Brad ChacosSenior Editor, PCWorld
Brad Chacos spends his days digging through desktop PCs and tweeting too much. He covers gaming and graphics for PCWorld, and spends his mornings running the news desk for PCWorld, Macworld, Greenbot, and TechHive.
Ad blockers circumvent Facebook's unblockable ads
It didn't take long for Adblock Plus to skirt Facebook's ad blocker-blocking force field.
Hulu eliminates free streaming service, goes subscription only
Hulu is pulling the plug on its free streaming service after nearly a decade, to focus on premium subscriptions instead.
Facebook’s Birthday Videos are another attempt to repackage your life for social sharing
First there was Memories, then there was Friends Day, and now there's Facebook's Birthday Videos.
Amazon's redesigned Kindle is whiter, thinner, and still $80
The new $80 Amazon Kindle also makes it easier for visually impaired users to read e-books.
Twitter introduces 4 big changes that will make tweets much easier to send and read
Twitter's giving you more room to work in 140 characters, and tweaking replies so they're easier to use.
Google's Gboard is a feature-packed iPhone keyboard with baked-in search capabilities
Google's Gboard virtual keyboard for iPhone is designed to make your life easier with native Google search, GIFs, and emoji support.
12 hilarious, brutally devious ways game developers punish pirates
The ways that game developers punish thieves in-game can be downright hilarious, like Quantum Break slapping an eye-patch with a Jolly Roger on pirates.
Guru behind Apple's A-series, AMD's Zen chips takes over Tesla's Autopilot hardware
Legendary CPU architect Jim Keller is heading up Tesla's Autopilot group.
Backblaze will send you a hard drive with your backup data for free, if you return it after
Backblaze has long offered a pricey option for its online backup subscribers to restore their data via physical drives. But now it's free—if you send the drive back.
LaCie's blazing-fast Chrome portable drive is a statuesque monument to excess
Luxury, thy name is LaCie Chrome.
Uber rival Sidecar hits dead end, will shut down ride and courier service on Dec. 31
Sidecar, a pioneering ride-sharing service that pivoted to deliveries, is shutting down.
Facebook is finally building a Dislike button
But you won't be able to use Facebook's Dislike button to let your uncle know his racist posts are unwelcome.
Schmidt talking: Google boss suggests Apple Music is 'elitist' and outdated
Eric Schmidt says human music curation is elitist, but apparently forgot that Google Play Music relies on it, too.
Plex's powerful media streaming is finally coming to Apple TV
The new Apple TV's App Store has opened the door for Plex to land on Apple's media streamer.
Fire Phone's flop may jeopardize Amazon's future hardware endeavors
Amazon's laying off engineers and stopping new products in their tracks after the Fire Phone's epic failure.