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Wayne Williams is a freelancer writing news for TechRadar Pro. He has been writing about computers, technology, and the web for 30 years. In that time he wrote for most of the UK’s PC magazines, and launched, edited and published a number of them too.

Articles by: Wayne Williams

Exponential growth but for how long: DeepSeek's meteoric rise in AI-land continues unabated, fresh Similarweb data shows

By Wayne Williams published 8 February 25

Data from Similarweb shows DeepSeek is now the third most used AI tool, but is its popularity already waning?

A person standing in front of a rack of servers inside a data center

Changing a few lines of code in Linux could apparently save hyperscalers billions, research claims, but I am not convinced

By Wayne Williams published 8 February 25

Research suggests changing a few lines of code in the Linux kernel can save hyperscalers billions by cutting data center energy consumption.

This open source tool could save Google, Microsoft, billions by cutting CPU resources by 20% but even small businesses can benefit

By Wayne Williams published 7 February 25

Yandex's new Perforator tool can save firms like Google and Microsoft billions, but even small businesses can benefit from it.

Nvidia out? DeepSeek pairs with banned Chinese tech giant to deliver unbelievably low pricing on AI inference which could cause Nvidia's house of cards to come crashing

By Wayne Williams published 6 February 25

DeepSeek goes 100% Chinese for AI inference as it uses controversial Huawei's Ascend 910x accelerators.

China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds

By Wayne Williams published 5 February 25

Report claims China is reportedly quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout.

Did extreme overclockers inspire Microsoft to develop closed loop liquid cooling for data centers? I'd like to think so

By Wayne Williams published 4 February 25

Microsoft is switching to closed-loop liquid cooling, as used by PC overclockers, for its data centers to eliminate water wastage.

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 with 96GB of GDDR7 memory? No, this is almost certainly the RTX 6000 Blackwell

By Wayne Williams published 2 February 25

All signs point to it being the RTX 6000 Blackwell.

Mine's bigger than yours: Mysterious hyperscaler plans to build Europe's largest cloud and AI data center that will suck enough electricity to power 20,000 homes

By Wayne Williams published 2 February 25

Europe's largest cloud and AI data center could be coming to Hertfordshire, UK.

Reliance Corporate Park (RCP), Navi Mumbai

India's richest person wants to build the world's largest data center, five times the capacity of Microsoft's biggest site

By Wayne Williams published 1 February 25

Mukesh Ambani wants to build the world's largest data center, five times the capacity of Microsoft's mega site.

Your streaming videos and brand new 4K TV are to blame for surging global CO2 emission, experts say

By Wayne Williams published 1 February 25

Experts say streaming videos and 4K TVs now emit twice as much carbon as the aviation industry.

$2000 Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 gets tested on creative software and AI and obliterates absolutely everything in its path

By Wayne Williams published 1 February 25

Puget Systems tested $2000 Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 on creative software and AI and it obliterated the competition.

A look at the unbelievable Nvidia GPU that powers DeepSeek's AI global ambition

By Wayne Williams published 31 January 25

DeepSeek AI model was trained using thousands of the cutdown Nvidia H800 GPUs.

Forget mega yachts, AI data centers are quickly becoming the next battleground for billionaires as Zuckerberg pledges $65 billion CAPEX spend in 2025

By Wayne Williams published 30 January 25

Meta is investing big bucks in AI infrastructure, but it's up against bigger spending rivals.

A person's hand using DeepSeek on their mobile phone

'A virtual DPU within a GPU': Could clever hardware hack be behind DeepSeek's groundbreaking AI efficiency?

By Wayne Williams published 30 January 25

DualPipe could be the secret to DeepSeek's groundbreaking AI efficiency.

World's most popular Windows emulator finally supports OpenGL, ARM64EC and high-DPI displays

By Wayne Williams published 29 January 25

Wine 10 finally arrives after a year of development.

This smartphone case prototype integrates what looks like a mechanical keyboard and I cannot wait to type on it

By Wayne Williams published 28 January 25

AmberDeck is a retro-style prototype case for iPhone that is designed for writing with AI and has a pseudo-mechanical keyboard.

A self-destructing, 3D printed fungi-based battery could one day power sensors all around you by feasting on sugar

By Wayne Williams published 27 January 25

The microbial fuel cell is only able to generate tiny amounts of electricity for now.

This is the fastest 2TB memory card ever launched and I can't wait to test it

By Wayne Williams published 26 January 25

TeamGroup's largest T-Create Expert SDXC card promises read speeds of up to 300MB/s.

Is it a water bottle? a pepper spray? a battery charger? No, it's a portable SSD designed like a hand grenade, courtesy of Lenovo

By Wayne Williams published 26 January 25

The Savior Tactical Mobile SSD is a product best filed under "bad idea".

Tech startup proposes a novel way to tackle massive LLMs using the fastest memory available to mankind

By Wayne Williams published 26 January 25

Microsoft-backed d-Matrix's Corsair PCIe card has 2GB of SRAM performance memory.

Amazon wants to rent you a 32-core virtual workstation in the cloud for $4.40 per hour and yes, you'd still need to have a thin client to access it

By Wayne Williams published 25 January 25

AWS's new instances are Windows-only for now - sorry Linux users.

'An extension of a scientist's brain': Researchers explore AI to augment inspiration and imagination to revolutionize science

By Wayne Williams published 25 January 25

The exocortex will provide a bridge between the human mind and a network of AI agents.

The end of the HR department is in sight; could this AI recruiter be the most advanced yet?

By Wayne Williams published 25 January 25

Creators claim Megan can automate up to 78% of frontline recruitment tasks.

Universal translators are tantalizing close as Facebook's Meta reveals its tech can translate between 101 languages

By Wayne Williams published 24 January 25

Facebook's Meta reveals its SeamlessM4T tech can translate between 101 languages.

Forget about a $120 Raspberry Pi 5 barebone, I found a much better mini PC that has 512GB SSD, a far more powerful CPU, Windows 11 Pro and an actual casing

By Wayne Williams last updated 24 January 25

Think the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is expensive? We found a much better x86 alternative for the same price

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