Rocco Penn — Two Takes contributions

If Apple did it, you can bet your ass that Xiaomi is going to do it too. In all fairness, the majority of Apple’s competitors do the same thing, but most of them are just following Apple’s lead, whereas Xiaomi tends to just blatantly copy whatever Apple does. Whether or not this will be

In the two years since OnePlus exploded onto the smartphone scene with the OnePlus One, rumors that the company is working on everything from a smartwatch to a tablet have popped up, though no evidence of these claims has ever been presented. Now, just a couple of weeks after the release of the OneP

Consoles tend to last six to eight years before their successor is released, so the fact that the Wii U will be replaced in just four years should tell you how much of a failure it is. Numerous reports have claimed that Nintendo wants to move past the Wii U debacle as quickly as possible, and the co

There really is no better place to show off the latest car technology than the racetrack, and there are few technologies as deserving of a demonstration as self-driving cars. That’s why it was so exciting last November when the Formula E bosses announced that there’s going to b

China’s thirteenth Five Year Plan since 1953 was unveiled on Saturday, and it’s all about the internet and technology. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Five Year Plans are a series of regularly implemented initiatives that are designed to help develop China both economically and soci

Yahoo’s financial woes have forced the company to put all of its focus on the businesses that are actually making money, while everything else is either being put on the back burner or killed off entirely. Most of the company’s digital magazines will be suffering the latter fat

Whenever someone suggests that Jeff Bezos might not be the right person to lead Amazon, just remember that Amazon Prime was his idea, and it may be one of the most-brilliant ideas in recent memory. Not only does Prime’s annual fee pull in $100 per subscriber for Amazon, it encourages users to

When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go out of its way to help the government spy on its users. That’s why it’s not all that surprising to hear AT&amp

Netflix’s stock price surged increased by 7% on Tuesday after the company announced that it added more subscribers last quarter than it expected to, and raked in $1.823 billion in revenue. However, a measly $43 million of that revenue was actually profit, because the company spends ridiculous

Crowd-funding doesn’t just supply aspiring entrepreneurs with the financing they need to turn their ideas into actual products or services, it helps measure people’s interest in a particular area. Indiegogo believes that both of these things could prove beneficial to even large corporati

Anyone who’s pirated a video game knows that you need a crack to break through the game’s anti-piracy protection, and there’s a number of hacking groups out there that dedicate all of their time to developing these cracks. Unfortunately for them, the anti-piracy technology that som

It looks like Snapchat is in the process of entering the advertising technology market, or at least, that’s what a report from Digiday is claiming. According to the report, Snapchat is currently in discussions with a number of advertising agencies and advertising technology companies about ope

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down by law enforcement, but a series of domain seizures over the last few months have whittled away the website’s arsenal, and now it’s being forced to use its .ORG and .SE do

Most consumer electronics companies see their revenue spike during the holiday season, but Fitbit sold so many of its fitness trackers this Christmas that the accompanying Fitbit app was the most-popular app on the app store this week. Beating out the likes of Instagram and YouTube, the Fitbit app t

It looks like the threat of a massive fine and potential prison time was enough to convince more than 45,000 American drone owners to register with the FAA after just two days of opening the mandatory registration, not to mention the fact that it’s free for the first thirty days. If

Bitcoin and most other digital currencies rely on something called a blockchain to operate, and while the technology has become more or less synonymous with Bitcoin, the Blockchain’s potential uses extend far beyond digital currencies. The finance industry stands to be the most-affected by the

This year’s Sony flagships did little to improve the company’s horrendous smartphone sales, but as stated many times before, its handset division has no intention of giving up. Earlier this month, there was a rumor that the company was planning to release four versions of its next flasgh

Netflix is finally starting its expansion into Asia, but several local competitors have already popped up while the company was taking its time. One of the most promising of these competitors is iFlix, a Kuala Lumpur-based streaming service that offers Western entertainment to users across