Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

Fredrik Neij may not be a name that you’re familiar with, but you’re definitely familiar with the website he helped to create: the Pirate Bay. Unfortunately for Neij, co-founding the world’s largest torrenting website isn’t the most conventionally rewarding thing to do, as so

Every Fallout fan out there has dreamed of having their own Pip-Boy, and as Bethesda announced at this year’s E3, those dreams will finally be able to come true. There’s going to be a wearable Pip-Boy included in the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition that you’ll be able to slip your smartp

We’ve been hearing a lot about using satellites to provide Internet access across the globe over the past year or so. While companies like Facebook and Google recently abandoned such plans, Elon Musk still intends to have SpaceX develop its own system of Internet-beaming satellites. OneWeb may

Sony loves to release slimmed down versions of its consoles, but the PS4 is still too new for a slim version to make much sense. Instead, the company has decided to address one of the biggest complaints people have had with the PS4 (the small hard drive) by releasing a new 1TB version of the console

There’s no shame in admitting that you fell for the Beats By Dre scam, millions of people have thanks to impressive ad campaigns and a bit of trickery. When I say trickery, I mean things like putting metal weights inside headphones in order to give users the sense that the headphones are more

Considering how a significant chunk of Netflix’s users access the service through their web browser, you’d think that the company would put more effort into making their web interface not suck. To be fair, the company has been working on a revamped web interface for a while now, but it&#

Both Dick Costolo and Twitter’s board members have been laughing off the calls for Costolo’s resignation as CEO for a while, but it looks like investors will end up getting their way after all. After five years as the company’s CEO, Costolo will be stepping down next month and will

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Popcorn Time by now, the service that lets you stream pirated movies and television shows in much the same way that Netflix does with legally obtained content. It’s a revolutionairy service that makes streaming stolen content ridiculously easy, and now

With all the attention that Pandora and Spotify get as the leaders of the music streaming market, it’s easy to forget about smaller services like iHeartRadio. The word “smaller” is barely even applicable too, especially now that iHeartRadio has more than 70 million registered users

So long as you’re not horrendously ugly, finding someone to hookup with is easier than ever before thanks to apps like Grindr, Hinge, Tinder, and a wealth of other dating apps out there. However, this ease of hooking up isn’t without its downsides, as a new health report from the Rhode I

Xiaomi has been far from dormant this year, with numerous product launches and expansions, and that’s great and all, but what everyone really wants is the latest iteration of the company’s flagship smartphone: the Mi5. Considering that the smartphone’s predecessor, the Mi4, launche

If anyone could challenge the Apple-Google duopoly that powers the cast majority of the smartphones out there today, it would be Samsung. At least, that’s what many people thought when the company first announced its own mobile operating system, known as Tizen, and continued to think this even

HTC hasn’t been very active in the tablet market aside from the Nexus 9 it developed on behalf of Google, but some recently leaked specs indicate that the company is releasing another tablet this year. With a quad-core processor and a single gigabyte of RAM, the 7-inch device is definitely on

You need only look at the vibrant modding community that many games have to understand what makes PC gaming so great, but it’s not all fun and games. Sometimes, as with a few Grand Theft Auto V mods, some not-so-friendly people will ruin the fun by slipping in some malware. At least two mods f

Few countries are as popular a target for cyberattacks as Israel, and public utilities are one of the primary targets. That’s why state-owned Israel Electric is betting its future on cyber-security exports, as providing electricity to Israeli homes has left the company with billions of dollars

There’s much more to Singapore’s ambitions to become the world’s first “smart nation” than what you see on the surface. Many countries have already started to make their cities smarter, and it’s only a matter of time before every major city in the developed world

One of the greatest things about the Internet is that you can learn almost any skill you want using any of the numerous online resources out there. One such resource is My Aone Learning, which separates itself from the mass of face-to-face online solutions out there by operating in much the same way

It doesn’t matter how much we hate Facebook, we’re never going to leave it. Even though we’re little more to Facebook than a consumer that advertisers will pay to target, it’s not enough to convince us to join social networks like Ello that shun advertising and commoditizing