Rocco Penn — Two Takes contributions

Xiaomi is often called the “Apple of China” because of the similar style that the two have, not to mention how Xiaomi blatantly rips of many of Apple’s products. However, Xiaomi does have a much more diverse line of products than Apple does, including smart televisions and now even

Saying that T-Mobile has been aggressive this past year or two is a gross understatement. The company isn’t just sticking it to AT&T and Verizon with insane deals and offerings, its expanding its own services as well to better compete. In fact, CEO John Legere wants to expand its 4G LTE co

More important than the size of an e-commerce company’s product offerings or its prices is how quickly it can deliver those products to customers and for how much. Amazon has always led the market in this regard and wants to maintain that lead with whatever system or technology proves most eff

Very little in the way of rumors have been released about Sony’s upcoming Xperia Z4 Tablet, in fact the device hasn’t even been confirmed yet, but Sony may have accidentally given us our first look at the device through its own Xperia Lounge app. Next to nothing is known about the Z4 Tab

A group of people who helped build Siri have managed to raise $12.5 million for its new startup, Viv Labs, which hopes to create a new digital assistance that’s much like Siri except that it will be able to teach itself. While the startup didn’t actually need the new capital but was very

Am important but often times overlooked part of Amazon Web Services known as Spot Instances allows you to name your price for using pieces of servers in Amazon’s cloud. A startup by the name of ClusterK has found a way to utilize these instances in away that makes it so that you can run comple

Once a doctor discovers that a patient has cancer it begins a long process of scheduling tests and treatments that can be quite annoying for the patient. Scientists at the University of Leeds may have found a solution to this problem that comes in the form of gold nanotubes that would allow doctors

Alibaba and Tencent are probably the last company’s you’d expect to join forces but that’s exactly what the two Chinese web giants are doing with their respective cab-hailing apps, Kuaidi Dache and Didi Dache. The two have been united by a common enemy, one that has become the enem

Apple has Siri, Google has Google Now, and Microsoft has Cortana, but what does Amazon have? Well, while its still pretty hard to get a hold of, Echo is Amazon’s own personal voice assistant but what separates it from the other offerings is that it isn’t locked inside of a smartphone. Ra

The biggest factor in determining whether a city is a good place to build a startup is how large that city’s talent pool is. An appealing culture, attractive scenery, delicious food, good universities, and all of that stuff is simply the bait that attracts the intelligent, skilled workers that

Remember the good old days when you had to hold your phone up to the radio and then wait for the text from Shazam to tell you which song that was? Well the service has come quite a ways in the more than a decade since its launch, and after its latest rounds of funding […]

Despite the fact that China has lifted its blanket ban on foreign video game consoles, companies still need to go through a rigorous approval process if they want to sell their products in the country. While Microsoft has already managed to launch their new Xbox One console in China, Sony hasn&#8217

Elon Musk gets a lot of attention for potentially revolutionizing the automotive industry with Tesla Motors, but SpaceX is Musk’s truly revolutionary company. SpaceX was founded with the goal of making space travel more feasible, and one of the ways the company wants to do that is by creating

Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest, laid out plans last year for how he intends to monetize the popular web service. As part of a beta program for this plan, a select few advertisers were allowed to put their promoted pins in search results and category feeds. A little more than a year later, Pint

HBO’s Game of Thrones is probably one of the biggest hits on TV these days. In fact last year we had heard that the TV show was a top torrent download but with 2014 bringing us new TV shows to watch, did Game of Thrones lose its steam? Hardly. According to a report from TorrentFreak, […]

Humans have sent several unmanned probes to Mars and plans are in the works to mount crewed missions to the Red Planet within the next couple of decades. But it’s extremely expensive and fuel-intensive to put a spacecraft in orbit around Mars—and voyages have to be scheduled for narrow “

ICT Minister Pornchai Rujiprapa at a press conference yesterday said Thai authorities “can monitor all of the nearly 40 million Line messages sent by people in Thailand each day,” according to The Nation. The minister said citizens can lodge complaints with police if they receive messages that “offe

When you are an astronaut living on the International Space Station (ISS), it would be best if you were prepared beforehand to bring everything that you need – and might need down the road throughout the entire duration of the mission, since it isn’t exactly located near a convenience store or super