Wayne Williams

Wayne Williams

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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

Father's Day Gift Guide
I'm a dad and these are the tech gifts and gadgets I'd love my kid to buy me for Father's Day 2026

By Wayne Williams

Father's Day 2026 gift guide: From power banks and high-performance mice to USB mug warmers, these are the tech loving dads genuinely want.

The Geekom A8 Max during our review next to a TechRadar badge that reads 'Big Savings'
Amazon finally price-matches this 'extremely powerful' Windows 11 mini PC ahead of Prime Day — and it's my favorite machine for professionals and creators

By Wayne Williams

Packing 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD , this Geekom mini PC delivered the kind of performance you'd expect from a much larger desktop PC, and excelled in our tests.

Ugreen NASync DXP4800 Plus
Want to store up to 144TB in a shoebox-sized NAS? The Ugreen NASync DXP4800 Plus just dropped in price — and it's not the only one discounted right now

By Wayne Williams

Ugreen's NAS DXP4800 Plus delivers 10GbE networking, a 5-core Intel processor, and support for up to 144TB of storage.

Young woman with mobile phone looking confused
'It just vanished': Millions at risk as Android trojans use devious trick to 'magically' disappear once installed

By Wayne Williams

Android banking trojans vanish from app drawers and secretly capture login credentials while streaming live device screens to remote attackers.

US Navy MQ-25A Stingray
'Not just an aircraft': US Navy MQ-25 Stingray drone hit a major milestone with maiden flight — largest US UAV ever built set to become world's first autonomous tanker to take flight from an aircraft carrier and maybe feature in a Top Gun movie one day

By Wayne Williams

US Navy’s massive MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone completes maiden flight, marking critical progress toward autonomous carrier refueling.

Pentagon staff embracing vibe coding as military personnel deploy over 20,000 AI agents per week since launch — autonomous tools handling 25,000 sessions per day on average to improve efficiency by eliminating "boring" staff work and manual data entry

By Wayne Williams

Pentagon personnel rapidly adopt vibe-coding tools as more than 100,000 AI agents are created to automate routine work and eliminate manual data entry across unclassified networks.

Miners hold in their hands platinum or silver or rare earth minerals found in the mine for inspection and consideration
The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones — and experts say it could power the next century of American tech and weaken China's grip on batteries

By Wayne Williams

The U.S. finds huge lithium reserves in Appalachia that could supply billions of phones and reduce America's reliance on China.

Solar Panels
'A dream technology': Japanese scientists might have unlocked the next generation of solar panels that stay cooler and last longer thanks to "spin-flip" material that achieves 130% energy conversion efficiency — and here's how it works

By Wayne Williams

Japanese scientists create new spin-flip material that could boost solar panel efficiency by up to 130%.

Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative
'Build AI that can accurately represent the full complexity of biology': Mark Zuckerberg wants to cure all diseases but needs far more data to deliver a digital twin of human cells—As genetic data becomes the next frontier, will you trust him with yours?

By Wayne Williams

Mark Zuckerberg backs $500 million push to build AI models of human cells as part of long-term effort to cure disease.

WordPress Markdown for Agents tool saves electricity
This free WordPress tool could save businesses billions every year by slashing the AI tokens needed to read the web — saving enough electricity to power the entire USA for 24 hours

By Wayne Williams

Free WordPress plugin could slash AI web traffic data use enough to rival daily USA electricity consumption if widely adopted.

Stock photo of a splayed fiber optic cable.
'Exactly one photon': European scientists have built the first block of a truly unhackable global quantum internet that can run on existing fiber networks — breaking what was once thought to be an impossible barrier to transmit identical light particles

By Wayne Williams

Scientists break the telecom wavelength barrier that previously blocked long distance quantum communication over existing optical fiber infrastructure.

Iron flow battery bank
'Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium': China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading — using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode

By Wayne Williams

New Chinese iron battery design could deliver decade-long lifespan while cutting reliance on expensive lithium.

Truck-mounted nuclear reactor
'A power bank for the AI era': China begins testing miniature, truck-mounted 10MW nuclear reactor designed to sustain massive data centers for decades without refueling while promising to make traditional dirty coal and diesel generators entirely obsolete

By Wayne Williams

Truck-mounted nuclear ‘power bank’ enters testing as China explores portable reactors capable of running AI data centers.

Chuwi CoreBook Air 226V
Chuwi surprises the market with Lunar Lake Intel Core Ultra 5 laptop — sub-1kg device boasts 'all-day battery life', 2.8K display, and 2-megapixel camera, but will its $800 price tag prove to be its Achilles' heel

By Wayne Williams

Chuwi surprises with new CoreBook Air laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra 226V processor delivering up to 97 TOPS of AI performance.

You and your neighbors may be paying multibillion-dollar bill for AI data centers right now
'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

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

Smart home tags
'Battery-free, quiet, and inherently private' — These 3D-printed metal tags could change home and office tracking, turning penny-sized discs into smart devices using ultrasonic tech for maintenance-free monitoring without charging

By Wayne Williams

Researchers at Georgia Tech develop battery-free 3D-printed metal tags for smart tracking that use ultrasonic sound to record everyday actions.

Lenovo Mini i5 16GB 512GB Desktop Tower
Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini i5 Tower with Intel Core 5 210H hits its 'lowest price ever' — save £150 on this diminutive 1L mini desktop PC at Argos

By Wayne Williams

Lenovo’s compact 1L Mini i5 desktop pairs an Intel Core 5 210H processor with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512GB SSD, all for £449.00.

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3
Lenovo's Ryzen 7 laptop hits 'lowest ever price' of just £569 — and comes with 24GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD

By Wayne Williams

Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 3 pairs a Ryzen 7 processor with 24GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for everyday productivity, study, and multitasking, all for just £569.

TEGNet can design thermoelectric generators
'10,000 times faster than a human scientist' — New AI tool designed ultra-efficient heat-to-electricity generators at lightning speed, a breakthrough that could slash the cost of energy harvesters and help enable cheaper, high-performance home heat pumps

By Wayne Williams

New AI-designed thermoelectric generators reach 9.3% efficiency and could make waste heat easier to harvest.

Remotely operated interceptor drones
'The death of Top Gun' — Ukraine becomes the first to scale remotely operated interceptors that can score aerial kills from "thousands of kilometers" away while staying in bunkers as era of pilotless dogfighting and zero crew casualties takes to the sky

By Wayne Williams

Ukraine demonstrates interceptor drones controlled from distant bunkers capable of destroying aerial targets far beyond traditional engagement ranges.

ENIAC cardboard replica
Neurodivergent teacher uses dyscalculia "superpower" to recreate full-scale, whale-sized replica of world's first programmable digital computer — 21st-century ENIAC used almost 3,000 sq ft of cardboard and NASA's Artemis II may be his next big challenge

By Wayne Williams

Arizona students construct full-scale ENIAC replica, turning classroom into a whale-sized tribute to early computing history.

Amazon Tech Week Sale
My top 15 Amazon Tech Week deals for a smarter office set-up — essential desk accessories from Logitech, Anker, Epson, and more

By Wayne Williams

Upgrade your workspace with discounted webcams, switches, keyboards, stands and more, in Amazon’s Tech Week deals.

Acer Predator GM6 4TB SSD
Unmissable 4TB SSD deal: The high-capacity Acer Predator GM6 hits speeds up to 7200MB/s — and it's under £320 in Amazon’s Tech Week sale

By Wayne Williams

Acer Predator GM6 4TB Gen4 NVMe SSD with speeds up to 7200MB/s is under £320 in Amazon’s Tech Week sale.

Laptops Amazon Tech Week Sale
Business laptops from HP, Asus and Acer are all discounted for Amazon's Tech Week sale — here are my top three under £500

By Wayne Williams

Save serious money on Acer, HP and Asus business laptops in Amazon’s Tech Week sale with all three priced under £500.

Acer Nitro V15 Laptop
The 'admirable' Acer Nitro V15 with Intel Core i7 processor and RTX 5050 graphics is the perfect cheap photo and video editing laptop — and it's under £620 in Amazon’s Tech Week sale

By Wayne Williams

The Acer Nitro V15 laptop delivers speedy performance for creative work and demanding tasks, and it’s currently under £620.

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