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Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

Hardware & Gaming Reporter

Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.

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Astronomers Measure Distant Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Shedding Light on Cosmic Conundrum

It’s an exciting time for astronomers at the moment as new measurements of magnetic fields have been recorded that come from a galaxy located 4.6 billion years away....

HW News 2 min

Quantum Computing: Set to Revolutionize Gaming?

It is every so often that technology advances to a point in time where a major implication develops that allows a dramatic step in video gaming. Be it...

GME News 4 min

Transform Colors into Melodies With Specdrums

How many times have you found yourself tapping away unconsciously on the desk or worktop, sometimes making a tune, sometimes not. Often we find ourselves doing this without...

STA News 2 min

Do Physicists Need to Change the Way They Measure Quantum States?

New research carried out by CQT researchers suggest that standard protocols that measure the dimensions of quantum systems may return incorrect numbers. For that reason, Cai Yu, Cong...

HW News 2 min

World’s First Nanoweave Created From Purely Organic Materials

A unique molecular nano weave has been created this month by researchers led by Professor Helma Wennemers at the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry. It was made from an...

HW News 2 min

Researchers Present Advanced Quantum Chip That May Prove Majorana Particles Exist

Researchers have been trying to prove the existence of the mysterious Majorana particles for quite some time now, and this month a team from the Eindhoven University of...

HW News 2 min

Stuck on Kids Gift Ideas – Why Not Try Toybox the Kids 3D Printer

One product that’s likely to be on many a kid’s wish lists is a 3D printer. The trouble is that many of them are still very intricate or...

HW News 2 min

Research Confirms Diabetes is Linked to Problems the Oral Microbiome

Results from a recent study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers confirms that oral microbiome is in fact affected by diabetes. Published in the journal Cell Host &...

HW News 3 min

How to Make a Supercomputer?

Scientists have been trying to build the ultimate supercomputer for a while now, but it’s no easy feat as I’m sure you can imagine. There are currently three...

HW Guide 4 min

Tedious Film Editing Could Soon Become a Thing of the Past

For those of you who have tried to edit your own film or video, you will know how painstaking it can be sifting through hours and hours of...

HW News 3 min

New Experimental Drug Reverses Memory Loss due to Brain Injury

A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that ISRIB, a new drug, even when used weeks after the initial injury, can...

HW News 2 min

Could Using 3D Imaging Be Used to Detect Signs of Extraterrestrial Life in Space?

According to Caltech researchers, holographic microscopy is our best chance for identifying microbes living in space. In a paper published in a special edition of Astrobiology, Jay Nadeau...

HW News 2 min