Michio Hasai — Two Takes contributions

Xiaomi was originally planning to release a Snapdragon 810-powered Mi5 at the end of the year, but obviously that never happened, with many people suggesting that the company wanted to wait for the Snapdragon 820 to be released so that it wouldn’t have to deal with overheating issues. While th

It looks like Honor, the brand of mid-range smartphones that Huawei owns, will be entering the American market next year. The brand announced as much after its two-year anniversary celebration last night, saying that the “United States market is the highest end market for Huawei,” and th

Elon Musk has made his wariness of artificial intelligence abundantly clear, and though many people within the tech industry have joked about his concerns, there are still plenty that share them. Several of these like-minded tech leaders, such as Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman, have joined forces with

Samsung already makes practically everything having to do with electronics, from kitchen appliances to semiconductors, but the company is on a mission to make LITERALLY everything having to do with electronics, including electric vehicles. Last night, the company announced that intends to begin deve

Just as American companies tend to have a hard time breaking into the Chinese market, so to do Chinese companies trying to break into the American market. This is especially true for startups, which is a damn shame considering all of the interesting startups that China has given birth to in recent y

Computers have become an essential part of many companies, and many of these companies have adopted policies for how their employees should use computers while they’re at work. Obviously, should an employee break that policy, the company is well within its rights to discipline them, but the go

The ride-sharing market is divided into two parts: Uber and those other guys. With billions in funding coming in every few months, and a valuation that could be as high as $65 billion, Uber is the undisputed leader at the moment, and its sheer dominance in the market has caused “those other gu

It’s safe to say that Tidal has had a rough year, and I’m not sure whether the fact that the company has cycled through three CEOs in the past six months is the cause of that, or the product of it. Either way, Tidal is hoping that things will be different next year, as industry veteran J

One of the most interesting, if little-used, features of the Xbox One is the ability to stream games from your console to your computer, and it looks like Sony wants to add a similar feature to the PlayStation 4. However, whereas the Xbox One streaming feature only works with Windows 10 computers, S

With less than a month to go before Star Wars: The Force Awakens launches, those of us who have been doing everything we can to avoid spoilers are in the homestretch, but things are more difficult than ever. A fresh batch of spoilers was just unleashed on the Web, with more undoubtedly following in

Challenging an e-commerce behemoth like Amazon requires an immense amount of connections and resources, not to mention experience and strategy. Jet.com has plenty of the latter two, having been founded by the same man who founded Diapers.com, and with $350 million in new funding and another $150 mil

One of the biggest complaints that people have about the current generation of consoles is that the power increase over the previous generation wasn’t nearly as significant as it needed to be, which means that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One aren’t powerful enough to handle emerging trend

NASA has been able to gather unprecedented amounts of information on Mars using a single, land-bound drone, so just imagine what it could do with a flying drone. It sounds like NASA has already started imagining it, and it must like what it sees, because there’s a good chance that the Mars 202

What started off as a side project for a college student that wanted to help people on Reddit share pictures without linking to bloated websites that took forever to load, has grown into a burgeoning startup that has more than 150 million monthly active users. According to Imgur, around 82% of these

Driving isn’t just annoying and tedious, it can also be pretty expensive, especially when you’re commuting and need to pay for things like gas and parking. That’s where Uber thinks it can be of assistance with its new uberPOOL service. Currently in beta, the new service offers comm

Remember when LG was trying to get us all hyped for its upcoming super premium smartphone? Well, the company ended up trying to downplay the device shortly before its announcement, and it’s a good thing they did, because nothing about the LG V10 is super premium. In fact, the only thing worth

Imagine seeing something that you want on a commercial, then being able to purchase it straight through your television with a few button clicks. Doesn’t that sound cool? Well don’t get too excited, because Amazon’s new shopping feature for televisions isn’t anywhere near as

Ever since Amazon put the idea of delivery drones in the limelight, companies across the United States have been asking federal regulators for permission to begin testing their own delivery drone systems. Walmart is the latest company to do so, having already done testing inside its own facilities,