Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

There may have been a few (or several) bumps in the road, but this year has been great for OnePlus. Not only was the company able to release two smartphones, it was able to ditch the universally-loathed invite system for the OnePlus 2 much more quickly than it did with the OnePlus One, so it’s

HTC and Valve’s co-developed virtual reality headset has been delayed by a few months. We’ve known the device wouldn’t fully hit the market until sometime next year, but HTC claimed that limited quantities of it would be available by the end of 2015. Unfortunate

A little under a year ago, there were less than a dozen publishers using Snapchat, but after seeing how useful the app’s Discover platform is for tapping into the coveted millennial audience, the number of publishers has jumped to seventeen, with many more expected to join in the nea

Although many consumers have acquired a taste for big smartphones and phablets over the last few years, a significant chunk of Americans still prefer smaller handsets. According to a recent survey, which conveniently coincides with rumors that Apple intends to release a 4-inch smartphone next year,

Those of you still using the older web-based version of Yahoo Messenger will be sad to hear that Yahoo will be ending support for the service in a few months, but the good news is that a new, revamped version of the service has launched, and it actually looks pretty enticing. Naturally, the new Yaho

It’s odd to see a smartphone manufacturer expanding into the laptop market, as it’s usually the reverse that happens, but that’s what Xiaomi appears to be doing. Considering how the company has been adding a variety of consumer electronics to its list of products, including air pur

It’s embarrassing how much food we throw out every day, and even though some of us may feel guilty when we think about it, that’s still not enough to motivate us to change our habits, but there may be a simple solution. An Israeli startup by the name of HomeBiogas has developed a system

Everyone knows that virtual reality is the future of entertainment, but we still have a few years before the technology really starts to pick up, so what will the virtual reality market be like in the meantime? Well, according to Superdata, which specializes in analyzing the gaming industry, there w

In three days, Xiaomi will throw its end-of-the-year Grand Finale event, where it’s expected to unveil a bunch of new products, including the Redmi Note 2. We’re not sure what else the company will be unveiling, but some rumors out of China claim that the company will announce its first

Smartphones as we know them will be replaced by “superphones” within the next five years. At least, that’s what Huawei believes, and it’s basing this prediction on the fact that it took twelve years for regular handsets to evolve from the first commercial mobile phone that Mo

Millions of love lives and social lives were put on hold this week as people across the globe began their Fallout 4 binging. Reports of neglected girlfriends and a massive increase in “sick days” at work have been popping up all over the place, and it looks like even porn consumption has

Hot on the heels of Airbnb’s promise to play nice with local governments in the future, the company announced that it wants its hosts to become more business-like. At the Airbnb Open earlier today, CEO Brian Chesky that his company has made it to where “people” and “businesse

Last night, Blizzard confirmed the rumors that it’s launching Overwatch on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well, which would’ve been almost unthinkable a couple of years ago. Diablo III was the first Blizzard game to be launched on consoles since The Lost Vikings 2 landed on the SNES b

Black Friday is known all across the globe as that day where even poor people can get their hands on all the coolest and most high-tech gadgets out there. Singles Day, on the other hand, is mostly exclusive to China, but it’s more or less the same thing as Black Friday, with more than $9 [&hel

Tizen may not have been the next Android, but at least Samsung’s homemade operating system is still more popular than BlackBerry OS. A recent report from Strategy Analytics claims that Tizen has now overtaken BlackBerry OS and become the world’s fourth most-popular mobile operating syste

Netflix has tons of different content for tons of different people, but it’s looking to diversify its content offerings even further. According to CEO Reed Hastings, the company actually wants to start creating its own Bollywood original shows to appeal to more viewers, and is also looking to

Twitter currently has around 320 million monthly active users, which is a hell of a lot, but that’s only a fraction of its true user base. The problem with measuring Twitter’s user base is that the service’s content is easily accessible to people who aren’t registered with it

Months of rumors and speculation have finally culminated in the OnePlus X being officially unveiled. As expected, it’s smaller and weaker than the OnePlus 2, but that’s because aesthetics are the primary focus of this smartphone, rather than power. This is apparent from the OnePlus X&#82