Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

Lyft has always been a distant second to Uber in the ride-sharing market, and always will be, but considering how Uber is a $68 billion behemoth, that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Being a distant second hasn’t stopped the company from raising $2 billion in funding from the like of General

Members of ISIS have been using social networks like Twitter to recruit new members and spread their propaganda, and many people feel that Twitter should be held accountable for allowing this to happen, so much so that the families of two victims of a terrorist attack in Jordan have sued the company

In order to make up for how lackluster this generation of consoles has been, Microsoft and Sony are planning to release upgraded versions of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sometime in the near future. Microsoft has been fairly open about what to expect from its upgrade, known as Project Scorpio, but

Being able to download content to your device so that you can stream it offline is an essential feature for music-streaming services, but not so much for video-streaming services. Being able to download content to your smartphone while you’re on Wi-Fi allows you to access that content while yo

China never fails to deliver when it comes to smartphone leaks, and the latest delivery is the first alleged image of the OnePlus 3 that we’ve seen. Surprisingly, there hasn’t been much news regarding the upcoming smartphone, despite the rumors that it’s going to be unveiled someti

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Pornhub is at the forefront of technological advancement, but the website is definitely quick to embrace emerging technologies. It released an amusing YouTube video on Tuesday, in which it announced that it’s partnering with BaDoink to make f

It’s no secret that Uber wants to replace its drivers with autonomous vehicles in the near future, but even with billions of dollars in funding, there’s no way the company can develop the necessary technology on its own. That’s why Uber is in the process of finding a partner i

Robots are very close to reaching the point where they can start taking over our everyday jobs, and when that happens, fast food jobs will be among the first to be taken over. Domino’s proved as much on Friday when it announced its plan to start having robots deliver pizza to people. Known as

Video games have evolved immensely over the past forty years, and for those of us who experienced this evolution first-hand, it can be strange to see how society has come to embrace the medium in recent years. Playing games is actually a viable, and oftentimes even lucrative career choice these

As if it wasn’t bad enough that Activision Blizzard and Electronics Arts, two of the largest game publishers in the world, have decided to skip E3 2016, now Disney Interactive and Wargaming are doing the same, and more publishers may end up following suit before the trade show b

It seems like OnePlus is launching a new smartphone every few months, and the next one could launch by the end of the second quarter of this year, according to company co-founder Carl Pei. According to him, the OnePlus 3 will be released within the next few months, but he didn’t

Consumer electronics are the only area where Amazon has found any real success in creating its own product lines, but the company hasn’t given up. WWD noticed on Monday that Amazon has quietly released somewhere around 1,800 new products through seven new in-house labels, which range from men&

You can’t have Morgan Freeman narrate your life, unfortunately, but you can still have him give you directions if you’re a Waze user. The Google-owned, crowd-sourced navigation app announced on Monday that Morgan Freeman has joined the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart

Uber is currently engaged in a war of attrition with China’s largest ride-sharing company, Didi Kuaidi, and it’s costing the company more than $1 billion a year, according to CEO Travis Kalanick. We’ve known that Uber is losing a lot of money in China, but we didn’t

Biometric authentication is seen by many to be the natural successor to passwords, but nobody has been able to figure out which method is the best. Fingerprint scanning is the most-popular option at the moment, with retina scanning coming in at a distant second, but some researchers from B

The deaths of Circuit City and RadioShack have painted a grim picture of the future of electronics retailers like Best Buy, but it’s not all doom and gloom. For starters, RadioShack won’t be dying off entirely, and as Twice Magazine reported on Tuesday, Circuit City is actually preparing

When the Kindle Fire became a surprising success, and ended up spawning a line of solid tablets, Amazon was confident enough in its ability to create successful hardware that it decided to release its own smartphone, and this the Fire Phone was born. As I’m sure you remember, that ended up bei

Now that Netflix is available in almost every country on the planet, except for China, you’d think that the company’s quest for world domination would simply be a matter of advertising and waiting, but it’s not that simple. As an analyst team for Deutsche Bank has pointed out, most