Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro

Anker Solix S2000 review: plenty of staying power, with an app that gets the details right

By Desire Athow Published 30 October 26

The S2000 proved a handy companion for a day of DIY, although its 1,500W output means you’ll need to check what you plug into it.

Buy this 24GB Nvidia RTX 5080-class GPU and get a ‘free’ AI PC: Generous 19-year old US startup CEO ‘happy to pass on our savings to the customer’ as he raises $11M from Andreessen Horowitz and others

By Desire Athow Published 6 October 26

Ghost AI workstations are selling like hot cakes and there’s a very good reason why.

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‘I did not foresee at all the social-media application, nor its impact on society': Inventor of the CMOS-based image sensor on how a technology designed to take photos in space has changed the way we view the world

By Desire Athow Published 13 September 26

Exclusive The camera-on-a-chip changed the way we view the world

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'We operate fleets of smaller, lower-cost assets that are centrally controlled and highly scalable': How tiny uncrewed vessels are mapping the ocean and delivering instant marine data at scale

By Desire Athow Published 19 August 26

Exclusive XOCEAN is changing the way ocean data is delivered

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‘Once the right balance between cloud and local AI is found, organisations will find the sweet spot between cost, performance and security’: The future of AI strategy and how businesses can get the best results

By Desire Athow Published 17 August 26

Exclusive Token costs, trust, and security all shape an AI strategy

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‘Groundbreaking technology often enters the market at a premium before scaling’: Touch-sensitive e-skin could soon be commonplace in robotics

By Desire Athow Published 16 August 26

Exclusive Ultra-thin, highly sensitive electronic skin could plug this major robotics gap – edge processing could improve latency.

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‘Every other industry running mission critical infrastructure solved this problem years ago’: Why autonomous networking is in dire need of a digital twin

By Desire Athow Published 15 August 26

Exclusive The journey to autonomous networking is already underway, but without digital twins we could still experience major interruptions.

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Grab 1.54TB free cloud storage for life — but you will need to sign up to 43 services

By Desire Athow Published 31 July 26

Updated No strings attached, but you will need to subscribe to and maintain more than 40 services.

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‘Identifying vulnerabilities is no longer enough’: Companies need to focus on fixing exploitable vulnerabilities, not discovering as many as possible, says Checkmarx CEO

By Desire Athow Published 30 July 26

Exclusive AppSec must shift from finding every single vulnerability to prioritizing exploitable risks, and human expertise is in hot demand.

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‘We are the reason that data centers get built and expanded’: It’s not about whether we need them, but it’s about where we build them, IDCA founder and CEO says

By Desire Athow Published 29 July 26

Exclusive We are responsible for creating data center demand – we should accept some of the consequences. But hyperscalers have responsibilities, too.

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‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’: Are autonomy and robotics gaining momentum in the industry?

By Desire Athow Published 29 July 26

Exclusive Automation has gotten so good within fixed parameters – construction is a whole new ball game, but with major potential benefits.

‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips

By Desire Athow Published 28 July 26

Exclusive Rebellions says we’re starting to see the emergence of an inference chip market – could this be when AI starts to become truly efficient?

‘The only losers from this will be Cloudflare’s customers. Mainly, publishers’: What businesses can do as Cloudflare readies to categorize AI traffic

By Desire Athow last updated 28 July 26

Exclusive Mismatches in how AI traffic gets categorized could mean you end up accidentally blocking it all – how can you find the right balance?

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Microsoft Office Home and Business 2024 vs Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024: What are the differences?

By Desire Athow Published 23 July 26

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We’re taking a look at two versions of Microsoft’s popular Office package to determine which one is best for your business.

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‘A candidate who was hostile from day one never produces that baseline’: Nation states spies applying for legit jobs are hard to spot

By Desire Athow Published 15 July 26

Exclusive Nation state spies are using AI to create fake identities and realistic job applications, infiltrating organizations to steal intelligence.

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‘The question is no longer how much AI can produce, but how much of that output is genuinely usable’: How we use and pay for AI is undergoing a major shift

By Desire Athow Published 5 July 26

Exclusive Enterprises are shifting from capabilities and performance to prioritizing trust, accuracy, and measurable business outcomes.

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‘You fix it by making the secure option just as fast and frictionless as the risky one’: Practical advice on addressing shadow AI

By Desire Athow Published 4 July 26

Exclusive Workers clearly have an appetite for AI but personal accounts are still being used – approved tools need to be easy to reach and use.

$169 GMKtek N5095 mini PC is a brave but desperate attempt to revive a PC market decimated by AI and RAM greed

By Desire Athow Published 1 July 26

Popular mini PC vendor debuts a new GMKtec G5S model based on obsolete tech in a bid to reduce price.

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‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects

By Desire Athow Published 30 June 26

Exclusive Despite the growing importance of open source software, most widely used projects are underfunded because they’re not glamorous enough.

‘Never let the builder be its own reviewer’: The next challenge is trust, not speed of code generation

By Desire Athow Published 26 June 26

Exclusive AI coding platforms are becoming crucial infrastructure, but governance, verification and trust are now major challenges.

China’s Lineshine ‘came out of nowhere’ to grab title of most powerful computer in the known universe

By Desire Athow Published 25 June 26

"Intelligent splendor or brightness" uses Arm CPU only to unexpectedly surpass US rivals.

‘Networking becomes the make-or-break factor’: Orbital data centers reintroduce a challenge we’ve now fixed on land

By Desire Athow Published 25 June 26

Exclusive Space-bound data centers promise solar energy and scale as AI demands soar, but latency re-emerges as a major issue.

Broadcom and OpenAI debut Jalapeño Intelligence Processor, plot an Apple-like move to 'build the full stack'

By Desire Athow Published 24 June 26

The AI arms race just got a little bit spicier as Broadcom and OpenAI target Nvidia.

‘The defining divide in enterprise software over the next five years will be between companies that rent intelligence versus companies that own it’: Enterprise AI is becoming increasingly distributed

By Desire Athow Published 21 June 26

Exclusive InstaLILY CEO Amit Shah says future enterprise success relies on owning intelligence more than renting models from hyperscalers.

‘We have to make eSIMs as simple as possible’: Saily says removing friction is the next big battle for democratizing travel eSIMs

By Desire Athow Published 20 June 26

Exclusive Saily wants to democratize global connectivity by removing technical friction and simplifying user onboarding – travel apps could soon offer much more, too.

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