Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

Then followed a weekly tech column in a local business magazine in Mauritius, a late night tech radio programme called Clicplus and a freelancing gig at the now-defunct, Theinquirer, with the late Mike Magee as mentor. After an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com, where he discovered the joys of global techfests and transformed the publication into one of the biggest tech B2B independent publishers, Désiré moved to TechRadar Pro where he has been the editor for nine years.

He has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche B2B software-as-a-service providers. He is an avid deal hunter and can be found lurking around on various deals forums.

Articles by: Desire Athow

‘A fully secured critical site in 2030 does not look like a single technology’: Why drone visibility and accountability are just as important as security controls

By Desire Athow Published 10 June 26

Exclusive Critical national infrastructure is at risk – layered detection, persistent visibility and clear accountability for all drones is now key.

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Stop buying 8GB laptops for your sanity: The best $500 picks with 16GB RAM

By Desire Athow Published 10 June 26

To use Windows 11 on just 8GB of RAM in 2026 is the surest way to go berserk.

Largest SSDs and hard drives of 2026

By Desire Athow Last updated 9 June 26

Updated We tracked down the largest SSD and hard drives to help you find the right storage solution for your needs and budget.

Best unlimited cloud storage deals (June 2026)

By Desire Athow Last updated 9 June 26

Updated We have brought together all the best unlimited cloud storage deals on one page

Best lifetime Cloud Storage deals (June 2026)

By Desire Athow Last updated 9 June 26

Updated Great if you don’t want to pay a subscription every month for cloud storage.

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‘Regulation by litigation is often overlooked as a regulatory tool’: Just how much responsibility should AI companies have on their users’ wellbeing?

By Desire Athow Published 8 June 26

Exclusive AI chatbots have been likened to social media, leading to addiction and potentially worse. I explore how they could be regulated.

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‘Access to education across different cultures and languages needs to be improved’: IEEE award winner’s best work came from identifying issues, and fixing them

By Desire Athow Published 7 June 26

Exclusive Karen Panetta’s uses technology to solve the world’s most pressing problems – more citizens need access to STEM education and AI training.

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‘Chasing every model release is a fool's errand and a fast track to AI fatigue inside your organisation’: GoodData.AI CTO says businesses should focus on automation use cases over every single new release

By Desire Athow Published 6 June 26

Exclusive GoodData.AI CTO Peter Fedorocko says AI is an efficiency amplifier that won't replace humans, but businesses must focus on real automation use cases.

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‘Our hardware is designed to be picked up and shaken about’: Aquark Technologies takes quantum sensing outside of the lab as a viable GNSS alternative

By Desire Athow Published 5 June 26

Exclusive Aquark Technologies is making quantum sensing portable – cold-atom hardware will offer high-precision, resilient alternatives to vulnerable GNSS.

Exactly 17 years ago, the first Nvidia-powered Windows laptop made its debut at Computex — before RTX Spark laptops, Mobinnova was a flop that barely anyone remembered

By Desire Athow Published 2 June 26

For Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s charismatic CEO, it was probably a deja-vù when he walked on the stage at Computex 2026 for the keynote

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‘Our success with becoming… unicorns… isn't an accident – it’s the result of a 15-year bet on digital infrastructure and talent’: The story behind how Lithuania is perfectly aligned to capitalize on an emerging space economy

By Desire Athow Published 31 May 26

Exclusive Lithuania is using its strong digital infrastructure and experience to become a serious player in the emerging LEO satellite economy.

‘The system as a whole hasn’t developed a consistent, shared understanding at the same rate as the infrastructure is being deployed’: Is AI expanding beyond what we can manage today?

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 26

Exclusive Rapid AI growth has caused a dangerous misalignment between infrastructure deployment and workforce expertise – the solutions are standardization and education.

‘The very rapid development of AI/ML will also have a profound impact on the 6G design’: AI will be responsible for both creating more network traffic and strengthening network performance

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 26

Exclusive Ericsson engineers explain why AI will both put 6G networks under strain and strengthen their performance at the same time, emphasizing the importance of global cooperation.

‘The moment infrastructure moves to orbit, that assumption disappears’: Layered access control, physical redundancy and rapid component replacement are major orbital challenges

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 26

Exclusive Hyperscalers are considering sending AI compute into orbit, but experts warn it introduces severe operational risks that could lead to months-long outages.

What are the 5 main features of a point-of-sale (POS) system?

By Desire Athow Last updated 27 May 26

There are five core elements of a point-of-sale system — and we explored how each one is essential for creating a smoother checkout experience

Score a premium Intel Core i9 Laptop for only $510 ahead of Memorial Day — and the CPU inside the Hasee X5 almost rivals the Apple M5 in the MacBook Pro

By Desire Athow Published 21 May 26

One of the best value-for-money laptops of 2025 makes a comeback in 2026

Trust me, this HP laptop Is the best you can buy under $300 right now — the 17z has an AMD Ryzen 5 7430U CPU that's almost as fast as the Apple M2

By Desire Athow Published 21 May 26

"RAMgeddon" has pushed up budget PC prices, but this stunning Memorial Day deal bucks the trend with an Apple M2-rivalling Ryzen 5 processor.

'A Turtle in a shiny plastic shell': Bizarre $270 Amazon laptop pairs 16GB of RAM with a tech Stone Age CPU — so slow your smartphone's probably faster

By Desire Athow Published 21 May 26

Desperate times call for desperate measures, but buying an obsolete, unsupported laptop for the upcoming school year is a step too far.

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Best USB flash drive 2026: Quick and compact storage in your pocket

By Desire Athow Last updated 19 May 26

Buying Guide We tested out best USB sticks and flash drives for speed, storage, and portability.

'The storm is here': Why you and your neighbors may be paying multibillion-dollar bill for AI data centers right now — but that may not last long as more US states join revolt against unjust 'socialist' approach to electricity bills

By Desire Athow Published 29 April 26

Exclusive The hidden cost of AI: How data centers are driving electricity prices higher across multiple states, affecting you and your neighbors.

Best laptop for AutoCAD deals in 2026

By Desire Athow Last updated 29 April 26

Running Autodesk's legendary software? I've tracked down the best AutoCAD laptop deals and prices on our top machines.

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Best People Search Finder Service of 2026: Top Services Reviewed & Ranked

By Pawan Singh Last updated 24 April 26

Updated The best people search finder service can help you scour public databases to find friends and family.

Turn any location into an office with ASUS travel routers and portable monitors

By Desire Athow Published 24 April 26

"The future of space will look less like single-use expeditionary missions and more like a transport network": Pulsar Fusion's quest to build a nuclear fusion exhaust system for deep-space travel hits "first plasma" milestone

By Desire Athow Published 22 April 26

Exclusive Following a "first plasma" milestone, Pulsar Fusion outlines its ambitious plans for a nuclear fusion exhaust system for deep-space travel.

'Birds avoid turbines far more than prediction models assume': Spoor’s AI monitoring is changing how wind farms measure wildlife risk

By Desire Athow Published 18 April 26

Exclusive Spoor outlines its vision for AI-based biodiversity monitoring, using computer vision to scale wildlife tracking across wind energy sites.

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