Scarlett Madison — Two Takes contributions

It’s still hard to believe that we now live in a world where playing video games is a viable career, and where video games themselves are being used for both educational and medical purposes. There are numerous examples of this, but one of the more recent ones comes from the University of West

Spotify was the undisputed king of music-streaming before Apple entered the market, but now that Apple Music is here… Spotify is still undisputed leader. In fact, a Spotify vice president by the name of Jonathan Forster claims that the launch of Apple Music has caused his company to grow faste

Nintendo’s first smartphone app has been enjoying quite a bit of success in Japan, but now it’s time to see if the app will be as popular in the West. Known as Miitomo, the quirky app launched on Android and iOS in several Western countries earlier today, including Canada

LG’s flagship smartphones are always decent, and that’s why they’re never as successful as Samsung’s flagships, because just being decent isn’t enough to compete against the likes of the Galaxy S series. That’s why LG is being a little more bold with its

Storage anxiety is something that most smartphone owners are painfully familiar with, and the only solution is to drop some extra cash on more internal storage, or buy a microSD, assuming your smartphone even supports one. Nextbit has another solution, however, and not only do yo

Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious, especially when it comes to the future of space. At a startup festival in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the SpaceX CEO said that he’ll be announcing plans for a Mars-bound spacecraft later this year, and claimed that he plans to send humans to the planet within t

Lenovo may be looking to developing markets to grow its smartphone sales, but that doesn’t mean it’s forgotten about the United States. That’s where it’s acquisition of Motorola really pays off, because even if it’s dropped the Motorola branding in favor of the Moto by

Health experts have claimed for a while now that Tinder contributes to higher STD rates, and the company has finally addressed that issue in a way that doesn’t involve freaking the hell out on Twitter. After months of fighting accusations, Tinder has finally decided to put on its big boy pants

The “dark side of the Moon” is often used as a phrase to describe the unknown, because it can’t be viewed from Earth. While modern technology has allowed us to glimpse this side of the moon, humanity has yet to land any kind of spacecraft there in order to explore, but that’s

Yahoo has definitely seen better days, and though many people had faith that Marissa Mayer would bring those better days back when she became the company’s CEO back in 2012, but that faith has largely faded away. The New York Times recently spoke with dozens of current and former Yahoo employe

Autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing are two topics that are guaranteed to pop up whenever there’s a conversation about the automotive market and the transportation industry as a whole. The convergence of the two is an especially popular topic, and it’s believed by many that self-driving

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the loathsome 404 error that explains to us how the webpage we were looking for wasn’t found, but it never tells us why the webpage wasn’t found, which is something that man by the name of Tim Bray wants to fix. Bray, who i

The disastrous failure that is the Wii U has forced Nintendo to advance to the next-generation of consoles much earlier than expected. We’ve been hearing a lot about the company’s next console, known as the Nintendo NX, but Nintendo has yet to reveal anything official, aside from confirm

Those of you who purchased standalone USB-C adapters and cables from OnePlus may want to get a refund, because they can potentially damage third-party charging hardware. While claiming that the blame rests with the companies that made the cheap charging hardware, OnePlus announced in a recent blog p

Russia’s decision to force foreign companies like Facebook and Google to store the data they have on Russian citizens within Russia’s borders is actually an excellent business opportunity for local companies. As a nation of more than 143 million people, there’s no way these compani

Tech companies like Google have been at the forefront of self-driving car development, but most consumers wish that wasn’t the case. According to a survey from the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum, more than half of consumers across the globe are open to the idea of adoptin

Earlier this morning, MIT announced that it’s going to open its first-ever Innovation Node in Hong Kong next summer, which will act as a sort of startup incubator for the American university that will help students in Hong Kong learn how to “move ideas more rapidly from lab to market.&#8

We have less than two months to go before the year comes to an end, and yet we still have no word from Xiaomi on when we can expect the highly-anticipated Mi5 to be released. The Chinese company has been conspicuously silent regarding its annual flagship, but many rumors have suggested that Xiaomi i