Articles by Jowi Morales, Contributing Writer

Jowi Morales is a writer and journalist covering the tech beat since 2021. However, he’s been interested in technology far earlier than that. He started discovering desktop computers when his father brought home a Windows 95 PC, but his first real experience working under the hood of the PC was when the old computer’s hard drive was filled to the brim in the year 2000. He deleted the Windows folder to attempt to rectify the situation, which led to his dad buying a new desktop PC. Since then, he learned a lot more about computers, and he’s always been the go-to tech expert for his family and friends.

Jowi primarily uses a Windows workstation and an Android phone, but he also bought into the Apple ecosystem with the 6th-gen iPad, iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the M1 MacBook Air. Today, Jowi covers hardware and software from Redmond and Cupertino, while also looking at the tech industry in general.

Aside from covering technology, Jowi is an avid photographer and writes about automobiles, aviation, and tanks. You can find his bylines at MakeUseOf, SlashGear, and, of course, Tom’s Hardware.

Articles by: Jowi Morales

a person fixing a leaking underground water pipe

Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months — Lightsonic tech detects underground vibrations, machine learning isolates the source

By Jowi Morales published 14 March 26

U.K. fiber network provider Openreach used startup firm Lightsonic's technology to detect leaks in Affinity Water's service area, helping save over 2 million liters of drinking water daily.

Enthusiast rebuilds AA-battery-powered PC, sextuples run time to 30 minutes with 64 batteries — uses three voltage regulators in parallel to achieve stability, runs computer for over 30 minutes on 64 AA cells

By Jowi Morales published 14 March 26

YouTube creator ScuffedBits re-did their experiment and was able to eke out 30 minutes of game time (and a benchmarking session!) while running their desktop PC on 64 AA batteries.

a cable-laying ship working on the Africa2 project

Iran conflict delays Meta’s 2Africa undersea cable project — cable layer declares force majeure, says it can no longer safely operate in the Persian Gulf

By Jowi Morales published 13 March 26

The Iran war is going to be costly for the tech sector.

Iran hacking group claims attack on med-tech company Stryker — says over 200,000 devices have been wiped clean and over 50TB of data extracted

By Jowi Morales published 12 March 26

Stryker, a Fortune 500 medical technology company, has been hit with a massive cyberattack that allegedly saw over 200,000 devices wiped clean, affecting employees and operations across the globe.

Iran threatens Nvidia, Microsoft, other tech companies with strikes over alleged attack on Tehran bank — says that economic centers and banks are now considered legitimate targets

By Jowi Morales published 11 March 26

Iranian media just released a list of potential economic targets, including offices and infrastructure of Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and more in the Middle East.

Framework raises RAM prices for the third time in three months, SSD costs up — company warns that it’s running out of stock on some Intel processors as well

By Jowi Morales published 11 March 26

Framework increased RAM prices for the third consecutive month, while also announcing that it's hiking the costs of some of its SSDs.

Phison CEO says that NAND prices hiked by around 50% overnight, highlighting severe shortage in the industry — warns 'our current concern is that both money and inventory are insufficient'

By Jowi Morales published 11 March 26

Phison is increasingly serving cloud service providers and AI hyperscalers, with enterprise customers now hitting 30% of its revenue share from a previous 10% last quarter.

Asus chief says Macbook Neo's affordable pricing came as a shock to the entire PC market — compares $599 notebook to a tablet and content-consumption device

By Jowi Morales published 11 March 26

Asus co-CEO S.Y. Hsu said that the MacBook Neo shook the entire PC market, but also said that it's mostly designed for content consumption because of its limited specifications.

Nvidia reportedly building its own AI agent to compete with OpenClaw, report claims — ‘NemoClaw’ will supposedly be open source and designed for enterprise use

By Jowi Morales published 10 March 26

NemoClaw could potentially give AI tools more independence and do more things without direct human supervision in the corporate setting.

In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by 'Gen-AI assisted changes,' report claims — recent 'high blast radius' incidents stir up changes for code approval

By Jowi Morales published 10 March 26

An Amazon executive called its engineers into a meeting to deal with the recent spate of incidents on its platform that had a "high blast radius" and were related to "Gen-AI assisted changes."

Laptop prices expected to soar by around 40% as AI crunch takes hold — analyst says rising mainstream models priced at $900 could hit more than $1,200 due to rising memory, storage, and CPU costs

By Jowi Morales published 10 March 26

Industry analyst outfit TrendForce estimates that midrange laptops will increase their retail prices by about 40% due to increasing RAM, SSD, and CPU costs.

Aikido Technologies offshore wind turbine

US startup plans to build data centers inside ocean-based wind turbines, servers water cooled via chilly North Sea — each leg houses a data center, firm set to launch three-legged prototype in Norway’s North Sea this year

By Jowi Morales last updated 8 March 26

Offshore wind turbines could house up to a 12-megawatt data center, drawing power directly from the winds blowing on the sea while using the cold ocean water for cooling.

NASA successfully deflected a small asteroid with its DART rocket, kinetic strike ejected a significant amount of debris from the asteroid — impact nudges the orbit of the small astronomical body, affecting the larger cosmic object as well

By Jowi Morales published 8 March 26

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic bodies.

Jensen Huang set to receive $4 million bonus from Nvidia, 0.002% of his $164 billion net worth — a small incentive for one of the richest people on earth

By Jowi Morales published 8 March 26

The Nvidia compensation committee set a $4 million cash bonus for Jensen Huang if he hits the company's fiscal targets by January 31, 2027.

California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files — online platforms allegedly violate multiple civil codes regarding unlawful distribution and manufacturing of firearms

By Jowi Morales published 8 March 26

The defendants face civil penalties of up to $25,000 per violation.

Valve changes Steam Machine release date to this 'year,' second change as AI-fueled memory and shortage crisis deepens — official announcements went from "early 2026" to "first half of 2026" to "this year"

By Jowi Morales published 7 March 26

Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU sitting on the PMD2 power tester.

‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI, shortages — Lisa Su says business exceeded expectations while Intel is looking at long-term agreements with potential customers

By Jowi Morales published 5 March 26

Both AMD and Intel reports increased demand for CPUs, driven by AI agents' need for general computing power.

China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

By Jowi Morales published 5 March 26

This document will set the pace for Beijing's tech policies in the next five years.

Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims — game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive

By Jowi Morales published 5 March 26

Increasing storage costs mean that fewer people are buying games for their Switch 2 gaming handhelds.

Taiwan expects power demand to increase by more than 5GW by 2030, enough to power nearly 4 million homes — rise in electricity consumption driven by semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center deployments

By Jowi Morales published 4 March 26

New semiconductor fabs and data centers are fueling Taiwan's growing power demand, with the island expected to require more than 5GW of new electricity sources and power infrastructure to keep up.

Trump summons tech giants to White House to pledge power payment commitments — ‘ratepayer protection plan’ will make data center operators negotiate discrete payment structure for electricity use

By Jowi Morales published 4 March 26

The White House wants tech giants to promise that they'll "pay their own way."

downtown Kuala Lumpur featuring the Petronas Towers

Arm's $250 million deal with Malaysia probed by anti-corruption authorities — $1.27 million seized from safehouse of prominent politician, former army chief arrested

By Jowi Morales published 4 March 26

Malaysia's anti-corruption body is investigating the former Economy Minister who spearheaded the $250-million Malaysia-Arm Holding deal, raising concerns that the probe will impact the agreement.

Nvidia-backed trial shows AI data centers can flexibly adjust power use in near real time, with global implications for energy consumption — suggests hyperscalers can reduce consumption as necessary, ensuring grid isn’t overloaded during peak demand

By Jowi Morales published 3 March 26

A U.K. study suggests that AI data centers can reduce their power demands during peak hours instead of running at maximum capacity at all times.

a thief fishing for crypto from a phone screen

South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online — stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders

By Jowi Morales published 3 March 26

It's like posting your credit card details or social security number online.

DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds

By Jowi Morales published 3 March 26

Online security firm DataDome just reported that it has stopped a massive scalping effort to buy memory modules and resell them at inflated prices, turning the memory situation from bad to worse.

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