TECHi Two Takes

“Techi Two Takes” combines the best of both worlds: sourced content from trusted sites and our unique perspective. It’s where curated information meets insightful commentary, giving readers a complete, balanced view of the topic at hand.

Swedish companies are leading the charge on autonomous vehicles

Gothenburg-based Volvo and Stockholm-based Autoliv are joining forces to speed up the development of autonomous vehicle technology. The two Swedish companies won't be keeping this technology...
www.wsj.com

Google and Huawei might be working on a new tablet

Google and Huawei might be joining forces once again. According to a tweet from Evan Blass, once of the most respected leakers in the mobile industry,...
bgr.com

Apple is purging hundreds of thousands of apps from the App...

It may be the end of summer, but that isn't stopping Apple from doing a bit of spring cleaning. Tomorrow, coinciding with the launch of the...
techcrunch.com

Can video games help autistic children improve their social skills?

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...
mashable.com

Chicago tried and failed to use big data to predict crimes

Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven't, all you need to know is that it's about a special police unit that's able to predict...
www.technologyreview.com

Xiaomi might unveil its first smartwatch later this week

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...
www.neowin.net

Google is killing off yet another thing that nobody knew existed

Google isn't afraid to experiment, and as a result, the company ends up having to kill off a lot of products and services that didn't end up being...
www.androidauthority.com

Lyft wants to sell itself but nobody is interested in buying...

Lyft has always been a distant second to Uber in the ride-sharing market, and always will be, but considering how Uber is a $68 billion behemoth,...
www.theverge.com

Which of these crowd-sourced logos should Mozilla use?

As an organization that's all about being community-driven and whose products are all about being open-source, it seems only natural that Mozilla would have its community crowd-source...
thenextweb.com

This app let’s you buy the food that restaurants want to...

Just because it's not fresh doesn't mean it's not edible. For people willing to eat food that's old, but not too old, a new app by...
www.digitaltrends.com

Twitter can’t get in trouble for allowing ISIS activity on its...

Members of ISIS have been using social networks like Twitter to recruit new members and spread their propaganda, and many people feel that Twitter should be...
www.pcworld.com

Not even Uber was able to succeed in the Chinese market

Due to a combination of cultural differences and regulations designed specifically to hinder foreign companies, it's very difficult for Western companies to operate in China. That notorious...
www.nytimes.com

More information on the Nintendo NX has been leaked

Interesting, but not necessarily appealing. That's a description you could use for just about every piece of Nintendo hardware that's been released in the last decade,...
www.eurogamer.net

Verizon has acquired Yahoo’s core business for $4.8 billion

Marissa Mayer has laid off thousands of Yahoo employees over the last four years, all in an effort to turn things around for the company. It didn't...
www.vox.com