Rocco Penn — Two Takes contributions

Do Not Track requests are basically a way for you to politely ask websites not to track your online activity, and I probably don’t need to tell you how hilariously ineffective it is, to the point where it can’t even be considered a placebo. That’s why privacy advocates have been ca

Earlier this week, Blizzard announced on its website that it’s looking to hire some new software engineers, not to design a new game, but to restore some old ones to glory. According to the job description, the company wants to make games like Diablo II, StarCraft, and WarCraft 3 work better o

Evading anti-virus software isn’t exactly easy, but if malware authors have a mind to do so, they can design their malware to mutate in such a way that anti-virus software can’t keep up. That’s why an Israeli startup by the name of Deep Instinct is developing an artificial neural n

In order to help people understand what Twitter and convince them to start using the service, Twitter released its first-ever television commercial during the World Series on Tuesday, but it seems to have had the opposite effect. The people who didn’t just change the channel when they saw the

You may know Twitch as that place where people can make millions of dollars by having other people watch them play Minecraft, but the company wants to be more than just a live-streaming platform for video games by expanding into new territory. To be fair, the Amazon-owned company isn’t expandi

Halloween is just a few days away, which means its time for Steam’s annual Halloween Sale to assault our wallets. Since it’s a Halloween-themed sale, it’s only natural for horror games to be the primary focus, with games like Dead Space and Left 4 Dead selling for around $4.99, but

Remember a few months back when we started hearing rumors that GoPro was working on its own consumer drone? Well the company confirmed those rumors earlier this week when it released some teaser footage that was shot from one of its drones. The footage looks as awesome as you’d expect, but wha

Well, that didn’t take very long. I’m sure many of you were hoping that the Moments feature that Twitter recently rolled out was going to be free of advertisements, and it was for a couple of weeks, but now that time is over. Twitter started to test Promoted Moments earlier today, althou

Even those of you who follow Android news closely may have overlooked the Fairphone, so let me bring you up to speed. Basically, as the name implies, the Fairphone is an Android smartphone that you don’t have to feel guilty about buying, because great care was taken to ensure that all of the d

Like an eighth grader being told they should go to prom, Uber wants people to stop telling it that it needs to go public soon. That’s the analogy that CEO Travis Kalanick in response to one of Uber’s board members publicly criticizing the company for its refusal to go public. According t

Fake reviews have always come with the package for e-commerce websites like Amazon, which is obviously the kind of thing that these websites would prefer not to have, which is why Amazon has been suing fake reviewers left and right in recent months. The company just recently filed a lawsuit in Seatt

It may surprise you to find out that Match.com, OKCupid, and Tinder are all owned by a Dallas-based company known as Match Group, and that the company is filing for an IPO. Considering how it pulled in nearly $500 million in the first half of this year, it’s not all that surprising that the co

It’s no secret that most Americans have an unhealthy connection to their smartphones, but this connection isn’t without its benefits. A group of researchers from Florida State University, Indiana University, and the University of Oklahoma recently conducted a study, which found that adul

Whether it’s implementing nation-wide Internet of Things systems, or testing out drone-based deliveries for its postal service, Singapore has proven time and time again that it’s not afraid to embrace emerging technologies. Not even its public transportation is safe from that technologic

Amazon may have some serious competition from domestic companies in Asia, but here in the West, the only company that really stands a chance is Jet.com. The e-commerce startup finally launched earlier this year after spending several months building itself up, and it looked really promising. What ma

Families have always been Netflix’s primary target, and the company already has plenty of content to entertain parents and young children, but what about kids in the tween and teen demographics? Netflix’s offerings in those areas could use some work, especially when it comes to original

You know what would be nice? Being able to buy a OnePlus 2 without having to jump through hoops to get an invite quickly or wait a long time to receive one normally. You know what OnePlus is doing instead of making this happen? Releasing yet another smartphone. Co-founder Carl Pei has confirmed that

Xbox users may not understand the pain of having to wait for timed DLC to come to their platform, but PC and PlayStation users are all too familiar with it. I’m not sure how much money Microsoft pays publishers to make the DLC for their games come to the Xbox exclusively for a month or [&helli