Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

Yahoo has been shutting down a lot of its products since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO. It even closed the famous Yahoo Directory that put the company on the map. Yahoo just announced its next round of shut-downs. “In 2014, we invested in our strengths – search, communications, and digital content,

As 4K technology slowly starts entering the mainstream content providers are moving to make access to content in Ultra High Definition more easy. Online video streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon have already started streaming content in 4K. Now a major pay-TV provider, Comcast, is getting in the

Sony’s month from hell just got even worse, following a new class action lawsuit that accuses the company of poor security practices and seeks compensation for more than 15,000 current and former employees that have had their personal information published by hackers. “An epic nightmare, much better

IBM’s Watson beat the odds on Jeopardy! Now the big question: is it smart enough to help solve what ails the US Department of Veterans Affairs? The past couple of years have been pretty rough for the VA. In June of this year, it got blasted for underreporting veteran complaints, which ran the

Here’s an odd twist to the Sony Pictures hack: the attackers are becoming courteous… relatively speaking, of course. The Guardians of Peace are threatening to release yet more of the studio’s data as a “Christmas gift,” but they’re also offering to withhold person

Iowa, state of corn fields, soybeans and Slipknot, is working on a huge high-tech project: a driver’s license app residents can install on their smartphones. While convenient, it does come with a number of risks, so the state’s Department of Transportation will give it features to confir

Ralph H. Baer, known by many as the father of video games, has died at the age of 92. A pioneer in the industry, Baer’s name is credited on more than 150 patents but perhaps his most well-known contribution came when he created the very first video game console for the home. Baer was born in [&helli

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is being heralded as the saving grace of restless, star-gazing pioneers everywhere. And for good reason! It’s the first real attempt in decades at pushing human space travel to its furthest possible limits. And what feat of engineering is powering this manifestati

Internet mass surveillance programs are lawful and do not violate human rights, a UK tribunal has ruled. The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) made the ruling in a case that rights groups brought against the UK government over alleged mass surveillance on UK citizens via programs run by the B

Disney Publishing Worldwide, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and apps and a division of Disney Consumer Products, today unveiled Disney Imagicademy, a new technology-driven learning initiative designed for families with children 3 to 8 to encourage children to learn by creating, do

Amazon is obsessed with same-day delivery services. The company firmly thinks its key is having Prime customers buy as many retail items as they possibly need on Amazon. It comes as no surprise that Amazon wants to handle your takeout Chinese food or pizza deliveries as well. Over the weekend, the c

Pandora stations are about to get easier to customize. The company previewed an upcoming update to its iOS and Android app Tuesday that will give users more ways to personalize the music in their radio stations. The update, which is still in beta, is focused on improving the way users can personaliz

Imagine you’re at Pizza Hut and you’re trying to decide what pizza to order. Maybe you’re in the mood for pepperoni, or perhaps tonight going for a vegetarian option sounds good too, and basically you just can’t seem to decide what to get. Well how about letting Pizza Hut decide for you? The pizza c

A month after the E-Ink FES concept watch got people excited about an innovative wearable that didn’t care if it wasn’t particularly smart, rumors that Sony was working on a similar E-Ink-based timepiece started to swirl. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Sony was behind the FES

Over the last year eBay’s brand has struggled a bit. It was hit with a massive security breach and announced that it was spinning out PayPal, a divorce precipitated by the overwhelming investor sentiment that eBay was holding PayPal back. Still, the company has show steady growth and profit, giving

Music streaming service Spotify likes to crow about how it hands 70% of the revenue it generates right back to artists in the form of royalty payments. Such a massive expense has led the company to be wildly unprofitable in recent years, but Spotify may be slowly crawling its way out of the red. A [

Edward Snowden quickly became a household name when it was revealed that he was the one who blew the whistle on the NSA’s PRISM project which ultimately led to more reports and revelations published in what has been dubbed the “Snowden Reports”. In the wake of that, many companies started to declare

The police aren’t often fond of publishing body camera and dashcam footage online, but not necessarily for nefarious reasons, the volume of privacy-focused video editing they require can prove overwhelming. In Seattle, for example, a flood of public disclosure requests from an anonymous progra