Articles by Wayne Williams, Editor

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

Amazon should retire these 3 hardware storage categories ASAP to stop confusing people - does anyone still need floppy, zip, and tape?

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 25

Amazon should retire these three outdated hardware categories to stop confusing shoppers.

Broadcom ushers Wi-Fi 8 era with a bunch of chipsets that will come to a Mesh router near you in 2026

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 25

Broadcom unveils its new Wi-Fi 8 platform, offering open licensing and telemetry features.

'Much like Apple': Elon Musk's "Macrohard" project will take a leaf out of Cupertino's book as it takes on Microsoft - outsource the physical, produce the intangible

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 25

Elon Musk announces Macrohard as an xAI platform designed to rival Microsoft and Apple by combining AI development and external manufacturing partnerships.

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Toshiba plans 40TB HDD in 2027 with 12 platters - but I fear it is way too little, way too late

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 25

As Toshiba plans a 40TB 12-disk HDD for 2027, Seagate’s own roadmap shows it racing ahead.

You can't buy the Dell Pro Max GB10 yet but you can buy the Asus Ascent GX10 right now for $4100 - Get Nvidia's Petaflop desktop supercomputer shipped within days

By Wayne Williams published 17 October 25

You can’t buy the Dell Pro Max GB10 yet but the Asus Ascent GX10 with Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell chip is available for $4100.

These are the best $300 laptop deals for work right now - save $300 on an Acer 13th gen Core i5 with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD

By Wayne Williams published 17 October 25

A good laptop doesn’t need to break the bank as these sub-$300 PCs from Acer, Dell, Asus and Lenovo prove.

The first Wi-Fi 8 wireless router you can actually touch and see will be built by a company you've probably never heard of

By Wayne Williams published 17 October 25

Sercomm partners with Broadcom to build the first real Wi-Fi 8 router, years ahead of certification.

From today, there's one more reason why you shouldn't buy a PC running Intel 7th generation Core processors and older

By Wayne Williams published 16 October 25

Windows 10 has reached its end of life, so anyone buying a new or used computer needs to check it can run Windows 11 for continued security.

As Broadcom becomes its latest major ally, this graph shows how OpenAI made itself too big to fail by securing hundreds of billions from the world's largest tech companies

By Wayne Williams published 16 October 25

Broadcom joins Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft in OpenAI’s trillion-dollar AI infrastructure collaboration revealed in social media image.

Samsung archrival showcases 245TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, joining Kioxia, Huawei and Sandisk - with Solidigm, Samsung and Micron expected to launch similar products in 2026

By Wayne Williams published 16 October 25

SK Hynix showed off its 245TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, joining other storage makers in producing ultra-dense enterprise drives aimed at AI and data centers.

Galax GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Unparalleled MAX

A 20mm thick Geforce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card launches - and this single slot Pro GPU is not as expensive as you think

By Wayne Williams published 15 October 25

Galax unveils an affordably priced 20mm single-slot RTX 5060 Ti graphics card aimed at engineers, designers, and AI users.

Hurry! This 16-inch Dell laptop now costs just $399, a huge saving of $150 - and it’s one of the best-value Windows 11 PCs you can buy right now

By Wayne Williams published 15 October 25

Dell 16 Laptop is now just $399, a whopping $150 off the usual price of $549.99.

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

By Wayne Williams published 14 October 25

Almost three decades since it started backing up the web, the Internet Archive now holds 1 trillion archived pages and over 100,000TB of data.

'A kid born in 2025 is unlikely to ever be as smart as artificial intelligence': Sam Altman thinks it's OK for AI to be smarter than us all - and I am sure we will be totally, totally fine

By Wayne Williams published 14 October 25

Sam Altman says humanity can still find happiness and purpose in an AI-driven age.