of the year’s most-anticipated smartphones isn’t actually being released this year. Most people assume that Xiaomi decided not to release the Mi5 this year in order to avoid the Snapdragon 820’s overheating issues, but the company claims that this w

Your profile picture is one of the first things people see when viewing your social media profiles, so it’s important that the picture be at least somewhat interesting and memorable. Generic selfies are a dime a dozen on social media, so you need to get a bit creative if you want to

Remember how Amazon bought itself a small fleet of trailer trucks for Christmas earlier this month? Well it looks like the company wants to buy itself a fleet of cargo jets as well. In an effort to have more control over how its goods are transported, Amazon is apparently negotiating to lease twenty

China Mobile isn’t just the largest of China’s state-run wireless carriers, it’s the largest wireless carrier in the world, with almost double the number of subscribers as Vodafone, which is the world’s second-largest wireless carrier. The company didn’t fare too well i

Have you ever felt like smartphone companies should be putting more focus on improving batteries than increasing the power of their devices? If so, then the Oukitel K10000 may be the smartphone for you. How many people actually use all those high-end components in their smartphone to their full

Up until a few years ago, few people would’ve predicted that eSports would actually become popular, let alone predict that competitions for games like Counter-Strike and League of Legends would generate more views than many actual sports. The rise of eSports has not only allowed gamers to make

If you had doubts about Ford’s commitment to electric vehicles, then maybe CEO Mark Fields can remove them. This morning, Fields announced that his company intends to invest $4.5 billion into electric vehicles over the next five years, and will release thirteen new electric vehi

Over the next several months, the United States Postal Service will be expanding its Informed Delivery service, which sends customers an email containing an image of the physical mail that they’re supposed to receive that day. Although it’s free, customers must sign up for

I’m not sure whether it’s because of determination or denial, but it looks like Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has no intention of selling the company. Yahoo has had a rough time these past few years, as I’m sure you all know, and rumors that the former Internet giant was considering sell

Netflix has been on an absolute roll these past few years, and though only time will tell if it can continue to dominate the way it has been, it’s definitely looking like the company is helping bring about the destruction of traditional television. A survey from Clearleap suggests that streami