Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

Amazon may be known as an e-commerce giant, and it does get the vast majority of its revenue from e-commerce, but the company does owe much of its success to Amazon Web Services. Assuming that growth continues as it did last year, Amazon’s cloud business may very well exceed IBM’s own of

As a location-based message board that allows users to anonymously share jokes and memes with each other, it’s no surprise that YikYak’s success is thanks mostly to college campuses. The only problem is, the school year is going to come to an end eventually, so what do users do when that

A recent leak has given us a good look at the kinds of rules that carriers operating in the European Union will have to deal with. One of the most interesting things about these new rules is that they’ll take into account messaging services such as Skype and WhatsApp. Carriers in Europe have b

Most of the 3D-printed objects we see are made of some kind of hard, rigid material that nobody wants to cuddle with. That’s not really a bad thing, but those of us who want to make something softer and more cuddly with a 3D printer have been left hanging. Don’t worry though, Disney has

You’ve always been able to trade in old consoles at GameStop, so long as they’re not TOO old. However, if a report from IGN is to be believed, the company is launching a new pilot program in select markets that will allow customers to trade in retro consoles, even ones as old as the orig

I don’t think a single thing about The Witcher 3 has popped up on the Internet that hasn’t made me want to spend hours playing it, and this latest gameplay trailer is no exception. While we’ve had plenty of demos and cinematic trailers, this is one of the first real gameplay traile

Internet trolls can turn an excellent website into an abuse-riddled mess that many people would sooner avoid, just ask Twitter. While many of the larger websites out there have legions of bots and mods that try to combat these trolls, more often than not, justice is only served after the damage is d

As the name suggests, the Discover tool was how Twitter users have been able to discover the best content on the platform for quite some time, but now the company has decided to retire the feature in favor of something a bit more inline with its current vision. The new feature will automatically hig

Considering how OnePlus has practically become synonymous with delays at this point, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company’s CEO is hinting that the highly-anticipated successor to last year’s OnePlus One may not be released as early as previously suggested. Apparently O

Although interest in alien life has been present throughout human history in some form, it wasn’t until man actually developed space travel that people became truly interested in the subject, so much so that it has ingrained itself in our culture. However, decades of space exploration have yie

GIFS are one of the most popular methods of telling stories on the Internet, be it a funny clip or an interesting bit of information, and Tumblr is one of the most popular mediums for sharing these stories. That’s why Hulu is turning to Tumblr to help promote the content on its own service by

Racing continues to grow in popularity around the world. It’s not just fans. It’s not only the carmakers. The technology that goes into getting more horsepower with lighter vehicles that can go faster without blowing up is a very appealing field for some of the smartest people in the wor

Nintendo seems like the perfect company to enter the mobile gaming market but for one reason or another, perhaps not wanting to compete with its own mobile gaming devices, Nintendo has yet to touch the mobile market. That’s all about to change, however, as the company has partnered with DeNA i

Amazon’s newest physical product has actually been mistaken as an April Fool’s joke by many, but the device is actually very real and is currently being tested by the company. Known as the Dash Button, this physical button can be placed next to something that you don’t want to run

Man, they’ve been releasing a Transformers movie every 2-3 years since the first one came out but wouldn’t it just be amazing if they started releasing more?! No? TOO BAD! Apparently the people down at Paramount Pictures want even more Transformers movies, a lot more. Not only are they w

No list of the greatest albums of the 1990s would be complete without Radiohead’s third studio album, OK Computer, nor would any list of the greatest albums of all time, for that matter. I could go on for hours about how freaking amazing, influential, and ahead of its time the album was but yo

Do any of you think Bloodborne looks freaking amazing but you can’t bring yourself to buy a PlayStation 4 just for one game? Believe me, I know. Well we might be in luck, some of us at least, because Sony accidentally leaked a PC version of something called “Bloodborne – Nightmare

After more than seven years of travelling across the solar system, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has finally reached the last part of its mission which involves orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres and sending back images and data. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Dawn, however, is that rather tha