Rocco Penn — Two Takes contributions

With less than a week to go before LG’s upcoming event in New York City, the company ha started building up hype for one of the announcements with a 15-second teaser video of what appears to be the long-rumored V10. The video reveals next to nothing about the smartphone, but from the rumors we

Laser weapons have been synonymous with sci-fi entertainment for decades, but only is the technology for these weapons available to us now, the United States military plans to start using them within just a few years. It’s weird to think about. First the Army wanted to use lasers to clear land

Amazon and Apple have always approached the tablet market from different angles, Amazon from the low-end to mid-range side and Apple from the high-end side. It’s worked out pretty damn well for both companies, but with the tablet market continuing to shrink, the two of them have had to really

Acer founder Stan Shih announced a few days ago that he was open to the idea of having his company taken over by another one, which led to many people talking about a potential merger between Acer and ASUS. It makes a lot of sense on the surface, considering how both of them are based […]

Tech companies have made their hatred of closed video formats very clear, especially the kind that require the companies to pay royalties to patent holders. That’s why many of these companies have developed their own video formats, but that doesn’t really solve the problem, it just creat

There’s a certain point where a smartphone becomes so big that it’s basically a tablet. Devices that hover between the two definitions are called phablets, but even those smartphones usually don’t have more than a 6-inch screen. Lenovo doesn’t seem to care all that much about

Remember how tablets were really, really popular for a few years, but then people stopped caring about them after a while? Well the same thing is happening to the wearable market at the moment, except wearables haven’t even come close to being as popular as tablets, and whereas it took the tab

The bigger the better, right? That mentality has worked pretty damn well for Samsung so far, which is probably why the company is working on a new tablet with an absolutely ridiculous 18.4-inch display. Rumors of the tablet started popping up a few weeks ago, but now we have some leaked specs to giv

Copyright holders have been making examples of unfortunate Internet users who have allegedly shared copyrighted material for years, but most of these lawsuits have been directed at people using BitTorrent clients. However, the company that owns the rights to “The Cobbler,” a terribly-rat

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned Elon Musk and Lana Del Rey in the same sentence, mainly because there’s pretty much nothing linking the two, but apparently meeting Musk was one of the best days in Del Rey’s life. While she’s mentioned their meeting in the past, she di

I’m not sure whether this is good or bad publicity for LG, but the NSA just gave the LG G4 its own seal of approval. On the surface that sounds pretty sketchy, but it starts to make sense once you actually look in to it. What this means is that the National Information Assurance Partnership. [

Streaming services like Hulu and Netflix have finally given us a viable alternative to traditional cable, which has created a new type of consumer known as the “cord cutter.” These consumers have chosen to abandon cable entirely and get all of their movies and television shows from the I

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 820 a couple of months ago but it won’t be until next week that the company reveals all the juicy details on the processor that’s more than likely going to power most of next year’s flagship smartphones. That might not even be necessary at this poi

The United States is covered with surveillance cameras that law enforcement can use to track people, but new technology has opened the door to new levels of tracking that use biometric data to identify people. There are many police departments throughout the country that have access to such technolo

It’s only been a few days since the OnePlus 2 was announced and more than a million people have already signed up to receive an invite for the smartphone. Considering how the OnePlus One managed to sell 1.5 million units in a year and the OnePlus 2 is coming close to that in just three days, [

Bethesda’s sandbox RPGs have always been notoriously buggy due to their vast size, so it’s nice to see that Bethesda Game Studios is dedicating months of development to ensuring that Fallout 4 is as bug-free as possible. According to Pete Hines, the VP of PR at Bethesda, Fallout 4 is mor

Nintendo promised a lot of things when it first unveiled TVii, all of which painted the service as a way to turn the Wii U into a entertainment and social hub for the living room, similar to what Microsoft promised with the Xbox One. In reality, the service was… well… not very good, espe

It’s definitely not a partnership that I ever expected, but the more I think about it the more genius it seems. Meerkat has announced that users can now use the live streaming service on their GoPro, a move which gives the app a significant edge against its primary competitor, Periscope. Now y