Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

Konami is responsible for published some of the most beloved console games of the past few decades, but in the company recently started to shift its focus away from its traditional market and onto mobile gaming, and fans are furious. While I can definitely understand why fans are so upset, when you

While the tech world has been buzzing about the OnePlus 2, many of us are still wondering whether OnePlus will release a second smartphone this year like rumors suggested. OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei revealed in an interview with USA Today that his company is, in fact, releasing a second smartphone

Just when we thought Yahoo’s acqusition spree was coming to an end, the company announced that it has agreed to acquire a popular social shopping service known as Polyvore. The fashion-discovery website was actually founded by a few former Yahoo employees back in 2007 and allows users to brows

Pocket is one of those apps that, once you use it, you won’t be able to live without it. Especially for people like myself who come across hundreds of articles and videos every day, the ability to save all that content to view later and easily organize and sort through everything I’ve sa

Amazon may be the company that brought the idea of drone-based deliveries to the spotlight, but current regulations in the United States are making the testing and implementation of such a system incredibly difficult. In an effort to speed up the regulatory process, Amazon has suggested that a 600 f

Samsung has been so bad at keeping the Galaxy Note 5’s information a secret that I half suspect the company is just purposely “leaking” the information to build hype, and it might actually be working. Well-known leaker nowhereelse.fr has released tons of new photos that give us a r

Just when I thought Reddit’s internal meltdown was coming to an end, yet another senior female employee has left the company. Whether the fact that they’re all female is a coincidence or not isn’t as relevant as the fact that Reddit is losing its top employees at an alarming pace.

This is pure speculation at the moment, but Qualcomm’s announcement that it’s considering splitting its business to increase shareholder value could result in a deal with Intel. The businesses would be split based on component parts, and the chip business would have plenty of potential s

Earlier this week we heard rumors that Samsung would be releasing the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus earlier than expected to avoid directly competing with the iPhone 6S Plus, and now we have some leaked images to give us an idea what those two upcoming phablets will look like. I’m

We’re less than a week away from Motorola’s product announcement event in New York City but some images of what we can expect have already been leaked. The next iteration of the Moto G is the most obvious announcement that we can expect, but people were less certain about a new Moto X be

Spam was around well before the Internet, but it’s on the Internet that spammers were able to annoy people on a level that had never been seen before. During the early days of what we now know as the modern Internet, spammers were able to use the power of botnets to send billions of spam messa

With the government always asking tech companies to hand over user data, it’s important to know which companies take your privacy seriously and which ones don’t. The Electronic Frontier Foundation makes this easy with its annual report on the subject, and people who use Apple or Yahoo pr

It’s a given that Fallout 4 is going to be a massive game, especially when you consider that Bethesda is claiming that the game world will be larger than anything it has ever created, which includes Fallout 3 and Skyrim. If you still need some idea as to how large Fallout 4 is going to be, [&h

Passcodes and patterns have been the standard unlocking method for smartphones since they were first released. A few of the more flagship devices also come equipped with fingerprint scanners which you can use to unlock your device, but that hasn’t stopped companies from coming up with new ways

In 2015, the land that is the home of Facebook, Twitter, and most other successful social media sites should be the leader when it comes to using social media for world politics, but that title is apparently going to the Islamic State. They are using social media to spread their message, recruit new

When the internet started really taking hold as a common method for getting information, many started to profess that it would be the ultimate truth market. Even before crowdsourcing became a thing, people were converging on the internet to discern information, share stories, and promote an ideologi

Last year’s HTC One (M8) was one of the sexiest smartphones ever released, and many had hoped that the device’s successor would be similarly impressive. Unfortunately, HTC took those hopes quite literally, and the One M9 bore too many similarities to its predecessor for most people&#8217

Amazon Prime is one of Amazon’s biggest cash cows, and the free shipping the service offers is one of Prime’s biggest draws, so doesn’t it seem a little counter-intuitive for the company to start offering free shipping to non-Prime users? Well, that’s what it looks like on th