Michio Hasai — Two Takes contributions

It’s no secret that public education in the United States is broken, shamefully so, but how do we fix it? Many people feel like America’s educational system is flawed all the way down to its foundation and needs to be replaced entirely, but that just leads to another question: what do we

If you thought Samsung gave the Galaxy S6 a more premium feel with an all-metal body, you should check out the leather backing that LG is putting on the LG G4. While the addition of leather certainly gives LG an advantage over its competitors, the process involved with making these leather smartphon

Even though virtual reality is no longer a science fiction concept, it’s still not easy for most people to experience. There’s no shortage of virtual reality headsets being developed at the moment, but most of them cast hundreds of dollars, something that well out of reach for many peopl

It has been half a year since Lenovo acquired Motorola from Google and CEO Yang Yuanqing says that the company is more than happy with the purchase so far. Speaking in Chicago this week as part of his annual tour of Lenovo’s global operations, Yang reported that Motorola’s plan to return

A miniature drone may not have been what people were expecting or hoping for when OnePlus was teasing a new product, but the device still sold out pretty quickly. Those of you who weren’t satisfied, however, needn’t worry because the company has another product it’s going to unveil

First Star Wars and now the new Quentin Tarantino movie, I’m not sure how much of these new teaser trailers I can take. While the trailer for Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight reveals next to nothing about the film, it tells us all we need to know. Tarantino has such a unique style and estab

With an initial public offering of $16/share, Etsy is being valued at around $1.78 billion. The company has become especially popular over the past few years by selling craft supplies and handmade goods through its online store, and now has nearly 30 million items listed. With a $0.20 listing fee an

There have been numerous film adaptions of Stephen King novels, most of which are excellent films, with a few even deserving a spot among the greatest movies ever made, but King’s magnum opus still hasn’t made it to the big screen. Known as The Dark Tower, this series of novels frequentl

In an effort to boost profitability and remain relevant, Twitter has been pumping out new features like crazy these past few months. Hardly a day goes by where we don’t hear about some new feature that the company is testing out. The latest such feature is definitely one of the more interestin

Dell is well known for its desktops and laptops but its tablet offerings aren’t very popular among regular consumers. However, businesses have proven to be a major consumer of Dell’s tablets which is why the company has decided to target them directly with its new Venue 10 7000. The tabl

It doesn’t matter how private or secure Snapchat is, so long as there are third-party apps that access the service, all of Snapchat’s users are at risk. This was best demonstrated not too long ago when one of these third-party apps was hacked, which resulted in thousands of Snapchat user

Another week, another failed promise from OnePlus. The company promised that its homemade OxygenOS and the new CyanogenMod update would come to the OnePlus One by March 31st and here we sit a day later with neither being available. To be fair, the CyanogenMod update is entirely reliant on Cyanogen,

It looks like 2014 was an exceptionally good year for Huawei which not only saw a 33% increase in net profit over the previous year, but also saw a rise in demand across all areas, from smartphones to telecommunications equipment. This is especially impressive when you consider how difficult the com

Twitter has been trying to kill Meerkat in the womb due to the fact that it has been working on its own live-streaming app known as Periscope that will directly compete with Meerkat. Obviously that didn’t work and now Twitter has been forced to release Periscope early. So now that both of them

While many people in the United States are still fighting with local governments to even be able to equip their homes with solar panels in the first place, the French government has now made it a legal requirement that buildings in commercial zones cover their rooftops in either solar panels or gree

Solar power may be one of the most promising forms of renewable energy but the fact remains that the solar farms that generate all of this electricity are sprawling masses of solar arrays that take up tons of open space, especially when compared to far more compact coal and gas power plants. The mos

Despite being one of the most beloved and popular television shows of all time, Seinfeld has been conspicuously absent from legal streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix, which is especially strange considering sitcoms are some of the most bingable shows out there. That’s all going to chan

Xiaomi announced the Mi Note and Mi Note Pro a couple of months ago but the announcement of the successor to the ever-popular Mi 4 has yet to be made. That doesn’t mean that the flagship smartphone, most likely called the Mi 5, won’t be launching this year because, according to GizmoChin