Chris Hoffman is the author of The Windows Readme, a newsletter that brings Windows PC tips, tricks, and experiments to more than 10,000 email inboxes each week. He’s also the former editor-in-chief of How-To Geek…
If you’re already fed up with the amount of ads you see on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, there could be a reason. Amazon has quietly begun running twice as many ads between movies…
Hey folks! Dominic Bayley here. I’m a journalist and editor at PCWorld and a keen enthusiast of all kinds of tech. I love getting to know new hardware, apps, and gadgets and writing tips and…
Call it a first-world problem if you want, but we’ve all been there: listening to our favorite songs so many times on repeat that we actually get sick of them, despite how much we once…
Whether it’s politics or tech, we live in a polarizing world. Since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X, the platform has become an increasingly important tool in his political ambitions. This is…
PC games started out with humble graphics and simple mechanics. Even if you weren’t born in the era of games with as basic graphics as Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, you’d still be aware of how…
Search without spying Google is the most popular search engine, but not the only one. Many of the upstarts profile themselves on the promise of better respect for our privacy and one of the best…
Deciding on a new game can quickly lead to frustration when I click the purchase button and see how big the file size is and how long it’s going to take to download. Suffice to…
I honestly can’t remember exactly when I switched from Firefox to Chrome. I definitely let Google’s “new” browser stew for a year or two after it came out in 2008, as I was big into…
Microsoft is packing more and more advertising into its Windows operating system. In Windows 11, ads now even appear in the Start menu (though Microsoft calls ads for apps or Windows services “recommendations”), and you’ll…