About Dave Parrack
Dave Parrack is a Deputy Editor at MUO and also oversees the site's coverage of current events. He has been writing about technology since 2007, and with MakeUseOf since 2011.
He has previously written for various sites, including Blorge, WebTVWire, and New Atlas.
Dave uses ChromeOS and Android, but isn't a Google fanboy. He thinks AI will change the world sooner than people think, for good or for bad. He has a particular interest in new and emerging technology.
Apple Is Spying On You, Facebook Launches Pocket Rival, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Netflix hits 50 million subscribers despite price hike, Windows 9 Start menu is revealed, the Dota 2 gamers worth a cool $5 million, a sidewalk lane just for smartphone users, and the first trailer for The Imitation Game.
Chrome Is Killing Your Battery, Chatroulette For Stoners, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Chromebooks find success in schools, Netflix hides your embarrassing taste in movies, Fonhandle is a handle for your phone, David Mitchell tells a tale via Twitter, and Push Me Pull You features mad multiplayer.
Nokia Drops Android Phones, Microsoft Cuts 18,000 Jobs, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Bing joins Google in offering the "right to be forgotten," Facebook likes celebrities more than you, Edward Snowden hates Dropbox, sales of Xbox One double, and Amazon releases the first advert for Fire Phone.
Amazon Testing Kindle Unlimited, Driverless Cars Are Lethal Weapons, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Apple and IBM get into bed, BlackBerry's getting its own virtual personal assistant, former dictator is suing over a Call Of Duty game, and Futurama is reimagined in 3D, with truly eye-popping results.
Portable Perfections You Must Play: The 10 Best PSP Games Of All Time
What PlayStation Portable games are absolutely essential? We have answered that question for you, with a list of the 10 best PSP games of all time.
Google Unmasks Elite Hackers, iPads Can Give You Rashes, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Hidden From Google tracks blocked search results, naming rules relaxed on Google+, Oculus cancels Rift DK2 pre-orders over eBay sales, the story behind one man's Wikipedia bot, and Weird Al details Word Crimes.
10 Reasons Why People Still Use Facebook [We Ask You Results]
The main reason people still use Facebook is because everyone else uses it. Go figure.
Cheap Windows Laptops For All, Spies Manipulating The Internet, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Web companies fight for net neutrality, Sotheby's and eBay join forces, scientists have too much time on their hands, a reason to buy a smartwatch, and proof that cancelling Comcast is a complete nightmare.
New Raspberry Pi B+ Released, FCC Tallies Net Neutrality Comments, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Also, Beats goes after Chinese counterfeiters before Apple sale, Hulu nabs South Park, Twitter tracks Wikipedia edits from politicians, Amazon trolls the French government, and an honest game trailer for Minecraft.
What Brand of TV Do You Own? [MakeUseOf Poll]
You probably watch more television than you should. Whether this is a good thing is a discussion for another day, but what we're interested in is what brand of TV you currently own.
Crappy Crowdfunding: 10 Dumb Kickstarters We Did Not Support [Weird & Wonderful Web]
The success of crowdfunded innovations has attracted the brilliant...and also the inane and insane. Here are 10 of the absolute worst Kickstarter campaigns we could find. Watch them because they are comedy gold.
Microsoft Changes Outlined In Memo, Amazon Drones On To FAA, And More... [Tech News Digest]
UK government restores data retention powers, Verizon and Netflix continue war of words, Cortana predicts World Cup winners, Netflix advertises the best job ever, and Kelsey Grammer is a grammar Nazi, but only on Twitter.
Apple Loses Siri Patent Case, When Uber Drivers Go Bad, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Aereo uses recent Supreme Court ruling to its favor, Chromecast gets an AirPlay-like update, Spotify is finally coming to Canada, you WILL want RocketSkates, and a YouTube video that makes you hallucinate.
Android Fails To Delete Data, Sony Sells Selfie Smartphone, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Also, Microsoft issues reminder over the end of support for Windows 7, Uber ends emergency price gouging, Apple patents all-glass iPhones, hundreds of free Microsoft eBooks, and kids react to the original Game Boy.
Zuckerberg Wants Free Internet For All, XP Upgrades Halt PC Decline, And More... [Tech News Digest]
New Zealand ISP gives its customers what they want, Isis discovers power of branding, GameStop sets out to ruin video games, potato salad is funded through Kickstarter, and we watch a 72-minute-long trailer.
Streaming Is Killing iTunes, YouTube Is Shaming ISPs, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Russia wants Internet user data kept within its borders, TSA insists mobile phones are kept charged, Uber is ruled legal in London, see books no one finishes reading, and drones flying through fireworks is spectacular.
Loathsome Life Lessons: 13 Unethical Hacks Not To Try. Ever. [Weird & Wonderful Web]
Not all life hacks are created equal. Alongside the fantastic and fascinating life hacks are some that are so unethical that no one in their right mind should even try to pull them off.
Router Limits Kids' Internet Time, Facebook Knows How To Party, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Android Wear apps added to Google Play, Samsung ends plasma TV production, BIC needs you to create the universal typeface font, Cortana predicts the results of the 2014 World Cup, and the Transformers ditch Michael Bay.
Facebook Conducts Hundreds Of Experiments, Google Bans Porn, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Fallout from the "right to be forgotten," Yahoo kills several unheard of services, Google launches Project Ara beta, Lindsay Lohan sues Rockstar over GTA V character, and Tetris gets played on a T-shirt.
The NSA Can Spy On Almost Everybody, Google Buys Songza, And More... [Tech News Digest]
Online book sales have overtaken retail book sales, the UK is investigating the Facebook experiment, IFTTT makes Yo useful, Oculus Rift experiment gives third-person perspective, and Google tests our general knowledge with Smarty Pins.