Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

To say that Sharp isn’t doing too well would be a massive understatement. The electronics maker had to receive a ¥225 billion ($1.91 billion) bailout from the Japanese government in order to combat its massive losses last year, but that was only a temporary solution, and it looks like the end

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs, have become a serious problem in recent years, and many experts believe that the problem will grow to near-catastrophic levels in the decades to come if we don’t do something about it. Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder are wor

Remember a few weeks back when Sidecar announced that it’ll no longer be competing with the likes of Lyft and Uber, and will be exiting the ride-sharing market? Well, most of the assets and technology that belonged to the company has apparently been acquired by General Motors, which has expres

Having already become the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, several reports have indicated that Huawei will be joining fellow Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in releasing its first laptop this year. However, whereas Xiaomi is said to be working on a traditional laptop like the MacBook, a

Whether or not you enjoy eSports, or consider them to be sports at all, you can’t deny that they’re exploding in popularity at the moment, and companies like Activision are trying to set themselves up as the ESPN of eSports, but as it turns out, the ESPN of eSports might just end up bein

With a name like the Planetary Defense Coordination Office, you’d think that NASA’s new program was some kind of badass defense force meant to protect us from alien invaders, but the reality is a bit less exciting. Instead of protecting us from alien invaders, the program is meant to pro

Tim Cook has already made his stance on encryption abundantly clear, but he decided to give the White House something of a reminder during last week’s meeting, in which government intelligence officials met with executives from some of the largest technology companies in the country to discuss

With more active users than both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, Steam is the most-popular digital distribution platform for video games in the world, with next to nothing in the way of competition. The platform’s dominance over the market is such that Steam Spy has reported that more t

With the FAA having finally started implementing comfortable drone regulations, the most-popular drone manufacturer in the world has decided to appease the agency a bit with something called Geospatial Environment Online (GEO). Made by DJI, this new features allows the Chinese company’s d

The LG G4 was a solid device, but when you’re competing in the extremely crowded market for high-end smartphones, just being solid isn’t enough. Things might be different with next year’s LG flagship, however, as a new leak suggests the device might be one of the mos

All we know about Nintendo’s first mobile game is that it’s going to be free-to-play, and it’s not really a game, but rather a Mii-based communication tool. That’s not what most us were imagining when we begged the company to enter the mobile gaming market, but this only the

While many people are anticipating the release of virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, most of them don’t realize how much processing power these headsets actually require. That’s why virtual reality gaming is going to be more or less exclusive to computers for the&nb

Taxes aren’t very fun, which is why so many multinational corporations like to use their ability to operate in multiple countries to avoid them. According to some American politicians, Apple is one of these companies, but in an interview with CBS, CEO Tim Cook dismissed those accusations as &#

While Xiaomi is struggling just to meet the lowest sales goal it set for itself this year, Huawei has become China’s largest smartphone maker with more than 100 million smartphones shipped in 2015 alone. This puts the company up there with Apple and Samsung as the three largest smartphone make

Tor is currently the most-important tool for online anonymity in the world, due in large part to the fact that it doesn’t have much in the way of competition, but that’s about to change thanks to a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

While regulators in the United States are still working on a legal solution to the ever-growing consumer drone problem, Japan has decided to fight fire with fire using a new drone that specializes in taking out other drones. On Friday, police in Tokyo unveiled a net-wielding interceptor drone t

There are thousands of Walmarts scattered across the country, so it’s no surprise that companies like Apple and Google have been trying to get the supermarket chain to adopt their mobile payments services, Apple Pay and Android Pay, respectively. Unfortunately, Walmart has refused to partner w

Well everybody, it looks like we’ve all been wrong about China this whole time! Contrary to popular belief, the Chinese government doesn’t actually censor the Internet at all, it just “manages” the content on there, so I guess we owe them a big apology for gett