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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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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...

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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...

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Can This New Heart Model Save Muscles During Heart Attack?

Reperfusion is a common technique used by cardiac surgeons to restore normal functions to heart muscle during a heart attack. The procedure infuses cells with a rush of...

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Could Bacteria-Coated Nanofiber Electrodes be Key to Cleaning Polluted Water?

Researchers from Cornell University have recently discovered a cost-effective and unique method of cleaning wastewater. Bioelectrochemical engineers and material scientists made nano fiber electrodes from electro-spun carbon then...

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A Look Inside a Psychopath’s Brain

A team of researchers from Harvard University has released a new research revealing the inner-working of a psychopath’s brain. Previously studies have been performed to understand the behavior...

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New Record Broken in rush to Quantum Supremacy

Recently, two postgraduate students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have simulated a 45-qubit circuit successfully. This is a significant milestone on the road to...

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Making On-Demand Organ Transplants Possible with Cryopreservation

According to a recent report in Nature Biotechnology, about 70 percent of eligible donated hearts never get utilized and up to 20 percent of donated kidneys are discarded...

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Nine Launches in and SpaceX is leaving Critics in the dust

After recent back to back rocket launches, SpaceX and Elon Musk are living up to their hype at last. Both launches at the end of June were for...

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NASA is Developing Nuclear Reactors that Would Operate on the Planet Mars

The power for future human settlements on Mars could very well be nuclear. An operating source of power is required for providing air, fuel, and water for settlers....

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What is the Impact of Blockchain on the Economy?

Blockchain, a type ledger technology, has been under intense study for the last year by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO, specifically by their Data61...

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Quantum Machine Learning Computer Hybrids at the Center of New Start-Ups

Creative Destruction Lab, a technology program affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada hopes to nurture numerous quantum learning machine start-ups in...

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A New Large Hadron Collider Discovery Adds Strangeness to the Already Strange

With so many mystifying discoveries in physics as of late, like finding brand new particles and a negative effect mass fluid, the newest data from ALICE is adding...

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