Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

For a decade, the SXSW music festival has offered thousands of tracks from various artists free of DRM. While the method of releasing all of these songs has differed from year to year, SXSW opted to release freely available MP3 files for this year’s festival and left it to the community to con

Losing your phone is one of those problems that everyone has experienced, and it sucks. Calling your phone with another phone to try and find it only works of the ringer is on and the tools that Apple, Google, and Microsoft have in place to find missing phones require you to hop on your computer. [&

It’s been well over a year since the world’s most popular online black market, Silk Road, was taken down by law enforcement and, in its absence, several websites have been trying to claim its throne. A website by the name of Evolution looked to be the winner and was the de facto king of

Jason Larke is an Australian man who works as an electrical contractor in remote Queensland, a job which requires him to work away from home for weeks at a time. This means that Larke wasn’t able to be with his wife when she gave birth to their third child but, thanks to Samsung’s Gear V

The problem with virtual reality at the moment is that tons of companies are showing off their new virtual reality headsets but it’s pretty much impossible for regular consumers to get their hands on most of them. Even when these headsets to become readily available, how many people are going

Valve has established a reputation as a maker of both excellent games and excellent software but its hardware track record is a bit flimsy. By that I mean the company hasn’t actually released any kind of hardware ever. Although inexperience, Valve’s first foray into the hardware world ap

Apple broke company records with the release of the iPhone 6 and Samsung believes it’s going to do the same thing with the Galaxy S6. While the Galaxy S5 was incredibly popular, it still didn’t manage to outperform the Galaxy S4 but Samsung is confidant that the Galaxy S6 will. One of th

Many assumed before the next generation of consoles were even released that the PlayStation 4 would take the crown and, if recent numbers are to be believed, that may very well be true. Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 has, as of March 1, sold more than 20 million units across the globe whi

Electric cars are growing in popularity everywhere, including China where numerous companies, many of which had no previous ties to the automotive industry, have been delving into the world of electric vehicles. It has been speculated for a few months that Xiaomi intends to make such an expansion, e

Chegg made more than $200 million last year by renting out printed textbooks to college students but the company’s CEO wants to abandon this clearly lucrative business in favor of a digital model. Inspired by companies like Adobe and Netflix, CEO Dan Rosensweig wants to vastly improve the comp

Chips are getting faster every year, as they’ve always done, but a team of researchers at MIT claims they may have found a way to make current multi-core chips FAR faster than they are. In a 64-core chip, the researchers supposedly achieved a speed increase of 46% with a power consumption decr

Few business landscapes change as frequently as the technology market does and many of the corporate giants that controlled the market a few years are now struggling to change and remain relevant. One such company is Hewlett-Packard which announced today that it will be selling a new line of network

With all of the pictures your family takes across all of their devices it’s fair to assume you have quite a large collection of photos that are by no means organized. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Fortunately, Lineage Labs may have a solution that combines local storage, pr

As usual, Samsung’s new flagship is one of the year’s most highly-anticipated smartphones and, as such, rumors about the device have been popping up like crazy. The latest such rumors suggests that the Samsung Galaxy S6 will come equipped with a 2,600mAh battery. For those of you who are

Dota 2 may not be nearly as popular as its rival, League of Legends, but to be fair, no game is. That shouldn’t take away from the fact that Dota 2 is still insanely popular. In fact, the game is so popular that it has become the first game in Steam’s history to have more […]

Foursquare has updated its service so that users will be able to find recommendations for local places without having to login or create an account for the service. Apparently the company has been looking to do this for a while now but the app’s framework was difficult to change, hence the del

The falling out between Cyanogen and OnePlus is well known by now but the Chinese smartphone maker is still using CyanogenMod until it can wrap up its own Android ROM, which is looking to be pretty soon. As promised, OnePlus gave us more information on the upcoming ROM, known as OxygenOS, yesterday

We mentioned in a previous article that 2015 isn’t shaping up to be a good year for Qualcomm. Not only have overheating issues with its latest chip caused it to possibly lose its biggest partner, Samsung, the company was forced to pay nearly $1 billion in anti-trust fines to the Chinese govern